Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Joint Meeting of the Four Corners and Texas Sections of the American Physical Society

Volume 61, Number 15

Friday–Saturday, October 21–22, 2016; Las Cruces, New Mexico

Session Index

Session H1: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Chair: Steve Stochaj, New Mexico State University
Room: Exhibit Hall 2

Saturday, October 22, 2016 9:36AM - 10:00AM		H1.00001: Brown Dwarf Binary Systems, The Coolest Pairs Around Invited Speaker: Denise Stephens Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H1.00002: The slowly varying corona from DEMs with the EVE data set Sam Schonfeld, Stephen White, Rachel Hock-Mysliwiec, James McAteer Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H1.00003: Uncatalogued Variable Stars found in two of the Kepler Mission Fields Pamela Lara, Michael Joner Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H1.00004: Search For Variable Stars with ROTSE Jasmine Liu, Robert Kehoe, Farley Ferrante Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H1.00005: Exploring Lattice Bolzmann Fluid Methods for Astrophysics Jacob Tinnin, David Neilsen Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H1.00006: Cosmic and Smaller Scale Astrophysical Plots have Induction and Other Patterns Related to Atomic Scales and Nuclear Properties by Basic Mathematic Rob Allen Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 11:00AM - 11:12AM		H1.00007: Simulating Ejecta from Binary Neutron Star Coalescence using SPH Hyun Lim, Nicolas de Brye, Daniel George, Glen Hordemann, Julien Loiseau, Jonah Miller, Jonathan Sharman Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 11:12AM - 11:24AM		H1.00008: Estakhr's Relativistic Decomposition of Four-Velocity Vector Field of Big Bang (Big Bang's Turbulence) Ahmad Reza Estakhr Preview Abstract

Session H2: Nanosciences

Chair: Vladimir Drachev, University of North Texas
Room: Ballroom 2

Saturday, October 22, 2016 9:36AM - 10:00AM		H2.00001: Modifying carbon surfaces and thin films to tune chemical and optical properties Invited Speaker: Anna Zaniewski Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H2.00002: Maximizing Magnetic Domain Densities in 60Å Co/Pt Thin Film Lauren Hindman, Brittni Newbold, Berg Dodson, Karine Chesnel Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H2.00003: Effect of Crystal Orientation Upon the Surface Energy of Native Oxides on Si(100) and Si(111) as Measured by Three Liquid Contact Angle Analysis (3LCAA) R.T. Van Haren, E. Ocampo Landeros, M.T. Bade, A.O. Martinez, Y.W. Pershad, S.M. Suhartono, R.P. Francis, N. Herbots, S.D. Whaley, R.J. Culbertson, H.L. Thinakaran, A.P. Krishnan Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H2.00004: Surface Energies of Native Oxides on Si(100), Si(111) and GaAs(100) via Three Liquid Contact Angle Analysis (3LCAA) Correlation with Composition by Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) E. Ocampo Landeros, S.M. Suhartono, R.T. Van Haren, R.P. Francis, Y.W. Pershad, M.T. Bade, E.W. Davis, A.O. Martinez, N. Herbots, S.D. Whaley, R.J. Culbertson, K.L Kavanagh Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H2.00005: Optical and magnetic properties of cobalt nanoparticles fabricated by high temperature reduction of cobalt salt Hari Bhatta, Ali Aliev, Vladimir Drachev Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H2.00006: Spatially Resolved Biosensing with Graphene Nanodisk Arrays Lauren Zundel, Alejandro Manjavacas Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 11:00AM - 11:12AM		H2.00007: Ferritin-encapsulated PbS quantum dots for use in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Kameron Hansen, Cameron Olsen, Ryan Peterson, Alessandro Perego, John Colton, Richard Watt Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 11:12AM - 11:24AM		H2.00008: Superconducting Nuclear Recoil Sensor for Directional Dark Matter Detection Ann Junghans, Nina Weisse-Bernstein, Kevin Baldwin, Randy Lafler, Nguyen Phan, Dinesh Loomba, Markus Hehlen Preview Abstract

Session H3: Particle Physics

Chair: Matthias Burkardt, New Mexico State University
Room: Meeting Room 2&3

Saturday, October 22, 2016 9:36AM - 10:00AM		H3.00001: Quark transverse dynamics and orbital angular momentum in the nucleon from Lattice QCD Invited Speaker: Michael Engelhardt Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H3.00002: The Orbital Angular Momentum Sum Rule Fatma Aslan, Matthias Burkardt Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H3.00003: Search for New Physics in Bottom Baryon Decays using Lattice QCD Gumaro Rendon, Stefan Meinel Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H3.00004: Search for pair production of vector-like quarks that decay to a Z boson and a third-generation quark in trilepton final states in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector You Zhou, Elliott Cheu Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H3.00005: Application of Diodes to Measure Particle Beam Fluences Relevant to HL-LHC Requirements by Cooling and Current Reduction Robert Reyna Preview Abstract

Session H4: Computational Physics II

Chair: Gus Hart, Brigham Young University
Room: Meeting Room 5&6

Saturday, October 22, 2016 9:36AM - 10:00AM		H4.00001: Ab Initio Density Functional Studies of Nanoscale Materials Invited Speaker: Igor Vasiliev Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H4.00002: First-Principle Study of the La$_{0.67}$Sr$_{0.33}$MnO$_{3}$/PbZr$_{0.2}$Ti$_{0.8}$O$_{3}$(001) Interface Mahmoud Hammouri, Edwin Fohtung, Ross Harder, Valeria Lauter, Igor Vasiliev Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H4.00003: Strain-Rate Dependence of Material Strength: Large Scale Atomistic Simulations of Defective Cu and Ta Crystals Jayalath Abeywardhana, Timothy Germann, Ramon Ravelo Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H4.00004: A Numerical algorithm for finding pressure induced Acoustic phonon instabilities in crystals Oscar Guerrero Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H4.00005: Fast Method for the Prediction of Intercrystalline Water Molecule Orientation in Ionic Crystals Seyedayat Ghazisaeed, Boris Kiefer Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H4.00006: Temporally Iterative Spatial Refinement: How to Predict the Unpredictable William Black, David Neilsen, Hyun Lim, Eric Hirschmann Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 11:00AM - 11:12AM		H4.00007: Algebraic search for cooperative tilt patterns in networks of interconnected polyhedra Tyler Averett, Branton Campbell, Thomas Whittle, Siegbert Schmid, Christopher Howard Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 11:12AM - 11:24AM		H4.00008: Beyond Phase Transitions: an Algorithmic Approach to Flocking Behavior Garett Brown, Manuel Berrondo Preview Abstract

Session H5: Thermodynamics and General Physics

Chair: Jean-Francois Van Huele, Brigham Young University
Room: Meeting Room 1

Saturday, October 22, 2016 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H5.00001: Thermodynamics of a Gravitational Gas with Periodic Boundary Conditions Bruce Miller, Pankaj Kumar, Dan Pirjol Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H5.00002: Persistent entropy current? A third-law paradox Yiheng Xu, Abhay Shastry, Charles Stafford Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H5.00003: The Kelvin Poincare Counterexample to the Equipartition Theorem James Espinosa Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H5.00004: Lorentz Invariance of the Casimir Effect Daniel Farnsworth, Jean-Francois Van Huele Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H5.00005: Modeling Quantum Energy Teleportation Rachel Gardner, Jean-Francois Van Huele Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H5.00006: Fringe Visibility and Which-Way Information: Duality Relations Richard Barney, AJ Rasmusson, Jean-Francois Van Huele Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H5.00007: Numerical PDE Coupling for Water Vapor Transport in Baled Corn Stover Alexander Rasmusson, Jean-Francois Van Huele Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 11:00AM - 11:12AM		H5.00008: Distributional Tests for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Detections Sophia Schwalbe, Marek Szczepanczyk, Michele Zanolin Preview Abstract

Session H6: Coherent Scattering and Imaging

Chair: Randy Knize, United States Air Force Academy
Room: Meeting Room 4

Saturday, October 22, 2016 9:36AM - 9:48AM		H6.00001: Using Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging to See Strain in a Tensile Loaded Copper Film Timothy S. O'Leary, Saryu J. Fensin, Reeju Pokharel, Matthew J. Cherukawa, Ross Harder, Richard L. Sandberg Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 9:48AM - 10:00AM		H6.00002: Coherent Diffractive Imaging in the Near Field at Large Angles Benjamin A. Pound, Kimberley Nguyen, Matthew C. Tyson, John L. Barber, Richard L. Sandberg Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:00AM - 10:12AM		H6.00003: X-Ray Diffraction and Partial Distribution Function Analyses on Barium Hexaferrite Alejandro Salas, Oscar Jaramillo, Edwin Fohtung, Daniel Olds, Katherine Page Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:12AM - 10:24AM		H6.00004: Analysis of Topological Defects in Multiferroic. Richard Mbatang, Samuel Djiani, Dmitry Karpov, k Page, H Wang, D Olds, B Kiefer, E Fohtung Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:24AM - 10:36AM		H6.00005: Iterative Phase Retrieval Coherent Diffraction Imaging Algorithm Samuel Raoul Djiani, Dr. Inna Pivkina, Dr. Edwin Fohtung Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:36AM - 10:48AM		H6.00006: Imaging Magnetic Domain Morphologies in Co/Pt Multilayer with 4Å of Cobalt Brittni Newbold, Karine Chesnel, Lauren Hindman, Berg Dodson Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:48AM - 11:00AM		H6.00007: Topological defects in the solid state Miles Clemens, Branton Campbell Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2016 11:00AM - 11:12AM		H6.00008: Holographic imaging of nano-scale objects using soft x-ray laser light at 13.9nm and 18.9nm. Alex Rockwood, Yong Wang, Shoujun Wang, Chan Kyaw, Carmen Menoni, Mario Marconi, Jorge Rocca Preview Abstract

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