Nov 8 2018 8:30AM, Thursday

A01 Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: John Yukich, Davidson College
Invited Speakers:  Christian G Parigger,  Colin V Parker,  Guillaume Marc Laurent,  C. I. Sukenik  

A02 Nuclear Astrophysics of the R-Process
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Alfredo Galindo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jorge Piekarewicz,  Kelly A. Chipps,  Gail C McLaughlin  

A03 Particle Physics
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Yuri Efremenko, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Sowjanya Gollapinni  

A04 Statistical and Non-Linear Physics
Room: World's Fair Park Holiday Inn Parlor Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Tech

Nov 8 2018 11:00AM, Thursday

B01 Condensed Matter I
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Albert Gapud, Southern Alabama

B02 Low Energy Nuclear Physics in the FRIB Era
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Robert Grzywacz, University of Tennessee
Invited Speakers:  Julie G Ezold,  Mustafa M Rajabali,  Catherine M Deibel  

B03 2D States, Emerging Thin Film Materials, and Interfaces
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Norman Mannella, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Ward Plummer,  Divine P Kumah,  Ambrose Seo  

B04 Applied Physics I
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Ekaterina Paerschke

Nov 8 2018 2:00PM, Thursday

C01 Early Results from Jlab 12 GeV Running
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  David Meekins,  Eric Pooser,  Simona Malace  

C02 Spin-Orbit Coupling: 4D/5D Materials
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Wei Tain, Oak Ridge National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Chetan Dhital,  Feng Ye,  Christian Balz,  Utpal Chatterjee  

C03 Instrumentation I
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Kelly Chipps, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Nov 8 2018 4:30PM, Thursday

D01 Photonuclear and Hadronic Physics at Low Energies
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Mohammad Ahmed, North Carolina Central University
Invited Speakers:  Forrest QL Friesen,  Sean W Finch,  Mark Sikora  

D02 Nuclear Physics I
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Miguel Madurga, University of Tennessee

D03 Condensed Matter II
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Paolo Vilmercati, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

D04 Instrumentation II
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Steve Pain, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Nov 8 2018 6:00PM, Thursday

D05 Poster Session (6:00pm-7:30pm)
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Atrium

Nov 8 2018 8:00PM, Thursday

D06 SPS Social (8:00pm-10:00pm)
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland

Nov 9 2018 8:30AM, Friday

E01 Condensed Matter III
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Jian Liu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

E02 Cosmology and Astrophysics
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Andrew Steiner, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Ryan Oelkers,  Tarek Saab  

E03 Fundamental Symmetries I
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Jason Fry, University of Virginia

E05 Career Panel (8:30am-10:30am)
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland

Nov 9 2018 11:00AM, Friday

F01 Condensed Matter IV
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Peizhi Mai, Oak Ridge National Lab

F02 Machine Learning and Quantum Computing in Physics
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Thomas Papenbrock, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Wouter Deconinck,  Ying Wai Li,  Pavel Lougovski  

F03 Intersection of Lepton and Neutrino Scattering
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Sowjanya Gollapinni, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Dipak Rimal,  Camillo unknown Mariani,  Florian Hauenstein  

F04 Biophysics and Medical Physics
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Maxim Lavrentovich, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Nov 9 2018 12:30PM, Friday

F05 Diversity in Physics: How to be an Ally (12:30pm-2:00pm)
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Private Dining Room

Nov 9 2018 2:00PM, Friday

G01 Condensed Matter V
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Hanno Weitering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

G02 Intensity Frontier
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Romulus Godang, University of South Alabama
Invited Speakers:  Craig Group,  Thomas Kutter,  Leo Eric Piilonen,  Renee Fatemi  

G03 Neutron Science at ORNL
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Ward Plummer, Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers:  Nancy L Ross,  Clarina R dela Cruz,  Martin P Mourigal,  Despina A Louca  

G04 Nuclear Physics II
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Grant Riley, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Nov 9 2018 4:30PM, Friday

H01 Condensed Matter VI
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Umesh Kumar, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

H02 Energy Frontier
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Renee Fatemi, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Francisco X Yumiceva,  Megan E Connors,  Swagato Banerjee  

Nov 9 2018 6:00PM, Friday

H05 Grad School Fair (6:00pm-7:30pm)
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Pre-Space

H06 Executive Committee Meeting (6:00pm-7:30pm)
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor

Nov 9 2018 7:45PM, Friday

H07 SESAPS Banquet
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland

Nov 10 2018 8:30AM, Saturday

J01 Fundamental Symmetry Studies with Neutrons
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Adam Holley,  Robert Pattie,  Alina Aleksandrova,  Jason A Fry  

J02 Soft Matter, Complex Fluids and Polymers
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Wei Tain, Oak Ridge National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Eugenia Kharlampieva,  Gerald Johannes Schneider,  Naresh C Osti  

Nov 10 2018 11:00AM, Saturday

K01 Nuclear Physics III
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Grant Riley, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

K02 Materials Under Extreme Conditions and Far From Equilibrium
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Steve Johnson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Bianca Haberl,  haidong Zhou  

K03 Physics Education
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Payton Nanney, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Nov 8 2018 8:30AM, Thursday

A01 Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: John Yukich, Davidson College
Invited Speakers:  Christian G Parigger,  Colin V Parker,  Guillaume Marc Laurent,  C. I. Sukenik  

A02 Nuclear Astrophysics of the R-Process
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Alfredo Galindo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jorge Piekarewicz,  Kelly A. Chipps,  Gail C McLaughlin  

A03 Particle Physics
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Yuri Efremenko, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Sowjanya Gollapinni  

A04 Statistical and Non-Linear Physics
Room: World's Fair Park Holiday Inn Parlor Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Tech

Nov 8 2018 11:00AM, Thursday

B01 Condensed Matter I
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Albert Gapud, Southern Alabama

B02 Low Energy Nuclear Physics in the FRIB Era
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Robert Grzywacz, University of Tennessee
Invited Speakers:  Julie G Ezold,  Mustafa M Rajabali,  Catherine M Deibel  

B03 2D States, Emerging Thin Film Materials, and Interfaces
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Norman Mannella, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Ward Plummer,  Divine P Kumah,  Ambrose Seo  

B04 Applied Physics I
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Ekaterina Paerschke

Nov 8 2018 2:00PM, Thursday

C01 Early Results from Jlab 12 GeV Running
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  David Meekins,  Eric Pooser,  Simona Malace  

C02 Spin-Orbit Coupling: 4D/5D Materials
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Wei Tain, Oak Ridge National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Chetan Dhital,  Feng Ye,  Christian Balz,  Utpal Chatterjee  

C03 Instrumentation I
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Kelly Chipps, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Nov 8 2018 4:30PM, Thursday

D01 Photonuclear and Hadronic Physics at Low Energies
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Mohammad Ahmed, North Carolina Central University
Invited Speakers:  Forrest QL Friesen,  Sean W Finch,  Mark Sikora  

D02 Nuclear Physics I
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Miguel Madurga, University of Tennessee

D03 Condensed Matter II
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Paolo Vilmercati, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

D04 Instrumentation II
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Steve Pain, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Nov 8 2018 6:00PM, Thursday

D05 Poster Session (6:00pm-7:30pm)
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Atrium

Nov 8 2018 8:00PM, Thursday

D06 SPS Social (8:00pm-10:00pm)
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland

Nov 9 2018 8:30AM, Friday

E01 Condensed Matter III
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Jian Liu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

E02 Cosmology and Astrophysics
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Andrew Steiner, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Ryan Oelkers,  Tarek Saab  

E03 Fundamental Symmetries I
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Jason Fry, University of Virginia

E05 Career Panel (8:30am-10:30am)
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland

Nov 9 2018 11:00AM, Friday

F01 Condensed Matter IV
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Peizhi Mai, Oak Ridge National Lab

F02 Machine Learning and Quantum Computing in Physics
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Thomas Papenbrock, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Wouter Deconinck,  Ying Wai Li,  Pavel Lougovski  

F03 Intersection of Lepton and Neutrino Scattering
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Sowjanya Gollapinni, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Dipak Rimal,  Camillo unknown Mariani,  Florian Hauenstein  

F04 Biophysics and Medical Physics
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Maxim Lavrentovich, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Nov 9 2018 12:30PM, Friday

F05 Diversity in Physics: How to be an Ally (12:30pm-2:00pm)
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Private Dining Room

Nov 9 2018 2:00PM, Friday

G01 Condensed Matter V
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Hanno Weitering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

G02 Intensity Frontier
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Romulus Godang, University of South Alabama
Invited Speakers:  Craig Group,  Thomas Kutter,  Leo Eric Piilonen,  Renee Fatemi  

G03 Neutron Science at ORNL
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Ward Plummer, Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers:  Nancy L Ross,  Clarina R dela Cruz,  Martin P Mourigal,  Despina A Louca  

G04 Nuclear Physics II
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Grant Riley, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Nov 9 2018 4:30PM, Friday

H01 Condensed Matter VI
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Umesh Kumar, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

H02 Energy Frontier
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Renee Fatemi, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Francisco X Yumiceva,  Megan E Connors,  Swagato Banerjee  

Nov 9 2018 6:00PM, Friday

H05 Grad School Fair (6:00pm-7:30pm)
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Pre-Space

H06 Executive Committee Meeting (6:00pm-7:30pm)
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor

Nov 9 2018 7:45PM, Friday

H07 SESAPS Banquet
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland

Nov 10 2018 8:30AM, Saturday

J01 Fundamental Symmetry Studies with Neutrons
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Adam Holley,  Robert Pattie,  Alina Aleksandrova,  Jason A Fry  

J02 Soft Matter, Complex Fluids and Polymers
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown LeConte Chair: Wei Tain, Oak Ridge National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Eugenia Kharlampieva,  Gerald Johannes Schneider,  Naresh C Osti  

Nov 10 2018 11:00AM, Saturday

K01 Nuclear Physics III
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Summit Chair: Grant Riley, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

K02 Materials Under Extreme Conditions and Far From Equilibrium
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Cumberland Chair: Steve Johnson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Bianca Haberl,  haidong Zhou  

K03 Physics Education
Room: Holiday Inn Knoxville Downtown Parlor Chair: Payton Nanney, University of Tennessee, Knoxville