2018 Joint Fall Meeting of the Texas Sections of APS, AAPT and Zone 13 of the SPS
Volume 63, Number 18
Friday–Saturday, October 19–20, 2018;
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Session Index
Session C01: Biophysics and Soft Matter I
Chair: Greg Morrison, University of Houston
Room: Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) 102
Friday, October 19, 2018
2:25PM - 2:37PM
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C01.00001: A new design of an electrostatic quadrupole quadruplet focusing lens system for low MeV multi-ion micro-beam
H. Arya, V. A. Chirayath, M. Jin, A. H. Weiss, G. Glass, Y. Chi
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Friday, October 19, 2018
2:37PM - 2:49PM
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C01.00002: Temperature Dependence of Proton NMR Relaxation Times at Earth's MagneticField
Fatemeh Khashami, Peter J Niedbalski, David Clark, Christopher Parish, Yusef Maleki, Alan Paul Zanders, Qing Wang, Lloyd Lumata
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Friday, October 19, 2018
2:49PM - 3:01PM
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C01.00003: Dynamic Nuclear Polarization: Increasing MRI Signals by >10,000-fold
Lloyd Lumata
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:01PM - 3:13PM
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C01.00004: Graph-Based Ginzburg-Landau Energy Functional Theory For Soft Matter
Yossi Eliaz, Margaret S Cheung
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:13PM - 3:25PM
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C01.00005: Abstract Withdrawn
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:25PM - 3:37PM
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C01.00006: Resolving the Interfaces in C60-SubPC Organic Solar Cells Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Jacob Tinnin, Pengzhi Zhang, Eitan Geva, Barry Dunietz, Margaret S Cheung
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:37PM - 3:49PM
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C01.00007: Molecular Mechanisms of the Interhead Coordination by Interhead Tension in Cytoplasmic Dyneins
Qian Wang, Biman Jana, Michael Diehl, Margaret Cheung, Anatoly Kolomeisky, José Onuchic
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Session C02: American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) I
Chair: Milijana Suskavcevic, Clear Creek High School
Room: Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) 104
Friday, October 19, 2018
2:25PM - 3:01PM
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C02.00001: Using Glowscript in Introductory Physics
Invited Speaker:
Thomas L O'Kuma
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:01PM - 3:13PM
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C02.00002: Exceling in Physical Science
Nathan Pool, Basel Hamad, James Charles Espinosa
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:13PM - 3:25PM
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C02.00003: Superconductivity across the curriculum
Andra Petrean
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:25PM - 3:37PM
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C02.00004: Advancing your Advanced Lab: Conference on Laboratories Beyond the First Year (BFYIII)
Toni D Sauncy
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:37PM - 3:49PM
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C02.00005: Computational Physics at TLU
Calvin Berggren
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:49PM - 4:01PM
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C02.00006: A way to find precise dispersive curves and optical characterization of transparent dielectric.
Cristian Bahrim
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Session C03: Astronomy and Astrophysics I
Chair: Liming Li, University of Houston
Room: Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) 203
Friday, October 19, 2018
2:25PM - 3:01PM
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C03.00001: Numerical Analysis of Magnetogenesis’ Primordial Mechanism
Invited Speaker:
David Garrison
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(Author Not Attending)
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C03.00002: Using consistency tests between cosmological data sets to investigate gravity theory and cosmic acceleration
Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, Weikang Lin
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:13PM - 3:25PM
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C03.00003: Constraints on modified gravity parameters from Planck and other data sets.
Cristhian Garcia Quintero, Logan K Fox, Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, Weikang Lin
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:25PM - 3:37PM
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C03.00004: Unveiling Exotic Celestial Activity in the Universe
Kean Martinic, Blagoy Rangelov
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:37PM - 3:49PM
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C03.00005: Creation and annihilation of a new dark matter candidate, as potentially observable by the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC and the Fermi-LAT and AMS-02 experiments in space
John Killough
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Session C04: Materials Science
Chair: Shuo Chen, University of Houston
Room: Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) 204
Friday, October 19, 2018
2:25PM - 2:37PM
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C04.00001: Electrode Design from Atomistic to Mesoscale Dimensions
Luis De Jesus Baez, Sarbajit Banerjee
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Friday, October 19, 2018
2:37PM - 2:49PM
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C04.00002: Hybrid perovskite transistor: performance limitations and solution approach
Mehedhi Hasan, Chris Manspeaker, Alex Zakhidov
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Friday, October 19, 2018
2:49PM - 3:01PM
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C04.00003: Copper-induced features in rocksalt NiO using ab initio calculations
Samuel R Cantrell, Luisa M Scolfaro, Pablo D Borges, Wilhelmus J Geerts
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:01PM - 3:13PM
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C04.00004: Crystal grain orientation and characterization mapping in CVD diamond using polarized micro-Raman spectroscopy.
Jaime Ruiz-Avila, M Nazari, Raju Ahmed, Mark W Holtz
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:13PM - 3:25PM
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C04.00005: Cold Plasma Effects on Optical Properties of Salmon DNA Thin-films
Moses O Nnaji, Ben Jang, Heungman Park
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:25PM - 3:37PM
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C04.00006: Electrical Characterization of Nickel oxide and Nickel Iron Oxide thin films and Resistive Random Access Memory Devices Grown by Radio Frequency Sputtering.
James N Talbert, Wilhelmus Johannes Geerts, Luisa Scolfaro
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:37PM - 3:49PM
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C04.00007: Buildup Factor and Linear Attenuation Coefficient of MCP-69 alloy
Muhammad Maqbool, Mohammed S Islam, Joshua Clark
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Session C05: High Energy and Particle Physics I
Chair: Trey Holik, Angelo State University
Room: Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) 101
Friday, October 19, 2018
2:25PM - 2:37PM
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C05.00001: Determining and Designing a Time Of Flight Detector for the NOvA Test Beam Experiment
Eniola A Sobimpe, Will H Flanagan, Steven Block, Aidan Medcalf
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Friday, October 19, 2018
2:37PM - 2:49PM
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C05.00002: Direct detection of dark matter WIMPs with cryogenic detectors like SuperCDMS, including a new kind of dark matter candidate with well-defined mass and couplings
Maxwell E Throm
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(Author Not Attending)
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C05.00003: Simulations of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) Detector
Richard Lawrence
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:01PM - 3:13PM
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C05.00004: Indirect detection of dark matter WIMP annihilation by satellite experiments (Fermi-LAT or AMS-02), including a new kind of dark matter candidate with well defined mass and couplings
Brian Sun
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:13PM - 3:25PM
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C05.00005: Searching for dark matter with liquid noble gas detectors (including the LZ and Xenon experiments ), and the potential for observing a new WIMP candidate below 125 GeV
Reagan Thornberry
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:25PM - 3:37PM
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C05.00006: Potential explanation of why both dark matter WIMPs and supersymmetry have so far not been observed, and prospects for observing a new dark matter candidate at the LHC or in other collider experiments
Gentill Abdulla
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:37PM - 3:49PM
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C05.00007: Detect Supernova Neutrinos with DarkSide-20k Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber
Ziping Ye
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Friday, October 19, 2018
3:49PM - 4:01PM
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C05.00008: A search for axions with the DarkSide-50 detector
Parth N Singh
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