The 5th Annual SCI Transdisciplinary Symposium took place on Friday, February 14, 2020.
Full Program
| SCI Transdisciplinary Symposium - Feb 14, 2020 | ||||||
| Name | Dept | Talk Title | ||||
| 9:00 AM | Arrival, set-up, breakfast and coffee | |||||
| 9:00 AM | Registration | |||||
| 9:30 AM | Opening Remarks | |||||
| 9:45 - 10:30 AM | Faculty Keynote Talk (Dr. Fred Mackintosh) | |||||
| MORNING SESSION I | ||||||
| 10:30 AM | M1 | 5 min | Joshua Hill | Applied Physics - Physics | Photoassociation of Fermionic 87Sr via the 1S0 - 1P1 Transition | |
| 10:36 AM | M2 | 5 min | Charlotte Flatebo | Applied Physics | Heterogeneity in the optical response of hybrid stimuli-responsive polymeric-plasmonic nanomaterials | |
| 10:42 AM | M3 | 5 min | Mollie Smoak | Bioengineering | Development of Electrospun Decellularized Muscle-derived Scaffolds with Tunable Physicochemical Properties for Tissue Engineering Applications | |
| 10:48 AM | M4 | 5 min | Alyssa Shapiro | Bioengineering | SpecDX: A low-cost, rapid diagnostic tool for bilirubin and pH measurement in newborn blood | |
| 10:54 AM | M5 | 5 min | Alexander Al-Zubeidi | Chemistry | Understanding Silver Release from Alloy Nanoparticles for Anti-Bacterial Applications | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | BREAK - VOTE | |||||
| MORNING SESSION II | ||||||
| 11:15 AM | M6 | 12 min | Alena Klindziuk | Applied Physics | Mechanochemical Model of Transcriptional Bursting | |
| 11:27 AM | M7 | 12 min | Emily Searles | Chemistry | Light Absorption and Energy Conversion in Plasmonic-Polymeric Hybrid Nanomaterials | |
| 11:39 AM | M8 | 12 min | Anthony Giljum | Applied Physics | Real-Time Object Tracking and Classification with a 1-Pixel Camera | |
| 11:51 PM | M9 | 12 min | Ang Li | Bioengineering | AAV-CRISPR gene editing is negated by pre-existing immunity to Cas9 | |
| 12:03 PM | M10 | 12 min | Sean Bittner | Bioengineering | 3D Printed Multilayered Hydrogel/Microcarrier Scaffolds for Osteochondral Tissue Repair | |
| 12:15 PM | M11 | 12 min | Nicolas Marquez Peraca | Physics and Astronomy | Possible Magnetic Superradiant Phase Transition in ErFeO3: Terahertz Spectroscopy Evidence | |
| 12:30- 12:45 | BREAK - VOTE | |||||
| 12:45-1:40 | LUNCH | |||||
| 1:40 - 2:10 | Faculty Keynote Talk (Dr. Matt Jones) | |||||
| AFTERNOON SESSION I | ||||||
| 2:10 PM | A12 | 5 min | Melia Bonomo | Applied Physics | Modularity allows classification of human brain networks during music and speech perception | |
| 2:15 PM | A13 | 5 min | Katie Hogan | Bioengineering | Development of Decellularized Cartilage Extracellular Matrix Bioink | |
| 2:20 PM | A14 | 5 min | Logan Bishop | Chemistry | Unraveling asymmetric trends in chromatography through stochastic theory powered Monte Carlo simulations | |
| 2:25 PM | A15 | 5 min | Lauren McCarthy | Chemistry | Exploring Evanescent Field Polarization Sensitivity of Gold Nanorod Dimers | |
| 2:30 PM | A16 | 5 min | Seth Coleman | Applied Physics | The biophysics of cellular counting: uncovering how viral copy number drives cell-fate decision | |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | BREAK - VOTE | |||||
| AFTERNOON SESSION II | ||||||
| 3:00 PM | A17 | 12 min | Jordan Shivers | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Compression-stiffening of semiflexible polymer networks with stiff inclusions | |
| 3:12 PM | A18 | 12 min | Nicholas Charron | Physics and Astronomy | Developing Transferable Coarse Grain Protein Force Fields for High Throughput Screening | |
| 3:24 PM | A19 | 12 min | Lauren Warning | Chemistry | Nanoscale Surface-induced Unforlding of Single Fibronectin is Restricted by Serum Albumin | |
| 3:36 PM | A20 | 12 min | Weidi Liu | Applied Physics | Compressive Multirate Classification via Learned Secants | |
| 3:48 PM | A21 | 12 min | Danyel Cavazos-Cavazos | Physics and Astronomy | Spin-charge separation in a 1D 6Li Fermi gas | |
| 4:00 PM | A22 | 12 min | Natsumi Komatsu | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Groove-Assisted Global Spontaneous Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes in Vacuum Filtration | |
| 4:12 PM | BREAK - VOTE | |||||
| 4:15 PM | NETWORKING RECEPTION | |||||
| 5:00 PM | AWARDS CEREMONY | |||||
| 5:30 PM | CONCLUSION | |||||
Online registration is closed. Please register on site this Friday.
We are looking forward to another successful Symposium!

