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arrival
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 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). |
| Thursday, October 20th, 2011 Nebraska Champions Club |
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Bus Shuttles Schedule |
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8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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Registration will be open all day (Nebraska Champions Club) |
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9:00 p.m.
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Welcome Remarks/Meeting Kick-Off Axel Enders (Conference Chair), Ellen Weissinger (UNL Senior Vice Chancellor), and Dan Claes (Chair Department of Physics & Astronomy) |
| Morning Session I (Session Chair: Brad Shadwick) |
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9:30 a.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Sheila Bailey (NASA Glenn Research Center) |
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10:30 a.m.
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Coffee Break |
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10:50 a.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Margaret Hill (Southeast Missouri State University) Improving Magnetic Materials: Physics or Alchemy? |
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11:50 a.m.
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Wei Jia Ong (Washington University St. Louis, MO) Isotopic and Elemental Characterization of Presolar Grains in Acfer 094 |
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12:10 a.m.
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Johanna-Laina Fischer (Florida Institute of Technology, FL) Implementation of a Liquid Scintillator Neutron Veto for the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search |
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12:30 p.m.
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Lunch |
| Afternoon Session II (Session Chair: Axel Enders) | |
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2:00 p.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Barbara Jones (IBM Almaden Research Center) A Perspective on the Future of Nanotechnology |
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3:00 p.m.
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Ashley Parker (Marietta College, Zanesville, OH) An Improved Technique for Increasing the Accuracy of Photometrically Determined Redshifts for "Blended" Galaxies |
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3:20 p.m.
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Chloe Renfroe (University of West Florida, FL) Resonance Circuit with a Nonlinear Liquid Crystal Capacitor |
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3:40 p.m.
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Emily Grace (Indiana University South Bend, IN) Towards Better Control of Laser-Based Accelerators: Analysis of Gas Jet Density Profiles Using Interferometry |
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4:00 p.m.
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Xenia Fave (Florida Institute of Technology, FL) Imaging of Single Protein and DNA Interactions by TIRF Microscopy |
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4:20 p.m.
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Poster Session |
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6:20 p.m. - 7:20 p.m.
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Dinner Buffett |
| Friday, October 21st, 2011 Nebraska Champions Club |
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Bus Shuttle Schedule |
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8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Registration open (Nebraska Champions Club) |
| Morning Session III (Session Chair: Axel Enders) | |
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9:00 a.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Shirley Chiang (University of California - Davis) Imaging Surface Structures of Graphene and Metals on Germanium by LEEM and STM |
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10:00 a.m.
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Coffee Break |
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10:15 a.m.
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Career Discussion |
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11:45 a.m.
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Lunch with faculty from the Department of Physics & Astronomy |
| Afternoon Session IV (Session Chair: Emily Grace) | |
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1:15 p.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Xia Hong (University of Nebraska) Exploring Nanostructures in One-Atom-Thick Carbon |
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2:15 p.m.
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Coffee Break |
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2:45 p.m.
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Claire Marvinney (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY) The Growth of a Green LED |
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3:05 p.m.
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Hannah Buchanan (University of West Florida, FL) Laser Induced Fluorescence Studies of New Liquid Crystal C16-Fluorescent Dipyrrinone |
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3:25 p.m.
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Hsin-Yun Chao (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL) Study of Exchange Coupling on Nanocomposite Neodymium-Iron-Boron Permanent Magnets |
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3:45 p.m.
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Laura Slaymaker (University of Nebraska - Kearney, NE) Properties of CuIn1-xGaxSe2 Films Prepared by the Rapid Thermal Annealing of Spray-Deposited CuIn1-xGaxS2 and Se |
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4:05 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
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Grad School Workshop (Session Chair: Axel Enders) |
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4:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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open |
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6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
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Reception, Jorgensen Hall Atrium - UNL Students Jazz Band |
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6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
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Dinner - Grill Out (Jorgensen Hall Atrium) |
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7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
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Friday Night Social Event (136 Jorgensen Hall) |
| "Comic Book Physics 101" by Dan Claes and "Dancing Fire Illuminating the Hidden Quantum World of Nanotechnology" by Christian Binek | |
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8:30 p.m.
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Movie & Popcorn Night (Movie TBA) |
| Saturday, October 22nd, 2011 Jorgensen Hall, Room 136 |
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Bus Shuttle Schedule |
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9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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Lab tours |
| Morning Session V (Session Chair: Brad Shadwick) | |
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11:30 a.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Linda Olafsen (Baylor University) |
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12:30 p.m.
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Lunch at the Physics Department |
| Afternoon Session VI (Session Chair: Xia Hong) | |
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1:30 p.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Julia Medvedeva (Missouri University of Science & Technology) |
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2:30 p.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Heike Geisler (University at Albany-SUNY) |
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3:30 p.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Afternoon Session VII (Session Chair: Christian Binek) | |
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4:00 p.m.
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Vanessa Punal (Oakland University, MI) A Perturbation Solution of the Mechanical Bidomain Model |
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4:20 p.m.
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Kellie Woll (Colorado State University, CO) Physical Characterization of Novel AOT-Lecithin Based Gel for Delivery of Carboplatin |
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4:40 p.m.
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Ruth Nan (Washington University St. Louis, MO) Development of a Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope |
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5:00 p.m.
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Amanda Huon (University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, PA) Modeling of the Transparency and Conductivity of Carbon Nanotube Networks |
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5:20 p.m.
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Emily Sprague (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL) 3-D Superconducting Resonator for use in Qubit and Graphene Studies |
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5:40 p.m.
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Bus or Walk to Holiday Inn |
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6:30 p.m.
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Conference Dinner at the Holiday Inn, Husker Room (basement) |
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Departure
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 |