October 31st 2014 —- 10am – 4pm  —-  LSB 106

10:00 – 10:20:      Coffee, tea, snacks, and introduction by PAGE

10:20 – 10:40:      Talk 1: Mark Wurtz Heavy meson lattice spectroscopy
10:40 – 11:00:      Talk 2: Gabriel Palacino Magnetic monopoles: why and how we search for them
11:00 – 11:20:      Talk 3: Matthew Baxter Correlation in Time-dependent Density Functional Theory Studies of Ion-Helium Collisions

11:20 – 11:30:      Break

11:30 – 12:30:      Keynote: Dr. Itay Yavin Dark matter as a fundamental particle

12:30 – 1:30:       Lunch in LSB 107

1:30 – 1:50:         Talk 4: Omid Rezania Squeezed vacuum state interaction with spatially confined atomic systems
1:50 – 2:10:         Talk 5: Dan Reynolds Non-Linear effects of initial conditions on the evolution of inflation
2:10 – 2:30:         Talk 6: George Conidis Spin alignment in analogues of the local sheet

2:30 – 2:40:         Break

2:40 – 3:00:         Talk 7: Jesse Rogerson The Variability of AGN Outflows: Observations and Implications
3:00 – 3:20:         Talk 8: Eric Shear HYPATIA – Hydrolyzed Polar Terrain Ice Aerobot Mission Feasibility Analysis
3:20 – 3:40:         Talk 9: Evan Eshelman Analysis of In-Situ Organic and Mineral Compounds Relevant to Martian Astrobiology Using 266 nm Raman Spectroscopy

3:40 – 3:50:         Deliberation by judges
3:50 – 4:00:         Announcement of Ralph Nicholis Award Winner