| Note: Full program with abstracts available here (PDF) | |||
| Program Overview: | |||
| 8:00 AM | Arrival, set-up, breakfast and coffee | ||
| 8:30 AM | Opening Remarks | ||
| 8:45 AM | Faculty Keynote Talk, Dr. Aditya Mohite | Halide perovskites: A new class of semiconductors with emergent properties | |
| MORNING SESSION I (12-minute talks) | Session Chair: Thasneem Banu Frousnoon | ||
| 9:15 AM | M1 | Martin Bell (Applied Physics) | The Rotating Magnetocaloric Effect as a Mechanism for Natural Magnetosensation |
| 9:27 AM | M2 | Amit Jain (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) | Selective Removal of Harmful Ionic Contaminants From Water |
| 9:39 AM | M3 | Benjamin Clark (Chemistry) | Chemical Synthesis of Aluminum Nanocubes |
| 9:51 AM | M4 | Carlos Origel (BioSciences) | Development of a chromosome-integrated genetic orthogonal network for monitoring the unfolded protein response |
| 10:03 AM | M5 | Chayan Dutta (Chemistry) | Superresolution (fcsSOFI) Imaging of Porous Polymer Support and Active Control of Protein Dynamics |
| 10:15 AM | BREAK - VOTE | ||
| MORNING SESSION II (5-minute talks) | Session Chair: Alberto Pimpinelli | ||
| 10:20 AM | M6 | Christopher Sylvester (Bioengineering) | Developing 3-dimensional vascular co-cultures to model atherosclerotic progression after radiation therapy |
| 10:25 AM | M7 | Douglas Walker (Chemistry) | Computational Design for Structural Control of Collagen Mimetic Peptides |
| 10:30 AM | M9 | Henry Yu (Applied Physics) | Plate Theory for 2D Crystal Flakes on Curved Surfaces |
| 10:35 AM | M9 | Esther Lou (Civil and Environmental Engineering) | Evaluating the Fate of Antibiotic Resistance in An AnMBR |
| 10:40 AM | M10 | Hassan Javed (Chemistry) | Efficient Removal of Bisphenol-A by Ultra-High Surface Area Porous Activated Carbon Derived from Asphalt |
| 10:45 AM | BREAK - VOTE | ||
| MORNING SESSION III (12-minute talks) | Session Chair: Anthony Giljum | ||
| 11:00 AM | M11 | Hao Mei (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) | Surface segregation of mixed side-chain bottlebrush polymer additives in thin film blends |
| 11:12 AM | M12 | Yu Zheng (Chemistry) | Controlled Patterning of Carbon Nanotube Energy Levels by Covalent DNA Functionalization |
| 11:24 AM | M13 | Abhinav Verma (Computer Science) | Verifiable and Interpretable Machine Learning through Program Synthesis |
| 11:36 AM | M14 | Danielle Perdue (Mechanical Engineering) | Exergetic Relationship between the Thermal Properties of Direct Contact Membrane Distillation |
| 11:48 AM | M15 | Sara Nizzero (Applied Physics) | Unraveling synergistic biological transport barriers for injectable inorganic delivery systems |
| 12:00 PM | BREAK - VOTE | ||
| BREAK FOR LUNCH | |||
| 1:00 PM | Faculty Keynote Talk, Dr. Jacob Robinson | Small, Smart, and Connected: Distributed neurotechnology for regulating physiological states | |
| AFTERNOON SESSION I (5-minute talks) Session Chair: Joseph Young | |||
| 1:30 PM | A16 | Sakib Hassan | Efficiency Limit of Far- and Near-field Thermophotovoltaic Energy Conversion |
| 1:35 PM | A17 | Melia Bonomo (Applied Physics) | Modularity and Flexibility Quantify Unique Perceptions of Music and Speech in the Human Brain |
| 1:40 PM | A18 | Lauren McCarthy (Chemistry) | The Observation of Trochoidal Dichroism |
| 1:45 PM | A19 | Jordin Metz (Chemistry) | Extreme Heating at the Nanoscale |
| 1:50 PM | BREAK - VOTE | ||
| AFTERNOON SESSION II (12-minute talks) Session Chair: Melia Bonomo | |||
| 2:00 PM | A20 | Sean Bittner (Bioengineering) | 3D Printed Dual Vertical Gradient Scaffolds for Bone and Osteochondral Tissue Engineering |
| 2:12 PM | A21 | Weijian Li (Electrical and Computer Engineering) | Tunable optical properties of 1T-TaS2: a room temperature Charge Density Wave material |
| 2:24 PM | A22 | Yilin Li (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) | Energy-harvesting windows utilizing dielectric nanoparticles |
| 2:36 PM | A23 | Yiyu Cai (Chemistry) | Photoluminescence from single copper nanocubes |
| 2:48 PM | A24 | Ian Cone (Applied Physics) | A Circuit Model for Sequence Learning |
| 3:00 PM | BREAK - VOTE | ||
| AFTERNOON SESSION III (5-minute talks) Session Chair: Melia Bonomo | |||
| 3:10 PM | A25 | Thasneem Banu Frousnoon (Chemistry) | Completion of characterization of OSCs of Solanum lycopersicum and comparison to metabolomics to understand the site of action of triterpenes in the plant |
| 3:15 PM | A26 | Ashleigh Smith McWilliams (Chemistry) | Fluorescent Surfactant for Real-Time Visualization and Dynamics Studies of Boron Nitride Nanotubes |
| 3:20 PM | A27 | Kedar Joshi (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) | The dynamics of colloidal chain inside a spherical cavity |
| 3:25 PM | A28 | Zach LaTurner (Civil and Environmental Engineering) | Two stage process for the production of single cell protein by purple phototrophic bacteria from food waste |
| 3:30 PM | BREAK - VOTE | ||
| AFTERNOON SESSION IV (5-minute talks) Session Chair: Thasneem Banu Frousnoon | |||
| 3:45 PM | A29 | Arash Ahmadivand (Physics and Astronomy) | Toroidal Dipole-Enhanced Third Harmonic Generation of Deep Ultraviolet Light using Plasmonic Meta-Atoms |
| 3:50 PM | A30 | Rashad Baiyasi (Electrical and Computer Engineering) | PSF Distortion in Dye Ð Plasmonic Nanomaterial Interactions: Friend or Foe? |
| 3:55 PM | A31 | Katherinne Isabel Requejo Roque (Chemistry) | High yield synthesis and surface modification of small gold nanoplates |
| 4:00 PM | A32 | Carlos de los Reyes (Chemistry) | Chemical Decoration of Boron Nitride Nanotubes via Reductive Chemistry |
| 4:05 PM | A33 | Pratiksha Dongare (Applied Physics) | Efficiency Enhancement of Solar Photothermal Processes with Photon Flux Redistribution |
| 4:10 PM | BREAK - VOTE | ||
| 4:15 PM | NETWORKING RECEPTION | ||
| 5:00 PM | AWARDS CEREMONY | ||
| 5:30 PM | CONCLUSION | ||