4th Annual SCI Summer Research Colloquium
Friday, August 10, 2018
Anne and Charles Duncan Hall, Rice University
Program Overview:
8:00 AM Breakfast and Registration, Martel Hall (main foyer of Duncan Hall)
8:45 AM Welcome Remarks, McMurtry Auditorium
9:00 AM Oral Session 1
10:30 AM Oral Session 2
12:00 PM LUNCH and Undergraduate Poster Session, Martel Hall
1:30 PM Oral Session 3
3:00 PM Oral Session 4
4:30 PM Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Poster Session I, Martel Hall
5:15 PM Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Poster Session II, Martel Hall
6:00 PM Concluding Remarks and Awards Announcement, McMurtry Auditorium
Full Program:
Link to Full Program PDF (with abstracts) online
8:00 AM Breakfast and Registration, Martel Hall (main foyer of Duncan Hall)
8:45 AM Welcome Remarks, McMurtry Auditorium
9:00 AM Oral Session 1 (McMurtry Auditorium)
Session Chair: Henry Yu
O-1.1—Alexander Al-Zubeidi, “Photo-Electrodissolution of Single Plasmonic Nanoparticles” (co-authors B.S. Hoener, S.S.E. Collins, W. Wang, S.R. Kirchner, S.A.H. Jebeli, A. Joplin, W. Chang, S. Link, and C.F. Landes)
O-1.2— Morgan Barnes, “Flat Sheets to 3D Images and Back: Programming Shape-Shifting Elastomers into Flowers, Faces and More” (co-author R. Verduzco)
O-1.3 – Logan Bishop, “Towards Predictive Chromatography: Monte Carlo Methods and Stochastic Theory for Single Proteins Interacting with a Stationary Phase” (co-authors N.A. Moringo and C.F. Landes)
O-1.4—Melia Bonomo, “Modularity and hierarchy optimize target recognition in the CRISPR-Cas immune system” (co-author M. Deem)
O-1.5 – Luca Bursi, “Universal metric for plasmonicity of excitations at the nanoscale” (co-authors R. Zhang, K.D. Chapkin, N.J. Halas, and P. Nordlander)
10:15 AM BREAK
10:30 AM Oral Session 2 (McMurtry Auditorium)
Session Chair: Alena Klindziuk
O-2.1 – Yiyu Cai, “Purcell effect enhanced inter-/intraband anti-Stokes photoluminescence from hot carriers generated in gold nanorods” (co-authors E. Sung, R. Zhang, L.J. Tauzin, J. Liu, B. Ostovar, Y. Zhang, C.F. Landes, W. Chang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link)
O-2.2 – Fumiya Katsutani, “Magnetospectroscopy of InSe up to 30 T” (co-authors A.A. Zepeda, G.T. Noe, H. Nojiri, and J. Kono)
O-2.3 – Aswathy Girija, “Trace Gas Sensing using Infrared Spectroscopy” (co-authors W. Ye, N.P. Sanchez, and F.K. Tittel)
O-2.4 – Seyyed Ali Hosseini Jebeli, “Absorption Localization in Plasmonic Heterodimers” (co-authors U. Batacherjee, W. Chang, and S. Link)
O-2.5 – Hannah Hughes, “Structural Analysis of Di4-ANEPPS in a Lipid Membrane Using Enhanced Raman Scattering” (co-authors S. Demers and J. Hafner)
11:45 AM BREAK
12:00 PM LUNCH and Undergraduate Poster Session, Martel Hall
1:30 PM Oral Session 3 (McMurtry Auditorium)
Session Chair: Hana Jaafari
O-3.1 – Charlotte Flatebo, “Electrodissolution inhibition of gold nanorods with oxoanions” (co-authors S.S.E. Collins, B.S. Hoener, Y. Cai, S. Link, C.F. Landes)
O-3.2 – David Leach, “STINGel: A Biomaterial-Based Drug Delivery Vehicle for Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy” (co-authors N. Dharmaraj, S.L. Piotrowski, T.L. Lopez-Silva, Y.L. Lei, A.G. Sikora, S. Young, J.D. Hartgerink)
O-3.3 – Duy Luong, “Laser Induced Graphene Multifunctional Composite Surface” (co-authors K. Yang, J. Yoon and J.M. Tour)
O-3.4 – Lauren McCarthy, “Observation of Trochoidal Dichroism” (co-authors K.W. Smith, A.H. Jebeli, W. Chang, S. Link)
O-3.5 – Ali Mojibpour, “Photon Emission by Inelastic Tunneling in Plasmonic Junctions” (co-author P. Bharadwaj)
2:45 PM BREAK
3:00 PM Oral Session 4 (McMurtry Auditorium)
Session Chair: Melia Bonomo
O-4.1 – Adithya Pediredla, “Elliptic path sampling for Time-of-flight rendering” (co-authors A. Veeraraghavan and I. Gkioulekas)
O-4.2 – Dayne Swearer, “Plasmon-Assisted Ammonia Formation via Chemical Looping” (co-authors N.R. Knowles and N.J. Halas)
O-4.3 – Lauren Taylor, “Washable ECG Electrodes from Sewn High Performance Carbon Nanotube Fibers” (co-authors E.A. Bengio, O.S. Dewey, F. Vitale, S.M. Williams, J.S. Yan, and M. Pasquali)
O-4.4 – Lauren Warning, “Probing interfacial bovine serum albumin unfolding with single molecule high resolution imaging with photobleaching” (co-authors R. Baiyasi, Q. Zhang, S. Chatterjee, N. Moringo, J. Tauzin, C.F. Landes, and S. Link)
O-4.5 – Yibo Xu, “Compressive Hyperspectral Microscopy of Nanomaterials” (co-authors A. Giljum, E. Ringe, and K.F. Kelly)
4:15 PM BREAK
4:30 PM Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Poster Session A, Martel Hall
5:15 PM Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Poster Session B, Martel Hall
6:00 PM Concluding Remarks and Awards Announcement, McMurtry Auditorium