Graduate Portfolio Program Research Colloquium

Portfolio Student Presentations
Wednesday December 5 , 2007, 12:00pm, NST 1.104

Hongki Min - "Pseudospin Magnetism in Graphene"

Ted Gaubert - "NOBIL and its Applications for Studying Nanoscale Cell Surface Interactions"

Samaresh Guchhait - "Group IV Magnetic Semiconductor Alloys"

Arvind Battula - "Optical Near-Field Enhancement for Submicron Patterning and Plasmonic Optical Devices"

Yaoyu Pang - "Surface Evolution and Self Assembly of Epitaxial Thin Films: Nonlinear and Anisotropic Effects"

SPRING 2007

And the winner is...

Doh Chang Lee, a Ph.D. Candidate working with Professor Brian Korgel in Chemical Engineering, has won the Portfolio Program Best Presentation Award for his presentation "Synthesis and Magnetic Properties of SiO2-encapsulated FePt Nanocrystals" at the Graduate Portfolio Program Research Colloquium on April 18, 2007. Graduating Students of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Graduate Portfolio Program present their research at the Portfolio Program Research Colloquium every semester. Mr. Lee’s presentation was chosen from the fourteen graduating students of the portfolio program who presented their research at the Colloquium held April 18th, 2007 in NST 1.104. Mr. Lee’s award includes a $500 first prize. Forrest Davidson of Chemical Engineering won the inaugural prize in the Fall semester of 2006.

Here is a list of this year’s Portfolio Program Research Colloquium speakers:

Time	Speakers
12:00PM-12:15PM	Doh Lee, PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering *Winner* “Synthesis and Magnetic Properties of SiO2-encapsulated FePt nanocrystals”
12:15PM -12:30PM	Hsing-Yu Tuan, PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering “Synthesis and Characterization of Silicon and Germanium Nanowires and Straight and Coiled Silica Nanotubes”
12:30PM - 12:45PM	Wei-Shun Chang, PhD Candidate, Chemistry & Biochemistry “Conformation and Alignment of Single Conjugated Polymer Molecules in a Liquid Crystal”
12:45PM -1:00PM	Yining Zeng, PhD Candidate, Chemistry & Biochemistry “Non-Two-State Kinetics in the Nucleocapsid Protein Chaperoned Dynamics of DNA Hairpins”
1:00PM -1:15PM	Lynn Rozanski, PhD Candidate, Chemistry & Biochemistry “Excimer-emission in Di-alkyl Poly(p-phenylene)ethynylenes”
1:15PM -1:30PM	Catherine Kitts, PhD Candidate, Chemistry & Biochemistry “The effect of solvent quality on the chain morphology in solutions of poly (9,9' dioctylfluorene)”
1:30PM -1:45PM	Joyce Wei, PhD Candidate, Chemistry & Biochemistry “Single-Molecule Studies of Polymer Rotational Dynamics”
1:45PM -2:00PM	Yaroslav Urzhumov, PhD Candidate, Physics “Engineering Optical Metamaterials and Metafluids”
2:00PM -2:15PM	Coffee Break
2:15PM - 2:30PM	Debarshi Basu, PhD Candidate, Electrical & Computer Engineering “Electronic time-of-flight measurement of charge carrier mobility in a polymer field effect transistor”
2:30PM -2:45PM	Dewei Xu, PhD Candidate, Aerospace Eng. & Eng. Mechanics “A Quantitative Analysis and Observation of Quantized Shear Strength For Van Der Waals Friction”
2:45PM - 3:00PM	James Dat Ma, PhD Candidate, Materials Science & Engineering “Laser Processing of Magnetostrictive Terfenol-D”
3:00PM - 3:15PM	Andre Albert, PhD Candidate, Materials Science & Engineering “Properties of Nanostructured Ag Produced by LAMA”
3:15PM - 3:30PM	Bongsu Jung, PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering “Carbon Based Template-Stripping Method in Ultraflat Nanosphere Lithography for Highly Elongated Non-Spherical Metal Nanoparticle Surface Plasmon Sensor”
3:30PM -3:45PM	Cristal Glangchai, PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering “Commercializing NANOTaxi: A Nano-imprinted Drug Delivery System”
Click here for abstracts.