8:00 – 8:50 AM

Breakfast, Sign-in and Registration (Martel Hall)

8:50 – 9:00 AM

Welcome Remarks (Martel Hall) – Dr. Alberto Pimpinelli, Executive Director, Smalley-Curl Institute, and Organizing Committee Chair

Oral Session 1A (Mabee Room 1070)

Session Chair: Charlotte Flatebo

9:00 - 9:15 AM

AALA*

O-1A.1 – Alessandro Alabastri, “Optically controlled electrical switching by moving atoms: a multiscale modeling approach” (co-authors A. Emboras, F. Ducry, B. Cheng, Y. Salamin, P. Ma, S. Andermatt, C. Hafner, M. Luisier, J. Leuthold, and P. Nordlander)

9:15 – 9:30 AM

BANT

O-1A.2 – Bryan Anthonio, “Light-Induced Band Gap Openings in Graphene” (co-authors W. Gao and J. Kono)

9:30 – 9:45 AM

LBIS

O-1A.3 – Logan D.C. Bishop, “Assessing the effects of adsorption site clustering for chromatographic separations” (co-authors N. A. Moringo, H. Shen, and C. F. Landes)

9:45 – 10:00 AM

MBON

O-1A.4 – Melia Bonomo, “Evolution of Modularity for Frequency-Dependent Task Performance; Application to Understanding Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer’s” (co-author M.W. Deem)

10:00 – 10:15 AM

BCER

O-1A.5 – Benjamin Cerjan, “A CMOS-Compatible Integrated IR Spectrometer” (co-author N. J. Halas)

10:15 – 10:30 AM

YCHA

O-1A.6 – Ya-Ting Chang, “Detection of antiferromagnetic order and characterizing spin-charge separation with ultracold ⁶Li in a compensated optical lattice” (co-authors T. Lin Yang, Z. Zhao, C. You Shih and R. G. Hulet)

Oral Session 1B (Pollard Room 1064)

Session Chair: Josh Hill

9:00 - 9:15 AM

DCAR

O-1B.1 – Danyel Cavazos-Cavazos, “Determination of contrast factors for cubic slip-systems and their application in the microstructural characterization of binary Fm-3m materials” (co-author F. F. Contreras Torres)

9:15 – 9:30 AM

LBUR

O-1B.2 – Luca Bursi, “Towards quantitative Quantum Nanoplasmonics” (co-authors A. Calzolari, S. Corni, E. Molinari, and P. Nordlander)

9:30 – 9:45 AM

KCHA

O-1B.3 – Kyle Chapkin, “Lifetime Characterization of Molecular Plasmons” (co-authors A. Lauchner, G. Stec, L. Bursi, Y. Cui, P. Nordlander, and N. Halas)

9:45 – 10:00 AM

CDEL

O-1B.4 – Carlos A. de los Reyes, “Chemical Decoration of Boron Nitride Nanotubes with Aliphatic Carbon Chains” (co-authors K. L. Walz-Mitra, A. D. Smith, F. Frankovsky, and A. A. Martí)

10:00 – 10:15 AM

MDEG

O-1B.5 – Matthias Degroote, “Symmetry Breaking and Restoration by Similarity Transformation” (co-authors T. Henderson, J. Gomez, M. Hermes, J. Wahlen-Strothman, E. Qiu, J. Zhao, J. Dukelsky, and G. Scuseria)

10:15 – 10:30 AM

LWAR

O-1B.6 – Lauren Warning, "Developing a single particle description of the protein corona” (co-authors Q. Zhang, K. Kapoor, S. Chatterjee, R. Baiyasi, C. Landes, S. Link)

10:30 – 10:45 AM

Break

Oral Session 2A (Mabee Room 1070)

Session Chair: Pelham Keahey

10:45 – 11:00 AM

DDEV

O-2A.1 – Didier Devaurs, “Studying Protein Structure through Hydrogen Exchange and Conformational Sampling” (co-authors D. Antunes, J. Abella, M. Moll, and L. Kavraki)

11:00 – 11:15 AM

CEVA

O-2A.2 – Charlotte I. Evans, “Quantifying Remote Heating from Propagating Surface Plasmon Polaritons” (co-authors P. Zolotavin, A. Alabastri, J. Yang, P. Nordlander, and D. Natelson)

11:15 – 11:30 AM

FKAT

O-2A.3 – Fumiya Katsutani, “Direct Observation of Cross-Polarized Excitons in Aligned Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes” (co-authors W. Gao, K. Yanagi, and J. Kono)

11:30 – 11:45 AM

VGAN

O-2A.4 – Varun Shenoy Gangoli, “Understanding Catalyst Residue Inhibition of the Functionalization of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes via Billups-Birch Reduction” (co-authors K. Zhang, D. Pham, O. Lawal, S. Ghosh, R. H. Hauge, W. W. Adams, and A. R. Barron)

11:45 – 12:00 PM

BCLA

O-2A.5 – Benjamin Clark, “Catalytic Role of Titanium in the Synthesis of Aluminum Nanocrystals” (co-authors C. DeSantis, G. Wu, A. Tsai, and N. Halas)

Oral Session 2B (Pollard Room 1064)

Session Chair: Charlotte Flatebo

10:45 – 11:00 AM

SHAN

O-2B.1 – Sangheon Han, “Ultra-small Plasmonic Nanosensors for Cancer detection” (co-authors S. Emelianov, R. Bouchard and K. Sokolov)

11:00 – 11:15 AM

THEI

O-2B.2 – Thomas Heiderscheit, “Spectral Response of Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles to Capacitive Charging: Morphology Effects” (co-authors B.Hoener, W. Chang, and S. Link)

11:15 – 11:30 AM

ZHHU

O-2B.3 – Zhiqi Hu, “Synthesis and Optoelectronic Properties for P3HT Based Conjugated Block Copolymer with Flexible Linking Groups” (co-authors J. Jakowskij, B. G. Sumpter, C. Zheng, C. J. Collison, J. W. Strzalka,and R. Verduzco)

11:30 – 11:45 AM

YHUA

O-2B.4 – Yuefei Huang, “Borophene polymorphs for visible range plasmonics – a first-principles exploration” (co-authors S. N. Shirodkar, and B. I. Yakobson)

11:45 – 12:00 PM

SHWA

O-2B.5 – Sung Hoon Hwang,“Biomimetic, Strong, Tough and Self-healing Materials from Universal Sealant-Loaded, Porous Building Blocks” (co-authors J. B. Miller and R. Shahsavari)

12:00 – 1:45 PM

Lunch and Poster Sessions (Martel Hall)

Undergraduates and Nakatani RIES Fellowship Students (UG)

RSTEM Research Experience for Undergraduates (UG-R)

RSTEM and NEWT Research Experience for Teachers (RET)

Oral Session 3A (Mabee Room 1070)

Session Chair: Pelham Keahey

1:45 – 2:00 PM

SHOS

O-3A.1 – Seyyed Ali Hosseini Jebeli, “Interactions between a palsmonic particle and transition metal coatings” (co-authors A. Joplin, E. Sung, W. Chang, and S. Link)

2:00 – 2:15 PM

YJIN

O-3A.2 – Yi Jin, “Detecting the FFLO phase in an spin-imbalanced Fermi gas” (co-authors J. A. Fry, A. L. Marchant, M. C. Revelle, and R. G. Hulet)

2:15 – 2:30 PM

RZHA

O-3A.3 – Runmin Zhang, “How to Identify Plasmons from the Optical Response of Nanostructures” (co-authors L. Bursi, J. D. Cox, Y. Cui, C. M. Krauter, A. Alabastri, A. Manjavacas, A. Calzolari, S. Corni, E. Molinari, E. A. Carter, F. J. García de Abajo, H. Zhang, and P. Nordlander)

2:30 – 2:45 PM

TTUM

O-3A.4 – Thejaswi Tumkur, “Photoinduced force mapping of plasmonic nanostructures” (co-authors X. Yang, C. Zhang, B. Cerjan, I. Thomann, P. Nordlander, and N. J. Halas)

2:45 – 3:00 PM

NMOR

O-3A.5 – Nicholas A. Moringo, “Protein transport dynamics at polymeric interfaces: A single molecule study” (co-authors H. Shen, L. J. Tauzin, W. Wang, L. D.C. Bishop, and C. F. Landes)

3:00 – 3:15 PM

PBIL

O-3A.6 – Patricia Bilbao Ergueta, “Unified Spin Model for Magnetic Excitations in Iron Chalcogenides” (co-authors W. Hu and A. H. Nevidomskyy)

Oral Session 3B (Pollard Room 1064)

Session Chair: Josh Hill

1:45 – 2:00 PM

SRAD

O-3B.1 – Sruthi Radhakrishnan, “Synthesis and properties of fluorinated h-BN” (co-authors D. Das, A. K. Singh, and P. M. Ajayan)

2:00 – 2:15 PM

HROB

O-3B.2 – Hossein Robatjazi, “Aluminum nanocrystals @ metal-organic frameworks core-shell structure: a new addition for sustainable plasmonics” (co-authors D. Weinberg, P. Nordlander, and Naomi J. Halas)

2:15 – 2:30 PM

MNSU

O-3B.3 – Man-Nung Su, “Ultrafast Dynamics of Single Aluminum Nanodisks” (co-authors P. Dongare, D. Chakraborty, Y. Zhang, C. Yi, F. Wen, W. Chang, P. J. Nordlander, J. E. Sader, N. J. Halas, and S. Link)

2:30 – 2:45 PM

BSUN

O-3B.4 – Bhuvanesh Sundar, “Synthetic dimensions in ultracold polar molecules: Quantum strings and membranes” (co-authors B. Gadway, and K. R. A. Hazzard)

2:45 – 3:00 PM

HEYU

O-3B.5 – Henry Yu, “Tilt Grain Boundary Topology Induced by Substrate Topography” (co-authors N. Gupta, Z. Hu, K. Wang, B. Srijanto, K. Xiao, D. Geohegan, and B. I. Yakobson)

3:00 – 3:15 PM

YZHE

O-3B.6 – Yu Zheng, “Quenching of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Fluorescence by Dissolved Oxygen Reveals Selective Single-Stranded DNA Affinities” (co-authors S. M. Bachilo, and R. B. Weisman)

3:15 – 3:30 PM

Break

Oral Session 4A (Mabee Room 1070)

Session Chair: Melia Bonomo

3:30 – 3:45 PM

QZHA

O-4A.1 – Qingfeng Zhang, “Mechanistic Understanding of the Formation and Evolution of the Nanoparticle Protein Corona: A Single-Particle and Single-Molecule Spectroscopic Study” (co-authors C. Landes and S. Link)

3:45 – 4:00 PM

NZAI

O-4A.2 – Nicholas G. Zaibaq, “Gadolinium-Filled Boron Nitride Nanotubes as MRI Contrast Agents” (co-authors S. E. Moghaddam, R. A. Rivera, and L. J. Wilson)

4:00 – 4:15 PM

JYAN

O-4A.3 – Jian Yang, “Plasmonic Nanoparticles Accelerate Laser Curing of Thermoset Epoxies” (co-authors A. Alabastri, A. T. Roberts, M. E. Reish, H. O. Everitt, and P. Nordlander)

4:15 – 4:30 PM

MSEM

O-4A.4 – Michael Semmlinger, “A Full-Spectrum Stretchable Plasmonic Pixel” (co-authors M. L. Tseng, J. Yang, C. Zhang, P. Nordlander, and N. J. Halas)

4:30 – 4:45 PM

SDEM

O-4A.5 – Steven M. E. Demers, “Structural Analysis by Enhanced Raman Scattering” (co-authors J. R. Matthews, C. R. Shirazinejad, G. A. Isakson and J. H. Hafner)

Oral Session 4B (Pollard Room 1064)

Session Chair: Carol Lively

3:30 – 3:45 PM

CHYI

O-4B.1 – Chongyue Yi, “Damping of Acoustic Vibrations of Gold Nanostructures” (co-authors M. Su, P. D. Dongare, D. Chakraborty, W. Chang, J. E. Sader, P. Nordlander, N. J. Halas, and S. Link)

3:45 – 4:00 PM

LMCC

O-4B.2 – Lauren A. McCarthy, “Unraveling the Structure-Function Relationship of Semi-Hollow Nanorods” (co-authors J. R. Daniel, A. Kumar, M. S. Chagnot, D. Boudreau, and E. Ringe)

4:00 – 4:15 PM

PIYU

O-4B.3 – Pingfeng Yu, “Polyvalent Bacteriophages: Emerging Opportunities to Address the Growing Challenges of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria” (co-authors J. Mathieu, and P. J.J. Alvarez)

4:15 – 4:30 PM

STIA

O-4B.4 – Shu Tian, “Aluminum Nanocrystals: a sustainable substrate for quantitative SERS-based DNA detection” (co-authors X. Yang, O. Neumann, P. Nordlander, and N. J. Halas)

4:30 – 4:45 PM

XILI

O-4B.5 – Xinwei Li, “Magnon-Crystal-Field-Transition Hybridization in ErFeO₃” (co-authors N. Yuan, Q. Zhang, S. Cao, Z. Jin, W. Ren, G. Ma, D. Turchinovich, and J. Kono)

4:45 – 5:00 PM

Break

5:00 - 5:15PM

Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Poster Session A Judging (Martel Hall)

5:15– 5:30 PM

Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Poster Session B Judging (Martel Hall)

5:30 – 7:00 PM

Reception and Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Poster Session (Martel Hall)