Schedule

2023 Southern California Users of Magnets (SCUM) Meeting (PDF version)

Date:  September 30, 2023, Saturday

Location:  Mudd Building (SGM101), USC campus

* Invited talk: 30 min (25 min for talk + 5 min for questions)

* Contributed talk: 15 min (13 min for talk + 2 min for questions)

Conference Program

9:30 – 10:10 AM: Conference check-in

10:10 – 10:15 AM: Meeting opening

Session 1: Oral Session (Chair: Susumu Takahashi)

10:15 – 10:45 AM: Stuart Brown, Physics, UCLA,

“Uniaxial pressure as a control parameter in condensed matter NMR”

10:45 – 11:00 AM: Mohamad Niknam, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA,

”Application of Molecular Dynamics simulation in modeling NMR line-shape”

11:00 – 11:15 AM: Ana Gurgenidze, Chemistry, USC,

“Computational study of molecular properties under hydrostatic pressure”

11:15 – 11:45 AM: Li Gao, Physics, CSU Northridge,

“Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Surfaces”  

11:45 – 12:00 PM: Michael Coumans, Chemistry, USC,

“Development of Double Split Ring Resonator Meta-Atom for EPR and ODMR at 115 GHz”

12:00 – 1:15 PM: Lunch

Session 2: Oral Session (Chair: Yuhang Ren)

1:15 – 1:45 PM: Louis-S. Bouchard, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA,

“CISS: Exploring Electron-Mediated Spin-Spin Coupling in Chiral Molecules”

1:45 – 2:00 PM: Krishna Chaudhary, Pitzer College, 

“Effects of solvent polarity on the amide rotational barrier of picolinamide”

2:00 – 2:30 PM: Peter Qin, Chemistry, USC,

“Conformational Checkpoints Regulating CRISPR Target Discrimination Revealed by Site-Directed Spin Labeling”

2:30 – 2:45 PM: Anna De Angelis, Salk, 

“Solid state NMR of Suberin”

2:45 – 3:00 PM: Xun Sun, Scripps Research,

“Probing the dissociation pathway of a kinetically labile transthyretin mutant” 

3:00 – 3:20 PM: Coffee Break

Session 3: Oral Session (Chair: Artur Pambukhchyan)

3:20 – 3:50 PM: Kent Griffith, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSD,

“Unusual Crystal Chemistry in High-rate Battery Electrodes via 23Na NMR and DFT”

3:50 – 4:05 PM: Christopher Williams, UCR, 

“NMR Crystallography of Toho-1 β-Lactamase Enabled by Nearly Complete Backbone and Sidechain Assignments”

4:05 – 4:20 PM: Ansgar Siemer, Medical Biophysics, USC,

“Dynamic framing sequences of amyloid proteins”

Session 4: Poster Session and Award Ceremony

4:20 – 5:50 PM: Poster Presentations (List of Poster Titles & Presenters)

5:50 – 6:00 PM: Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks