Program

The program of the conference can be found here: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/FWS23/APS_epitome

Information about Campus

Welcome to UC San Diego in sunny La Jolla! This pamphlet will provide you with information to navigate the conference. If you have questions please use fill out this form.

Google maps: bit.ly/46gUq2m

Parking

Parking is limited on campus on weekdays; participants are encouraged to take public transit, rideshare, or walk from their hotel locations. Pictured below are parking structures located on campus, near the conference venue. We recommend parking in the Gilman or South Parking Structures. 

Visitor “V” permits can be purchased at the rate of $4.20/hr (max: $33.60). Permits can be purchased using the ParkMobile app, or at pay stations in parking structures. For more information, please visit: https://transportation.ucsd.edu/visit/visitor/index.html.

Public Transit    

San Diego’s public transit system is operated by the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS). Bus passes can be purchased using the Pronto app. Routes that stop near local hotels and the conference venue are:

• 202 (clockwise) - Stop at Gilman Dr. & Eucalyptus Grove Ln, Gilman Dr. & Evening Ln. (near Residence Inn hotel)

• 201 (counterclockwise) - Stop at Gilman Dr. & Eucalyptus Grove Ln, Gilman Dr. & Evening Ln. (near Residence Inn hotel)

For attendees staying in the downtown La Jolla area, you may choose to take the Blue Line trolley to the UCSD central campus station.

Transit passes can be purchased using the Pronto app. Fare is $2.50 for a one-way trip, or $6.00 for a day pass.

For more information, and bus and trolley schedules, please visit: https://www.sdmts.com/transit-services 

Getting Around Campus

UC San Diego is a sprawling campus; if you decide to explore, be prepared to walk! The conference will take place in several buildings within 10-minute walking distance: Mayer Hall, Tata Hall, and the Faculty Club. Signs will be posted to help guide between these. On Friday, lunch will not be provided; a list of nearby restaurants and cafes can be found below. For an interactive campus map, please visit: https://maps.ucsd.edu/map/default.htm

[map showing Mayer, Tata, Faculty club]

The campus also has a number of shuttles that loop around campus in 15- or 30-minute intervals. For shuttle routes, please visit: https://transportation.ucsd.edu/campus/shuttles/index.html#Triton-Transit:-Shuttles 

Have accessibility needs? Please contact [contact].

Restaurants and Cafes on Campus

Distances are relative to Tata Hall, where we will break for lunch on Friday. Restaurants on campus are not open on weekends in general. For more information about on-campus restaurants, please visit: https://blink.ucsd.edu/facilities/services/general/personal/dining.html

<5 minute walk:

• Taco Villa

• Blue Pepper

• Underbelly

• 64 Degrees

• Art of Espresso

~10 min walk:

• Price Center

  • Burger King

  • Subway

  • Starbucks

  • Panda Express

  • Tapioca Express

  • Rubio’s

  • Croutons

  • Curry Up Now

  • Dirty Birds

  • Jamba Juice

  • Sunshine Market

  • Lemongrass

  • Santorini
    Seed + Sprout

  • YogurtWorld

  • Zanzibar at the Loft*

• Sixth College

  • Copa Vida

  • Fan Fan

  • Blue Bowl Superfoods

  • Tahini

  • Showa Ramen

  • Restaurants at Sixth College (Inside Mosaic Building)

• Croutons

• Fairbanks Coffee

Plenary speakers and after-dinner talk

Student reception

The physics students of UCSD have planned a get together for Thursday evening to get everybody the chance to meet each other. Make sure to arrive early and join us for pizza and chat.

Grad school workshop

Thursday, Oct. 5th, 5:30-8:00pm 5623 Mayer Hall, UC San Diego Campus

Is grad school right for me? What is being a grad student like? How do I prepare to apply?

What makes a strong application? Discover all this and more!

Talk will be followed by a pizza dinner and mingling with graduate students.

RSVP here by Monday, Oct. 2: https://rb.gy/esk5w

Career workshop

Saturday, Oct. 7th, 2:30-4:30pm Mayer Room, UC San Diego Campus

What job opportunities are there for me with a degree in physics? What can I do now to set myself up for success in a future career? Discover all this and more!

RSVP here by Monday, Oct. 2: https://rb.gy/xi6iq

Abstract submission (closed)

We received over 150 submissions, thank you so much for making this meeting a success. The final program will be posted on Monday October 2.

Presentation format

Talks will be either 12 minutes or if you chose a double wide talk 24 minutes long. A 24 minute talk will include 2 minutes for questions while a 24 minute talk should allow for 4 minutes of questions.

We will provide poster boards that are 70" wide and 48" high. Please design your poster accordingly: you have the flexibility, but it should be smaller than these dimensions.

Student prizes

Each year the section awards prizes to the best student presentation in several categories. The winners are chosen during the meetings based on the scientific quality and quality of the presentations. The students who won awards at the 2023 meeting are listed below. Congratulations to all winners

Margaret Burbidge award for best experimental research by a graduate student

1st place (shared):

Mayia Vranas (University of California San Diego) for “Magnetic Order in EuIn2As2 Investigated with Resonant Soft X-ray Scanning

Travis Griffin (University of Nevada, Reno) for “Model Independent Measurement of Electron-Ion Equilibration Rates Across the Solid Liquid Phase Boundary in Warm Dense Gold”

2nd place (shared)

Maximilian Huber (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) “Ultrafast control of the electronic

properties of TiSe2 with light”

Jake Spisak (University of California San Diego), “Constraints on axion-like polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background with POLARBEAR”

Kennedy Reed Award for best theoretical research by a graduate student

1st place:    

Siva Mythili Gouguntla (California State University, Fresno) for “Field Momentum and the Dirac String” Field momentum and the reality of the Dirac string

2nd place:   

Rebekah Hermsmeier (University of Nevada, Reno) for “Magnetic tuning of electric dipole moments and dipolar interactions of alkali-dimer molecules”

Steven Chu Award for best research by an undergraduate student

1st place:

Mireya Gonzales-Rivera (California State University San Marcos) for “Reflectometry: A New Probe of Quantum Device”

2nd place (shared):

Faith Poutoa (San Diego State University) for “Developing a Long-Range Optical Oil Spill Detector Using Fluorescence”

Chaitanya Basyham (University of California, Los Angeles) for “Quality Control Testing & Data Analysis: Preparing for Run 4 of ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider”

Riley J. Carpenter (Santa Clara University) for “Low-temperature circuit component characterization and nanofabrication process tuning for cryogenic dark matter detectors”

Helen Quinn Award for undergraduate research

1st place:

Cheyanne E. Shariat (University of California Los Angeles) for “Dynamical Evolution of White Dwarf Triples in the Era of Gaia”

Isabela E. Camacho (Santa Clara University) for “Testing Fluorescent Protein Sequence Entropy for Correlation with Protein Properties”

2nd place

Dilon E. Suliman (San Diego State University) for ”Simulating the Quantum Ising Model with Cloud Quantum Computers”

Student Poster Award:

Undergraduate Student:

Isabella R. Martinez (University of California, San Diego) for “Mitigation techniques used in Magneto Inertial Fusion”

Antonia C. Hekster (Harvey Mudd College) for “UV Freeze-in Leptogenesis via DM Oscillations”

Brooke Olsson (Colorado School of Mines) for “Oscillatory Mechanical Perturbations in Active Fluids: Probing Dynamic Properties and Resonant Behavior”

Graduate Student

Jyotsna Gidugu (University of California, San Diego) for “A study of dissipative models based on Dirac matrices”

Jared E. Pagett (Inviersity of California, Santa Barbara) for “Potassium condensates in optical tweezers”

Student housing and conference hotel

We have a room block for 60 students at the Residence Inn La Jolla, which is right next to the UC San Diego campus. Unfortunately all the rooms are spoken for at this time. Please contact hohldag@lbl.gov, in case you want to be considered for the waitlist. 

You can see details about the hotel here:

https://www.marriott.com/search/hotelQuickView.mi?propertyId=LAJCA&brandCode=RI&marshaCode=LAJCA

Note, the hotel charges $15 per night for parking.

Registration:

Registration fees:

High school student (member or non-member):          Free

Undergraduate student:                                   $40

Graduate student:                                       $60

Early career scientist:                                      $110

Regular member:                                             $140

Non-member:                                             $180

Conference registration can be accessed here:

https://my.aps.org/NC__Event?id=a0l5G00000Nw7PwQAJ

Tips for abstract submission and registration:

You will have to create an account at aps.org to submit an abstract and to register for the meeting. Registration will become available later in August. While you will be able to attend the meeting without being an APS member we highly  encourage you to join the APS when you submit and register to qualify for the lower registration rate. Membership in APS is free for students is free in the first year and you can become a member here:

https://www.aps.org/membership/join.cfm