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
