Program
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arrival
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 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 alcoholic beverages please!). |
| Thursday, October 27th, 2016 Nebraska Champions Club |
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Shuttle Bus 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 a.m.
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Welcome Remarks/Meeting Kick-Off Rebecca Lai (Conference Chair), Daniel Claes (Chair of the Department of Physics & Astronomy), Matthew Jockers (College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Research and Partnerships) |
| Morning Session I (Session Chair: Rebecca Lai) | |
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9:30 a.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Gretchen Campbell (Joint Quantum Institute, NIST/University of Maryland, College Park, MD) "Superfluid “atom circuits”" |
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10:30 a.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Morning Session II (Session Chair: Shireen Adenwalla) | |
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10:45 a.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Tiffany Santos (Western Digital Corporation, San Jose, CA) "What’s Next for Magnetic Recording?" |
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11:45 a.m.
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Lindsey Lesh (Bowling Green State University) "Debye Scattering of Triangular-Shaped Graphene for Comparison with Electron Diffraction Patterns of Graphitic Stardust" |
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12:05 p.m.
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Namrata Ramani (University of California-Los Angeles) "Expanding the Voltage Window for Aqueous Electrolytes in Electrochemical Capacitors" |
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12:25 p.m.
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Lunch |
| Afternoon Session III (Session Chair: Tim Gay) | |
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1:50 p.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Joan Dreiling (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD) "Electron Beam Ion Traps and Experiments with Highly Charged Ions" |
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2:50 p.m.
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Madelyn Leembruggen (University of Cincinnati) "Collapse of Axion Stars" |
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3:10 p.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Afternoon Session IV (Session Chair: Martin Centurion) | |
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3:30 p.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Anne Marie March (Argonne National Laboratory) "X-ray Snapshots of Molecules in Motion" |
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4:30 p.m.
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Poster Session |
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6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
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Dinner Buffet |
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9:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.
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Climbing Wall at Campus Rec -- equipment and instruction provided! |
| Friday, October 28th, 2016 Nebraska Champions Club |
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Shuttle Bus Schedule |
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8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Registration open (Nebraska Champions Club) |
| Morning Session V (Session Chair: Brad Shadwick) | |
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9:00 a.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Sally Seidel (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM) "Discovering New Particles" |
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10:00 a.m.
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Margaret Morris (Brandeis University) "Elastic Buckling of Rigid Bio-polymers" |
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10:20 a.m.
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Katie Boyce (Rockhurst University) "The Lithium Depletion Age of the TW Hydrae Association" |
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10:40 a.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Morning Session VI (Session Chair: Tony Starace) | |
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10:55 a.m.
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Gabriella Jordan (Handel Group) "The Handel Method® Designing An Extraordinary Life as a Woman in Science" |
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12:25 p.m.
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Lunch with UNL faculty |
| Afternoon Session VII (Session Chair: Ken Bloom) | |
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1:50 p.m.
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Sabrina Li (Pomona College) "Fabrication and Characterization of Inverted P3HT:PCBM Organic Photovoltaic Cells" |
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2:10 p.m.
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Sinem Ergen (University of California-Long Beach) "Starch-Based 3D Scaffold in Cardiac Tissue Engineering" |
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2:30 p.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Sarah Demers (Yale University) "Life with the Higgs Boson" |
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3:30 p.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Afternoon Session VIII (Session Chair: Matthias Fuchs) | |
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3:45 p.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Lucie Johannes (NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX) "Materials & Processes in NASA’s Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle" |
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4:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
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6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
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Dinner - Grill Out, Jorgensen Hall Atrium Rock Band: Fluffy Psycho Bunnies (featuring members of the physics department) |
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7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
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Friday Night Talk (136 Jorgensen Hall) Rebecca Lai (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) "Nanoscience -- Harry Potter Style" |
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8:30 p.m.
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Student Observatory Open Night |
| Saturday, October 29th, 2016 Jorgensen Hall, Room 136 |
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Shuttle Bus Schedule |
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9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
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Chemistry lab tours (Hamilton Hall) |
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9:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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Physics and NCMN lab tours (Jorgensen Hall) |
| Morning Session IX (Session Chair: Xia Hong) | |
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11:30 a.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Rui He (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA) "Raman Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Atomic Layers" |
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12:30 p.m.
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Rachel Lukowicz (Doane University) "A Colorimetric Sensor Array for the Identification and Quantification of Analytes" |
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12:50 p.m.
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Lunch at the Physics Department |
| Afternoon Session X (Session Chair: Christian Binek) | |
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1:50 p.m.
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Plenary Speaker: Christina Wilson (Doane University, Crete, NE) "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Graduate School" |
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2:50 p.m.
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Marlene Carla Ndoun (Benedict College) "Evaluation of Peach Pits as an Alternative Material for the Adsorption of Lead Ions" |
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3:10 p.m.
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Juliana Herran (University of Northern Iowa) "Effects of Pressure and Strain on Spin Polarization of IrMnSb" |
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3:30 p.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Afternoon Session XI (Session Chair: Rebecca Lai) | |
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3:45 p.m.
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Natalie Page (Rowan University) "Reactively Sputtered Iridium Oxide Films for Biomedical Electrode Coatings: Microstructural Dependence of the Electrochemical Performance" |
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4:05 p.m.
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Spencer Prockish (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) "Enhanced Piezoelectric Response in the Hybrid Perovskite via interfacing with Ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3" |
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4:25 p.m.
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Jenny Banh (Smith College) "Precise Determination of Interference Filter Pass Wavelengths" |
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4:45 p.m.
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Cynthiya Shrestha (University of New Orleans) "Preparation and Optimization of Ferroelectric Polymer Thin Film by Spin Coating" |
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5:05 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 Ballroom) |
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Departure
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Sunday, October 30th, 2016 |