Program

WoPhyS 2021

WoPhyS2021

Program

arrival

Wednesday, October 20, 2021
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, October 21, 2021 Nebraska Champions Club
	Shuttle Bus Schedule 8:30 a.m. & 8:45 a.m. - Graduate Hotel to Champions Club 7:15 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. - Champions Club to Graduate Hotel 7:45 p.m. & 8:15 p.m. - Graduate Hotel to Urban Air Adventure Park 9:30 p.m. & 10:00 p.m. - Urban Air Adventure Park to Graduate Hotel
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 Daniel Claes (Department Chair, Physics & Astronomy), Matt Andrews (Director, Nebraska EPSCoR), Rebecca Lai and Jocelyn Bosley (Conference Chairs, Nebraska MRSEC)
	Morning Session I (Session Chair: Rebecca Lai)
9:30 a.m.	Keynote Speaker: Maria Becker (Nebraska Wesleyan University) “Mother Nature: A Woman of Two Worlds”
10:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
	Morning Session II (Session Chair: Jeff Shield)
10:50 a.m.	Keynote Speaker: Tamara Floyd Smith (Tuskegee University) “Competent, Engaged, Diverse and Realized (CEDaR) Scientists”
11:50 a.m.	Invited Student Speaker: Abigail Hartline (University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS) “Ionic Liquids for Aqueous Stabilization of Organic Dyes”
12:10 p.m.	Invited Student Speaker: Alyssa Simpson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE) “Ferroelectric Domain Studies on Free-standing PZT Membranes”
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	Debra Hope (Dean, Graduate Studies) and Rick Bevins (Interim Associate Vice Chancellor, Office of Research & Economic Development)
	Afternoon Session III (Session Chair: Shireen Adenwalla)
1:50 p.m.	Invited Student Speaker: Tessa Hoffman (Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE) "Characterization of Substrate Channeling in SmPutA"
2:10 p.m.	Invited Student Speaker: Swan Klein (George Mason University, Fairfax, VA) “Two-Qubit Quantum Circuit Synthesis”
2:30 p.m.	Invited Student Speaker: Alexis Paskach (Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL) “Nickel-phosphine Complexes for Cross-Coupling Reactions”
2:50 p.m.	Invited Student Speaker: Abbeigh Schroeder (Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA) “The Evaluation of a Specimen Orientation Adjustment Procedure”
3:10 p.m.	Coffee Break
	Afternoon Session IV (Session Chair: Ken Bloom)
3:30 p.m.	Keynote Speaker: Indara Suarez (Boston University) “Colliding Worlds”
4:30 p.m.	Poster Session
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.	Dinner Buffet
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.	"Activate Awesome" at Urban Air Adventure Park!

	Friday, *October 22, 2021* Nebraska Champions Club
	Shuttle Bus Schedule 8:30 a.m. & 8:45 a.m. - Graduate Hotel to Champions Club 5:00 p.m. & 5:15 p.m. - Champions Club to Graduate Hotel 6:15 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. - Graduate Hotel to Jorgensen Hall 8:35 p.m. & 8:50 p.m. – Jorgensen Hall to Graduate Hotel
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Registration open (Nebraska Champions Club)
	Morning Session V (Session Chair: Brad Shadwick)
9:00 a.m.	Keynote Speaker: Rebecca Belisle (Wellesley College) “Stacking Up Solar: Designing New Semiconductors for Multijunction Photovoltaics”
10:00 a.m.	Coffee Break
	Morning Session VI (Session Chair: Lucía Fernandez-Ballester)
10:20 a.m.	Keynote Speaker: Shudipto Dishari (University of Nebraska) "Addressing the Challenges of Biomedical and Sustainable Energy Technologies by Designing Polymeric Nanomaterials"
11:20 a.m.	Invited Student Speaker: Mary Beth VanLandingham (University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS) “Characterization of a Full-Mouth Prosthodontic Restoration”
11:40 a.m.	Invited Student Speaker: Brooke Smith (North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC) “Pulsed Laser Deposition and Characterization of Titanium Nitride and Oxynitride Thin Films for Alternative Energy Applications”
12:00 p.m.	Meet Diocles! Extreme Light @ UNL
12:15 p.m.	Lunch with UNL faculty
	Afternoon Session VII (Session Chair: Tia Barth)
1:30 p.m.	Graduate School and Career Panel
2:30 p.m.	Keynote Speaker: Maria Emelianenko (George Mason University) “Crossing the Boundaries”
3:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
	Afternoon Session VIII (Session Chair: Rebecca Harbison)
4:00 p.m.	Keynote Speaker: Richa Sirohi (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) “Dare Mighty Things: To Psyche & Beyond”
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.	open
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.	Dinner at food trucks (Jorgensen Hall Atrium)
7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.	Friday Night Talk (136 Jorgensen Hall) Stephanie Castillo (University of Vanderbilt) “What Does it Mean to be a Science Communicator?”
8:30 p.m.	Student Observatory Open Night

	Saturday, *October 23, 2021* Jorgensen Hall, Room 136
	Shuttle Bus Schedule 8:45 a.m. - Graduate Hotel to Hamilton Hall and Scott Engineering Center 9:30 a.m. - Graduate Hotel to Jorgensen Hall 4:30 p.m. & 4:45 p.m. - Jorgensen Hall to Graduate Hotel
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.	Chemistry lab tours (Hamilton Hall) Engineering lab tours (Scott Engineering Center)
9:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Physics and NCMN lab tours (Jorgensen Hall)
	Morning Session IX (Session Chair: Xia Hong)
11:30 a.m.	Keynote Speaker: Helen Tran (University of Toronto) “Stretchable and Fully Degradable Semiconductors for Transient Electronics”
12:30 p.m.	Lunch at the Physics Department
	Afternoon Session X (Session Chair: Rebecca Lai)
1:30 p.m.	Keynote Speaker: Raychelle Burks (American University) “Light It Up: On Embracing Inclusive Excellence Along Our STEM Journeys”
2:30 p.m.	Invited Student Speaker: Thummim Mekuria (Pomona College, Claremont, CA) “Developing an Algorithm to Model the Evolution of a Binary System”
2:50 p.m.	Invited Student Speaker: Elizabeth Kellstedt (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN) “Nanoporous Membranes from Polyethylene Block Copolymers”
3:10 p.m.	Coffee Break
	Afternoon Session XI (Session Chair: Kayleigh McElveen)
3:30 p.m.	Keynote Speaker: Roselin Rosario-Meléndez (fmly. L'Oreal) “Non-Linear Career Path: Navigating Through Different STEM Fields as a Latina Inventor”
4:30 p.m.	Bus or Walk to the Graduate Lincoln hotel
6:30 p.m.	Conference Dinner at the Graduate Lincoln (Scarlet Ballroom)

Departure

Sunday, October 24, 2021

WoPhyS 2021

Program

Poster Session

Conference Dinner at the Graduate Lincoln (Scarlet Ballroom)