Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2015 Annual Spring Meeting of the APS Ohio-Region Section

Volume 60, Number 3

Friday–Saturday, March 27–28, 2015; Kent, Ohio

Session Index

Session B2: Heavy Ion Theory I

Chair: Mauricio Martinez-Guerrero, Ohio State University
Room: KSU Student Center 314

Friday, March 27, 2015 3:00PM - 3:15PM		B2.00001: Subleading harmonic flows in hydrodynamic simulations of heavy ion collisions Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Derek Teaney Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 3:15PM - 3:30PM		B2.00002: Event-By-Event Fluctuations of HBT Radii and the QGP Shear Viscosity Christopher Plumberg, Ulrich Heinz Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 3:30PM - 3:45PM		B2.00003: Modeling Initial Conditions in Relativistic Ion Collisions Kevin Welsh Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 3:45PM - 4:00PM		B2.00004: Constraining the quark-gluon plasma viscosity with thermal photons Ulrich Heinz, Chun Shen, Jean-Francois Paquet, Charles Gale Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 4:00PM - 4:15PM		B2.00005: Collision Geometry and Flow in U+U Collisions Andy Goldschmidt, Zhi Qiu, Chun Shen, Ulrich Heinz Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 4:15PM - 4:30PM		B2.00006: Deconfinement and Percolation David Garand Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 4:30PM - 4:45PM		B2.00007: Viscous Effects on the Mapping of the Initial to Final State in Heavy Ion Collisions Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Fernando Gardim, Matthew Luzum, Frederique Grassi Preview Abstract

Session B3: Particle/Nuclear Physics

Chair: Peter Tandy, Kent State University
Room: KSU Student Center 315

Friday, March 27, 2015 3:00PM - 3:15PM		B3.00001: Towards finding the single-particle content of two-dimensional adjoint QCD Uwe Trittmann Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 3:15PM - 3:30PM		B3.00002: The effect of deformation on nuclear level density Gabriela Popa, Frazier Baker Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 3:30PM - 3:45PM		B3.00003: Studies of Space Charge Effects in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers Micah Groh Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 3:45PM - 4:00PM		B3.00004: Partial-wave analysis of $\gamma p \to \eta p$ and $\gamma p \to K^+ \Lambda$ Brian Hunt, D.M. Manley Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 4:00PM - 4:15PM		B3.00005: Measurement of $K^0$ photoproduction on liquid deuterium ChandraSekhar Akondi, D.M. Manley Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 4:15PM - 4:30PM		B3.00006: Discharge Voltage Utilization in Electric Propulsion Devices Jerry Ross Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 4:30PM - 4:45PM		B3.00007: Departures from Standard Equipartition for Anharmonically Coupled Masses with a Quartic Term Christopher Watenpool, Donald Priour Preview Abstract

Session B4: Biophysics/Soft Matter I

Chair: Michael Fisch, Kent State University
Room: KSU Student Center 316

Friday, March 27, 2015 3:00PM - 3:15PM		B4.00001: Fluctuation modes in the twist bend nematic phase of certain liquid crystal mixtures studied by dynamic light scattering Zeinab Parsouzi A.Sh, Volodymyr Borshch, Pavan Challa Kumar, Oleg Lavrentovich, James T. Gleeson, Antal Jakli, Samuel Sprunt Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 3:15PM - 3:30PM		B4.00002: Defect Induced Polar Structures in Nematic Liquid Crystals Shokir Pardaev, Antal Jakli, James Gleeson, Brett Ellman, Samuel Sprunt Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 3:30PM - 3:45PM		B4.00003: Flow Properties of a Twist-bend Nematic Liquid Crystal Seyyed Muhammad Salili, Chanjoong Kim, Samuel Sprunt, James Gleeson, Owain Parri, Antal Jakli Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 3:45PM - 4:00PM		B4.00004: Domain Walls Mimicking Nematic Biaxiality in the Oxadiazole Bent-Core Liquid Crystal C7 Young-Ki Kim, Greta Cukrov, Jie Xiang, Sung-Tae Shin, Oleg D. Lavrentovich Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 4:00PM - 4:15PM		B4.00005: Living liquid crystals Shuang Zhou, Andrey Sokolov, Oleg Lavrentovich, Igor Aronson Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 4:15PM - 4:30PM		B4.00006: Investigations of Liquid Crystal Alignment Layers Prepared by Mechanical Buffing and Exposure to Polarized Blue Light Lewis Sharpnack, Ibrahim Abdulhalim, Satyendra Kumar Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 4:30PM - 4:45PM		B4.00007: Liquid crystal-enabled electro-osmosis through spatially separated charges in photo-patterned surface alignment Chenhui Peng, Yubing Guo, Sergij Shiyanovskii, Qihuo Wei, Oleg Lavrentovich Preview Abstract

Session B5: Condensed Matter I

Chair: Almut Schroeder, Kent State University
Room: KSU Student Center 317

Friday, March 27, 2015 3:00PM - 3:15PM		B5.00001: The RKKY Interaction in a Polarized Electron Gas Christopher Porter Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 3:15PM - 3:30PM		B5.00002: Dipolar 2D and Quasi-2D Bosons with Non-zero Dipole Tilt Angle Pengtao Shen, Khandker Quader Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 3:30PM - 3:45PM		B5.00003: Multi-band nature and anisotropy of heavily doped Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$Fe$_2$As$_2$ Shuai Zhang, Xinyi Huang, Yogesh Singh, Carmen Almasan Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 3:45PM - 4:00PM		B5.00004: Enhanced quasiparticle scattering and scaling of Ba(Fe$_{\mathrm{1-x}}$Co$_{\mathrm{x}})_{2}$As$_{2}$ flux-flow resistivity under the superconducting dome Xinyi Huang, Derek Haney, Yogesh Singh, Shuai Zhang, Hai-Hu Wen, Tao Hu, Maxim Dzero, Carmen Almasan Preview Abstract
(Author Not Attending)		B5.00005: Resistivity and magnetoresistance studies of quantum critical alloy Ce$_{0.93}$Yb$_{0.07}$CoIn$_{5}$ under pressure Y.P. Singh, D.J. Haney, X.Y. Huang, B.D. White, M.B. Maple, M. Dzero, C.C. Almasan Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 4:15PM - 4:30PM		B5.00006: Hot Wire Probe to Study Charge Carriers Type in Individual Sb-doped ZnO Micro-Wires Nada Masmali, Lei Kerr, Khalid Eid Preview Abstract
Friday, March 27, 2015 4:30PM - 4:45PM		B5.00007: Synthesis and Characterization of Indium Antimonide Nanoparticles (NPs) using Inert Gas Condensation Process Sneha Pandya, Martin Kordesch Preview Abstract

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