Program
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arrival
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Registration desk will be open at the Graduate Lincoln hotel between 6:00pm - 8:00pm. Students who arrive on this day can use the Graduate Lincoln restaurant to have dinner and put charges on their room (only Wednesday dinner, no alcoholic beverages please!). |
| Thursday, November 9, 2017 Nebraska Champions Club |
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Shuttle Bus Schedule 8:30 a.m. & 8:45 a.m. - Graduate Hotel to Champions Club |
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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, Chemistry), Dan Claes (Department Chair, Physics & Astronomy), Jeff Shield (Department Chair, Mechanical & Materials Engineering) |
| Morning Session I (Session Chair: Rebecca Lai) | |
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9:30 a.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Alexandra Dominguez (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL) "To Boldly Go: Building NASA’s New Space Launch System Rocket" |
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10:30 a.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Morning Session II (Session Chair: Brad Shadwick) | |
| 10:45 a.m. | Invited Student Speaker: Adrianna Perez (California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA) "Star Formation in Simulated Merging Galaxies" |
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11:05 a.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Nicole Benker (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE) "Measuring the Steady State Solar Neutron Flux from the ISS" |
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11:25 a.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Jenna Ott (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA) "Melt Electrostatic Writing (MEW) of a Human Trabecular Meshwork Scaffold" |
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11:45 a.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Claire Albrecht (St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY) "Detection of Magnetic Biomarkers Using a Single Giant Magneto-Impedance Microwire" |
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12:05 p.m.
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Lunch |
| Afternoon Session III (Session Chair: Martin Centurion) | |
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1:25 p.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Virginia Lorenz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL) "Optical Studies of Current-Induced Magnetization Switching and Photonic Quantum States" |
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2:25 p.m
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Invited Student Speaker: Skyler Ware (Ohio State University, Columbus, OH) "Improved Stability of a C-C Bond Coupling Catalyst for CO2 Reduction Using O2 as a Sacrificial Electron Acceptor" |
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2:45 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Samantha Pedek (University of Wisconsin-River Falls, WI) "As Far South as You Can Go: My Astrophysics Research Experience in Antarctica" |
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3:05 p.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Afternoon Session IV (Session Chair: Peisi Huang) | |
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3:30 p.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Sevil Salur (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ) "Resolving Power of Jets" |
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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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9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
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Laser Tag @ Laser Quest! |
| Friday, November 10, 2017 Nebraska Champions Club |
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Shuttle Bus Schedule 8:30 a.m. & 8:45 a.m. - Graduate Hotel to Champions Club |
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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: Christian Binek) | |
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9:00 a.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Ching-Tzu Chen (IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY) "Spintronics: Science and Technology" |
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10:00 a.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Sabreena Sukhram (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA) "The Relaxation Mechanism of Indigo" |
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10:20 a.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Morning Session VI (Session Chair: Peter Dowben) | |
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10:35 a.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Marisol Alcantara Ortigoza (Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL) "Intelligent Tailoring of New Materials applied to clean and sustainable energy resources" |
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11:35 a.m.
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“Hitchhiker’s Guide to Graduate School” panel |
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12:30 p.m.
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Lunch with UNL faculty |
| Afternoon Session VII (Session Chair: Shireen Adenwalla) | |
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1:50 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Ali Yijun Wang (Pomona College, Claremont, CA) "An Attempt to Incorporate Spin into a Gravitational Wave Simulation Program for LISA" |
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2:10 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Erica Mason (University of Texas at Austin, TX) "Pulsed Laser Deposition and Characterization of In2O3-SnO2 Nanowires" |
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2:30 p.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Sophia Hayes (Washington University in St. Louis, MO) "Lasers + NMR to Interrogate Spins in Semiconductors and Interface Structures" |
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3:30 p.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Afternoon Session VIII (Session Chair: Xiaoshan Xu) | |
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3:45 p.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Kristen Buchanan (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO) "Imaging Spins in Motion" |
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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) Julia H. Majors (American Institute of Physics) "Dear Physics, We Need to Talk" |
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8:30 p.m.
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Student Observatory Open Night |
| Saturday, November 11, 2017 Jorgensen Hall, Room 136 |
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Shuttle Bus Schedule 8:45 a.m. - Graduate Hotel to Hamilton Hall |
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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: Karla Jimena Perez Toralla) | |
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11:30 a.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Suzanne G.E. te Velthuis (Argonne National Laboratory, IL) "Magnetic Skyrmions on the Move" |
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12:30 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Elizabeth Laskowski (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, WI) "Determining the Shape and Density of Supersonic Gas Flows and Laser-Produced Plasma Using Optical Phase Changes" |
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12:50 p.m.
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Lunch at the Physics Department |
| Afternoon Session X (Session Chair: Rebecca Lai) | |
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1:50 p.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Suzanne Amador Kane (Haverford College, Haverford, PA) "Physics of the Peacock’s Dance" |
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2:50 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Judy Tran (California State University-San Bernardino, CA) "Nanofabrication of GLAD Structures – A Comparison of Ion and Electron Beam Deposition Techniques" |
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3:10 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Mercedes Mansfield (Grove City College, PA) "Selenization of Sputtered W, WO3, and Layered NiWO3 Thin Films for Thin Film Photovoltaic Applications" |
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3:30 p.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Afternoon Session XI (Session Chair: Xia Hong) | |
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3:45 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Abagayle Serreyn (College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO) "Exploration of Unique Features of the Reaction of Pyrazolones and Furfural" |
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4:05 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Deanna Mason (Rockhurst University, Overland Park, KS) "Stability of BODIPYs towards Trifluoroacetic Acid: An Experimental and Computational Study into the Role of the Substituents at Boron" |
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4:25 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Ashley Holland (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) "Piezoresponse Force Microscopy Studies of Ferroelectric Domain Structures in Co-Polymer PVDF-TrFE Thin Films" |
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4:45 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Emmaline Lorenzo (University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS) "Non-Resonant Two-Photon Excitation of Photocaged Compounds" |
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5:05 p.m.
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Bus or Walk to the Graduate Lincoln hotel |
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6:30 p.m.
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Conference Dinner at the Graduate Lincoln (Husker Ballroom) |
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Departure
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Sunday, November 12th, 2017 |