Bulletin of the American Physical Society

78th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the APS

Volume 56, Number 9

Wednesday–Saturday, October 19–22, 2011; Roanoke, Virginia

Invited Speakers

Albert, Joshua Duke University, T2K Collaboration	Session HD.00002 The T2K Experiment Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Arav, Nahum Virginia Tech	Session ND.00004 Kinetic Luminosity of Quasar Outflows and its Implications to AGN Feedback Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Avery, Paul University of Florida	Session CD.00001 Open Science Grid: Linking Universities and Laboratories In National Cyberinfrastructure Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Bass, Steffen Duke University	Session JB.00004 What do we know about the shear-viscosity of QCD matter? Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Blackmon, Jeff Louisiana State University	Session CA.00001 Progress towards Low Energy Neutrino Spectroscopy (LENS) Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Bolotin, Kirill Vanderbilt	Session BB.00001 Graphene: it's all about the surface Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Bourland, Dan Wake Forest School of Medicine	Session HC.00004 Radiation Oncology Physics and Medical Physics Education Room: Crystal Ballroom C
Champagne, Arthur University of North Carolina and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory	Session CA.00004 DIANA - An Underground Accelerator Facility for Nuclear Astrophysics Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Christen, David Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Session KA.00002 High Temperature Superconductors: From Basic Research to High-Current Wires Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Clegg, Thomas B. UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept of Physics \& Astronomy and TUNL	Session GD.00002 A Personal Perspective on Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory Development Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Crawford, Thomas University of South Carolina	Session NC.00002 Pattern Transfer Nanomanufacturing Room: Crystal Ballroom C
Crede, Volker Florida State University	Session EA.00002 Hadron Spectroscopy at Jefferson Lab: Search for new States of Hadronic Matter Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Dai, Pengcheng	Session KA.00004 Evolution of spin excitations in high-temperature iron-based superconductors Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Ding, Feng University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Session CD.00004 Discrete Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Biomolecules Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Feldman, Gerald George Washington University	Session GB.00003 Collaborative Group Learning using the SCALE-UP Pedagogy Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Gan, Liping University of North Carolina, Wilmington	Session EA.00003 High Precision Measurement of the $\pi ^{0}$ Radiative Decay Width Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Gates, S. James University of Maryland	Session BA.00002 Mathematical Surprises From Off-Shell SUSY Representation Theory Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Goertzen, Renee Michelle Florida International University	Session GB.00002 Transforming the undergraduate physics program at Florida International University Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Greenside, Henry Duke University	Session GA.00002 How Do Songbirds Produce Precise Vocalizations? Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Greenwood, Dick Louisiana Tech University	Session PD.00002 ATLAS in 2011: Status and Prospects Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Gross, Franz Jefferson Laboratory	Session GD.00004 Early History of Jefferson Laboratory Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Group, Craig University of Virginia and Fermilab	Session PD.00001 The impact of Higgs boson searches at the Tevatron in the LHC era Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Gurevich, Alex Department of Physics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529	Session KA.00003 New challenges and opportunities for high-$T_c$ superconducting materials Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Hamilton, Joseph Vanderbilt University	Session GD.00001 Selected Highlights in Nuclear Research in the Southeast by Vanderbilt and ORNL Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Handler, Thomas Physics Dept. Univ. of Tennessee	Session BD.00001 The Role of Physicists in Policy Making Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
He, Xiaochun Georgia State University	Session JB.00001 Recent Results from PHENIX Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Heflin, James Department of Physics, Virginia Tech	Session DD.00002 Advances in Polymer-Fullerene Photovoltaic Devices Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Heremans, Jean J. Virginia Tech, Department of Physics	Session BB.00003 Spin-dependent quantum transport in nanoscaled geometries Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Hilton, David The University of Alabama at Birmingham	Session CB.00003 Ultrafast Dynamics in Vanadium Dioxide: Separating Spatially Segregated Mixed Phase Dynamics in the Time-domain Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Huber, Patrick Virginia Tech	Session HD.00001 $\theta_{13}$ and Beyond Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Hutson, M. Shane Vanderbilt University	Session GA.00003 Dissecting cellular biomechanics with a laser Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Jack, Mark A. Florida A\&M University, Physics Department, Tallahassee, FL 32307	Session CD.00003 Quantum transport and nanoplasmonics with carbon nanorings - using HPC in computational nanoscience Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Johns, Will Vanderbilt University (CMS experiment)	Session PD.00003 Recent Results from 7 GeV proton-proton running at CMS Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Jung, Sunghwan Virginia Tech	Session DA.00002 How animals drink and swim in fluids Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Kaul, Ribhu University of Kentucky	Session CB.00002 Interlay of Quantum Criticality and Geometric Frustration in Columbite Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Kavic, Michael Long Island University	Session ND.00002 A Multi-Messenger Search for Radio Transients and Gravitational Waves Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Kemper, Kirby Florida State University	Session GD.00003 A personal view of nuclear physics in the Southeast Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Lin, Fei Physics Department, Virginia Tech	Session CB.00001 Strong Correlation Effects in Fullerene Molecules and Solids Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Link, Jonathan Virginia Tech	Session HD.00004 Neutrino Oscillations with the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Lopez, Rene University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Session NC.00003 High Surface Area Vertically Aligned Metal Oxide Nanostructures for Dye-Sensitized Photoanodes by Pulsed Laser Deposition Room: Crystal Ballroom C
Lopez, Rene University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Session DD.00001 Photonic Structuring of Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Lunk, Brandon NCSU	Session GB.00001 Learning Physics Through Computational Modeling Room: Crystal Ballroom B
M{\"u}ller, Rolf Virginia Tech	Session GA.00001 The physics of bat biosonar Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Maguire, Charles Vanderbilt University	Session JB.00003 Results from PbPb Collisions Measured by the CMS Detector Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Moreo, Adriana University of Tennessee and ORNL	Session KA.00001 A New Piece in the High $T_c$ Superconductivity Puzzle: Fe based Superconductors Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Murphy, Martin Medical College of Virginia - Virginia Commonwealth University	Session HC.00001 Image guidance and Motion Adaptation in Radiation Therapy Room: Crystal Ballroom C
Nattrass, Christine University of Tennessee	Session JB.00002 Recent Results from ALICE at LHC Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Okui, Takemichi Florida State University	Session PD.00004 Naturalness of electroweak symmetry breaking in the LHC era Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Ota\~no, Wilfredo University of Puerto Rico at Cayey	Session BB.00004 Synthesis of nanostructures by combination of electrospinning and sputtering techniques Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Otwinowski, Jakub Emory University	Session JD.00004 Accumulation of beneficial mutations in low dimensions Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Pierson, Mark Virginia Tech	Session DD.00003 Nuclear Energy: Challenges and Directions Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Pitt, Mark L. Virginia Tech	Session EA.00001 Qweak: A Precision Standard Model Test at Jefferson Lab Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Pleimling, Michel Virginia Tech	Session JD.00002 Cyclically competing species: deterministic trajectories and stochastic evolution Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Plisch, Monica American Physical Society	Session ED.00001 Mentoring Workshop Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Raghavan, Ramaswamy S. Virginia Tech	Session CA.00002 Borexino--A Breakthrough in Spectroscopy of Low Energy Neutrinos from the Sun Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Ramella-Roman, Jessica The Catholic University of America	Session HC.00002 Monitoring electrical and thermal burns with Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging Room: Crystal Ballroom C
Rikvold, Per Arne Department of Physics, Florida State University	Session JD.00001 The Emergence of Community Structure in Metacommunities Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Roberto, James Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Session NA.00001 Scientific user facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: New research capabilities and opportunities Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Robinson, Hans D. VirginiaTech, Department of Physics	Session NC.00004 Enhanced nonlinear optics and other applications of resonant plasmonics Room: Crystal Ballroom C
Rossi, Enrico Department of Physics, College of William and Mary	Session CB.00004 Superfluidity in bilayer systems of cold polar molecules Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Sallaska, A.L. UNC/TUNL	Session CA.00003 Exploring the Cosmos from the Ground: Nuclear Astrophysics at UNC/TUNL Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Scarola, Vito Virginia Tech	Session BB.00002 Flat-band Nanostructures Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Sharpe, Eric Virginia Tech	Session BA.00001 Recent developments in four-dimensional supergravity Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Shawhan, Peter University of Maryland, for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration	Session ND.00001 Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics: A Status Report Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Simonetti, John Virginia Tech	Session ND.00003 A Precision Test for an Extra Spatial Dimension Using Black-Hole---Pulsar Binary Systems Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Siopsis, George University of Tennessee	Session BA.00004 Holographic superconductors at low temperatures Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Tauber, Uwe C. Virginia Tech	Session JD.00003 Stochastic population oscillations in spatial predator-prey models Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Towns, John University of Illinois	Session CD.00002 Evolving from TeraGrid to XSEDE Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Turpen, Chandra University of Maryland, College Park	Session GB.00004 Transforming Introductory Physics for Life Scientists: Researching the consequences for students Room: Crystal Ballroom B
Utter, Brian James Madison University	Session DA.00003 Jamming and Fluidization in Granular Flows Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Vahle, Patricia College of William and Mary	Session HD.00003 The MINOS and NOvA Experiments Room: Crystal Ballroom DE
Vaman, Diana University of Virginia	Session BA.00003 Real-time finite temperature AdS/CFT and jet quenching Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Vogelaar, R. Bruce Virginia Tech	Session NA.00003 Kimballton Underground Research Facility Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Williams, Gwyn Jefferson Lab	Session NA.00002 Grand Challenges in Science and the Opportuntites Afforded by DOE's New X-ray Laser Project Room: Crystal Ballroom A
Wong, Kenneth Virginia Tech	Session HC.00003 Medical Imaging for Understanding Sleep Regulation Room: Crystal Ballroom C
Zhu, Guohua Norfolk State University	Session NC.00001 Nanoplasmonics and Metamaterials with Low Loss and Gain Room: Crystal Ballroom C
Zumbrunnen, David Clemson University	Session DA.00001 Chaotic Advection in Multi-component Melts for the Manufacture of Composite Materials Room: Crystal Ballroom A

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78th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the APS

Volume 56, Number 9

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