Technical Program

Date: Friday, May 25^th 2018

Location: Bourns Hall A265

Time: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm

Technical Program:

08:30 – 9:00 am Registration & Breakfast

09:00 – 9:15 am Welcome Address, Dr. Sharon Walker

09:15 – 10:00 am Invited Speaker: Dr. Derek Dunn-Rankin (Description & Bio)

10:00 – 10:10 am Coffee Break

10:10 – 10:50 am Student Presentations (Fluids & Heat Transfer)

10:10 - 10:30 Ariana Sabzeghabae - The Effect of Surface Tension on Cavitation Bubble Dynamics

10:30 - 10:50 Masoud Ghasemian - Numerical Modeling of Stirred Bioreactor for Stem Cell Culture Application

10:50 – 11:10 am Coffee Break

11:10 – 12:00 am Invited Speaker: Dr. Timothy S. Fisher (Description & Bio)

12:00 – 1:00 pm Working Lunch & Alumni Panel

01:00 – 1:40 pm Student Presentations (Controls and Synthetic Biology)

01:00 - 01:20 Tommaso Menara - Cluster Synchronization in Networks of Kuramoto Oscillators

for the Analysis of Functional Connectivity in the Human Brain

01:20 - 01:40 Siddharth Agarwal - Control systems and Synthetic biology

01:40 – 2:30 pm Student Poster Session

02:30 – 03:50 pm Student Presentations (Materials)

02:30 - 02:50 Nicholas Derimow - High-Entropy Alloys: Understanding Liquid Phase Separation and Dendritic Growth

02:50 - 03:10 Seyed Aria Hosseini - Thermoelectric model of nanoengineered bulk Silicon for high temperature applications

03:10 - 03:30 Samantha Corber - Isotropic Profile Control in Titanium Deep Reactive Ion Etching of Drug Delivery Systems

03:30 - 03:50 Paul Lou - Spin Seebeck effect and thermal spin-orbit torque in Ni80Fe20/p-Si bilayers

03:50 – 4:00 pm Short Break

04:00 – 4:30 pm Closing Remarks and Awards