Spring 2017 Joint Meeting of the Texas Section of AAPT, Texas Section of APS, and Zone 13 of the Society of Physics Students
Volume 62, Number 3
Thursday–Saturday, March 9–11, 2017;
San Antonio, Texas
Session Index
Session B1: Computational Physics and Others
Sponsoring Units: AAPT
Chair: Paul Williams, Austin Community College
Room: Oppenheimer OC 108
Friday, March 10, 2017
10:00AM - 10:24AM
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B1.00001: Who Needs Computation in Undergraduate Physics Courses?
Invited Speaker:
Norman Chonacky
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Friday, March 10, 2017
10:24AM - 10:36AM
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B1.00002: Using Glowscript in the Introductory Physics Laboratory
Thomas O'Kuma
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Friday, March 10, 2017
10:36AM - 10:48AM
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B1.00003: Implementing a visual programming editor for VPython
Cody Blakeney, Michael Dube, Hunter Close, Aimee Roundtree
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Friday, March 10, 2017
10:48AM - 11:00AM
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B1.00004: Review of research on student learning of physics through computation
Aaron Collins, Hunter Close
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Friday, March 10, 2017
11:00AM - 11:12AM
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B1.00005: Introductory Physics Labs -- Using `smart phones' to engage students
Toni Sauncy
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Friday, March 10, 2017
11:12AM - 11:24AM
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B1.00006: Making In-House Videos for Lab Instruction.
Lionel Hewett
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Friday, March 10, 2017
11:24AM - 11:36AM
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B1.00007: A Tale of Two Slinkies: Learning about Model Building in a Student-Driven Classroom
Calvin Berggren, Punit Gandhi, Jesse Livezey, Ryan Olf
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Friday, March 10, 2017
11:36AM - 11:48AM
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B1.00008: How Much Does the Laboratory Component of Entry Level Physics Courses Affect the Lecture Component?
John Winfrey
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Session B2: High Energy Physics, General Physics
Sponsoring Units: APS
Chair: Daniel Marble, Tarleton State University
Room: Oppenheimer OC 110
Friday, March 10, 2017
10:00AM - 10:12AM
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B2.00001: Search for beyond the Standard Model Higgs boson decaying to a pair of new light bosons in boosted dimuon final states
Sven Dildick
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Friday, March 10, 2017
10:12AM - 10:24AM
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B2.00002: Resonant Di-Higgs Production in the $b \bar{b} W^{+} W^{-}$ channel with W leptonic decays: Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition at the LHC
Tao Huang
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Friday, March 10, 2017
10:24AM - 10:36AM
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B2.00003: Distinguishing Standard Model Extensions using Monotop Chirality
Ian Taulli, Teruki Kamon, Ryan Mueller
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Friday, March 10, 2017
10:36AM - 10:48AM
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B2.00004: Dynamics of Particles in the Early Universe at High Temperature
Samina Masood
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Friday, March 10, 2017
10:48AM - 11:00AM
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B2.00005: Planck Constraint on Relic Primordial Black Holes
Steven Clark
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Friday, March 10, 2017
11:00AM - 11:12AM
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B2.00006: Cosmological Signature In Light Mass Dark Matter Searches With Phonon Mediated Detectors
Fedja Kadribasic
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Friday, March 10, 2017
11:12AM - 11:24AM
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B2.00007: The influence of dark energy on the expansion rate of the universe and its effects on dark matter relic abundance
Esteban Jimenez Moya
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Friday, March 10, 2017
11:24AM - 11:36AM
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B2.00008: Translational and angular accelerations measured inside a novel, physical model of a human head
Jacob Moldenhauer, Stephen Slaughter, Cora Keil, Sydney McCloskey, Andrew Chang, James Frisby
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Session B3: Workshop I - Impelmenting Small Group Learning Activities to Teach Astronomy
Sponsoring Units: AAPT
Chair: Timothy Slater, University of Wyoming
Room: Chance Academic Center CAC 344
Session B4: Workshop II - The Origin of Modern Physics: Planck's Constant
Sponsoring Units: AAPT
Chair: Beverly Trina Cannon, Eastfield College
Room: Chance Academic Center CAC 338
Session B5: Workshop III - Easy to Grade Lab Practicals Using Google Forms
Sponsoring Units: AAPT
Chair: Kenric Davies, Liberty High School
Room: Chance Academic Center CAC 349
