2025 Four Corners Meeting of the American Physical Society

Meeting Schedule

Map of the University Center at UNC (room location)

Complete schedule is available at this link

Friday, October 10, University Center, UNC, Greeley, CO

8:00 AMCheck-inFireside Lounge
8:45 AM – 9:00 AMConference Opening (Welcome)Longs Peak Ballroom
9:00 AM – 9:45 AMC01: Plenary Session I

Rachel Hyneman (University of Arizona)
The Higgs Boson Talks to Itself! Using Machine Learning to Probe Higgs Boson Self-Interactions at the ATLAS Experiment
Longs Peak Ballroom
9:45 AM – 10:15 AMCoffee BreakFireside Lounge
10:15 AM – 12:00 PMParallel Session I
E01: Nuclear/Particle Physics I
E02: Condensed Matter and Materials I
E03: Gravitation/Cosmology I
E04: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics I
E01: Columbine A
E02: Spruce BC
E03: Columbine B
E04: Aspen BC
12:00 PM – 1:15 PMLunch Break

Attention Students:
Join the STUDENT NETWORKING LUNCH from 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM		Longs Peak Ballroom
1:15 PM – 2:30 PMG01: Plenary Session II

Jan Chaloupka (University of Northern Colorado)
Atoms in Intense Laser Fields: Classical Models and Bicircular Light
 
Kristen Buchanan (Colorado State University)
Spin Waves in Magnetic Films		Longs Peak Ballroom
2:30 PM – 3:30 PMParallel Session II
H01: Nuclear/Particle Physics II
H02: Condensed Matter and Materials II
H03: Biophysics and Soft Condensed Matter I
H04: Quantum Information and Data Science I
H01: Longs Peak Ballroom
H02: Columbine A
H03: Spruce BC
H04: Aspen BC
3:30 PM – 4:00 PMCoffee BreakFireside Lounge
4:00 PM – 6:00 PMK06: Poster SessionPikes Peak Ballroom
6:00 PM – 8:00 PMBanquet

Keynote Speaker:
Meenakshi Singh (Colorado School of Mines)
Rediscovering Silicon: Novel Crystal Structures for Quantum and Energy Frontiers		Longs Peak Ballroom

Saturday, October 11, University Center, UNC, Greeley

8:30 AM – 9:00 AMBusiness meetingLongs Peak Ballroom
9:00 AM – 10:15 AMParallel Session III
N01: Nuclear/Particle Physics III
N02: Condensed Matter and Materials III
N03: Quantum Information and Data Science II / Physics Education
N04: Biophysics and Soft Condensed Matter II
N05: Nuclear/Particle Physics IV		N01: Longs Peak Ballroom
N02: Columbine A
N03: Spruce BC
N04: Columbine B
N05: Aspen BC
10:15 AM – 10:45 AMCoffee BreakFireside Lounge
10:45 AM – 12:00 PMQ01: Lustig Award Session

Joshua Forsyth (Brigham Young University)
New Strategies for Discovering Quirks at Colliders
 
Srijan Bhattacharyya (University of Colorado Boulder)
Spatial memory reveals exponentially slow onset of quantum diffusion of small polarons
 
Zachariah Eberle (University of Arizona)
Studying Higgs Bosons and Forward Particles at the ATLAS Experiment		Longs Peak Ballroom
12:00 PM – 1:15 PMLunch Break

Attention Students:
Join the STUDENT NETWORKING LUNCH from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM		Longs Peak Ballroom
1:15 PM – 2:30 PMParallel Session IV
S01: Nuclear/Particle Physics V
S02: Condensed Matter and Materials IV
S03: Gravitation/Cosmology II
S04: Plasma Physics and Fusion
S05: Astrophysics		S01: Longs Peak Ballroom
S02: Columbine A
S03: Spruce BC
S04: Columbine B
S05: Aspen BC
2:30 PM – 3:00 PMCoffee BreakFireside Lounge
3:00 PM – 3:45 PMU01: Plenary Session III

Barbra Sobhani (Colorado Space Grant, University of Colorado Boulder)
Building the Aerospace Workforce of the Future through NASA Space Grant		Longs Peak Ballroom
3:45 PM – 4:45 PMAwards and Closing CeremonyLongs Peak Ballroom