arrival |
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 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, October 18th, 2012 Nebraska Champions Club |
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Bus Shuttles 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), Ellen Weissinger (UNL Senior Vice Chancellor), David Sellmyer (Director Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience) |
Morning Session I |
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9:30 a.m. |
Plenary Speaker: Rebecca Lai (University of Nebraska) What's Next in Biosensor Development |
10:30 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
10:50 a.m. |
Plenary Speaker: John Woollam (J. A. Woollam Co., Inc.) Ellipsometry in Nebraska |
11:50 a.m. |
Allyson Rice (University of Texas at Austin) Molecular Motors' Response to Cytoplasmic Drag Forces |
12:10 a.m. |
Ayana Ghosh (University of Michigan - Flint) Radiation from Blackholes may hint at the Existence of Extra Dimensions |
12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
Afternoon Session II | |
2:00 p.m. |
Plenary Speaker: Andrea Holmes (Doane College) Fabrication of Micro- and Nano-sized Sensing Arrays for the Detection of Abused Narcotics and Small Molecules |
3:00 p.m. |
Lina Abdallah (New Mexico State University) Composition Dependence of the Optical Conductivity of NiPt Alloys Determined by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry |
3:20 p.m. |
Kortney Rupp (Monmouth College) Interactions of 1,2-Dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine and Ibuprofen on Langmuir Monolayers |
3:40 p.m. |
Daniel Haden (Nebraska Wesleyan University) The New Age of Acceleration--A Summer With DIOCLES |
4:00 p.m. |
Rajeev Neupane (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) Monitoring of Nano-scale Adsorption Processes onto Flat and Nanostructured Surfaces |
4:20 p.m. |
Poster Session |
6:20 p.m. - 7:20 p.m. |
Dinner Buffett |
Friday, October 19th, 2012 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 | |
9:00 a.m. |
Plenary Speaker: Stefan Zollner (New Mexico State Univ.) Eight Simple Rules about Industrial Physics Careers |
10:00 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
10:15 a.m. |
Career Discussion |
11:45 a.m. |
Lunch with UNL faculty |
Afternoon Session IV | |
1:15 p.m. |
Zahra Adahman (Randolph College) Quantifying the Complexity of Mouse Ultrasonic Vocalizations |
1:35 p.m. |
Samantha MacIntyre (Shippensburg University) Sputtering Energy Effects on Persistent Surface features in Ge(110) |
1:55 p.m. |
Karleen Crone (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) In Vitro Breast Tumor Model: Co-Culture of Breast Cancer and Stromal Cells |
2:15 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
2:45 p.m. |
Plenary Speaker: Nora Berrah (Western Michigan University) Probing Matter from Within using Ultra-Intense and Ultra-Fast X-Rays from the LCLS Free Electron Laser |
3:45 p.m. - 4:25 p.m. |
Grad School Workshop |
4:25 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. |
open |
5:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. |
Jazz and BBQ Dinner, Jorgensen Hall Atrium UNL Students Jazz Band, caterer: Phat Jack's |
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. |
Friday Night Plenary Speaker: (136 Jorgensen Hall) Beate Schmittmann (Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Iowa State U.) New Physics All Around Us |
8:00 p.m. |
Movie & Popcorn Night ("The World is Not Enough") |
Saturday, October 20th, 2012 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 | |
11:30 a.m. |
Plenary Speaker: Dale Tupa (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Recent Experiments with Proton Radiography at Los Alamos National Lab |
12:30 p.m. |
Lunch at the Physics Department |
Afternoon Session VI | |
1:30 p.m. |
Plenary Speaker: Talat Rahman (University of Central Florida, Orlando) Not for Jewels only: The Incredible Story of Gold Nanostructures |
2:30 p.m. |
Susan Cooper (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) Capacitors with Ferroelectric Nanocomposite Dielectrics |
2:50 p.m. |
Natasha Sachdeva (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Measuring Relaxation of Polarized 3He in Superfluid 4He |
3:10 p.m. |
Katherine Jinkins (University of Wisconsin - Platteville) Highly Conductive Graphene Films from Ultrasonic Spray Deposition |
3:30 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
Afternoon Session VII | |
4:00 p.m. |
Amy Craig (Doane College) Characterization of the Root Growth of Arabidopsis using Velocity Field Measurements |
4:20 p.m. |
Rachael Creager (University of Notre Dame) Analysis of a Potential Tracking Algorithm for the SLHC Upgrade |
4:40 p.m. |
Vaishaali Natarajan (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) Liver Tissue Engineering Model |
5:00 p.m. |
Bus or Walk to Holiday Inn |
6:30 p.m. |
Conference Dinner at the Holiday Inn, Husker Ballroom (basement) |
Departure |
Sunday, October 21st, 2012 |