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2011
Friday, November 18th
11:00 AM

Registration

Gerald Peterson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

1:00 PM

Welcome

Stephen Burns, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

1:00 PM - 1:10 PM

1:10 PM

Session A: Climate Change - Climate Change and Sea Level Rise, Lessons from the Past and Models of the Future

Robert Deconto, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Auditorium Campus Center University of Massachusetts - Amherst

1:10 PM - 2:00 PM

Session A: Climate Change - Plenary

Donald Candela

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

1:10 PM - 2:50 PM

2:00 PM

Session A: Climate Change - Carbon Cycling with Nuclear Power

Klaus S. Lackner, Columbia University

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

2:50 PM

Refreshment Break

Gerald Peterson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Campus Center University of Massachusetts - Amherst

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

3:10 PM

Session B: The Future of Nuclear Power - Plenary

Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:10 PM - 5:40 PM

Session B: The Future of Nuclear Power - The Fundamentals and Status of Nuclear Power

Regis A. Matzie, Westinghouse Electric Company

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM

Session B: The Future of Nuclear Power - The Fukushima Nuclear Event and Its Implications for Nuclear Power

Michael W. Golay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

4:00 PM - 4:50 PM

4:50 PM

Session B: The Future of Nuclear Power - Aim High! Thorium Energy Cheaper Than From Coal

Cavan Stone, Dartmouth College

Auditorium, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

4:50 PM - 5:40 PM

5:40 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - Darkside-50: A Collaborative Search for Dark Matter

Gary Forster, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

5:40 PM - 7:00 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of Liquid Xenon

Cameron Mackeen, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Mark Lodato, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

5:40 PM - 7:00 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - Possible Search for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron in an Electrostatic Storage Ring

David Kawall, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Concourse Campus Center University of Massachusetts - Amherst

5:40 PM - 5:52 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - Study of a Detector to Count a Cs-136 Source in Xenon

Kelly Malone, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Andrea Pocar, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

5:40 PM - 7:00 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - Temperature Dependence of Helium Diffusion Through Common Epoxies

Dylan Lovinger, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Robert Hallock, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

5:40 PM - 7:00 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - The Influence of Grain Size on the Formation of Natural Gas Hydrate

Russel Wilcox-Cline, Boston University
William J. Winters, Woods Hole Science Center

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

5:40 PM - 7:00 PM

Session C: APS and AAPT Poster Session - PREX: Cleanly Measuring the Neutron Radius of Lead through Parity Violation

Jonathan Wexler, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

5:40 PM - 7:00 PM

5:52 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - Understanding Hard Interactions in QCD and the Gluon Spin Contribution to the Spin of the Proton

Amaresh Datta, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

5:52 PM - 6:04 PM

6:04 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - From force-fields to photons: MD simulations of dye-labeled nucleic acids and Monte Carlo modeling of FRET

Pekar Milas, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Ben Gamari, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Louis Parrot, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Richard Buckman, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Lori Goldner, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

6:04 PM - 6:16 PM

6:16 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - Comparative exact studies of phase separation instabilities in attractive and repulsive Hubbard models

Kaluma Palandage, Trinity College
Armen Kocharian, California State University - Los Angeles
Gayanath Fernando, University of Connecticut - Storrs

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

6:16 PM - 6:28 PM

6:28 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - Sympathetic Cooling of Na+ Ions by Ultra-cold Na Atoms in a Hybrid trap

Ilamaran Sivarajah, University of Connecticut
Douglas Goodman, University of Connecticut
James Wells, University of Connecticut
Winthrop Smith, University of Connecticut

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

6:28 PM - 6:40 PM

6:40 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - Energy {\&} Climate: Getting Quantitative

Richard Wolfson, Middlebury College

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

6:40 PM - 6:52 PM

6:52 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - ``Global Warming/Climate Change'': A Critical Look

Laurence I. Gould, University of Hartford

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

6:52 PM - 7:04 PM

7:00 PM

Session D: Banquet

Gerald Peterson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Student Union Ballroom, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

7:04 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - Sun vs Moon: Competing Mechanisms for Recurring Aurorae

Gary Parker, Norwich University

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

7:04 PM - 7:16 PM

7:16 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - Extending Newton's Universal Theory of Gravity

Sol Aisenberg, International Technology Group

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

7:16 PM - 7:28 PM

7:40 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - Physics or Mathematics Preparation - which is the better predictor of performance in a first, calculus-based college physics course?

Norma Chase, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Science

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

7:40 PM - 7:52 PM

7:45 PM

Session D1: The Only Way Of Knowing

Robert L. Park, University of Maryland - Eastern Shore

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

7:45 PM - 8:30 PM

7:52 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - Physics of Green Energy \& Fundamentals of Nuclear Processes

Margaret E. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

7:52 PM - 8:04 PM

8:04 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - The new PhysTEC program at Boston University

Juliet Jenkins, Boston University
Andrew Duffy, Boston University

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:04 PM - 8:16 PM

8:16 PM

Session C1: APS, AAPT, and SPS Poster Session - A delayed choice quantum eraser experiment that involves no delayed choice, no quantum eraser, and no complementarity

Jeffrey Boyd, retired

Concourse, Campus Center, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:16 PM - 8:28 PM