Program
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arrival
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Wednesday, November 6, 2019 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 7, 2019 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 Mark Button (Dean, College of Arts & Sciences), Dan Claes (Department Chair, Physics & Astronomy), Rebecca Lai and Jocelyn Bosley (Conference Chairs, Chemistry and Nebraska MRSEC) |
| Morning Session I (Session Chair: Rebecca Lai) | |
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9:30 a.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Maria Calhoun (Tuskegee University) |
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10:30 a.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Morning Session II (Session Chair: Brad Shadwick) | |
| 10:50 a.m. | Invited Student Speaker: Alexandra Matei (Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA) “Catalytic Enantioselective Birch-Heck Reaction Sequence for the Efficient Generation of Potentially Therapeutic Molecules” |
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11:10 a.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Winifred Waters (Lawrence University, Appleton, WI) “Deuterated Diisopropylammonium-Bromide: Structural Studies of an Organic Ferroelectric” |
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11:30 a.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Rebecca Harbison (University of Nebraska) |
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12:30 p.m.
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Lunch |
| Afternoon Session III (Session Chair: Eva Schubert) | |
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1:50 p.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Virginia Wheeler (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) |
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2:50 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Mary Sutton (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA) “Stochastic Lattice Simulation of the RAD51 Nucleoprotein Filament Formation on Single-Stranded DNA” |
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3:10 p.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Afternoon Session IV (Session Chair: Shireen Adenwalla) | |
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3:30 p.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Kyungwha Park (Virginia Tech) |
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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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HyperBowling at Sun Valley Lanes! |
| Friday, November 8, 2019 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: Zahra Ahmadi) | |
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9:00 a.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Amy Betz (Kansas State University) |
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10:00 a.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Bridgette Davey (Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL) “Lucy: An Epic Journey To the Fossils of Our Solar System” |
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10:20 a.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Morning Session VI (Session Chair: Christos Argyropoulos) | |
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10:35 a.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Maha Achour (Metawave Corp.) |
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11:35 a.m.
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Graduate School and Career Panel |
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12:30 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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Invited Student Speaker: Kaitlin Gili (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ) “Using Quantum Computers for Machine Learning” |
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2:10 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Courtney Johnson (Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ) “Systematic Analysis of Quantum Dot Synthesis in Reverse Micelles” |
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2:30 p.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Andrea Armani (University of Southern California) |
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3:30 p.m.
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Coffee Break |
| Afternoon Session VIII (Session Chair: Channing Stellato) | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Invited Student Speaker: Sriyankari Chitti (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL) “Carbenoid-Boronate Building Blocks Enable Iterative Assembly of Saturated Small Molecules” |
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4:05 p.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Naomi Lee (Northern Arizona University) |
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5:05 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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open |
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6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
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Dinner at food trucks (Jorgensen Hall Atrium), with entertainment by Prime Objective, feat. members of the UNL Physics Department |
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7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
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Friday Night Talk (136 Jorgensen Hall) |
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8:30 p.m.
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Student Observatory Open Night |
| Saturday, November 9, 2019 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) Engineering lab tours (Scott Engineering Center) |
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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: Lucia Fernandez-Ballester) | |
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11:30 a.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Ritu Raman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
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12:30 p.m.
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Lunch at the Physics Department |
| Afternoon Session X (Session Chair: Joan Dreiling) | |
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1:30 p.m.
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Keynote Speaker: Laurie McNeil (University of North Carolina) |
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2:30 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Emily Silich (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA) “HaloSat Observations of the Vela and Puppis A Supernova Remnants” |
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2:50 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Kaity Szymborski (Creighton University, Omaha, NE) “Using Data Science for Sustainability Metrics” |
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3:10 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Avery McLain (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, WI) “Ceramic Sourcing and Pastoralism in Prehistoric Africa” |
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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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Invited Student Speaker: Vida-Michelle Nixon (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE) “Simulating the Compression of Ultrashort Relativistic Electron Beams for Tabletop X-Ray Sources” |
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4:05 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Julia Dokko (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) “Baking Soda and Vinegar Power Soft Robots” |
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4:25 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Lilian Odom (Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO) “Computational Modeling of Linker-Free BODIPY-GlyCINE Conjugates Substituted at the Boron Atom” |
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4:45 p.m.
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Invited Student Speaker: Madeleine Wilsey (Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL) “Effect of Silver Nanoparticles on the Fluorescence of Praseodymium (Pr3+) Ions” |
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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 (Scarlet Ballroom) |
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Departure
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Sunday, November 10, 2019 |