 UW-Madison MRSEC |
2nd Midwest Inter-MRSEC Symposium - Agenda |
| 7:30 am | Breakfast | 3609 Engineering Hall |
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| 8:30 am | University of Minnesota Professor Dan Frisbie |
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| 9:00 am | Pentacene Monolayer X-ray Diffraction Sandy Fritz |
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| 9:20 am | Top Contact Field Effect Conductance and Activation Energy
Studies of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Jeff Merlo |
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| 9:40 am | Contact Effects in Pentacene Transistors Paul Pesavento |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:20 am | University of Chicago Prof. Philippe Guyot- Sionnest |
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| 10:40 am | Au/Ag Core/Shell Nanorods, Synthesis and Optical Characterization Mingzhao Liu |
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| 11:10 am | Conduction Through Gold Nanocrystal Arrays Klara Elteto |
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| 11:30 am | Insights Into Self-Assembled Monolayer Dynamics Aaron Rosenbaum |
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| 11:50 am | Lunch | 1413 Engineering Hall |
| *Room change for afternoon presentations * | 1610 Engineering Hall | |
| 1:00 pm | Northwestern University Equilibrium Phase Behavior and Interfacial Activity of Gradient Copolymers Professor Ken Shull |
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| 1:30 pm | Contact Mechanics and Interfacial Interactions in Thin Polymer Films Rachel McSwain |
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| 1:50 pm | Synthesis and Properties of Norbornene-Based Gradient Copolymers via
Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization Christine Dettmer |
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| 2:10 pm | The Glass Transition in Nanoconfined Polymer: Influence of Interfacial
Effects and New Connections to the Role of Cooperative Dynamics Christopher Ellison |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |
| 2:50 pm | University of Wisconsin Paul Nealey |
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| 3:20 pm | Chemical and Photo-Induced Changes in Nanotube Conductance Matthew Marcus |
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| 3:40 pm | Nanowires and Nanotubes for Biological Sensing Sarah Baker |
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| 4:00 pm | Structural and Electrical Probes for Monolayer-Sale Transistors Assistant Professor Paul Evans |
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| 5:00 pm | Poster Session | 1413 Engineering Hall |
| 6:00 pm | Drive to Dinner at "Imperial Garden Restaurant" |
