9:30 am - Melinda Cushing, Colorado College
"STM Studies of Functionalized Hydrocarbons on Gold"
Professor George Flynn, mentor

9:50 am - Crystal Toppin, Hampton University
"The Effects of NaCl and R6G Concentrations on SERS Absorbance Spectra"
Professor Louis Brus, mentor

10:10 am - George Maltezos, Columbia University
"Probing Crystal Surfaces in Ultra High Vacuum"
Professor Tony Heinz, mentor

10:30 am - Anthony Ndirango, Williams College/Cal Tech
"A Theoretical Investigation of Charged Nanoparticle Adsorption on a Planar Conducting Surface"
Professor Ben O'Shaughnessy, mentor

10:50 am - BREAK

SESSION II
OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL INTERACTIONS

11:10am - Jason Midkiff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
"Computer Simulations of Laser Crystallized Silicon Thin Films"
Professor James Im, mentor

11:30 am - Robert Radford, Morehouse College
"Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses"
Professor Tony Heinz, mentor

11:50 am - Pablo Goldenzweig, SUNY Binghamton
"Measurement of the Dielectric Function of Porous SiC Using Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy"
Professor Irving P. Herman, mentor

12:15 pm - LUNCH

SESSION III
PROCESSING

1:15 pm - Brandi Henderson, Southern University A&M
"Macroradicals in Free Radical Polymerization"
Professor Nicholas Turro, mentor

1:35 pm - Christopher DiCaprio, Cornell University
"The Effect of Ion Implantation on Titanium Indiffused Lithium Niobate Waveguides"
Professor Richard M. Osgood, mentor

1:55 pm - Elliot Doomes, Morehouse College
"Modeling Optical Actinometry and Processing Reactors"
Professor Irving P. Herman, mentor

2:15 pm - BREAK

SESSION IV
NANOSTRUCTURES

2:30 pm - Matthew McCann, New York University
"Towards the Synthesis and Characterization of an Ordered Gold-Alkylthiol Array on Mesoporous Silica"
Professor Louis Brus, mentor

2:50 pm - Stacy Sellberg, Columbia University
"The Synthesis of Monodisperse, Spherical Silica Nanoparticles"
Professor Christopher Durning, mentor

3:10 pm - Michael Grey, Hofstra University
"Acid-based Properties of Poly(amido-amine) Dendrimers"
Professor Jim Thomas, mentor

3:30 pm - PRESENTATIONS END