Welcome Reception and Poster Session I: APS Posters I (5:45 pm - 7:30 pm)

Presentations

• ASTROPHYSICS

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• MEST-The universe has not the time arrowhead and space expanding

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  Authors

  • Dayong Cao

    • Beijing Natural Providence Science \& Technology Development Co., Ltd

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• Time may affect the visibility of dark matter and its corresponding space

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  Authors

  • Dennis Ou

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Ming-Cheh Ou

    • Taipei City Hospital

  • Chung-Chu Pang

    • Taipei Su Women Hospital

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• Observations of Radio-Loud Narrow Line Seyfert 1

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Joseph Eggen

    • Georgia State University

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• Thin-Disk Galactic Rotation Described with Newtonian Dynamics withOUT Mysterious Dark Matter

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  Authors

  • James Q. Feng

    • Superconix Inc

  • C.F. Gallo

    • Superconix Inc

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• High $\mathbf{B}$-field Limit of Magnetic Oscillations in Magnetars

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  Authors

  • Matthew Rave

    • Western Carolina University

  • Enrique Gomez

    • Western Carolina University

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• Supernova Remnant Evolution with Cosmic Ray Feedback

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  Authors

  • Joshua Wood

    • Clemson University

  • Dieter Hartmann

    • Clemson University

  • Ken-Ichi Nishikawa

    • NSSTC

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• Lower limits on ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray and jet powers of TeV blazars

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  Authors

  • Soebur Razzaque

    • George Mason University

  • Charles Dermer

    • Naval Research Lab

  • Justin Finke

    • Naval Research Lab

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• Affects of curtains on the scaler system in HAWC

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  Authors

  • Thomas Harris

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Andreas Tepe

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Ignacio Taboada

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• CMS Pixel Upgrade: Robustness Studies of the CMS Tracker Inner Barrel

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  Authors

  • Juan Cuevas

    • University Of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

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• Elementary processes in the Self-Interacting Flavor-Mixed Dark Matter

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  Authors

  • A. Ford

    • University of Kansas

  • M.V. Medvedev

    • University of Kansas

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• Solar Flare Impulse Broadening from Gamma Ground Survey Network

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  Authors

  • Marc Litz

    • Army Research Laboratory

  • David Burns

    • Army Research Laboratory

  • James Carroll

    • Army Research Laboratory

  • Nino Pereira

    • Ecopulse Inc.

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• The Dark Energy Survey Camera

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Brenna Flaugher

    • Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics

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• Design for a New Observatory for the Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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  Authors

  • Corbin Covault

    • Case Western Reserve University
    • Department of Physics and Center for Research and Education in Cosmology and Astrophysics, Case Western Reserve University

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• Impacts by Compact Ultra Dense Objects

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  Authors

  • Jeremey Birrell

    • The University of Arizona

  • Lance Labun

    • The University of Arizona

  • Johann Rafelski

    • The University of Arizona

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• FEW-BODY SYSTEMS

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• Antiproton-impact ionization of H$_{2}$

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  Authors

  • Teck-Ghee Lee

    • Auburn University

  • M.S. Pindzola

    • Auburn University

  • J. Colgan

    • Los Alamos National Lab

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• GRAVITATION

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• Considerations Concerning the Overall Unification

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  Authors

  • Shantilal Goradia

    • Gravity Research Institute, Inc.

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• Special Relativistic effects may impact the conditions necessary for an event horizon

  ORAL

  Authors

  • J.R. Laubenstein

    • Northern Illinois University (alumni)

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• Gravitational Wave and Neutrino Signals from Rotating General-Relativistic Stellar Collapse

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Ernazar Abdikamalov

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Christian D. Ott

    • California Institute of Technology
    • Caltech

  • Evan O'Connor

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Christian Reisswig

    • Caltech
    • California Institute of Technology

  • Peter Kalmus

    • Caltech
    • California Institute of Technology

  • Frank Loeffler

    • Louisiana State University

  • Adam Burrows

    • Princeton University

  • Steve Drasco

    • California Polytechnic State University

  • Erik Schnetter

    • Perimeter Institute

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• Reduced basis for spinning, non precessing binaries

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  Authors

  • Manuel Tiglio

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Scott Field

    • University of Maryland

  • Chad Galley

    • JPL-Caltech

  • Frank Herrmann

    • University of Maryland

  • Evan Ochsner

    • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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• Application of the Maximum Entropy method to data from the LIGO gravitational wave detectors

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Christopher Greenley

    • Andrews University

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• Analyses of Tsunami Events using Simple Propagation Models

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  Authors

  • Ashwith Kumar Chilvery

    • Alabama A\&M University

  • Arjun Tan

    • Alabama A\&M University

  • Mohan Aggarwal

    • Alabama A\&M University

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• Nuclear Quantum Gravitation, LIGO, Gravity B Probe. CDMS

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  Authors

  • Ronald Kotas

    • Retired

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• On the Principles and Directions of Modern Physics

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  Authors

  • Thomas Evans

    • Belvidere High School

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• Schwarzschild Solution of the Generally Covariant Quaternionic Field Equations of Sachs

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  Authors

  • Horace Crater

    • The University of Tennessee Space Institute

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• Isolating Non-Linear Signatures of Two Colliding Black Holes

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Rita Garrido

    • None

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• Mass-energy and Momentum Extraction by Gravitational Wave Emission in the Merger of Two Colliding Black Holes: The Non-head-on Case

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Rafael Aranha

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Ivano Soares

    • Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas

  • Eduardo Tonini

    • CEFETES

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• The merger of binary white dwarf--neutron stars: Simulations in full general relativity

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Vasileios Paschalidis

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Yuk Tung Liu

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Zachariah Etienne

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois

  • Stuart Shapiro

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Spectral Methods in General Relativistic MHD Simulations

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  Authors

  • David Garrison

    • University of Houston Clear Lake

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• OpenCL-Accelerated Primitive Variable Recovery for General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics

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  Authors

  • Kristen Boydstun

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Christian D. Ott

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Philipp Moesta

    • California Institute of Technology

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• Non-Linear Cosmological Redshift According to General Relativity

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Dmitri Rabounski

    • Retired

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• NUCLEAR PHYSICS

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• MicroLENS Construction and Filling

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Tristan Wright

    • Virginia Tech

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• The Low Energy Neutrino Spectrometry (LENS) Experiment and LENS prototype, $\mu $LENS, initial results

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Zachary Yokley

    • Virginia Tech

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• The Explanation of the Photon's Electric and Magnetic Fields; and its Particle and Wave Characteristics

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  Authors

  • Russell Moon

    • Dr

  • Victor Vasiliev

    • Dr

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• Glauber Theory Nuclear Cross Section Calculation Sensitivity to Parameters of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Random Number Generation

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  Authors

  • John Wilson

    • Western Kentucky University

  • Ivan Novikov

    • Western Kentucky University

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• Checker Board Model

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  Authors

  • Theodore Lach

    • none

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• CMS Pixel Tracker Upgrade: Results from Test Beam

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  Authors

  • Richard Brosius

    • SUNY at Buffalo

  • Avto Kharchilava

    • SUNY at Buffalo

  • Ashish Kumar

    • SUNY at Buffalo

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• Neutron generator yield measurements using a phoswich detector with the digital pulse shape analysis

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Alexander Barzilov

    • Western Kentucky University

  • Ivan Novikov

    • Western Kentucky University

  • Phillip Womble

    • Western Kentucky University

  • Julian Heinze

    • Western Kentucky University

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• High Speed Data Acquisition in APEX Dark Matter Experiment

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  Authors

  • Elena Long

    • Kent State University

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• PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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• Superluminal Physics {\&} Instantaneous Physics - as new trends in research

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  Authors

  • Florentin Smarandache

    • University of New Mexico

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• Relationship between 1 to $n+1$ and 2 to $n$ Parke-Taylor amplitudes in light front perturbation theory

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  Authors

  • Christian A. Cruz Santiago

    • The Pennsylvania State University

  • Anna M. Stasto

    • The Pennsylvania State University; RIKEN BNL Center; Polish Academy of Sciences

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• New Measurements of Upsilon Spin Alignment at CDF

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  Authors

  • Niharika Ranjan

    • Purdue University

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• How NBWF cosmology is consistent with causal QC/ED particle CFT and its AdS dual preserves information

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Wayne R. Lundberg

    • None

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• Alignment of the CMS Muon System with muons from pp collisions at the LHC

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  Authors

  • Aysen Tatarinov

    • Texas A\&M University

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• TESTS OF PHYSICS LAWS

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• On Logical Error Underlying Classical Mechanics

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  Authors

  • Temur Z. Kalanov

    • Home of Physical Problems, Pisatelskaya 6a, 100200 Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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• Lorentz and CPT violating corrections to hydrogen energy levels at order $\alpha^2$

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Gregory Adkins

    • Franklin and Marshall College

  • Theodore Yoder

    • Franklin and Marshall College

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• The harmonic neutron hypothesis: alpha and the annihilation frequency equivalent of the neutron are sufficient to derive the effective fine structure constant at Z

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Donald Chakeres

    • The Ohio State University

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• Speed of Light: same everywhere?

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  Authors

  • Hans H. Fleischmann

    • Appl. Phys., Cornell University

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• Anharmonic Waves in Quantum Electrodynamics

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  Authors

  • Franz Himpsel

    • Physics Dept., University of Wisconsin Madison

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• OPERA and MINOS Experimental Result Prove Big Bang Theory Invalid

  POSTER

  Authors

  • David E. Pressler

    • Primary Nuclear Research

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• Monte Carlo Simulation of Cosmogenic Processes for the SURF Experiments

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Chao Zhang

    • University of South Dakota

  • Dongming Mei

    • University of South Dakota

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• Signature of Spontaneous Particle Production in Converging Laser Pulses

  ORAL

  Authors

  • Lance Labun

    • The University of Arizona

  • Johann Rafelski

    • The University of Arizona

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• ACCELERATORS AND STORAGE RINGS

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• Digitally Controlled Four Harmonic Buncher for FSU LINAC

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Daniel S. Moerland

    • Physics Department, Florida State University

  • Ingo Wiedenhoever

    • Physics Department, Florida State University

  • Lagy T. Baby

    • Physics Department, Florida State University

  • David Caussyn

    • Physics Department, Florida State University

  • David Spingler

    • Physics Department, Florida State University

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• Design Challenges of a Rapid Cycling Synchrotron for Carbon/Proton Therapy

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  Authors

  • Nathan Cook

    • Stony Brook University

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• PHYSICS EDUCATION

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• Amorphous Solid Water (ASW): Macroscale Environmentally-Neutral Application for Remediation of Hazardous Pollutants using Condensed-Phase Cryogenic Fluids

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Ronald de Strulle

    • HPI; Pace Univ., Dept. Chem \& Phys Sci.
    • HPI; Pace Univ., Dept. Chem. \& Phys. Sci.

  • Maximilian Rheinhart

    • HPI; Spacetime Inst.

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• Classical Physics as an Introduction to Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and Gravity

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  Authors

  • Robert Close

    • Clark College

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• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) Maps of the Permanently Shaded Regions (PSR) at the Lunar Poles

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Paul Rojas

    • St. Marys University, San Antonio, Texas

  • Kurt Retherford

    • Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

  • Randall Gladstone

    • Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

  • Alan Stern

    • Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado

  • Anthony Egan

    • Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado

  • Paul Miles

    • Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

  • Joel Parker

    • Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado

  • David Kaufmann

    • Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado

  • David Horvath

    • Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

  • Thomas Greathouse

    • Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

  • Maarten Versteeg

    • Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

  • Andrew Steffl

    • Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado

  • Joey Mukherjee

    • Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

  • Michael Davis

    • Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

  • David Slater

    • Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

  • Amanda Bayless

    • Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

  • Paul Feldmann

    • John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

  • Dana Hurley

    • John Hopkins University Applied Physics,Laurel, Maryland

  • Wayne Pryor

    • Central Arizona College, Coolidge, Arizona

  • Amanda Hendrix

    • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

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• UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH I

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• Toyota Prius Hybrid Plug-in Conversation and Battery Monitoring system

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Krishnanunni Unnikannan

    • Western Kentucky University

  • Michael Mcintyre

    • Western Kentucky University

  • Doug Harper

    • Western Kentucky University

  • Robert Kessinger

    • Western Kentucky University

  • Megan Young

    • Western Kentucky University

  • Joseph Lantham

    • Western Kentucky University

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• Development and Characterization of NMR Measurements for Polymer Gel Dosimetry

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Zachary Kwong

    • Wheaton College

  • Heather Whitney

    • Wheaton College

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• Infrared Optical Properties of Saline Solutions Present on Planetary Surfaces Determined from Laboratory Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) Measurements

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Bhuwan Ghimire

    • Department of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, Westminster College, Fulton, MO

  • Kristen Thurman

    • Department of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, Westminster College, Fulton, MO

  • Tripti Giri

    • Department of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, Westminster College, Fulton, MO

  • Haleem Azmy

    • Department of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, Westminster College, Fulton, MO

  • Marina De Castro

    • Department of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, Westminster College, Fulton, MO

  • Kent F. Palmer

    • Department of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, Westminster College, Fulton, MO

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• Non-linear Imaging of Nanoscale Surface Defects on Alphabet Letter Shaped Colloids in a Uniformly Aligned Nematic Liquid Crystal

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Julian Giller

    • Hendrix College

  • Clayton P. Lapointe

    • University of Colorado

  • Ivan I. Smalyukh

    • University of Colorado

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• Differential Production Rates in Neutrino Induced Electron-Positron Pair Creation

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Hannah McWilliams

    • Hendrix College

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

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• Using the Wii Board to Find Measurements of Falling Objects

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  Authors

  • Matthew Rowell

    • Armstrong Atlantic State University

  • Donna Mullenax

    • Armstrong Atlantic State University

  • Jeffery Secrest

    • Armstrong Atlantic State University

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• Study of the Sensitivity of Plastic Scintillator to Fast Neutrons

  POSTER

  Authors

  • David Abbott

    • University of Virginia
    • University of Vriginia

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• Voxel-Based Morphometry ALE meta-analysis of Bipolar Disorder

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Omar Magana

    • St. Mary's University

  • Robert Laird

    • St. Mary's University

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• Characterization of the Effect of thermal Cycling on the Signal Integrity of Interconnect Structures used in 3D Integrated Circuits

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Binayak Kandel

    • SPS Adelphi University

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• Galaxy Image Processing and Morphological Classification Using Machine Learning

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Julian Kates-Harbeck

    • Stanford University

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• Heat Transfer Processes in the Selective Microwave Heating of Heterogeneous Catalysts

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Kyle Serniak

    • Florida State University Department of Physics

  • Mark Crosswhite

    • Florida State University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

  • A.E. Stiegman

    • Florida State University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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• Hodoscope for spectrometer optics calibration in APEX dark matter search

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Neil Goeckner-Wald

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Tyson Price

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Bogdan Wojtsekhowski

    • Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

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• Efficiency and Linewidth Improvements in a Grazing Incidence Dye Laser

  POSTER

  Authors

  • David Vandenberg

    • Francis Marion University

  • R. Seth Smith

    • Francis Marion University

  • Ezekiel A. Shuler

    • Francis Marion University

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• Temperature Dependent Fluorescence Lifetime Measurements in a Phosphor

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  Authors

  • Charles J. Nettles

    • Francis Marion University

  • R. Seth Smith

    • Francis Marion University

  • Jonathan J. Heath

    • Francis Marion University

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• Development of Pressure sensing Particles through SERS and Upconversion

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  Authors

  • Ryan Widejko

    • Francis Marion University

  • Fenglin Wang

    • Clemson University

  • Jeff Anker

    • Clemson University

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• Gold coated Nano-Particles on Silicon substrate

  ORAL

  Authors

  • Sirak Mekonen

    • None

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• Spectroscopic Analysis of Today's Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Edward Pluhar

    • None

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• Measuring the Force in Beams of Truss Bridges

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Bret Henderson

    • Millikin University

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• Constraining Sterile Neutrino Warm Dark Matter with Chandra Observations of the Andromeda Galaxy

  ORAL

  Authors

  • Nicholas Polley

    • Millikin University

  • Casey Watson

    • Millikin University

  • Li Zhiyuan

    • UCLA

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• COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

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• Tunable band gap in biased rhombohedral-stacked trilayer graphene

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  Authors

  • H.B. Mihiri Shashikala

    • Clark Atlanta University

  • Xiao-Qian Wang

    • Clark Atlanta University

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• Multipartite Quantum Entanglement Evolution in Photosynthetic Complexes

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Sam Rodriques

    • Haverford College

  • Benjamin Brock

    • Haverford College

  • Peter Love

    • Haverford College

  • Jing Zhu

    • Purdue University

  • Sabre Kais

    • Purdue University

  • Alan Aspuru-Guzik

    • Harvard University

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• Implementation and testing of algorithms for data fitting

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Alison Monahan

    • Francis Marion University

  • Larry Engelhardt

    • Francis Marion University

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• Augmenting Computational Research Tools in Observational Cosmology

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Keenan Stone

    • Francis Marion University

  • Jacob Moldenhauer

    • Francis Marion University

  • Larry Engelhardt

    • Francis Marion University

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• ENERGY RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

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• Graded Barrier for Photovoltaic Operation of p-type GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructure

  ORAL

  Authors

  • P.K.D. Duleepa Pitigala

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

  • S.G. Matsik

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

  • A.G.U. Perera

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

  • S.P. Khanna

    • School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK

  • L.H. Li

    • School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK

  • E.H. Linfield

    • School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK

  • Z.R. Wasilewski

    • Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council, Canada

  • M. Buchanan

    • Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council, Canada

  • H.C. Liu

    • Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council, Canada

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• Optimization of TiO2/SiO2 Nanorod Multilayers for High Angle of Incidence Anti-Reflection Coatings for Solar Cells

  ORAL

  Authors

  • Ranga Jayasinghe

    • Georgia State University

  • A.G. Unil Perera

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
    • Georgia State University

  • Yiping Zhao

    • University of Georgia

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• Visible to near infra red absorption in natural dye (Mondo Grass Berry) for Dye Sensitized Solar Cell

  POSTER

  Authors

  • P.K.D. Duleepa Pitigala

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

  • L.A.A. DeSilva

    • Department of Physics, University of West Georgia, Carrollton GA

  • A.G.U. Perera

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

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• HADRONIC PHYSICS

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• Applications of Two-Body Dirac Equations to the Meson Spectrum with Three Versus Two Covariant Interactions, SU(3) Mixing

  POSTER

  Authors

  • Horace Crater

    • The University of Tennessee Space Institute

  • Horace Crater

    • The University of Tennessee Space Institute

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• Baryon Spectrum Analysis using Covariant Constraint Dynamics

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  Authors

  • Joshua Whitney

    • University of Tennessee

  • Horace Crater

    • University of Tennessee

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