Summer Research Colloquium

August 3, 2012, McMurtry Auditorium and Martel Hall

Schedule:

~~~~~~~ Oral Session 1 (Post-docs) ~~~~~~~

09:00 - 09:15        Zheyu Fang, "Graphene-Antenna Sandwich Photodetector"
09:15 - 09:30        Ji-Hee Kim, "Cooperative Superfluorescent Phenomena from Dense Electron-hole Magneto-plasma under High Magnetic Fields"
09:30 - 09:45        Joseph Herzog, "Polarization Studies of Surface Enhanced Raman and Fluorescence in Self-Aligned Nanojunctions"
09:45 - 10:00        Aniruddha Paul, "Estimation of Surface Plasmon Polariton Propagation in Gold Nanowires by Fluorescence-Based Far-Field Microscopy"
10:00 - 10:15        Sebastien Nanot, "Large Area, Broadband, and Polarization-Sensitive Photodetector Based on Macroscopically-long and Aligned Carbon Nanotubes"

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10:15 - 10:30        Coffee Break
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~~~ Oral Session 2 (Graduate Students) ~~~

10:30 - 10:45        Mark Knight, "Hot Electron Plasmonics"
10:45 - 11:00        Kimberly Reichel, "THz Energy Coupling Between Parallel-Plate Waveguides"
11:00 - 11:15        Corey Slavonic, "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Topological Insulators"
11:15 - 11:30        Yang Cao, "Plasmon Hybridization on "Bumpy" Nanoparticles"
11:30 - 11:45        Lingjie Du, "Superconductor-Quantum Spin Hall Insulator Junctions"

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11:45 - 13:30        Undergraduate Poster Session + Lunch
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~~~ Oral Session 3 (Graduate Students) ~~~

13:30 - 13:45        Nathaniel Hogan, "Supersymmetric Langevin Dynamics"
13:45 - 14:00        Jie Shu, "Mid-infrared Fano Resonance in Metallic Concentric Ring Apertures"
14:00 - 14:15        Pattanawit Swanglap, "Spiky Gold Nanoshells: Synthesis and Enhanced Scattering Properties"
14:15 - 14:30        Chih-Chau Hwang, "Highly Stable Carbon Nanoparticles Designed for Downhole Hydrocarbon Detection"
14:30 - 14:45        David W. Tam, "Atomic Traffic Jams: Why We Study One-Dimensional Quantum Fluids"


~~~ Oral Session 4 (Graduate Students) ~~~

14:45 - 15:00        Kenneth Evans, "Nanocrystal-Based Optoelectronic Devices"
15:00 - 15:15        Tim Noe, "Time-Resolved Spectroscopy in a Pulsed Magnetic Field using a Mini-Coil Pulsed Magnet"
15:15 - 15:30        Liang Zhao, "Type-I Superconductivity in Ytterbium Diantimonide"
15:30 - 15:45        Jason K. Streit, "Polydisperse Fluorescence Quantum Yields of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes"
15:45 - 16:00        Pedro M. Duarte "Quantum Simulations with Ultracold Fermionic Atoms in an Optical Lattice"
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16:00 - 16:15        Coffee Break
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~~~ Oral Session 5 (Graduate Students) ~~~

16:15 - 16:30        Fangfang Wen, "Three-Dimensional Optical Nanocircuits as Tuning Elements for an Optical Nanoantenna"
16:30 - 16:45        Karthik Uppulury, "How the Interplay between Mechanical and Non-mechanical Interactions Affects Multiple Kinesin Dynamics"
16:45 - 17:00        Courtney Payne, "Synthesis and Characterization of Gold Nanobelts and Related Plasmonic Structures"
17:00 - 17:15        Evan J. Olson, "Predictive Control of an Engineered Optogenetic Signaling Pathway in E. coli"
17:15 - 17:30        David Solis, "Electromagnetic Energy Transport in Nanoparticle Chains via Dark Plasmon Modes"

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17:30 - 19:30        Graduate Student & Post-doc Poster Session + Reception.
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