Poster Session I: April Topical Groups: GPMFC, GHP, GFB, GPER, GDS, GPC (2:00PM-5:00PM MT)

Presentations

• Autonomous Physics Discovery via Reward-Guided Multi-Objective Deep Learning in Ferroelectrics

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: Y. Liu, U. Pratiush, K. Barakati, H. Funakubo, C-C. Lin, J. Kim, L. W. Martin, S. V. Kalinin, "Domain Switching on the Pareto Front: Multi-Objective Deep Kernel Learning in Automated Piezoresponse Force Microscopy", 2025; arXiv: 2506.08073

  Presenters

  • Yu Liu

    • University of Tennessee

  Authors

  • Yu Liu

    • University of Tennessee

  • Utkarsh Pratiush

  • Kamyar Barakati

    • University Tennessee-Knoxville

  • Hiroshi Funakubo

  • Ching-Che Lin

  • Jaegyu Kim

  • Lane Martin

    • Rice University

  • Sergei Kalinin

    • University of Tennessee

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• Multimodal Co-orchestration for Uncovering Structure–Property Relationships in Combinatorial Libraries

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Boris Slautin

    • The University of Tennessee

  Authors

  • Boris Slautin

    • The University of Tennessee

  • Utkarsh Pratiush

  • Ilia Ivanov

    • Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Yongtao Liu

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Rohit Pant

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Xiaohang Zhang

  • Ichiro Takeuchi

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Maxim Ziatdinov

  • Sergei Kalinin

    • University of Tennessee

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• Diffusion Model–Driven Denoising and Temporal-Aware 3D Reconstruction of Nanoparticles in Liquid-Cell TEM

  Poster-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Yingheng Tang

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

  Authors

  • Yingheng Tang

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

  • Kangan Wang

  • Archana Raja

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Zhi (Jackie) Yao

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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• Quantum Transformer Applied to Materials Generation

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: Anthony M. Smaldone, Yu Shee, Gregory W. Kyro, Marwa H. Farag, Zohim Chandani, Elica Kyoseva, and Victor S. Batista
  Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2025 21 (10), 5143-5154
  DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5c00331

  Presenters

  • Brian Gitahi

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Brian Gitahi

    • Yale University

  • Anthony Smaldone

  • Nima Leclerc

    • The Mitre Corporation

  • Marwa Farag

    • NVIDIA

  • Nicholas Brawand

    • The Mitre Corporation

  • Elica Kyoseva

  • Victor Batista

    • Yale University

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• Large Language Models for Human–AI Collaboration in Scientific Experimentations

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Kamyar Barakati

    • University Tennessee-Knoxville

  Authors

  • Kamyar Barakati

    • University Tennessee-Knoxville

  • Sergei Kalinin

    • University of Tennessee

  • Gerd Duscher

  • Utkarsh Pratiush

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• An Extension of Entropy-Regularized Reinforcement Learning to Reducible Dynamics

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Sho Inaba

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

  Authors

  • Sho Inaba

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

  • Jacob Adamczyk

  • Rahul Kulkarni

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

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• Machine Learning Applications in Complex and Quantum Systems

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: Ye, Li-Li, Nathan Vigne, Fan-Yi Lin, Hui Cao, and Ying-Cheng Lai. "Disorder-mediated synchronization resonance in coupled semiconductor lasers." arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.07302 (2025).
  Ye, Li-Li, Christian Arenz, Joseph M. Lukens, and Ying-Cheng Lai. "Entanglement engineering of optomechanical systems by reinforcement learning." APL Machine Learning 3, no. 1 (2025).
  Ye, Li-Li, and Ying-Cheng Lai." Controlling nonergodicity in quantum many-body systems by reinforcement
  learning." Physical Review Research 7, no. 1 (2025): 013256.

  Presenters

  • Lili Ye

    • Arizona State University

  Authors

  • Lili Ye

    • Arizona State University

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• Developing ChIMES machine-learned interatomic potentials for cesium lead halide perovskites

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: Planned submission: Modeling Solid-Liquid Phase Transitions in Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites using ChIMES Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials

  Presenters

  • Vallabh Vasudevan

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Vallabh Vasudevan

    • University of Michigan

  • Rebecca Lindsey

    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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• A machine-learned interatomic potential for the study of surface-mediated defect formation in GaN

  Poster-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Aidan Raver

    • Colorado School of Mines

  Authors

  • Aidan Raver

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Garritt Tucker

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• Evaluating Descriptor Influence on Training Data Selection and Performance in Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Thomas Sundberg

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Thomas Sundberg

    • University of Michigan

  • Benjamin Laubach

    • University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

  • Vincenzo Lordi

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Rebecca Lindsey

    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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• Gaussian process regression on effective crystal graphs of body-centered cubic iron

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Jorge Munoz

    • University of Texas at El Paso

  Authors

  • Jorge Munoz

    • University of Texas at El Paso

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• Benchmarking Transformer Neural Quantum States of Lattice Models

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Ella Zeng

    • San Jose State University

  Authors

  • Ella Zeng

    • San Jose State University

  • Alondra Torres Contreras

  • Kaveesh Passari

  • Ejaaz Merali

    • University of California, Davis

  • Eduardo Ibarra-Garcia-Padilla

  • Steven Johnston

    • University of Tennessee

  • Richard Scalettar

    • University of California, Davis

  • Ehsan Khatami

    • San Jose State University

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• Prediction of Hydration Free Energy Distributions around Proteins using Deep Learning

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Takashi Yoshidome

    • Tohoku University, Japan

  Authors

  • Yusaku Fukushima

  • Takashi Yoshidome

    • Tohoku University, Japan

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• Benchmarking equivariant machine learning interatomic potentials with long-range interactions

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Moin Uddin Maruf

    • Texas Tech University

  Authors

  • Moin Uddin Maruf

    • Texas Tech University

  • Zeeshan Ahmad

    • Texas Tech University

  • Abrar Fahim Navid

    • Texas Tech University

  • Chirag Sindhwani

  • Muhammad Zain Sarwar

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• Physico-chemical Properties of Free Tropospheric Mineral Dust at the Remote Pico Mountain Observatory, in the Azores

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Ian Norwood

    • Michigan Technological University

  Authors

  • Ian Norwood

    • Michigan Technological University

  • Renato Reveggino

  • Shreya Joshi

  • Lynn Mazzoleni

  • Paulo Fiahlo

  • Swarup China

  • Bo Zhang

  • Andrea Baccarini

  • Kaelan Anderson

  • Megan Morgenstern

  • Simeon Schum

  • Claudio Mazzoleni

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• Climate Change in Two Figures

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: The work described in this abstract extends work I did as part of Chapter 3 of the "Climate Experts' Review of the DOE Climate Working Group Report",
  Benjamin M. Sanderson, Graeme Macgilchrist, Cyrus Taylor, Ben Brown-Steiner, Zeke Hausfather. (2025). Comment on the DOE CWG report, Section 3: Human influences on the climate. In A.E. Dessler and R.E. Kopp (Ed.), Climate Experts' Review of the DOE Climate Working Group Report (pp. 162-173). DOI: 10.22541/essoar.175745244.41950365/v2

  Presenters

  • Cyrus Taylor

    • Case Western Reserve University

  Authors

  • Cyrus Taylor

    • Case Western Reserve University

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• Controlling eddies in the non-autonomous Lorenz-84 Model

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09376
  https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-3997/

  Presenters

  • Moyan Liu

    • Arizona State University

  Authors

  • Moyan Liu

    • Arizona State University

  • Qin Huang

    • Arizona State University

  • Upmanu Lall

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• Weather Jiu-Jitsu: Climate Adaptation for the 21st Century

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: (preprint) Weather Jiu-Jitsu: Climate Adaptation for the 21st Century (at https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09376)

  Presenters

  • Qin Huang

    • Arizona State University

  Authors

  • Qin Huang

    • Arizona State University

  • Moyan Liu

    • Arizona State University

  • Upmanu Lall

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• Covariance among the Rydberg constant, fine-structure constant, electron mass and electron g−2 on a finite-domain standing-wave eigenmedium

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: Preprint of Related Manuscript
  Preprint: https://zenodo.org/records/17094408
  TITLE: Quantum Wavespace Theory: A Standing-Wave Continuum Yielding Stabilized Nuclear Eigenmodes
  AUTHORS: Schmitz,Harry A./Schmitz,David B.

  Presenters

  • Harry Schmitz

    • Independent Researcher

  Authors

  • Harry Schmitz

    • Independent Researcher

  • David Schmitz

    • Independent Researcher

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• Levitating charged ferromagnets in an electrodynamic trap

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Denton Silfvast

    • CSU East Bay

  Authors

  • Denton Silfvast

    • CSU East Bay

  • Sabria Hinton

    • California State University, East Bay

  • Derek Jackson Kimball

    • California State University - East Bay

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• Extracting the Partial Bjorken Sum from World Data and SoLID Simulations

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Bennett Lamb

    • University of Virginia

  Authors

  • Bennett Lamb

    • University of Virginia

  • Scarlett Morse

    • University of Virginia

  • Darren Upton

    • Old Dominion University

  • Alexandre Deur

    • Jefferson Lab/Jefferson Science Associates

  • Xiaochao Zheng

    • University of Virginia

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• $\phi NN$ bound states within the spin-averaged HAL QCD potential model

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: Journal of Subatomic Particles and Cosmology 4 (2025) 100117

  Presenters

  • Igor Filikhin

    • North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, USA

  Authors

  • Roman Kezerashvili

    • The Graduate Center, City University of New York

  • Igor Filikhin

    • North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, USA

  • Rimantas Lazauskas

    • IPHC, CNRS/IN2P3, Universite de Strasbourg

  • Branislav Vlahovic

    • North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, USA

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• Multiply differential study of vibrational dissociative capture in p + D2 collisions

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.110.032821

  Presenters

  • Shruti Majumdar

    • Missouri University of Science & Technology

  Authors

  • Shruti Majumdar

    • Missouri University of Science & Technology

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• Comparing shifts in TA comfort with content and weekly preparation in reformed intro physics labs

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Melissa Barru

    • Oregon State University

  Authors

  • Melissa Barru

    • Oregon State University

  • Julian Gifford

    • University of Colorado, Denver

  • Danielle Skinner

    • Oregon State University

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• Categorizing different approaches to teaching measurement and uncertainty

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Matthew Hitt

    • California State University, Fullerton

  Authors

  • Matthew Hitt

    • California State University, Fullerton

  • Roman Bautista

    • California State University, Fullerton

  • Bruno Dethier

    • California State University, Fullerton

  • Jameson Nation

    • California State University, Fullerton

  • Rachel Merrill

    • Cornell University

  • Natasha Holmes

    • Cornell University

  • Gina Passante

    • California State University, Fullerton

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• Using Hexbots to Bridge Physics and Biology: Development of Research-Based Labs for Introductory Physics for Life Sciences

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Ashley Kim

    • Cornell University

  Authors

  • Ashley Kim

    • Cornell University

  • Charlotte Zimmerman

    • Cornell University

  • Natasha Holmes

    • Cornell University

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• Viewing Barriers and Enablers in Online Physics Through a Self-Regulation Lens

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Ashlyn Leary

    • Lehigh University

  Authors

  • Ashlyn Leary

    • Lehigh University

  • Jude Sullivan

    • Department of Psychology and Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University

  • Louis Leblond

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • Bryan Henderson

    • Department of Physics, Arizona State University

  • Molly Simon

    • Arizona State University

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• Examining Student Understanding of Quantum Optical Experiments in Quantum Mechanics Classroom

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Jason Tran

    • Georgetown University

  Authors

  • Jason Tran

    • Georgetown University

  • James Freericks

    • Georgetown University

  • Leanne Doughty

    • Georgetown University

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• Investigating Interpretations of Integration: Students’ Multiple Manifestations of dx

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Naomi Whitlock

    • Northern Arizona University

  Authors

  • Naomi Whitlock

    • Northern Arizona University

  • Idris Malik

    • North Dakota State University

  • Warren Christensen

    • North Dakota State University

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• Exploring How Learners Leverage Knowledge Resources from Classical Physics in Learning Quantum Mechanics

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Kelby Hahn

    • University of Utah

  Authors

  • Kelby Hahn

    • University of Utah

  • Mia Longen

    • University of Washington Bothell

  • Marc Whiting

    • University of Utah

  • Jordan Gerton

    • University of Utah

  • Lauren Barth-Cohen

    • University of Utah

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• What Students' Language Reveals About Conceptual Understanding of Quantum Measurement

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Amy Lytle

    • Franklin & Marshall College

  Authors

  • Amy Lytle

    • Franklin & Marshall College

  • Ethan Senatore

    • Franklin & Marshall College

  • Joshua Slager

    • Franklin & Marshall College

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• ‘It’s really hard for me to tell what problems mean sometimes’ – Investigating the ways neurodivergent students solve introductory physics problems 

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: "The way that I think is very nonlinear" – An investigation of how neurodivergent students do introductory mechanics through a grounded theory approach
  Authors: Liam G. McDermott, George R. Keefe, Mason D. Moenter, Erin M. Scanlon
  Investigating how neurodivergent physics undergraduates solve introductory electricity and magnetism problems
  Authors: Liam G. McDermott, George R. Keefe, Mason D. Moenter, Erin M. Scanlon

  Presenters

  • Liam McDermott

    • University of Connecticut

  Authors

  • Liam McDermott

    • University of Connecticut

  • Mason Moenter

    • Texas A&M University

  • George Keefe

    • Rutgers University

  • Erin Scanlon

    • University of Connecticut - Avery Point

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• Benefitting from Student-Instructor Partnerships in Professional Development: An Example from the C2C Workshop

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Daryl McPadden

    • Michigan State University

  Authors

  • Daryl McPadden

    • Michigan State University

  • Andrea Wooley

    • Michigan State University

  • Alex Reynolds

    • Michigan State University

  • Matthew Guthrie

    • University of Connecticut

  • Xian Wu

    • University of Connecticut

  • Theodore Bott

    • Michigan State University

  • Tanya Adams

    • Michigan State University

  • Erin Scanlon

    • University of Connecticut - Avery Point

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• Physics affinity development during introductory physics for life sciences at four institutions

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Wilber Valente Gutierrez

    • Swarthmore College

  Authors

  • Wilber Valente Gutierrez

    • Swarthmore College

  • Carlos Benavides

    • Swarthmore College

  • Lundy Zheng

    • Swarthmore College

  • Lili Cui

    • University Maryland Baltimore County

  • Alfredo Sanchez

    • University of Delaware

  • Daniel Young

    • Westminster College

  • Eleanor Hodby

    • Colorado University Boulder

  • Catherine Crouch

    • Swarthmore College

  • Benjamin Geller

    • Swarthmore College

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• A Process for sustainably integrating Computation throughout the Undergraduate Physics major curriculum at a large university.

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Pamela Sooriyan

    • University of Minnesota

  Authors

  • Pamela Sooriyan

    • University of Minnesota

  • Shaul Hanany

    • University of Minnesota

  • Kenneth Heller

    • University of Minnesota

  • Thomas Jones

    • University of Minnesota

  • Joseph Kapusta

    • University of Minnesota

  • Alexis Knaub

    • American Association of Physics Teachers

  • Sarah McHale

    • University of Minnesota

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• Faculty Perspectives on Quantum Concepts in Graduate Physics Education

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Alexis Buzzell

    • University of Utah

  Authors

  • Alexis Buzzell

    • University of Utah

  • Ramon Barthelemy

    • University of Utah

  • Tim Atherton

    • Tufts University

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• A Data-Driven Approach for Defining Partial Credit Scores for Multiple Response Test Items

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Natalie Weslager

    • Rowan University

  Authors

  • Natalie Weslager

    • Rowan University

  • Colvin Abdulkader

    • Rowan University

  • Alexis Olsho

    • Alexis Olsho Consulting, LLC

  • Charlotte Zimmerman

    • Cornell University

  • Philip Eaton

    • Stockton University

  • Cameron Flynn

    • University of Washington

  • Suzanne White Brahmia

    • University of Washington

  • Trevor Smith

    • Rowan University

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• PE-CAP -- Redesigning Legacy Conceptual Inventories: Using Evidence Centered Design to Develop Valid, Equitable, and Flexible Items Assessing Conceptual Understanding of Kinematics and Dynamics for Introductory Physics

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Rachel Henderson

    • Michigan State University

  Authors

  • Rachel Henderson

    • Michigan State University

  • Dena Izadi

    • Michigan State University

  • John Stewart

    • West Virginia University

  • Gay Stewart

    • West Virginia University

  • Andrew Heckler

    • Ohio State University

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• Exploring ZH → 6 Quark Jets at the FCC-ee using Machine Learning

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Kate Wandrisco

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory / University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Kate Wandrisco

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory / University of Chicago

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