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APRIL MEETING 2018 April 14-17, 2018 quarks cosmos Columbus, Ohio Q2C PROGRAM GUIDE #apsapril aps.org/meetingapp aps.org/meetings/april Publish Your High Energy Physics Research in the Physical Review Journals APS supports the high-energy physics (HEP) community by providing authors a free and convenient route to publish HEP* research open access under the APS-SCOAP3 partnership. CHOOSE FROM THESE JOURNALS • No cost to authors Physical Review Letters • CC-BY 4.0 licence Physical Review C • Free global access Physical Review D • Broad dissemination • Greater exposure journals.aps.org *HEP papers covered by SCOAP3 are all those posted on arXiv.org prior to publication in any of the primary ‘hep’ categories: hep-ex, hep-lat, hep-ph, hep-th, and irrespective of the authors’ institution or country affiliation. WELCOME t is a pleasure to welcome you to Columbus, and to the APS April I Meeting 2018. The April Meeting is a wonderful gathering of enthusiastic scientists from diverse organizations and backgrounds who have broad interests in physics. Our meeting provides us with an opportunity to present exciting new work as well as to learn from others, and to meet up with colleagues and make new friends. While you are here, I encourage you to take every opportunity to experience the amazing science that envelops us at the meeting, and to enjoy the many additional professional and social gatherings offered. Additionally, this is a year for Strategic Planning for APS, when the membership will consider the evolving mission of APS and where we want to go as a society. We are planning a Town Hall Meeting this Monday at 3:30 p.m., where you are invited to both hear about the processes for gathering input for, and to give your input to, a new Strategic Plan. Please attend and contribute. On behalf of APS, I hope you have an exciting, productive, and fulfilling week! Roger Falcone 2018 APS President University of California, Berkeley he APS April Meeting 2018 promises to be one of the largest and T most exciting of recent years. We have a lineup of excellent and timely plenary sessions, including the Kavli Foundation Keynote Plenary Session devoted to the legacy of Richard Feynman on the centenary of his birth, and a “prize plenary” that includes our APS Medal winner, Eugene Parker, and two of our gravity-wave Nobel Laureates. A third plenary will be neutron-rich, with a talk on science policy and nuclear security, one on a neutron star in a triple system, and a talk on the recently observed binary neutron star merger. There will be sessions on the latest LHC results, the “crisis” in cosmology, and women pioneers in astronomy, among many, many others. Rainer Weiss will give a public lecture on Saturday evening on “Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves.” You will definitely need the APS meeting app to navigate your way around the many interesting sessions. I wish you a very warm welcome to Columbus! Clifford Will APS April Meeting 2018 Program Chair University of Florida APS LEADERSHIP Council of Representatives President Division, Forum, and Section Councilors Roger W. Falcone* Samuel Bader (DMP) University of California, Berkeley Baha Balantekin (DNP) Emanuela Barzi (FIP) President-Elect Charles Bennett (DQI) David J. Gross* Beverly Berger* (DGRAV) KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara Pushpalatha Bhat* (FPS) William Bialek (DBIO) Vice President Nicholas Bigelow* (DLS) Philip H. Bucksbaum* Robert Continetti (DCP) Stanford University Noah Finkelstein (FEd) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Cary Forest (DPP) Giulia Galli (DCOMP) Past President Timothy Gay* (DAMOP) Laura H. Greene* Julia Gonski (FGSA) National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Philip Johnson (MAS) Florida State University Ann Karagozian (DFD) John Bradley Marston* (DCMP) Chief Executive Officer Michael Coleman Miller (DAP) Kate P. Kirby Murugappan Muthukumar (DPOLY) Harvard Smithsonian (retired) Thomas Roser (DPB) John Rumble* (FIAP) Speaker of the Council Elizabeth Simmons (DPF) Timothy Gay* Virginia Trimble (FHP) University of Nebraska - Lincoln Carlos Wexler (PSAPS) Treasurer James Hollenhorst* Agilent Technologies Senior Management Team Corporate Secretary Mark Doyle, Chief Information Officer Ken Cole Jane Hopkins Gould, Chief Financial Officer APS Kate P. Kirby, Chief Executive Officer Matthew M. Salter, Publisher General Councilors Francis Slakey, Chief Government Affairs Officer Bonnie Fleming, Vivian Incera, Andrea Liu*, James W. Taylor, Deputy Executive Officer and Chief Gail McLaughlin* Operating Officer Michael Thoennessen, Editor in Chief International Councilors Marta Losada*, Eliezer Rabinovici, Johanna Stachel, Ahmadou Wagué * Voting Members of the APS Board of Directors Chair, Nominating Committee David Meyerhofer Los Alamos National Laboratory Chair, Panel on Public Affairs Michael Marder University of Texas at Austin Editor in Chief Michael Thoennessen Michigan State University (on leave) 2 | April Meeting 2018 Program Guide CODE OF CONDUCT It is the policy of the American Physical Society (APS) that all participants, including attendees, vendors, APS staff, volunteers, and all other stakeholders at APS meetings will conduct themselves in a professional manner that is welcoming to all participants and free from any form of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation. Participants will treat each other with respect and consideration to create a collegial, inclusive, and professional environment at APS Meetings. Creating a supportive environment to enable scientific discourse at APS meetings is the responsibility of all participants. Participants will avoid any inappropriate actions or statements based on individual characteristics such as age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, nationality, political affiliation, ability status, educational background, or any other characteristic protected by law. Disruptive or harassing behavior of any kind will not be tolerated. Harassment includes but is not limited to inappropriate or intimidating behavior and language, unwelcome jokes or comments, unwanted touching or attention, offensive images, photography without permission, and stalking. Violations of this code of conduct policy should be reported to meeting organizers, APS staff, or the APS Director of Meetings. Sanctions may range from verbal warning, to ejection from the meeting without refund, to notifying appropriate authorities. Retaliation for complaints of inappropriate conduct will not be tolerated. If a participant observes inappropriate comments or actions and personal intervention seems appropriate and safe, they should be considerate of all parties before intervening. Code of Conduct Hotline (open during registration hours): (301) 209-3675 April Meeting 2018 Program Guide | 3 PROGRAM COMMITTEE The APS Leadership and Meetings Department staff extend our sincere thanks to the unit program chairs and abstract sorters who, during the past year, gave so generously of their time and expertise in sorting abstracts and organizing the program for the April Meeting 2018. April Meeting 2018 Program Committee Chair: Clifford M. Will, University of Florida FECS: Jason Stewart Gardner, National Synchrotron Chair-Elect: John F. Wilkerson, University of North Carolina Radiation Research Center COM: Jesus Pando, DePaul University FED: Larry Cain, Davidson College Carol Scarlett, Florida A&M University FGSA: Josh Einstein-Curtis, Colorado State University, Fermilab CSWP: Pearl Sandick, University of Utah FIP: R.J. (Jerry) Peterson, University of Colorado DAP: Priyamvada Natarajan, Yale University FOEP: Larry Gladney, University of Pennsylvania DCOMP: Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory FPS: Beverly Hartline: Montana Tech Marcos Rigol, Pennsylvania State University GERA: Michelle Johannes, Naval Research Laboratory DGRAV: Emanuele Berti, University of Mississippi GFB: Dean Lee, North Carolina State University DNP: David J. Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory GHP: Tanja Horn, Catholic University of America Robert Janssens, Argonne National Laboratory GPER: John Thompson, The University of Maine DPB: Vladimir Shiltsev, Fermilab GPMFC: Kurt Gibble, Penn State DPF: Priscilla Cushman, University of Minnesota Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh The APS PIPELINE program seeks to give students what they need to succeed as scientists and innovators in the 21st century. Learn more and get involved. Click over to our website for more information. aps.org/programs/education/innovation 4 | April Meeting 2018 Program Guide Kavli Foundation Keynote Plenary Session A Feynman Century Saturday, April 14 8:30 AM–10:18 AM Convention Center, Union Station Ballroom BC Being Feynman’s Curious Sister Joan Feynman Jet Propulsion Lab Quantum Computing and Feynman’s Opportunity Christopher Monroe University of Maryland Feynman’s Footprints: Quantum Field Theory in Nuclear and Particle Physics Roxanne Springer Duke University 3 THINGS TO KNOW 1 Code of Conduct Creating a supportive environment to enable scientific discourse at APS Meetings is the responsibility of all participants. Read the entire Code of Conduct and learn how to report an incident on page 3. 2 Free Wi-Fi in the Convention Center APS sponsors free wi-fi service in designated “hot spots”. Wi-fi service is not available in meeting rooms. Network: APS April Meeting Password: apsapril 3 Official Hashtag The official hashtag for the April meeting is #apsapril. Join the conversation on Twitter! 6 | April Meeting 2018 Program Guide CONTENTS Welcome . 1