1st Annual Smalley-Curl Institute Summer Research Colloquium
Friday, August 7, 2015
Anne and Charles Duncan Hall, William Marsh Rice University
Houston, Texas 77005, U.S.A.
Please note: Presentation of research results here does not constitute public disclosure.
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| 08:00 - 08:50 | Breakfast and Registration, Martel Hall "A" |
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| Opening Session | McMurtry Auditorium |
| 08:50 - 09:00 | Welcome Remarks by Dr. Alberto Pimpinelli, Executive Director, Smalley-Curl Institute, and Organizing Committee Chair |
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| Oral Session 1: | McMurtry Auditorium, Presider: Josh Hill |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Chad P. Byers, Hui Zhang, Dayne F. Swearer, Mustafa Yorulmaz, Benjamin S. Hoener, Da Huang, Anneli Hoggard, Wei-Shun Chang, Paul Mulvaney, Emilie Ringe, Naomi J. Halas, Peter Nordlander, Stephan Link, Christy F. Landes, , “Electrochemical control of surface plasmons – from individual core-shell structures to plasmonic drawbridges” (Paper No. O-1.1) |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | F. Camargo, J. D. Whalen, R. Ding, G. W. Junior, F. B. Dunning, T. C. Killian, “Formation and Lifetime Measurements of Ultralong-Range Molecular Rydberg States of Strontium” (Paper No. O-1.2) |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Pelham Keahey, Tomasz Tkaczyk, Kathleen Schmeler, and Rebecca Richards-Kortum, “Improving High Resolution Microendoscopy for the Early Detection of Cervical Cancer” (Paper No. O-1.3) |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Luong Xuan Duy, Zhiwei Peng, Jibo Zhang, Yilun Li, James M. Tour, “Synthesis of Laser Induced Graphene Nanoribbons from Polyimide Sheets” (Paper No. O-1.4) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Adam Lauchner, Andrea E. Schlather, Alejandro Manjavacas, Yao Cui, Michael J. McClain, Grant Stec, F. Javier García de Abajo, Peter Nordlander, and Naomi J. Halas, “Molecular Plasmonics: Graphene Plasmons in the Picoscale Domain” (Paper No. O-1.5) |
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| 10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
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| Oral Session 2: | McMurtry Auditorium, Presider: Daniel Gonzales |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Benjamin Cerjan, Xiao Yang, Peter Nordlander, and Naomi J. Halas, “Aluminum Antennas for Internally Calibrated Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy” (Paper No. O-2.1) |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Maria Kochugaeva, Martin Lange, and Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, “Protein Search for multiple targets on DNA” (Paper No. O-2.2) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Liyang Lu, Lindsey Anderson, Jason Hafner, and Kevin Kelly, “Compressive Hyperspectral Microscopy” (Paper No. O-2.3) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Ching-Wei Lin, Sergei Bachilo, Michael Vu, Kathleen M. Beckingham, and R. Bruce Weisman, “Novel Short-Wave Infrared In Vivo Imaging using Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes” (Paper No. O-2.4) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Benjamin S. Hoener, Chad P. Byers, Swarnapali Indrasekara, and Christy F. Landes “Spectroelectrochemistry of Halide Anion Adsorption and Dissolution of Single Gold Nanorods” (Paper No. O-2.5) |
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| 11:45 - 12:00 | Break (lunch time for judges, undergraduate poster presenters, RET and RSTEM REU poster presenters) |
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| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch and Poster Sessions: Undergraduates (UG), Martel Hall A Research Experience for Teachers (RET), Martel Hall B RSTEM Research Experience for Undergraduate (UG-R), Martel Hall B |
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| Oral Session 3: | McMurtry Auditorium, Presider: Jesse Adams |
| 1:30 - 1:45 | Mustafa Yorulmaz, Sara Nizzero, Anneli Hoggard, Lin-Yung Wang,Yi-Yu Cai, Wei-Shun Chang, and Stephan Link, “Single-Particle Absorption Spectroscopy by Photothermal Contrast” (Paper No. O-3.1) |
| 1:45 - 2:00 | Jingqiang Li, Eric W. Frey, Sithara S. Wijeratne, and Ching-Hwa Kiang, “Reconstructing Multiple Free Energy Pathways of DNA stretching from Single Molecule Experiments” (Paper No. O-3.2) |
| 2:00 - 2:15 | James Matthews, Courtney Payne, and Jason Hafner, “Gold Nanorod Supported Phospholipid Bilayer Structures and Phases Detected by Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering” (Paper No. O-3.3) |
| 2:15 - 2:30 | Binod K Rai and E. Morosan, “Intermediate valence to heavy fermion through a quantum phase transition in Yb3(Rh1-xTx)4Ge13 (T = Co and Ir)” (Paper No. O-3.4) |
| 2:30 - 2:45 | Ali Sobhani, Alejandro Manjavacas, Yang Cao, Michael McClain, F. Javier García de Abajo, Peter Nordlander, Naomi J. Halas, “Narrowing the plasmon resonance with coupled aluminum nanoparticle-film systems” (Paper No. O-3.5) |
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| 2:45 - 3:00 | Coffee Break |
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| Oral Session 4: | McMurtry Auditorium, Presider: Pelham Keahey |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Hui Zhang, Runmin Zhang, Alejandro Manjavacas, Peter Nordlander, “Plasmon Hybridization in Doped Silicon Nanocrystals with Two-Component Carriers” (Paper No. O-4.1) |
| 3:15 - 3:30 | Thomas Langin, Patrick McQuillen, Trevor Strickler, Thomas Pohl, and Thomas Killian, “Universality in the Equilibration of Quenched Yukawa One Component Plasmas” (Paper No. O-4.2) |
| 3:30 - 3:45 | Bob Zheng, Hangqi Zhao, Alejandro Manjavacas, Michael McClain, Peter Nordlander, and Naomi J. Halas, “Shining Light on Carrier Generation in Metallic Nanostructures” (Paper No. O-4.3) |
| 3:45 - 4:00 | Henry Yu, Alex Kutana, and Boris Yakobson, “Theoretical Modeling of 2D Lateral Semiconductor Hetero-junction” (Paper No. O-4.) |
| 4:00 - 4:15 | Pavlo Zolotavin and Doug Natelson, “Low temperature study of plasmonic heating in Au nanowire” (Paper No. O-4.5) |
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| 4:15 - 5:30 | Poster Session A: Graduate Students & Post-docs, Martel Hall A Food, wine, and beer will be served |
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| 5:30 - 6:45 | Poster Session B: Graduate Students & Post-docs, Martel Hall A Food, wine, and beer will be served |
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| 6:45 - 7:15 | Awards Ceremony, McMurtry Auditorium Food, wine, and beer will be served in Martel Hall A |