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 P01: SPS - Undergraduate (or High School) Research II
Chair: Andrew Renshaw, University of Houston
Room: Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) 103
Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:10PM - 2:22PM
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P01.00001: Designing an End-To-End Interface for Optics Experiments
Megan Drown, Calvin Berggren
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:22PM - 2:34PM
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P01.00002: Data Compression and Machine Learning for Quantum States
Debora Mroczek, Eric R Bittner, Vladimir N Lankevich
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:34PM - 2:46PM
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P01.00003: Building Blocks for Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
Dylan J Martinez, Amar Kavuri, William Nisbett, Mini Das
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:46PM - 2:58PM
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P01.00004: Theoretical Modeling of Photoluminescence from InGaAs/GaAs Single Strained Quantum Well
Dallas G Slusser, Toni D Sauncy
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Session P02: High Energy and Particle Physics IV
Chair: Claudia Ratti, University of Houston
Room: Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) 101
Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:10PM - 2:22PM
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P02.00001: Lattice Subtraction Methods at Low Quark Mass
Travis H Whyte, Suman Baral, Walter Mark Wilcox, Ron Morgan
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:22PM - 2:34PM
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P02.00002: Testing the New Readout Hardware for the ITS Detector at ALICE
Ryan P Hannigan
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:34PM - 2:46PM
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P02.00003: A new design for a 16 tesla cos(ϑ) accelerator magnet
Trey Holik
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:46PM - 2:58PM
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P02.00004: Nuclear Structure in the LHC Run II Era
Jesse Kent, Eric Godat, Fredrick Olness
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:58PM - 3:10PM
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P02.00005: Purification Complexity of Gaussian States
Elena Caceres, Shira Chapman, Josiah D Couch, Juan Pablo Hernandez, Rob Myers, Shan-Ming Ruan
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
3:10PM - 3:22PM
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P02.00006: R&D of Electroluminescense Techniques for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments
Grant Kendrick Parker
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
3:22PM - 3:34PM
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P02.00007: R&D Toward Ton-Scale HPGXe Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments
Sanmitra Pingulkar
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
3:34PM - 3:46PM
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P02.00008: Electric Field Simulations for Proto-DUNE Far-Side Detector
Mathew A Rapp
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Session P03: Optics
Chair: Lowell Wood, University of Houston
Room: Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) 203
Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:10PM - 2:22PM
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P03.00001: Computational Wide Area Optical Phase Contrast Microscopy
Sean M. Guthrie, Ivan Vazquez, Mini Das
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:22PM - 2:34PM
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P03.00002: Modulated Bessel beams for non-diffracting circularly symmetric optical lattices
Mariia Shutova, Aleksandr Goltsov, Anatoli Morozov, Zack Liege, Alexei V Sokolov
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:34PM - 2:46PM
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P03.00003: Coupling of epsilon-near-zero and plasmonic modes in ALD-AZO coated nanoantenna array
Subhajit Bej, Sudip Gurung, Aleksei Anopchenko, Brian Ko, Howard Ho Wai Lee
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:46PM - 2:58PM
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P03.00004: Emissive properties of quantum emitters coupled to ultra-thin epsilon-near-zero films
Aleksei Anopchenko, Subhajit Bej, Norbert Danz, Girish Saran Agarwal, Howard Ho Wai Lee
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:58PM - 3:10PM
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P03.00005: Atomic layer deposition of aluminum doped zinc-oxide thin films for zero-index optics
Sudip Gurung, Subhajit Bej, Garand Tyson, Aleksei Anopchenko, Howard Ho Wai Lee
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
3:10PM - 3:22PM
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P03.00006: Epsilon-near-zero Resonance Excitation in AZO nano-coated Optical Fiber Waveguide
Jingyi Yang, Aleksei Anopchenko, Sudip Gurung, Khant Minn, Subhajit Bej, Howard Ho Wai Lee
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
3:22PM - 3:34PM
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P03.00007: Optical Nano-antenna on Photonic Crystal Fiber
Khant Minn, Blake Birmingham, Brian Ko, Marlan O Scully, Howard Ho Wai Lee, Zhenrong Zhang
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Session P04: Biophysics and Soft Matter III
Chair: Lloyd Lumata, University of Texas, Dallas
Room: Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) 102
Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:10PM - 2:22PM
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P04.00001: Modularity of the metabolic gene network as a prognostic biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma
Fengdan Ye, Dongya Jia, Mingyang Lu, Herbert Levine, Michael Deem
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:22PM - 2:34PM
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P04.00002: NMR Spectroscopic Investigation of Aberrant Cancer Metabolism and Factors that Affect Nuclear Relaxation
Joseph Griesbauer
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:34PM - 2:46PM
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P04.00003: Nuclear Spin Diffusion Effects in Hyperpolarized [1-13C] Pyruvic Acid
Christopher Parish, Qing Wang, Joseph Griesbauer, Fatemeh Khashami, Lloyd Lumata
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:46PM - 2:58PM
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P04.00004: The role of actin filament brancher Arp2/3 in the dynamics and structures of actomyosin networks
James Liman, Carlos A. Bueno, Yossi Eliaz, Peter G. Wolynes, Herbert Levine, Margaret S. Cheung
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:58PM - 3:10PM
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P04.00005: Size and topology modulate the effects of frustration in protein folding
Timothy A. Burt, Alex Kluber, Cecilia Clementi
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
3:10PM - 3:22PM
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P04.00006: Opposing Intermolecular Tuning of Ca2+ Affinity for Calmodulin by Neurogranin and CaMKII Peptides
Pengzhi Zhang, Hoa Trinh, Swarnendu Tripathi, Margaret S Cheung
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Session P05: Condensed Matter Physics II
Chair: Alex Zakhidov, Texas State University
Room: Science and Engineering Classroom (SEC) 204
Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:10PM - 2:22PM
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P05.00001: Methods for Dynamical Simulations in Advanced Materials
Michael R Tagaras, Roland E Allen
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:22PM - 2:34PM
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P05.00002: Study of High-Pressure Effects on Weyl Semimetal Mo0.25W0.75Te2
Rabin Dahal, Liangzi Deng, Narayan Poudel, Melissa Gooch, Zheng Wu, Ching-Wu Chu
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:34PM - 2:46PM
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P05.00003: A Newtonian Electron Model
James Charles Espinosa
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:46PM - 2:58PM
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P05.00004: Search for Higher Tc Superconductors via Interface Mechanism and High Pressure
Liangzi Deng, Hanming Yuan, Shuyuan Huyan, Luke Kelly, Rabin Dahal, Samira Daneshmandi, Moein Adnani, Zheng Wu, Melissa Gooch, Yanfeng Lyu, Hungcheng Wu, Paul Chu
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
2:58PM - 3:10PM
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P05.00005: Superconductivity in epitaxial La2-xPtxSi films
Jian Liao, Yunbo Ou, Jagadeesh Moodera, Xiaoyan Shi
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