Name: SESAPS 2011
Start: 2011-10-19T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2011-10-22T13:45:00-04:00
Location: Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke VA

SESAPS 2011

from Wednesday, 19 October 2011 (17:00) to Saturday, 22 October 2011 (13:45)
Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke VA (Conference Center)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

19 Oct 2011

20 Oct 2011

21 Oct 2011

22 Oct 2011

08:00	--- Registration (from 8:00 to 10:00 am) ---
08:30	BA. Strings: Theory and Application - Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech) (until 10:30) (Crystal Ballroom A)
08:30	Recent developments in four-dimensional supergravity - Eric Sharpe (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
09:00	Mathematical Surprises From Off-Shell SUSY Representation Theory - S. James Gates (University of Maryland) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
09:30	Real-time finite temperature AdS/CFT and jet quenching - Diana Vaman (University of Virginia) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
10:00	Holographic superconductors at low temperatures - George Siopsis (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
08:30	BB. Nano Materials - Michel Pleimling (Virginia Tech) (until 10:30) (Crystal Ballroom B)
08:30	Graphene: it's all about the surface - Kirill Bolotin (Vanderbilt University) (Crystal Ballroom B)
09:00	Flat-band Nanostructures - Vito Scarola (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
09:30	Spin-dependent quantum transport in nanoscaled geometries - Jean Heremans (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B)
10:00	Synthesis of nanostructures by combination of electrospinning and sputtering techniques - Prof. Wilfredo Otano (University of Puerto Rico – Cayey) (Crystal Ballroom B)
08:30	BC. Nuclear Physics I - Mark Pitt (Virginia Tech) (until 10:30) (Crystal Ballroom C)
08:54	N -> Delta Asymmetry at Low Q^2 - John Leacock (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
09:06	Inclusive DIS: Target Normal Single-Spin Asymmetry - Tim Holmstrom (Longwood University) (Crystal Ballroom C)
09:18	Helicity-Correlated Systematics in the Qweak Experiment - Joshua Hoskins (College of William and Mary) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
09:30	Moller Polarimetry for the Qweak Experiment - Joshua Magee (College of William and Mary) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
09:42	A Diamond Micro-strip Electron Detector for Compton Polarimetry - Amrendra Narayan (Mississippi State University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
09:54	Sticky Dark Matter in the Effective Field Theory Approach - Andriy Badin (Duke University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
10:06	Hadronic loop correction of charmonium decays - Di-Lun Yang (Duke University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
08:30	BD. Physics and Policy - Beate Schmittmann (Virginia Tech) (until 10:30) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
08:30	The Role of Physicists in Policy Making - Thomas Handler (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
09:30	Reflections on Science and Innovation Policy - Jack Wells (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee / Refreshments ---
10:45	CA. Recent Progress in Nuclear Astrophysics -Prof. Jonathan Link (Virginia Tech) (until 12:45) (Crystal Ballroom A)
10:45	Progress towards Low Energy Neutrino Spectroscopy (LENS) - Jeff Blackmon (LSU) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
11:15	BOREXINO - A breakthrough in spectroscopy of low energy neutrinos from the sun - Ramaswamy Raghavan (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom A)
11:45	Exploring the Cosmos from the Ground: Nuclear Astrophysics at UNC/TUNL - Anne Sallaska (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
12:15	DIANA - An Underground Accelerator Facility for Nuclear Astrophysics - Art Champagne (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
10:45	CB. Strongly Correlated Systems - Vito Scarola (Virginia Tech) (until 12:45) (Crystal Ballroom B)
10:45	Strong Correlation Effects in Fullerene Molecules and Solids - Fei Lin (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
11:15	Interplay of Quantum Criticality and Geometric Frustration in Columbite - Ribhu Kaul (University of Kentucky) (Crystal Ballroom B)
11:45	Ultrafast Dynamics in Vanadium Dioxide: Separating Spatially Segregated Mixed Phase Dynamics in the Time-domain - Prof. David Hilton (University of Alabama at Birmingham) (Crystal Ballroom B)
12:15	Superfluidity in Bilayer Systems of Cold Polar Molecules - Enrico Rossi (College of William and Mary) (Crystal Ballroom B)
10:45	CC. Biophysics and Medical Physics - Kenneth Wong (Virginia Tech) (until 12:45) (Crystal Ballroom C)
10:45	Stochastic Modeling of Regulation of Gene Expression by Multiple Post-transcriptional Regulators - Charles Baker (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
10:57	Stochastic models of gene expression and post-transcriptional regulation - Hodjat Pendar (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom C)
11:09	Regulation by small RNAs via coupled degradation: mean-field and variational approaches - Thierry Platini (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
11:21	Utilizing protein networks to determine novel annotations - Kenneth Shiao (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
11:33	A Model Comparison for Characterizing Protein Motions from Structure - Charles David (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
11:45	Using blocking peptides to control and analyze the mechanical properties of single fibrin fibers - Pranav Maddi (North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics) (Crystal Ballroom C)
11:57	A biomimetic model for internal fluid transport based on physiological systems in insects - Yasser Aboelkassem (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom C)
12:09	Locomotion of Paramecium in patterned environments - Mr Eun-Jik Park (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom C)
10:45	CD. Advances in Computing - Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech) (until 12:45) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
10:45	Open Science Grid: Linking Universities and Laboratories In National Cyberinfrastructure - Paul Avery (University of Florida) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
11:15	Evolving from TeraGrid to XSEDE - John Towns (NCSA) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
11:45	Quantum transport and nanoplasmonics with carbon nanorings - using HPC in computational nanoscience - Mark Jack (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
12:15	Discrete Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Biomolecules - Feng Ding (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (Crystal Ballroom DE) movie Slides

08:00	--- Registration (from 8:00 to 10:00 am) ---
08:30	GA. Biological Physics and Biomechanics - Rahul Kulkarni (Virginia Tech) (until 10:30) (Crystal Ballroom A)
08:30	The physics of bat biosonar - Rolf MÜLLER (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
09:00	How Do Songbirds Produce Precise Vocalizations? - Henry Greenside (Duke University) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
09:30	Dissecting cellular biomechanics with a laser - M. Shane Hutson (Vanderbilt University) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
08:30	GB. New Developments in Physics Education -Prof. Per Arne Rikvold (Florida State University) (until 10:30) (Crystal Ballroom B)
08:30	Learning Physics Through Computational Modeling - Mr Brandon Lunk (North Carolina State University) (Crystal Ballroom B)
09:00	Transforming the undergraduate physics program at Florida International University - Renee Michelle Goertzen (Florida International University) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
09:30	Collaborative Group Learning using the SCALE-UP Pedagogy - Gerald Feldman (George Washington University) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
10:00	Transforming Introductory Physics for Life Scientists: Researching the consequences for students - Dr Chandra Turpen (University of Maryland) (Crystal Ballroom B)
08:30	GC. Condensed Matter Physics / Nanophysics I -Dr Hans Robinson (Virginia Tech) (until 10:30) (Crystal Ballroom C)
08:30	Capturing Ion-Solid Interactions with MOS structures - R. Shyam (Clemson University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
08:42	Free flux flow in two single crystals of V_3 Si with differing pinning strengths - O. Gafarov (University of South Alabama) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
08:54	Double-Paddle Oscillators for the Mechanical Spectroscopy of Ion-Surface Modifications - Daniel Field (Clemson University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
09:06	Measurement of DC resistivity of new quasi-one-dimensional conducting platinate - Albert Gapud (University of South Alabama) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
09:18	NMR study of 133Cs in new quasi-one-dimensional conducting platinate - R. I. Leatherbury (University of South Alabama) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
09:30	Controlled release from stimuli-sensitive microgel capsules - Hassan Masoud (Georgia Institute of Technology) (Crystal Ballroom C)
09:42	Study the friction behaviour of poly[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate] brush with AFM probes in contact mechanics - Mrs Maryam Raftari (University of Sheffield) (Crystal Ballroom C)
09:54	Dynamics of Polydisperse Foam-like Emulsion - Harry Hicock (James Madison University) (Crystal Ballroom C)
10:06	Patterning the adhesive properties of amine-rich polymer films - Stefan Stoianov (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
08:30	GD. The 100th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Atomic Nucleus: A historical reflection of nuclear science in the Southeast - Paul Cottle (Florida State University) (until 10:30) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
08:30	Selected Highlights in Nuclear Research in the Southeast by Vanderbilt and ORNL - Joseph Hamilton (Vanderbilt University) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
09:00	A Personal Perspective on Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory Development - Thomas Clegg (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
09:30	A personal view of nuclear physics in the Southeast - Kirby Kemper (Florida State University) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
10:00	Early History of Jefferson Laboratory - Franz Gross (Jefferson Lab) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee / Refreshments ---
10:45	HA. Gravitation -Dr George Siopsis (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) (until 12:45) (Crystal Ballroom A)
10:45	LISA: the space-based gravitational wave observatory - Josep Sanjuan (University of Florida) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
10:57	Ring Heater for Advanced LIGO - Eric Deleeuw (University of Florida) (Crystal Ballroom A)
11:09	Laser frequency stabilization - Darsa Donelan (University of Florida) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
11:21	High Speed Alignment Control of an Optical Resonator - Mr Daniel Amariutei (University of Florida) (Crystal Ballroom A)
11:33	Orbits and Scaling for an Isotropic Metric - Joseph Rudmin (James Madison University) (Crystal Ballroom A) Paper
11:45	Telescope Spacer Design Investigations - Danila Korytov (University of Florida) (Crystal Ballroom A)
10:45	HB. Statistical and Nonlinear Physics I - Michel Pleimling (Virginia Tech) (until 12:45) (Crystal Ballroom B)
10:45	Boundary conflicts and cluster coarsening: Waves of life and death in the cyclic competition of four species - Ahmed Roman (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides Video
10:57	Stochastic evolution of four species in cyclic competition: exact and simulation results - Sara Case (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
11:09	The effects of mobility on the one-dimensional four-species cyclic predator-prey model - David Konrad (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
11:21	Quenched Spatial Disorder in Cyclic Three-Species Predator-Prey Models - Qian He (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
11:33	Epidemic spreading on preferred degree adaptive networks - Shivakumar Jolad (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
11:45	Aging behavior in disordered systems - Hyunhang Park (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
11:57	Time-dependent mechanical response of the cytoskeleton - Nasrin Afzal (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
12:09	Drop Formation from a Wettable Nozzle - Brian Chang (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
10:45	HC. Medical Physics: Improving Health, Saving Lives - Kenneth Wong (Virginia Tech) (until 12:45) (Crystal Ballroom C)
10:45	Image Guidance and Motion Adaptation in Radiation Therapy - Martin Murphy (Virginia Commonwealth University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
11:15	Monitoring Electrical and Thermal Burns with Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging - Jessica Ramella-Roman (Catholic University of America) (Crystal Ballroom C)
11:45	Medical Imaging for Understanding Sleep Regulation - Kenneth Wong (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
12:15	Radiation Oncology Physics and Medical Physics Education - Dr J. Daniel Bourland (Wake Forest School of Medicine) (Crystal Ballroom C)
10:45	HD. Neutrinos - Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech) (until 12:45) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
10:45	Theta_13 and Beyond - Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
11:15	The T2K Experiment - Joshua Albert (Duke University) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
11:45	The MINOS and NOvA Experiments - Patricia Vahle (College of William and Mary) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
12:15	Neutrino Oscillations with the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment - Jonathan Link (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides

08:00	--- Registration (from 8:00 to 10:00 am) ---
08:30	NA. Opportunities at National Labs and User Facilities in the SESAPS Area - Laurie McNeil (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (until 10:30) (Crystal Ballroom A)
08:30	Scientific user facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: New research capabilities and opportunities - James Roberto (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
09:00	Grand Challenges in Science and the Opportunities Afforded by DOE's New X-ray Laser Project - Prof. Gwyn Williams (Jefferson Lab) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
09:30	Kimballton Underground Research Facility - R. Bruce Vogelaar (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
08:30	NB. Particle Physics II - Craig Group (University of Virginia) (until 10:30) (Crystal Ballroom B)
08:30	Search for a Fourth Generation t' Quark via Wb Decays into a Lepton Plus Jets Final State in 7 TeV pp Collisions - Charles Jenkins (University of South Alabama) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
08:42	Techniques for Higgs Hunting at D0 - Huong Nguyen (University of Virginia) (Crystal Ballroom B)
08:54	Angular Distribution of Z0 Bosons in Z0+Jet Events - Luis Lebolo (Florida International University) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
09:06	Identifying Electromagnetic Events in the Forward Hadron Calorimeter - Christopher Frye (University of Central Florida) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
09:18	Precision Measurement of anti-B0bar -> D*+ Lepton Neutrino Branching Fraction - Christopher Buchanan (University of South Alabama) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
09:30	CP Violation in B Decays at BABAR - Romulus Godang (University of South Alabama) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
09:42	Measurement of the Branching Fraction of Y(4S) to Neutral B Pairs - Rafi Qumsieh (University of South Alabama) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
09:54	Angular Distribution of Photons in gamma+Jet Events - Vanessa Gaultney (Florida International University) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
08:30	NC. Nanoscale Optics - Richard Haglund (Vanderbilt University) (until 10:30) (Crystal Ballroom C)
08:30	Nanoplasmonics and Metamaterials with Low Loss and Gain - Guohua Zhu (Norfolk State University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
09:00	Pattern Transfer Nanomanufacturing - Thomas Crawford (University of South Carolina) (Crystal Ballroom C)
09:30	High Surface Area Vertically Aligned Metal Oxide Nanostructures for Dye-Sensitized Photoanodes by Pulsed Laser Deposition - Rene Lopez (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
10:00	Enhanced nonlinear optics and other applications of resonant plasmonics - Hans Robinson (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
08:30	ND. Astronomy - Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech) (until 10:30) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
08:30	Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics: A Status Report - Peter Shawhan (University of Maryland) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
09:00	A Multi-Messenger Search for Radio Transients and Gravitational Waves - Michael Kavic (Long Island University) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
09:30	A Precision Test for an Extra Spatial Dimension Using Black-Hole---Pulsar Binary Systems - John Simonetti (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
10:00	Kinetic Luminosity of Quasar Outflows and its Implications to AGN Feedback - Nahum Arav (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
10:30	--- Coffee / Refreshments ---
10:45	PA. Physics Education - Gerald Feldman (George Washington University) (until 12:45) (Crystal Ballroom A)
10:57	What is the purpose of undergraduate physics labs? - William Sams (North Carolina State University) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
11:09	Remote Sensing: Radio Frequency Detection for High School Physics Students - Daniel Huggett (Southeastern Louisiana University) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
10:45	PB. Statistical and Nonlinear Physics II - Uwe Tauber (Virginia Tech) (until 12:57) (Crystal Ballroom B)
10:45	Effect of Diffusion on Size Distribution Dynamics of Desorption in KMC Simulations of a Lattice-Gas Model of Pulsed Electrodeposition - Tjipto Juwono (Florida State University) (Crystal Ballroom B)
10:57	Effect of the size distributions of magnetic nanoparticles on metastability across dynamic phase boundary - Yoh Yamamoto (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
11:09	Non-equilibrium phases of the two-dimensional Ising model in contact with two heat baths - Ms Linjun Li (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B)
11:21	Langevin Molecular Dynamics of Driven Magnetic Flux Lines - Ulrich Dobramysl (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
11:33	An Approximation to the Periodic Solution of a Differential Equation of Abel - Ronald Mickens (Clark Atlanta University) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
11:45	An Averaged-Separation of Variable Solution to the Burger Equation - Dr 'Kale Oyedeji (Morehouse College) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
11:57	A two-Lane model with anomalous slow dynamics - Daniel Linford (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B)
12:09	Degree-based graph construction and sampling - Hyunju Kim (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
12:21	A simple model for studying interacting networks - Wenjia Liu (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
12:33	Image Charge Optimization for the Reaction Field by Matching to an Electrostatic Force Tensor - Wei Song (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
12:45	Unusual criticality in a generalized XY model - Yifei Shi (University of Virginia) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
10:45	PC. Condensed Matter Physics / Nanophysics II -Prof. Wilfredo Otano (University of Puerto Rico – Cayey) (until 13:21) (Crystal Ballroom C)
10:45	Determination of the Current Voltage Signatures of NanoGUMBOS - Kalyan Kanakamedala (Louisiana State University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
10:57	Characterization of NanoGUMBOS Using Conductive Probe Atomic Force Microscopy - Naveen Jagadish (Louisiana State University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
11:09	Negative coefficient of thermal expansion in (epoxy resin)/(zirconium tungstate) nanocomposites - Erich See (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
11:21	Towed-grid system for production and calorimetric study of homogenous quantum turbulence - Roman Ciapurin (University of Florida) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
11:33	Radiative Polaritons in Thin Oxide Films with Experimental and Simulated Dispersion Relations - Anita Vincent-Johnson (James Madison University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
11:45	Inductive Critical Currents in Nb/Mo bilayers - Phillip Broussard (Covenant College) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
11:57	Time-dependent hydrogen annealing of Mg-doped GaN - Ustun Sunay (University of Alabama at Birmingham) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
12:09	First-principles study of surface states of topological insulators - Kyungwha Park (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom C)
12:21	Electronic Structure Determination of the Thermoelectric Cu Rh_{1-x} Mg_x O_2 using Soft X-Ray Spectroscopies - Eric Martin (University of Tennessee) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
12:33	Energy Band Gap Behavior as a Function of Optical Electronegativity for Semiconducting and Insulating Binary Oxides - Kristen Dagenais (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
12:45	Doping evolution of the electronic structure in Ba (Fe_{1-x} Co_x)_2 As_2 as revealed by polarization dependent ARPES and soft X-ray absorption - Paolo Vilmercati (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) (Crystal Ballroom C)
12:57	Microstructural investigations of 0.2 per cent carbon content steel - Sajjad Tollabimazraehno (Johannes Kepler University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
13:09	Optical interferometric assessment of thin-film adhesion to substrate - Sushovit Adhikari (Southeastern Louisiana University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
10:45	PD. Particle Physics at the LHC - Brad Cox (University of Virginia) (until 12:45) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
10:45	The impact of Higgs boson searches at the Tevatron in the LHC era - Craig Group (University of Virginia) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
11:15	ATLAS in 2011: Status and prospects - Dick Greenwood (Louisiana Tech University) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
11:45	Recent Results from 7 GeV proton-proton running at CMS - Will Johns (Vanderbilt) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
12:15	Naturalness of electroweak symmetry breaking in the LHC era - Takemichi Okui (Florida State University) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides

17:00	--- AA. Registration (5:00 to 8:00 pm) ---
18:00	--- AB. Welcome Reception ---

12:45	--- Lunch ---
13:30	DA. Complex Fluids - Beate Schmittmann (Virginia Tech) (until 15:30) (Crystal Ballroom A)
13:30	Chaotic Advection in Multi-component Melts for the Manufacture of Composite Materials - David Zumbrunnen (Clemson University) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
14:00	How animals drink and swim in fluids - Sunghwan Jung (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
14:30	Jamming and Fluidization in Granular Flows - Dr Brian Utter (James Madison University) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
13:30	DB. Particle Physics I - Brad Cox (University of Virginia) (until 15:30) (Crystal Ballroom B)
13:30	Analyzing Potential Tracking Algorithms for the Upgrade to the Silicon Tracker of the Compact Muon Solenoid - John Hardin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
13:42	Improving the Trigger Efficiency for the WH-lvbb analysis at the CDF experiment - Hao Liu (University of Virginia) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
13:54	Study of the Sensitivity of Plastic Scintillators to Fast Neutrons - David Abbott (University of Virginia) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
14:06	Geometrical Standard Model Enhancements to the Standard Model of Particle Physics - Ken Strickland (Crystal Ballroom B)
14:18	Holographic Real-Time Finite-Temperature 3-Point Correlators and Their Applications on Second Order Hydrodynamics - Chaolun Wu (University of Virginia) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
14:30	Constructing a two scintillator paddle telescope for cosmic ray flux measurements - David Camp (Georgia State University) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
14:42	Correlation study of atmospheric weather and cosmic ray flux variation - Mathes Dayananda (Georgia State University) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
14:54	The Double Chooz Experiment - Brandon White (University of Tennessee) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
13:30	DC. Atomic and Molecular Physics - Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech) (until 15:30) (Crystal Ballroom C)
13:30	Laser Photodetachment Spectroscopy of the S_2- Ion - John Yukich (Davidson College) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
13:42	Identification and Analysis of Atomic and Molecular Superposition Spectra Following Laser-Induced Optical Breakdown - Alexander Woods (University of Tennessee Space Institute) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
13:54	Highly parallelized detection of single fluorescent molecules: simulation and experiment - Brian Canfield (University of Tennessee Space Institute) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
14:06	Terahertz Rotational Spectroscopy of the v5/2v9 Dyad of Nitric Acid - Paul Helminger (University of South Alabama) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
14:18	Microfluidic device for three-dimensional electrokinetic manipulation of single fluorescent molecules - Jason King (University of Tennessee Space Institute) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides Videos c3.avi.wmv joy.avi.wmv x2.avi.wmv y1.avi.wmv za_short.avi.wmv
14:30	Impact of Recent Laboratory N_2 Data to our Understanding of Thermospheric Nitric Oxide (NO) - Justin Yonker (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
14:42	Quasibound States of Single-Particle Systems - Curt Moyer (University of North Carolina at Wilmington) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
14:54	Three-dimensional flow measurements with a four-focus microscope - James Germann (University of Tennessee Space Institute) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
15:06	Rapid fabrication of long nanochannels with a single femtosecond laser pulse focused to a line - Lloyd Davis (University of Tennessee Space Institute) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
15:18	Application of X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Analysis of Oil Paint Pigments - Cassandra Major (North Georgia College and State University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
13:30	DD. Advances in Energy - R. Bruce Vogelaar (Virginia Tech) (until 15:30) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
13:30	Photonic Structuring of Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells - Rene Lopez (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
14:00	Advances in Polymer-Fullerene Photovoltaic Device - J. Randall Heflin (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
14:30	Nuclear Energy: Challenges and Directions - Mark Pierson (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
15:30	--- Coffee / Refreshments ---
15:45	- (until 17:45) (Crystal Ballroom C)
15:45	- (until 17:00) (Crystal Ballroom B)
15:45	EA. Physics at Jefferson Lab - Romulus Godang (University of South Alabama) (until 17:45) (Crystal Ballroom A)
15:45	Qweak: A Precision Standard Model Test at Jefferson Lab - Mark Pitt (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
16:15	Hadron Spectroscopy at Jefferson Lab: Search for new States of Hadronic Matter - Volker CREDÉ (Florida State University) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
16:45	High Precision Measurement of the pi^0 Radiative Decay Width - Liping Gan (University of North Carolina Wilmington) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
15:45	ED. Mentoring Workshop - Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech) (until 17:15) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
15:45	Improving Your Skills as a Research Mentor - Monica Plisch (American Physical Society) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
17:00	FB. SESAPS Executive Committee Meeting (closed) (until 19:00) (Crystal Ballroom B)
19:00	FD. SESAPS Business Meeting (open to SESAPS members) - Laurie McNeil (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (until 20:00) (Crystal Ballroom DE)

12:45	--- Lunch ---
13:30	JA. Astrophysics -Prof. Michael Kavic (Long Island University) (until 15:30) (Crystal Ballroom A)
13:30	LENS -- A Novel Technology to Measure the Low Energy Solar Neutrino Spectrum (pp, 7Be, and CNO) - Derek Rountree (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
13:42	LENS Prototyping -- Construction and Deployment of MicroLENS - Tristan Wright (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
13:54	Borexino Calibration, Precision Measurement and Seasonal Variations of the 7Be solar neutrino flux - Szymon Manecki (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
14:06	Solar system tests versus cosmological constraints for f(G) models - Jacob Moldenhauer (Francis Marion University) (Crystal Ballroom A) Paper Slides
14:18	The Spectral Properties of Galaxies with H2O Maser Emission - Nathan DiDomenico (James Madison University) (Crystal Ballroom A)
14:30	A Proposed Theory of Everything (TOE) - Antonio Colella (IBM) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
13:30	JB. Relativistic Heavy Ions at RHIC and LHC - Soren Sorensen (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) (until 15:30) (Crystal Ballroom B)
13:30	Recent Results from PHENIX - Xiaochun He (Georgia State University) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
14:00	Recent Results from ALICE at LHC - Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
14:30	Results from PbPb Collisions Measured by the CMS Detector - Charles Maguire (Vanderbilt University) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
15:00	What do we know about the shear-viscosity of QCD matter? - Steffen Bass (Duke University) (Crystal Ballroom B) Slides
13:30	JC. Nuclear Physics II - Paul Cottle (Florida State University) (until 15:30) (Crystal Ballroom C)
13:30	New Levels in 162Gd - Brayton Doll (NBPHS, Vanderbilt University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
13:42	Octupole correlations in Ba and Ce nuclei - N. T. Brewer (Vanderbilt University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
13:54	Neutron emission asymmetries from linearly polarized gamma rays on {nat}Cd, {nat}Sn, and 181Ta - W. Clarke Smith (George Washington University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
14:06	Sensitivity of the Reaction Cross Section Calculation in the Glauber Theory Framework to the Parameters of Random Number Generation - John Wilson (Western Kentucky University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
14:18	From Finite Nuclei to Neutron Stars - Wei-Chia Chen (Florida State University) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
14:30	Neutrino oscillations: latest mixing parameters - David Ernst (Vanderbilt University and Fisk University) (Crystal Ballroom C)
14:42	Independent Benchmarking of a Hybrid Monte Carlo Cross Section Code - Nathan DeLauder (University of Tennessee) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
14:54	Derivation of the Abrasion-Ablation Model Using Corrections to the Phase Function - Santosh Bhatt (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) (Crystal Ballroom C) Slides
13:30	JD. Statistical Physics Far from Equilibrium - Henry Greenside (Duke University) (until 15:30) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
13:30	The Emergence of Community Structure in Metacommunities - Per Arne Rikvold (Florida State University) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
14:00	Cyclically competing species: deterministic trajectories and stochastic evolution - Michel Pleimling (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
14:30	Stochastic population oscillations in spatial predator-prey models - Uwe TÄUBER (Virginia Tech) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides movie1.mpg movie2.mpg movie.mpg sesaps11.ppt
15:00	Accumulation of beneficial mutations in low dimensions - Jakub Otwinowski (Emory University) (Crystal Ballroom DE) Slides
15:30	--- Coffee / Refreshments ---
15:45	- (until 17:45) (Crystal Ballroom C)
15:45	- (until 17:45) (Crystal Ballroom B)
15:45	KA. Superconductivity: 100th Anniversary - Norman Mannella (University of Tennessee - Knoxville) (until 17:45) (Crystal Ballroom A)
15:45	A New Piece in the High T_c Superconductivity Puzzle: Fe based Superconductors - Adriana Moreo (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
16:15	High Temperature Superconductors: From Basic Research to High-Current Wires - Dr David Christen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) (Crystal Ballroom A)
16:45	New challenges and opportunities for high-T_c superconducting materials - Alexander Gurevich (Old Dominion University) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
17:15	Evolution of spin excitations in high-temperature iron-based superconductors - Pencheng Dai (University of Tennessee at Knoxville / ORNL) (Crystal Ballroom A) Slides
15:45	KD. Panel Discussion: The Under-Represented Majority - Roxanne Springer (Duke University) (until 17:45) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
15:45	The Under-Represented Majority - Roxanne Springer (Duke University) (Crystal Ballroom DE)
18:00	LA. Poster Session (until 20:00) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	A modified thermodynamic model to estimating the secondary particle source radius, and coalescence radius, in heavy ion collisions - Mahmoud PourArsalan (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	A Muon Tomography Station with GEM Detectors for Nuclear Threat Detection - Michael Staib (Florida Institute of Technology) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	A New Viewpoint (The expanding universe, Dark energy and Dark matter) - Daniel Cwele (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	A Search for Astrophysical Meter Wavelength Radio Transients - Sean Cutchin (Virginia Tech) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	A statistical analysis of the environments of extragalactic water masers - Thomas Redpath (James Madison University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	A study of the chiro-optical properties of Carvone - Jason Lambert (University of Tennessee) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Acoustic measurement of the granular density of state - Eli Owens (North Carolina State University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Acoustic Radiation from Smart Foam for Various Foam Geometries - Nishkala Shivakumar (North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics and North Carolina A&T State University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Afterglow photometry and Modeling GRB 091018 - Apurva Oza (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Nanoribbons with Folded Racket Shapes - Andy Borum (Virginia Tech) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Calculation of Stationary, Free Molecular Flux Distributions in General 3D Environments - Jesse Labello (University of Tennessee Space Institute) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Characterization of large-scale velocity fluctuations in the Princeton MRI experiment - William Love (Virginia Tech) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Collective excitations in a spinor condensate - Jianing Han (Hollins University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Comparison of Top-Antitop Cross Section Measurement Analyses by SHyFT and Simple Counting Method - Erin Chambers (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Detector Performance in the SLHC era at CMS - Brian Francis (University of Virginia) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Dianion formation from anion-alkali metal charge exchange reactions: TCNQ- + Na --> TCNQ-- + Na+ - Byron Smith (University of Tennessee) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Discovery of Isotopes - Cathleen Fry (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Dissociative Electron-Ion Recombination of the Protonated Interstellar Species Glycolaldehyde, Acetic Acid, and Methyl Formate - Patrick Lawson (University of Georgia) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	e/m Experiment Analysis Refinement - Michael Harmon (Erskine College) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Electrical Characterization of Zn and ZnO Nanowires Grown on PEDOT:PSS Conductive Polymer Thin Films by Physical Vapor Deposition - Matthew Chamberlin (James Madison University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Electronic transport in semiconductors - Alexander Larin (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Emission Spectroscopy of RF Helicon Heated Plasmas - Tim Younkin (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	First Neutrino Results from the NOvA Near Detector - Zukai Wang (University of Virginia) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Gravity's Weak Force Link and other thoughts - Rich Aquilina (American Physical Society) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Identifying Electromagnetic Events in the Forward Hadron Calorimeter - Christopher Frye (University of Central Florida) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	It may be possible to use Capillary Action as a Cooling method - Richard Kriske (University of Minnesota) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	LabView ALPHA Immersion at Reed College - R. Seth Smith (Francis Marion University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Lifetime Performance Studies on Vacuum Photo-Triodes in the ECAL at CMS - John Wood (University of Virginia) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Magnetization Dynamics in Magnetic Nanoparticle Chains - Suvojit Ghosh (Virginia Tech) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Mid-infrared Molecular Emission Studies from Energetic Materials using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy - Ei Brown (Hampton University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Modeling of CVD Diamond Detectors - Travis Tune (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Modeling of the pressurized xenon gamma ray scintillation detector - Romney Meek (Western Kentucky University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Network Theoretical Approach to Partitioning of Real Power Grids - Brett Israels (Florida State University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Neutron Photoproduction from 139La Using 12-15 MeV Linearly Polarized gamma-Rays - R. K. Thrasher (James Madison University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Neutron Photoproduction from {Nat}Hg Using 11-15 MeV Linearly Polarized gamma-Rays - J. Hauver (James Madison University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	On-line Java Tools for Analyzing AGN Outflows - Carter Chamberlain (Virginia Tech) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Open and Solved Elementary Questions in Astronomy - Florentin Smarandache (University of New Mexico) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Pac-Man: Lock and Key Colloid Particles - Ashley Taylor (Winston Salem State University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Periodicity of the Benjamin-Feir Instability and Linear Superposition - Justin Cutrer (Xavier University of Louisiana) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Photon diffraction - John Hodge (Blue Ridge Community College) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Physical properties of unacetylated chromatin as examined by magnetic tweezers - Kerry McGill (North Georgia College and State University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Radio Detection of Neutron Star Binary Mergers - Brandon Bear (Virginia Tech) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Searching for Low-Frequency Radio Transients from Supernovae - Jr-Wei Tsai (Virginia Tech) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Studies of Diamond Pixel Detectors for CMS at LHC - Thomas Robacker (University of Tennessee) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Studies of the Performance of Radiation Hard GaAs Photodetectors - Joseph Goodell (University of Virginia) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Study of the Sensitivity of Plastic Scintillators to Fast Neutrons - David Abbott (University of Virginia) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Superconducting Properties of Nb/Mo Bilayers - James Veldhorst (Covenant College) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Testing General Relativity at Cosmological Scales using ISiTGR - Jacob Moldenhauer (Francis Marion University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	The Arcminute Morphology of the WIM Toward the Local Perseus Arm of the Galaxy - Phillip Nelson (Virginia Tech) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	The Coffee and Cream Dilemma - Brandon Minor (George Washington University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Towards Modeling Self-Consistant Core Collapse Supernovae - Merek Chertkow (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / University of Tennessee at Knoxville) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Trends in Ion-Electron Dissociative Recombination of Benzene Analogs - David Osborne (University of Georgia) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Two definitions for genders - Philip Shin (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Upconversion Studies of Er3+ Doped into Low Phonon-Energy Hosts KPb2Cl5 and KPB2Cl5 via 0.97 um and 1.5 um Laser Excitation - A. Bluiett (Elizabeth City State University) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	Use of Spray Adhesives for the Manufacture of 3-D Capillary Origami Microstructures - Mithi de los Reyes (North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics) (Roanoke Foyer)
18:00	{nat}Dy(gamma,n) Asymmetry Measurements with Linearly Polarized gamma-rays between 11 and 15 MeV - W. R. Henderson (James Madison University) (Roanoke Foyer)
20:00	--- MA. Banquet ---

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