Mar 31 2012 8:30AM, Saturday

A1 Plenary Session I: Kavli Foundation Keynote Session
Room: Regency Ballroom VI-VII Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Alan Watson,  Ellen Zweibel,  Samuel Ting  

Mar 31 2012 10:45AM, Saturday

B2 Invited Session: Rare Decays
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Toshiyuki Iwamoto,  Jiasen Ma,  Luciano Ristori,  Alessio Sarti  

B3 Invited Session: Homing in on the Galactic Center Black Hole
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Clifford Will, Washington University in St. Louis
Invited Speakers:  Mark Reid,  Ramesh Narayan,  Avery Broderick  

B4 Invited Session: Numerical Relativity Beyond Astrophysics
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: GGR Chair: Frans Pretorius, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Luis Lehner,  Paul Chesler,  Ulrich Sperhake  

B5 Invited Session: Applications of Graphical Processing Units in Physics
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: DNP DCOMP Chair: Matthew Shepard, Indiana University, Bloomington
Invited Speakers:  Balint Joo,  Evghenii Gaburov,  Niklaus Berger  

B6 Invited Session: FPS Awards
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FPS Chair: Pete Zimmerman, King's College, London
Invited Speakers:  Arian Pregenzer,  Siegfried Hecker,  Peter Zimmerman  

B7 Dark Matter: Direct Searches and Theory
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Heywood Tam, University of Florida

B8 Current and Future Gravitational Wave Experiments
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Duncan Brown, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Stefan Ballmer,  Rana Adhikari  

B9 Higgs Searches I
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago

B10 Non-accelerator Neutrino Experiments
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Yuri Efremenko, University of Tennessee

B11 Nuclear Theory
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: James Vary, Iowa State University

B12 Invited Session: Longitudinal and Transverse Structure of the Nucleon
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Wally Melnitchouk, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers:  Xin Qian,  Hovhannes Baghdasaryan,  Andreas Metz  

B15 SPS Undergraduate Research and Outreach I
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FEd Chair: Kendra Redmond, Am. Inst. of Physics/Soc. of Physics Students

Mar 31 2012 12:35PM, Saturday

B20 FPS Business Meeting
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FPS

Mar 31 2012 1:30PM, Saturday

C2 Invited Session: Instrumentation in High Energy Physics
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alice Bean, University of Kansas
Invited Speakers:  Marcel Demarteau,  Gary Varner,  Minfang Yeh  

C3 Invited Session: Intermediate Mass Black Holes: In Search of the Missing Link
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Avery Broderick, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Invited Speakers:  Jenny Greene,  Mathieu Servillat,  Ilya Mandel  

C4 Invited Session: Isospin and Spin Dependence of Few-Nucleon Forces
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: GFB DNP Chair: Calvin Howell, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Ruprecht Machleidt,  Dean Lee,  Werner Tornow  

C5 Invited Session: The Scientific Legacy of Bruno Rossi
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: FHP Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  George W. Clark,  Edward Stone,  Jim Cronin  

C6 Invited Session: Goals and Assessment of the Physics Graduate Program
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FEd FGSA Chair: Juan Burciaga, Mount Holyoke College
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Heller,  Stefan Zollner,  Harald W. Griesshammer  

C7 Neutrino Astronomy
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Institute of Technology

C8 Gravitational-Wave Source Modeling
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Bernard Kelly, University of Maryland Baltimore County

C9 Higgs Searches II
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alexey Drozdetskiy, University of Florida

C10 Electroweak Interactions
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Pieter Mumm, NIST

C11 Nuclear Structure and Reactions I
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Ingo Wiedenhoever, Florida State University

C12 Invited Session: Hard Hadronic Probes of Nuclear Collisions
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: GHP DNP Chair: Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Bjoern Schenke,  Raphael Granier de Cassagnac,  Alexei Bazavov  

C15 SPS Undergraduate Research, Education, and Outreach II
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FEd Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students, American Institute of Physics

Mar 31 2012 3:30PM, Saturday

D2 Invited Session: Particle Physics in Antarctica
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kara Hoffman, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Darren Grant,  Reina Maruyama,  Amy Connolly  

D3 Invited Session: Research in Cosmology Education
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: FEd DAP Chair: Lynn Cominsky, Sonoma State University
Invited Speakers:  Janelle M. Bailey,  Kim Coble,  Edward Prather  

D4 Invited Session: Analytical Relativity Meets Numerical Relativity
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: GGR Chair: Emanuele Berti, University of Mississippi/California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Ajith Parameswaran,  Alexandre Le Tiec,  Ryan Lang  

D5 Panel Discussion: Forum at Forty
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: FPS Chair: Pushpalatha Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Martin Perl,  Brian Schwartz,  David Hafemeister,  Peter Zimmerman,  Andrew Zwicker  

D6 Invited Session: Accelerator Driven Systems
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: DPB Chair: William Barletta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  John Galambos,  Luciano Calabretta,  Sama Bilbao y Le\'on  

D7 Inflation and Cosmology
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Stephon Alexander, Haverford College

D8 Gravitational Waves: Data Analysis
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Melissa Frei, Rochester Institute of Technology

D9 Higgs Searches III
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alexey Drozdetskiy, University of Florida

D10 Relativistic Heavy Ions I
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Senta Greene, Vanderbilt University

D11 Nuclear Instrumentation and Applications
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Fred Wietfeldt, Tulane University

D12 Invited Session: Testing of 3-Body Forces in Light Neutron-Rich Nuclei
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Ernst Rehm, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Paul Fallon,  C.J. (Kim) Lister,  Artemisia Spyrou  

D14 Axion Dark Matter Search
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Gianpaolo Carosi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

D15 100 Years of Cosmic Rays: Educational Opportunities I
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FEd Chair: Peggy Norris, Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake

Mar 31 2012 5:45PM, Saturday

E1 Welcome Reception and Poster Session I: APS Posters I (5:45 pm - 7:30 pm)
Room: Grand Hall West Sponsor: APS

Apr 1 2012 8:30AM, Sunday

G2 Invited Session: Results from Electron-Positron Colliders
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Jonathan Rosner, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Yury Kolomensky,  Todd Pedlar,  Matthew Shepherd  

G3 Invited Session: Toward Understanding the Origins of Galactic Cosmic Rays
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Martin Israel, Washington University in St. Louis
Invited Speakers:  Mirko Boezio,  Stefan Funk,  Elena Amato  

G4 Invited Session: Pulsar Timing Arrays and Gravitational Radiation
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Invited Speakers:  Andrea Lommen,  Zoltan Haiman,  Massimo Tinto  

G5 Invited Session: Advancements in Computational Physics Using NSF's TeraGrid/XSEDE Resources
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: DCOMP GFB Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Robert Fisher,  Colin Morningstar,  Homa Karimabadi  

G6 Invited Session: Students as Colleagues: An Examination of Teacher-Student Collaboration in Improving Educational Environments
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FEd COM Chair: Angela Little, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Ana Aceves,  Kenneth Tobin  

G7 Dark Matter: Indirect Searches
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: James Buckley, Washington University in St. Louis

G8 General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamical Simulations
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR DCOMP Chair: Joshua Faber, Rochester Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Faber  

G9 Charm and Variety
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Doreen Wackeroth, SUNY Buffalo

G10 The Small Neutrino Mixing Angle Theta13
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Bob McKeown, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

G11 Nuclear Structure and Reactions II
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Christopher Chiara, University of Maryland

G12 Invited Session: The Nucleon Resonance Spectrum
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Volker Burkert, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers:  Volker Crede,  Satoshi Nakamura,  Stephen Wallace  

G14 Instrumentation and Accelerator Technologies
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: DPB

G16 Sherwood I
Room: Hanover FG Sponsor: DPP Chair: Chris Hegna, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Whyte  

Apr 1 2012 10:45AM, Sunday

H2 Invited Session: The Top Quark
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Craig Group, The University of Virginia and Fermi Accelerator National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Robert Kehoe,  Meenakshi Narain,  Zack Sullivan  

H3 Invited Session: Toward Understanding the Origins of Extra-Galactic Cosmic Rays
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Joerg Hoerandel,  Miguel Mostafa,  Peter Gorham  

H4 Invited Session: Science Diplomacy: Accelerator Based Science in Korea
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: DPB FIP Chair: Kwang-Je Kim, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Won Namkung,  Dong-Pil Min,  M.H. Cho  

H5 Invited Session: Physicists Advising on National Security
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gloria Lubkin, Physics Today Editor Emerita
Invited Speakers:  Richard Garwin,  Roy Schwitters,  John Foster, Jr.  

H6 Invited Session: Energy Services for the Developing World I
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: GERA FIP Chair: Alvin Compaan, University of Toledo
Invited Speakers:  Ashok Gadgil,  Kurt Kornbluth,  Jeffrey Nelson  

H7 Extragalactic Astronomy and Gamma Ray Bursts
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Elizabeth Hays, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

H8 Numerical Relativity: Neutron Stars and Black Holes
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Wolfgang Tichy, Florida Atlantic University

H9 Bottom Quark Physics
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

H10 Few-nucleon Systems
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: GFB DNP Chair: Haiyan Gao, Duke University

H11 Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University

H12 Invited Session: New Measurements of Fundamental Constants and Materials
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP GPMFC Chair: Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Sushkov,  Peter Winter,  Francis Robicheaux  

H14 Hot Topics in Computational Astrophysics
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: DCOMP DAP Chair: Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  David Merritt,  Chris Fryer  

H15 Cosmic Rays Education II and Faster-than-Light Controversies
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FEd DAP Chair: Marjorie Bardeen, Fermilab

Apr 1 2012 11:00AM, Sunday

H16 Sherwood II
Room: Hanover FG Sponsor: DPP Chair: Paul Bonoli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Apr 1 2012 1:30PM, Sunday

J2 Invited Session: Standard Model Higgs Boson Searches
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Doreen Wackeroth,  Craig Group,  Alexey Drozdetskiy  

J3 Invited Session: Cosmic Rays and Hadron Physics
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: GHP DAP Chair: Amy Connolly, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Lisa Gerhardt,  Klaus Werner,  Ralph Engel  

J4 Prize Session: Bouchet Award, Lilienfeld Prize, Nicholson Medal
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Ramon Lopez,  Gordon Kane,  David Ernst  

J5 Invited Session: The Dynamics of Waves and Energetic Particles: Observations
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: DPP GPAP Chair: Donald Spong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Donald A. Gurnett,  William Heidbrink,  Timothy Hankins  

J6 Invited Session: Teaching and Learning Physics Through ComPADRE
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FEd Chair: Bruce Mason, University of Oklahoma
Invited Speakers:  Wolfgang Christian,  Ramon Torres-Isea,  Taha Mzoughi  

J7 Gamma Rays and Neutrinos in the Galaxy
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

J8 Simulations of General Relativistic Astrophysical Phenomena
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Christian Reisswig, California Institute of Technology

J9 Top Quark
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Kehoe, Southern Methodist University

J11 Minisymposium: Dark Forces below the Proton Mass Scale
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: O. Keith Baker, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Natalia Toro  

J12 Invited Session: Energy Services for the Developing World II
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: FIP GERA Chair: Ellen Stechel, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Alexie Kolpak,  Trudy Forsyth  

J14 Computational Methods in Particle & Nuclear Physics
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: DCOMP DPF DNP Chair: Dean Lee, North Carolina State University

J15 History of Physics and Educational Topics
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FHP Chair: Adrienne Kolb, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Apr 1 2012 2:00PM, Sunday

K1 Poster Session II: Sherwood I and APS Posters II (2:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Room: Grand Hall West

Apr 1 2012 2:30PM, Sunday

J16 Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: Hanover FG Sponsor: APS

Apr 1 2012 3:30PM, Sunday

L2 Invited Session: Beyond the Standard Model; Hot Topics
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers Unversity
Invited Speakers:  Ann Nelson,  Graham Wilson,  David Berge  

L3 Invited Session: The Dynamics of Waves and Energetic Particles: Simulations
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DPP GPAP Chair: William Heidbrink, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Lorenzo Sironi,  Donald Spong,  Joe Giacalone  

L4 Invited Session: Challenges in Numerical Relativity
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: GGR COM Chair: Carlos Lousto, Rochester Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Pablo Laguna,  Carlos Palenzuela,  Pedro Marronetti  

L5 Bonner Prize Session
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: DNP Chair: Robert Tribble, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Witold Nazarewicz,  Douglas Higinbotham,  Scott Bogner  

L6 Tests of General Relativity and Gravitation
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Nicholas Yunes, Montana State University
Invited Speakers:  Nicolas Yunes  

L7 Cosmic Ray Abundances and Electron/Positron Measurements
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Mark Wiedenbeck, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

L8 Quantum Aspects of Gravitation
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University

L9 Instrumentation in High Energy Physics
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marcel Demarteau, Argonne National Laboratory

L10 Neutrino Beams and Backgrounds
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University

L11 Spin Structure of the Nucleon
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: GHP Chair: Ernst Sichtermann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

L12 Invited Session: High School Physics Teachers: Supply and Demand
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paul Cottle, Florida State University
Invited Speakers:  Tim Sass,  Susan White,  Monica Plisch  

L14 Fundamental Constants
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Rana Adhikari, California Institute of Technology

Apr 1 2012 5:45PM, Sunday

M1 APS Past President's Address followed by Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Regency V Sponsor: APS Chair: Robert Byer, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Barry Barish  

Apr 1 2012 7:00PM, Sunday

N11 GHP Business Meeting
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: GHP

Apr 2 2012 8:30AM, Monday

P1 Plenary Session II: Nobel Prize Session
Room: Regency Ballroom VI-VII Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Saul Perlmutter,  Adam Riess,  Frank Wilczek  

Apr 2 2012 10:45AM, Monday

Q2 Invited Session: Neutrinos: The Precision Frontier
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF DNP Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Svoboda,  Lindley Winslow,  Lisa Kaufman  

Q3 Invited Session: Dark Matter: Indirect Detection
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Francesc Ferrer, Washington University in St. Louis
Invited Speakers:  Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins,  James Buckley,  Stefano Profumo  

Q4 Invited Session: Advances in Quantum Gravity
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jorge Pullin, Lousiana State University
Invited Speakers:  Diego Hofman,  Ivan Agullo,  Eugenio Bianchi  

Q5 Invited Session: New Developments in Radiation Detection Technologies
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: FPS Chair: Douglas Wright, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Warren Stern,  Michael Kuliasha,  Michael Larson  

Q6 Invited Session: The Role of Physics Departments in Preparing Instructors of Physics
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FEd Chair: Monica Plisch, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers:  David G. Haase,  Michael Manhart,  Rachel Scherr  

Q7 Gravitational Waves: Astrophysics
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland

Q8 Numerical Relativity: Black-Hole Binaries
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace, Cornell University

Q9 New Particle Searches I
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers University

Q10 Relativistic Heavy Ions II
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Berndt Mueller, Duke University

Q11 Photoproduction and Dynamics of Light Mesons
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Simon Capstick, Florida State University

Q12 Invited Session: Non-perturbative Physics in the Standard Model and Beyond Explored by Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Calculations
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DCOMP DNP Chair: Alexei Bazavov, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ran Zhou,  Ludmila Levkova,  Michael Cheng  

Q16 Sherwood III
Room: Hanover FG Sponsor: DPP Chair: Guoyong Fu, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Apr 2 2012 1:30PM, Monday

R2 Invited Session: Angular Momentum Transport in the Laboratory and in Nature
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPP GPAP Chair: Fred Skiff, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Stanley Kaye,  Michael Barnes,  John Hawley  

R3 Invited Session: Testing Gravity on Cosmic Scales
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: Nikhil Padmanabhan, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Bhuvnesh Jain,  Claudia deRham,  Fabian Schmidt  

R4 Invited Session: Women in Physics: Status and Interventions
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: CSWP Chair: Senta Greene, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Rachel Ivie,  Abigail Stewart,  Kelly Holley-Bockelmann  

R5 Wilson Prize Session
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: DPB Chair: William Barletta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  John M.J. Madey,  Stephen Milton,  Ferdinand Willeke  

R6 Invited Session: Parton Density Studies at an Electron-Ion Collider
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: GHP Chair: Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Raju Venugopalan,  Dennis Sivers,  Ernst Sichtermann  

R7 Extracting Physical Information from Gravitational Wave Signals
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DCOMP GGR Chair: Neil Cornish, Montana State University
Invited Speakers:  Will Farr  

R8 Approximations in General Relativity
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Samuel Gralla, University of Maryland College Park

R9 New Particle Searches II
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers University

R10 QCD, EWK, and Jet Physics
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago

R11 Precision Neutrino Physics and Its Interpretation
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Jonathan Link, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

R12 Dissertation and Mentorship Awards
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Robert Tribble, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Phillip Barbeau,  Emanuele Mereghetti,  Gerald Garvey  

R14 High Energy Physics and Dark Matter Search
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: GPMFC

R15 Physics Education Research: Issues in Intro Classes, Modeling and Gender
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FEd Chair: Thomas Olsen, Am. Inst. of Physics/Soc. of Physics Students

Apr 2 2012 2:00PM, Monday

S1 Poster Session III: Sherwood (2:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Room: Grand Hall West Sponsor: APS

Apr 2 2012 3:30PM, Monday

T2 Invited Session: Dark Matter: Direct Detection
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Corbin Covault, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Elena Aprile,  Jocelyn Monroe,  Neal Weiner  

T3 Invited Session: New Stars in Astrophysics
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Alicia Soderberg, Harvard Center for Astrophysics
Invited Speakers:  Manuel Peimbert,  Kumiko Kotera,  Laura Lopez  

T4 Panel Discussion: American Science & America's Future
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: FPS Chair: Pushpa Bhat, Fermi Accelerator National Laboratory, and Lawrence Krauss, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Neal Lane,  Jim Siegrist,  Timothy Hallman,  Frank Wilczek,  Martin Perl  

T5 Pais Prize Session: The National Laboratories after 1980
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: FHP Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Lillian Hoddeson,  Burton Richter,  Joseph Martin  

T6 Invited Session: Perspectives in Gravitational Physics
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: GGR Chair: James Isenberg, University of Oregon
Invited Speakers:  Beverly K. Berger,  Kip S. Thorne,  John Friedman  

T7 Cosmic Ray Composition and Air Shower Studies
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Robert Binns, Washington University in St. Louis

T8 Exact Solutions and Analyses of Spacetimes
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Govind Menon, Troy University

T9 New Particle Searches III
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Graham Wilson, University of Kansas

T10 Nuclear Instrumentation
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Dipangkar Dutta, Mississippi State University

T11 Accelerator Neutrino Experiments
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DPF Chair: Bob Svoboda, University of California, Davis

T12 Invited Session: Flow Signatures and its Implications for the Strongly Interacting Quark Gluon Plasma
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Xiaochun He, Georgia State University
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Adare,  Paul Sorensen,  Hannah Petersen  

T14 Computational Methods and Implementation
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ronald Mickens, Clark Atlanta University

Apr 2 2012 5:45PM, Monday

U7 DAP Business Meeting
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP

U8 GGR Business Meeting
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR

U9 DPF Business Meeting
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Pierre Ramond, University of Florida

U10 FIP Business Meeting
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: FIP

U11 DNP Business Meeting
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP

U14 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: DCOMP

U15 FED Business Meeting
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FEd

Apr 2 2012 7:30PM, Monday

U50 Energy Challenges Confronting our Nation in the 21st Century
Room: International Ballroom North Chair: Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Robert Rosner,  Steven E. Koonin  

Apr 3 2012 8:30AM, Tuesday

V1 Plenary Session III
Room: Regency Ballroom VI-VII Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Krishna Rajagopal,  Zheng-Tian Lu,  Judith Curry  

Apr 3 2012 10:45AM, Tuesday

W2 DPF Prize and Award Session
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Patricia McBride, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  William Atwood,  Daniel Jafferis,  Djordje Radicevic,  Georgia Karagiorgi,  Andre Lessa  

W3 Invited Session: Cosmological Constraints from Small-Scale CMB Anisotropies
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: John Wise, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Tobias Marriage,  Bradford Benson,  Kendrick Smith  

W5 Invited Session: Nuclear Energy, Post-Fukushima
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: FPS Chair: Peter Zimmerman, Kings College London
Invited Speakers:  Richard Meserve,  Mark Peters,  Harold Feiveson  

W6 Panel Discussion: Challenges for Early Career Researchers in International Collaborations and Exchanges
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FIP FGSA Chair: Renee Horton, Lousiana State University
Invited Speakers:  Lindley Winslow  

W7 Cosmic Ray Spectrum and Distribution
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Gregory Guzik, Louisiana State University

W8 Topics in Numerical Relativity
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Manuel Tiglio, University of Maryland College Park

W9 Direct Dark Matter Detection
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: Corbin Covault, Case Western Reserve University

W10 Partonic Structure in Nucleons and Nuclei
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: GHP DNP Chair: John Arrington, Argonne National Laboratory

W12 Invited Sesson: Neutrinos: The Wild Frontier
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Bruce Vogelaar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Yuri Efremenko,  Gabriel Orebi Gann,  Basudeb Dasgupta  

W14 Nucleon Form Factors and Two-Photon Exchange
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: DNP Chair: Andrei Afanasev, The George Washington University

W16 Sherwood IV
Room: Hanover FG Sponsor: DPP

Apr 3 2012 1:30PM, Tuesday

X2 Sakurai Prize Session
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Pierre Ramond, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Guido Altarelli,  Torbjorn Sjostrand,  Bryan Webber  

X3 Invited Session: Hot Topics in Astrophysics
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP DCOMP Chair: Neil Cornish, Montana State University
Invited Speakers:  Nikhil Padmanabhan,  Lloyd Knox,  Michael Boylan-Kolchin  

X4 Invited Session: The Detection Challenge in Modern Physics Experiments
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: GGR DPF Chair: Patrick Brady, University of Madison-Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Gabriela Gonzalez,  Dario Autiero,  Gray Rybka  

X5 Invited Session: Accelerators for Nuclear Physics
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: DPB DNP Chair: Thomas Glasmacher, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Glasmacher,  Richard Milner,  Charles Reece  

X6 Invited Session: The Dynamics of Waves and Energetic Particles: Theoretical Models
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: GPAP DPP Chair: James Drake, University of Maryland College Park
Invited Speakers:  Liu Chen,  Richard Thorne,  Martin Lee  

X7 Neutron Stars and General Astrophysics
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Pablo Laguna, Georgia Institute of Technology

X8 General Relativity and Cosmology
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jocelyn Read, University of Mississippi

X9 New Directions
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Lindley Winslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

X10 W, Z, Drell-Yan
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Meenakshi Narain, Brown University

X11 Underground Neutrino Physics and Background Studies
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Lisa Kaufman, Indiana University

X12 Invited Session: Precision Tests of New Physics Using Neutrons and Nuclei
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Fred Wietfeldt, Tulane University
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Wasem,  Dan Melconian,  Bastian Maerkisch  

Mar 31 2012 8:30AM, Saturday

A1 Plenary Session I: Kavli Foundation Keynote Session
Room: Regency Ballroom VI-VII Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Alan Watson,  Ellen Zweibel,  Samuel Ting  

Mar 31 2012 10:45AM, Saturday

B2 Invited Session: Rare Decays
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Toshiyuki Iwamoto,  Jiasen Ma,  Luciano Ristori,  Alessio Sarti  

B3 Invited Session: Homing in on the Galactic Center Black Hole
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Clifford Will, Washington University in St. Louis
Invited Speakers:  Mark Reid,  Ramesh Narayan,  Avery Broderick  

B4 Invited Session: Numerical Relativity Beyond Astrophysics
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: GGR Chair: Frans Pretorius, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Luis Lehner,  Paul Chesler,  Ulrich Sperhake  

B5 Invited Session: Applications of Graphical Processing Units in Physics
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: DNP DCOMP Chair: Matthew Shepard, Indiana University, Bloomington
Invited Speakers:  Balint Joo,  Evghenii Gaburov,  Niklaus Berger  

B6 Invited Session: FPS Awards
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FPS Chair: Pete Zimmerman, King's College, London
Invited Speakers:  Arian Pregenzer,  Siegfried Hecker,  Peter Zimmerman  

B7 Dark Matter: Direct Searches and Theory
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Heywood Tam, University of Florida

B8 Current and Future Gravitational Wave Experiments
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Duncan Brown, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Stefan Ballmer,  Rana Adhikari  

B9 Higgs Searches I
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago

B10 Non-accelerator Neutrino Experiments
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Yuri Efremenko, University of Tennessee

B11 Nuclear Theory
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: James Vary, Iowa State University

B12 Invited Session: Longitudinal and Transverse Structure of the Nucleon
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Wally Melnitchouk, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers:  Xin Qian,  Hovhannes Baghdasaryan,  Andreas Metz  

B15 SPS Undergraduate Research and Outreach I
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FEd Chair: Kendra Redmond, Am. Inst. of Physics/Soc. of Physics Students

Mar 31 2012 12:35PM, Saturday

B20 FPS Business Meeting
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FPS

Mar 31 2012 1:30PM, Saturday

C2 Invited Session: Instrumentation in High Energy Physics
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alice Bean, University of Kansas
Invited Speakers:  Marcel Demarteau,  Gary Varner,  Minfang Yeh  

C3 Invited Session: Intermediate Mass Black Holes: In Search of the Missing Link
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Avery Broderick, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Invited Speakers:  Jenny Greene,  Mathieu Servillat,  Ilya Mandel  

C4 Invited Session: Isospin and Spin Dependence of Few-Nucleon Forces
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: GFB DNP Chair: Calvin Howell, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Ruprecht Machleidt,  Dean Lee,  Werner Tornow  

C5 Invited Session: The Scientific Legacy of Bruno Rossi
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: FHP Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  George W. Clark,  Edward Stone,  Jim Cronin  

C6 Invited Session: Goals and Assessment of the Physics Graduate Program
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FEd FGSA Chair: Juan Burciaga, Mount Holyoke College
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Heller,  Stefan Zollner,  Harald W. Griesshammer  

C7 Neutrino Astronomy
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Institute of Technology

C8 Gravitational-Wave Source Modeling
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Bernard Kelly, University of Maryland Baltimore County

C9 Higgs Searches II
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alexey Drozdetskiy, University of Florida

C10 Electroweak Interactions
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Pieter Mumm, NIST

C11 Nuclear Structure and Reactions I
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Ingo Wiedenhoever, Florida State University

C12 Invited Session: Hard Hadronic Probes of Nuclear Collisions
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: GHP DNP Chair: Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Bjoern Schenke,  Raphael Granier de Cassagnac,  Alexei Bazavov  

C15 SPS Undergraduate Research, Education, and Outreach II
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FEd Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students, American Institute of Physics

Mar 31 2012 3:30PM, Saturday

D2 Invited Session: Particle Physics in Antarctica
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kara Hoffman, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Darren Grant,  Reina Maruyama,  Amy Connolly  

D3 Invited Session: Research in Cosmology Education
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: FEd DAP Chair: Lynn Cominsky, Sonoma State University
Invited Speakers:  Janelle M. Bailey,  Kim Coble,  Edward Prather  

D4 Invited Session: Analytical Relativity Meets Numerical Relativity
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: GGR Chair: Emanuele Berti, University of Mississippi/California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Ajith Parameswaran,  Alexandre Le Tiec,  Ryan Lang  

D5 Panel Discussion: Forum at Forty
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: FPS Chair: Pushpalatha Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Martin Perl,  Brian Schwartz,  David Hafemeister,  Peter Zimmerman,  Andrew Zwicker  

D6 Invited Session: Accelerator Driven Systems
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: DPB Chair: William Barletta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  John Galambos,  Luciano Calabretta,  Sama Bilbao y Le\'on  

D7 Inflation and Cosmology
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Stephon Alexander, Haverford College

D8 Gravitational Waves: Data Analysis
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Melissa Frei, Rochester Institute of Technology

D9 Higgs Searches III
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alexey Drozdetskiy, University of Florida

D10 Relativistic Heavy Ions I
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Senta Greene, Vanderbilt University

D11 Nuclear Instrumentation and Applications
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Fred Wietfeldt, Tulane University

D12 Invited Session: Testing of 3-Body Forces in Light Neutron-Rich Nuclei
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Ernst Rehm, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Paul Fallon,  C.J. (Kim) Lister,  Artemisia Spyrou  

D14 Axion Dark Matter Search
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Gianpaolo Carosi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

D15 100 Years of Cosmic Rays: Educational Opportunities I
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FEd Chair: Peggy Norris, Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake

Mar 31 2012 5:45PM, Saturday

E1 Welcome Reception and Poster Session I: APS Posters I (5:45 pm - 7:30 pm)
Room: Grand Hall West Sponsor: APS

Apr 1 2012 8:30AM, Sunday

G2 Invited Session: Results from Electron-Positron Colliders
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Jonathan Rosner, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Yury Kolomensky,  Todd Pedlar,  Matthew Shepherd  

G3 Invited Session: Toward Understanding the Origins of Galactic Cosmic Rays
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Martin Israel, Washington University in St. Louis
Invited Speakers:  Mirko Boezio,  Stefan Funk,  Elena Amato  

G4 Invited Session: Pulsar Timing Arrays and Gravitational Radiation
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Invited Speakers:  Andrea Lommen,  Zoltan Haiman,  Massimo Tinto  

G5 Invited Session: Advancements in Computational Physics Using NSF's TeraGrid/XSEDE Resources
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: DCOMP GFB Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Robert Fisher,  Colin Morningstar,  Homa Karimabadi  

G6 Invited Session: Students as Colleagues: An Examination of Teacher-Student Collaboration in Improving Educational Environments
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FEd COM Chair: Angela Little, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Ana Aceves,  Kenneth Tobin  

G7 Dark Matter: Indirect Searches
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: James Buckley, Washington University in St. Louis

G8 General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamical Simulations
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR DCOMP Chair: Joshua Faber, Rochester Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Faber  

G9 Charm and Variety
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Doreen Wackeroth, SUNY Buffalo

G10 The Small Neutrino Mixing Angle Theta13
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Bob McKeown, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

G11 Nuclear Structure and Reactions II
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Christopher Chiara, University of Maryland

G12 Invited Session: The Nucleon Resonance Spectrum
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Volker Burkert, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers:  Volker Crede,  Satoshi Nakamura,  Stephen Wallace  

G14 Instrumentation and Accelerator Technologies
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: DPB

G16 Sherwood I
Room: Hanover FG Sponsor: DPP Chair: Chris Hegna, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Whyte  

Apr 1 2012 10:45AM, Sunday

H2 Invited Session: The Top Quark
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Craig Group, The University of Virginia and Fermi Accelerator National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Robert Kehoe,  Meenakshi Narain,  Zack Sullivan  

H3 Invited Session: Toward Understanding the Origins of Extra-Galactic Cosmic Rays
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Joerg Hoerandel,  Miguel Mostafa,  Peter Gorham  

H4 Invited Session: Science Diplomacy: Accelerator Based Science in Korea
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: DPB FIP Chair: Kwang-Je Kim, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Won Namkung,  Dong-Pil Min,  M.H. Cho  

H5 Invited Session: Physicists Advising on National Security
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gloria Lubkin, Physics Today Editor Emerita
Invited Speakers:  Richard Garwin,  Roy Schwitters,  John Foster, Jr.  

H6 Invited Session: Energy Services for the Developing World I
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: GERA FIP Chair: Alvin Compaan, University of Toledo
Invited Speakers:  Ashok Gadgil,  Kurt Kornbluth,  Jeffrey Nelson  

H7 Extragalactic Astronomy and Gamma Ray Bursts
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Elizabeth Hays, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

H8 Numerical Relativity: Neutron Stars and Black Holes
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Wolfgang Tichy, Florida Atlantic University

H9 Bottom Quark Physics
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

H10 Few-nucleon Systems
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: GFB DNP Chair: Haiyan Gao, Duke University

H11 Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University

H12 Invited Session: New Measurements of Fundamental Constants and Materials
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP GPMFC Chair: Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Sushkov,  Peter Winter,  Francis Robicheaux  

H14 Hot Topics in Computational Astrophysics
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: DCOMP DAP Chair: Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  David Merritt,  Chris Fryer  

H15 Cosmic Rays Education II and Faster-than-Light Controversies
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FEd DAP Chair: Marjorie Bardeen, Fermilab

Apr 1 2012 11:00AM, Sunday

H16 Sherwood II
Room: Hanover FG Sponsor: DPP Chair: Paul Bonoli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Apr 1 2012 1:30PM, Sunday

J2 Invited Session: Standard Model Higgs Boson Searches
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Doreen Wackeroth,  Craig Group,  Alexey Drozdetskiy  

J3 Invited Session: Cosmic Rays and Hadron Physics
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: GHP DAP Chair: Amy Connolly, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Lisa Gerhardt,  Klaus Werner,  Ralph Engel  

J4 Prize Session: Bouchet Award, Lilienfeld Prize, Nicholson Medal
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Ramon Lopez,  Gordon Kane,  David Ernst  

J5 Invited Session: The Dynamics of Waves and Energetic Particles: Observations
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: DPP GPAP Chair: Donald Spong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Donald A. Gurnett,  William Heidbrink,  Timothy Hankins  

J6 Invited Session: Teaching and Learning Physics Through ComPADRE
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FEd Chair: Bruce Mason, University of Oklahoma
Invited Speakers:  Wolfgang Christian,  Ramon Torres-Isea,  Taha Mzoughi  

J7 Gamma Rays and Neutrinos in the Galaxy
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

J8 Simulations of General Relativistic Astrophysical Phenomena
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Christian Reisswig, California Institute of Technology

J9 Top Quark
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Kehoe, Southern Methodist University

J11 Minisymposium: Dark Forces below the Proton Mass Scale
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: O. Keith Baker, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Natalia Toro  

J12 Invited Session: Energy Services for the Developing World II
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: FIP GERA Chair: Ellen Stechel, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Alexie Kolpak,  Trudy Forsyth  

J14 Computational Methods in Particle & Nuclear Physics
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: DCOMP DPF DNP Chair: Dean Lee, North Carolina State University

J15 History of Physics and Educational Topics
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FHP Chair: Adrienne Kolb, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Apr 1 2012 2:00PM, Sunday

K1 Poster Session II: Sherwood I and APS Posters II (2:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Room: Grand Hall West

Apr 1 2012 2:30PM, Sunday

J16 Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: Hanover FG Sponsor: APS

Apr 1 2012 3:30PM, Sunday

L2 Invited Session: Beyond the Standard Model; Hot Topics
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers Unversity
Invited Speakers:  Ann Nelson,  Graham Wilson,  David Berge  

L3 Invited Session: The Dynamics of Waves and Energetic Particles: Simulations
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DPP GPAP Chair: William Heidbrink, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Lorenzo Sironi,  Donald Spong,  Joe Giacalone  

L4 Invited Session: Challenges in Numerical Relativity
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: GGR COM Chair: Carlos Lousto, Rochester Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Pablo Laguna,  Carlos Palenzuela,  Pedro Marronetti  

L5 Bonner Prize Session
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: DNP Chair: Robert Tribble, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Witold Nazarewicz,  Douglas Higinbotham,  Scott Bogner  

L6 Tests of General Relativity and Gravitation
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Nicholas Yunes, Montana State University
Invited Speakers:  Nicolas Yunes  

L7 Cosmic Ray Abundances and Electron/Positron Measurements
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Mark Wiedenbeck, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

L8 Quantum Aspects of Gravitation
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University

L9 Instrumentation in High Energy Physics
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marcel Demarteau, Argonne National Laboratory

L10 Neutrino Beams and Backgrounds
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University

L11 Spin Structure of the Nucleon
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: GHP Chair: Ernst Sichtermann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

L12 Invited Session: High School Physics Teachers: Supply and Demand
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paul Cottle, Florida State University
Invited Speakers:  Tim Sass,  Susan White,  Monica Plisch  

L14 Fundamental Constants
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Rana Adhikari, California Institute of Technology

Apr 1 2012 5:45PM, Sunday

M1 APS Past President's Address followed by Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Regency V Sponsor: APS Chair: Robert Byer, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Barry Barish  

Apr 1 2012 7:00PM, Sunday

N11 GHP Business Meeting
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: GHP

Apr 2 2012 8:30AM, Monday

P1 Plenary Session II: Nobel Prize Session
Room: Regency Ballroom VI-VII Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Saul Perlmutter,  Adam Riess,  Frank Wilczek  

Apr 2 2012 10:45AM, Monday

Q2 Invited Session: Neutrinos: The Precision Frontier
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF DNP Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Svoboda,  Lindley Winslow,  Lisa Kaufman  

Q3 Invited Session: Dark Matter: Indirect Detection
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Francesc Ferrer, Washington University in St. Louis
Invited Speakers:  Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins,  James Buckley,  Stefano Profumo  

Q4 Invited Session: Advances in Quantum Gravity
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jorge Pullin, Lousiana State University
Invited Speakers:  Diego Hofman,  Ivan Agullo,  Eugenio Bianchi  

Q5 Invited Session: New Developments in Radiation Detection Technologies
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: FPS Chair: Douglas Wright, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Warren Stern,  Michael Kuliasha,  Michael Larson  

Q6 Invited Session: The Role of Physics Departments in Preparing Instructors of Physics
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FEd Chair: Monica Plisch, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers:  David G. Haase,  Michael Manhart,  Rachel Scherr  

Q7 Gravitational Waves: Astrophysics
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland

Q8 Numerical Relativity: Black-Hole Binaries
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace, Cornell University

Q9 New Particle Searches I
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers University

Q10 Relativistic Heavy Ions II
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Berndt Mueller, Duke University

Q11 Photoproduction and Dynamics of Light Mesons
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Simon Capstick, Florida State University

Q12 Invited Session: Non-perturbative Physics in the Standard Model and Beyond Explored by Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Calculations
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DCOMP DNP Chair: Alexei Bazavov, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ran Zhou,  Ludmila Levkova,  Michael Cheng  

Q16 Sherwood III
Room: Hanover FG Sponsor: DPP Chair: Guoyong Fu, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Apr 2 2012 1:30PM, Monday

R2 Invited Session: Angular Momentum Transport in the Laboratory and in Nature
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPP GPAP Chair: Fred Skiff, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Stanley Kaye,  Michael Barnes,  John Hawley  

R3 Invited Session: Testing Gravity on Cosmic Scales
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: Nikhil Padmanabhan, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Bhuvnesh Jain,  Claudia deRham,  Fabian Schmidt  

R4 Invited Session: Women in Physics: Status and Interventions
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: CSWP Chair: Senta Greene, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Rachel Ivie,  Abigail Stewart,  Kelly Holley-Bockelmann  

R5 Wilson Prize Session
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: DPB Chair: William Barletta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  John M.J. Madey,  Stephen Milton,  Ferdinand Willeke  

R6 Invited Session: Parton Density Studies at an Electron-Ion Collider
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: GHP Chair: Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Raju Venugopalan,  Dennis Sivers,  Ernst Sichtermann  

R7 Extracting Physical Information from Gravitational Wave Signals
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DCOMP GGR Chair: Neil Cornish, Montana State University
Invited Speakers:  Will Farr  

R8 Approximations in General Relativity
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Samuel Gralla, University of Maryland College Park

R9 New Particle Searches II
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers University

R10 QCD, EWK, and Jet Physics
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago

R11 Precision Neutrino Physics and Its Interpretation
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Jonathan Link, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

R12 Dissertation and Mentorship Awards
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Robert Tribble, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Phillip Barbeau,  Emanuele Mereghetti,  Gerald Garvey  

R14 High Energy Physics and Dark Matter Search
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: GPMFC

R15 Physics Education Research: Issues in Intro Classes, Modeling and Gender
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FEd Chair: Thomas Olsen, Am. Inst. of Physics/Soc. of Physics Students

Apr 2 2012 2:00PM, Monday

S1 Poster Session III: Sherwood (2:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Room: Grand Hall West Sponsor: APS

Apr 2 2012 3:30PM, Monday

T2 Invited Session: Dark Matter: Direct Detection
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Corbin Covault, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Elena Aprile,  Jocelyn Monroe,  Neal Weiner  

T3 Invited Session: New Stars in Astrophysics
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Alicia Soderberg, Harvard Center for Astrophysics
Invited Speakers:  Manuel Peimbert,  Kumiko Kotera,  Laura Lopez  

T4 Panel Discussion: American Science & America's Future
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: FPS Chair: Pushpa Bhat, Fermi Accelerator National Laboratory, and Lawrence Krauss, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Neal Lane,  Jim Siegrist,  Timothy Hallman,  Frank Wilczek,  Martin Perl  

T5 Pais Prize Session: The National Laboratories after 1980
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: FHP Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Lillian Hoddeson,  Burton Richter,  Joseph Martin  

T6 Invited Session: Perspectives in Gravitational Physics
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: GGR Chair: James Isenberg, University of Oregon
Invited Speakers:  Beverly K. Berger,  Kip S. Thorne,  John Friedman  

T7 Cosmic Ray Composition and Air Shower Studies
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Robert Binns, Washington University in St. Louis

T8 Exact Solutions and Analyses of Spacetimes
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Govind Menon, Troy University

T9 New Particle Searches III
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Graham Wilson, University of Kansas

T10 Nuclear Instrumentation
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Dipangkar Dutta, Mississippi State University

T11 Accelerator Neutrino Experiments
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DPF Chair: Bob Svoboda, University of California, Davis

T12 Invited Session: Flow Signatures and its Implications for the Strongly Interacting Quark Gluon Plasma
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Xiaochun He, Georgia State University
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Adare,  Paul Sorensen,  Hannah Petersen  

T14 Computational Methods and Implementation
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ronald Mickens, Clark Atlanta University

Apr 2 2012 5:45PM, Monday

U7 DAP Business Meeting
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP

U8 GGR Business Meeting
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR

U9 DPF Business Meeting
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Pierre Ramond, University of Florida

U10 FIP Business Meeting
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: FIP

U11 DNP Business Meeting
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP

U14 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: DCOMP

U15 FED Business Meeting
Room: Grand Hall East D Sponsor: FEd

Apr 2 2012 7:30PM, Monday

U50 Energy Challenges Confronting our Nation in the 21st Century
Room: International Ballroom North Chair: Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Robert Rosner,  Steven E. Koonin  

Apr 3 2012 8:30AM, Tuesday

V1 Plenary Session III
Room: Regency Ballroom VI-VII Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Krishna Rajagopal,  Zheng-Tian Lu,  Judith Curry  

Apr 3 2012 10:45AM, Tuesday

W2 DPF Prize and Award Session
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Patricia McBride, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  William Atwood,  Daniel Jafferis,  Djordje Radicevic,  Georgia Karagiorgi,  Andre Lessa  

W3 Invited Session: Cosmological Constraints from Small-Scale CMB Anisotropies
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP Chair: John Wise, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Tobias Marriage,  Bradford Benson,  Kendrick Smith  

W5 Invited Session: Nuclear Energy, Post-Fukushima
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: FPS Chair: Peter Zimmerman, Kings College London
Invited Speakers:  Richard Meserve,  Mark Peters,  Harold Feiveson  

W6 Panel Discussion: Challenges for Early Career Researchers in International Collaborations and Exchanges
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: FIP FGSA Chair: Renee Horton, Lousiana State University
Invited Speakers:  Lindley Winslow  

W7 Cosmic Ray Spectrum and Distribution
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Gregory Guzik, Louisiana State University

W8 Topics in Numerical Relativity
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Manuel Tiglio, University of Maryland College Park

W9 Direct Dark Matter Detection
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: Corbin Covault, Case Western Reserve University

W10 Partonic Structure in Nucleons and Nuclei
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: GHP DNP Chair: John Arrington, Argonne National Laboratory

W12 Invited Sesson: Neutrinos: The Wild Frontier
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Bruce Vogelaar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Yuri Efremenko,  Gabriel Orebi Gann,  Basudeb Dasgupta  

W14 Nucleon Form Factors and Two-Photon Exchange
Room: Grand Hall East C Sponsor: DNP Chair: Andrei Afanasev, The George Washington University

W16 Sherwood IV
Room: Hanover FG Sponsor: DPP

Apr 3 2012 1:30PM, Tuesday

X2 Sakurai Prize Session
Room: Regency Ballroom V Sponsor: DPF Chair: Pierre Ramond, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Guido Altarelli,  Torbjorn Sjostrand,  Bryan Webber  

X3 Invited Session: Hot Topics in Astrophysics
Room: Hanover CDE Sponsor: DAP DCOMP Chair: Neil Cornish, Montana State University
Invited Speakers:  Nikhil Padmanabhan,  Lloyd Knox,  Michael Boylan-Kolchin  

X4 Invited Session: The Detection Challenge in Modern Physics Experiments
Room: International Ballroom North Sponsor: GGR DPF Chair: Patrick Brady, University of Madison-Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Gabriela Gonzalez,  Dario Autiero,  Gray Rybka  

X5 Invited Session: Accelerators for Nuclear Physics
Room: International Ballroom South Sponsor: DPB DNP Chair: Thomas Glasmacher, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Glasmacher,  Richard Milner,  Charles Reece  

X6 Invited Session: The Dynamics of Waves and Energetic Particles: Theoretical Models
Room: Embassy C Sponsor: GPAP DPP Chair: James Drake, University of Maryland College Park
Invited Speakers:  Liu Chen,  Richard Thorne,  Martin Lee  

X7 Neutron Stars and General Astrophysics
Room: Embassy D Sponsor: DAP Chair: Pablo Laguna, Georgia Institute of Technology

X8 General Relativity and Cosmology
Room: Embassy B Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jocelyn Read, University of Mississippi

X9 New Directions
Room: Embassy E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Lindley Winslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

X10 W, Z, Drell-Yan
Room: Embassy A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Meenakshi Narain, Brown University

X11 Underground Neutrino Physics and Background Studies
Room: Embassy F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Lisa Kaufman, Indiana University

X12 Invited Session: Precision Tests of New Physics Using Neutrons and Nuclei
Room: Grand Hall East A/B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Fred Wietfeldt, Tulane University
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Wasem,  Dan Melconian,  Bastian Maerkisch