arrival |
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 Registration desk will be open at the Holiday Inn between 6:00pm - 8:00pm. Students who arrive on this day can use the Holiday Inn restaurant to have dinner and put charges on their room (only Wednesday dinner, no beverages please!). |
| Thursday, November 6th, 2014 Nebraska Champions Club |
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Bus Shuttle Schedule |
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8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
Registration will be open all day (Nebraska Champions Club) |
9:00 a.m. |
Welcome Remarks/Meeting Kick-Off Axel Enders (Conference Chair); Stephen Goddard (Associate Vice Chancellor for Research); Dan Claes (Dept. Chair Physics & Astronomy) |
| Morning Session I (Session Chair: Xiaoshan Xu) | |
9:30 a.m. |
Raychelle Burks (Doane College, Crete, NE) Bench & Beyond |
10:30 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
10:50 a.m. |
Lydia Sohn (University of California - Berkeley, CA) Node-Pore Sensing--How a Simple Four-Terminal Measurement Can Screen Cancer Cells |
11:50 a.m. |
Shannon Berrier (Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA) Synthesis of Silicon Oxide Nanowires |
12:10 a.m. |
Kelly Stifter (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN) Updated Track Fitting Method for the Silicon Tracking Telescope at Fermilab Test Beam Facility |
12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| Afternoon Session II (Session Chair: Eva Schubert) | |
2:00 p.m. |
Karolina Kosinska (Missouri State University, Springfield, MO) RNA-seq Analysis in Carbon Nanostructure-Exposed Arabidopsis Thaliana Plants |
2:20 p.m.. |
Amelia Chiles (Missouri State University, Springfield, MO) Effects of carbon nanotubes on Arabidopsis thaliana physiology and Plutella xylostella feeding |
2:40 p.m. |
Katelyn Stringer (Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN) Using Photometry to Calibrate AggieCam for Extrasolar Planet Searches |
3:00 p.m. |
Break |
3:30 p.m. |
Amber Boehnlein (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA) Large-scale data-intensive physics computing |
4:30 p.m. |
Poster Session |
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
Dinner Buffett |
| Friday, November 7th, 2014 Nebraska Champions Club |
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Bus Shuttle Schedule |
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8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Registration open (Nebraska Champions Club) |
| Morning Session III (Session Chair: Axel Enders) | |
9:00 a.m. |
Sarah Tolbert (University of California - Los Angeles, CA) Self-Assembled Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Storage, Solar Energy Harvesting, and Nanomagnetics |
| (Session Chair: Mathias Schubert) | |
10:00 a.m. |
Michelle Waite (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE) STEM as a Foundation for a Public Voice |
11:00 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
11:15 a.m. |
Grad School / Career Discussion (Session Chair: Axel Enders) Justina Clark (Director Graduate Recruitment UNL); Rebecca Lai (Graduate Chair Chemistry); Brad Shadwick (Graduate Committee Physics) |
12:05 p.m. |
Lunch with UNL faculty |
| Afternoon Session IV (Session Chair: Alexey Kovalev) | |
1:35 p.m. |
Jennie Pirolo (California State University - San Bernardino, CA) Crystal Design for Future Ferroelectrics |
1:55 p.m. |
Ashley Knulty (College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO) The Stereoselective Synthesis of Fluorinated β-Lactams |
2:15 p.m. |
Kamlesh Lulla (NASA, Director of University Collaborations and Partnerships) Space exploration: Opportunities for a new generation |
3:15 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
3:30 p.m. |
Lucia Fernandez-Ballester (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE) From Polymer Molecules to Materials: Controlled Morphology and Properties through Processing and Crystallization |
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
open |
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
Jazz and Dinner - Grill Out, Jorgensen Hall Atrium UNL Students Jazz Band |
7:30 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. |
Dan Claes (Dept. Chair Physics & Astronomy) (136 Jorgensen Hall) Comic Book Physics 101 |
8:15 p.m. |
Movie & Ice Cream Night (movie: I, Robot) |
| Saturday, November 8th, 2014 Jorgensen Hall, Room 136 |
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Bus Shuttle Schedule |
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9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. |
Lab tours |
| Morning Session V (Session Chair: Xia Hong) | |
11:30 a.m. |
Albina Borisevich (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN) Physics of Oxide Interfaces, Atom by Atom |
12:30 p.m. |
Lunch at the Physics Department |
| Afternoon Session VI (Session Chair: Shireen Adenwalla) | |
1:30 p.m. |
Yanning Sun (IBM Yorktown Heights, NY) Material and Device Innovation for Nano-CMOS Technology |
2:30 p.m. |
Lisa Schlueter (California State University - San Bernardino, CA) Thin Films of Organic Ferroelectric Co-Crystals |
2:50 p.m. |
Julia D'Rozario (State University of New York-Oswego, NY) Capillary Condensation Transitions for Cylindrical Geometries |
3:10 p.m. |
Jordyn Atwater (Doane College, Crete, NE) Constructing colorimetric assays for DETECHIP using inkjet printing |
3:30 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
4:00 p.m. |
Mirzojamshed Mirzokarimov (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE) Terahertz Ellipsometry in material characterization |
4:20 p.m. |
Yvonne Ng (University of Texas at Arlington, TX) Seasonal dependence and aging effect of the Gas electron Multiplier for the Silicon Detector in the International Linear Collider |
4:40 p.m. |
Amy Tainter (LANL, Northern New Mexico College, Española, NM) An optical diagnostic for surface velocity measurements at the Los Alamos Proton Radiography facility |
5:00 p.m. |
Bus or Walk to Holiday Inn |
6:30 p.m. |
Conference Dinner at the Holiday Inn (University Room) |
Departure |
Sunday, November 9th, 2014 |