Fourth Year Symposium

Symposium Schedule 

8:30–9:00 AM Breakfast

Opening Session

9:00–9:10 AM Opening Remarks

9:10–9:30 AM Keynote Speaker: Benson Tsai

Session 1: Electrochemistry and Energy

Chairs: Vito Canuso and Micah Crook

9:30–9:45 AM

Owen Watkins (Advisor: Jane Chang)

Enabling Anisotropic and Selective Etching of Ru Through Surface Modification

9:45–10:00 AM

Coco Lin (Advisor: Jane Chang)

Investigation of CFₓ Plasmas to Replace Hydrofluorocarbon in Dielectric Etching

10:00–10:15 AM

Jiayi Yu (Advisor: Yuzhang Li)

Battery smart sensing via virtual reference electrodes

10:15–10:30 AM

Bo Liu (Advisor: Yuzhang Li)

A quantitative figure of merit for battery SEI films and their use as functional solid-state electrolytes

10:30–11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00–11:15 AM

Daniel Katz (Advisor: Carissa Eisler)

Highly-reflective Solution-processed Photonic Crystals: Leveraging Scalable Thin Film Deposition Techniques for Efficient Solar Concentrators

11:15–11:30 AM

Brendan Russ (Advisor: Carissa Eisler)

Intrinsic Uncertainties and Inaccuracies in Indirect Transition Dipole Moment Alignment Measurements

11:30–11:45 AM

Mounika Dudala (Advisor: Carissa Eisler)

Orienting the light emissions from perovskite nanocrystals by synthesizing low-dimensional (1-D,2-D) structures, encapsulation of CsPbBr₃@SiO₂ and attachment of SiO₂ with CsPbBr

11:45–1:30 PM Lunch

Session 2: Bioengineering and Polymer Science

Chair: Emma Salvestrini 

1:30–1:45 PM

Shelby Vexler (Advisor: Chen)

M13-Bacteriophage as an Antimicrobial Polymer Delivery Platform

1:45–2:00 PM

Chunsheng Yan (Advisor: Yi Tang)

Genome Mining from Agriculturally Relevant Fungi Led to a D-Glucose Esterified Polyketide with a Terpene-like Core Structure

2:00–2:15 PM

Samantha O'Keeffe (Advisor: Junyoung Park)

Ensemble Absolute Metabolite Quantitation Reveals Conserved Features of Immunometabolism

2:15–2:30 PM

Fahed Albreiki (Advisor: Samanvaya Srivastava)

Biomimetic Block Polycatechols Form Robust Wet Adhesives

2:30–2:45 PM

Abner Abad (Advisor: Yi Tang)

Genome Mining for the Discovery and Biosynthesis of New Natural Products 

2:45–3:15 PM Coffee Break

Session 3: Modeling and Catalysis

Chair: Mike Donahue 

3:15–3:30 PM

Claire Love (Advisor: Joseph Peterson)

Predictions of Viscoelastic Instability for a Sedimenting Sphere

3:30–3:45 PM

Dongfang Cheng (Advisor: Philippe Sautet)

The surface dynamics of Cu in electrodeposition conditions and its impact on catalytic performance

3:45–4:00 PM

Xihan Liu (Advisor: Philippe Sautet)

Unraveling the Kinetics of Hydride Formation and Decomposition

4:00–4:15 PM

Henrik Wang (Advisor: Panagiotis Christofides)

Data-Driven Endpoint Feedback Predictor for Optimal Operation of a Thermal Atomic Layer Etching Reactor

4:15–4:30 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM Closing Remarks and Award Ceremony

Lunch and refreshments will be provided for speakers and guests and there will be an open bar mixer at the end. 

Hope to see you all there!

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