SESSION I
NANOSTRUCTURES

9:30 am - Donald Telesca Jr., Fairfield University
"Template Synthesis & Scanning Probe Microscopy of Advanced Nanostructured Materials"
Professor David Adams, mentor

9:50 am - Christopher Di Marco, Cornell University
"The Self-Arrangement of Nano-Sized Polystyrene Particles"
Professor Siu-Wai Chan, mentor

10:10 am - Elizabeth Hamon, Dartmouth College
"Studies of TiO2 and CdSe Nanoparticles"
Professor Louis Brus, mentor

10:30 am - Jonathan Hodges, Columbia University
"The Creation, Coating and Characterization of Silica Nanoparticles"
Professor Christopher Durning, mentor

10:50 am - BREAK

SESSION II
OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL INTERACTIONS

11:10am - Kareen Riviere, Brown University
"Steps Toward Making Fluorescent Gold Nanoparticles"
Professor Rastislav Levicky, mentor

11:30 am - James Munro, Middlebury College
"Ellipsometric Studies of ZnBeSe and Porous SiC"
Professor Irving P. Herman, mentor

11:50 am - Kofi Boakye, Princeton University
"The Characterization of Ultrashort Electromagnetic Transients"
Professor Tony Heinz, mentor

12:15 pm - LUNC

SESSION III
PROCESSING

1:15 pm - Sasha Bakhru, Columbia University
"The Fabrication and Evaluation of Novel Microfluidic Systems in Polymers"
Professor Richard M. Osgood Jr. and Dr. James Yardley, mentors

1:35 pm - Christin Drake, New York University
"The Kinetics of Polymer Membrane Precipitation"
Professor Jim Thomas, mentor

1:55 pm - Nicole Repetto, Lehigh University
"Lateral Growth in Copper Thin Films"
Professor James Im, mentor

2:15 pm - BREAK

SESSION IV
SURFACES AND INTERFACES

2:30 pm - Kirsten Griffiths, Clarkson University
"CFCs and Zeolites: Investigating the Solid-Liquid Interface"
Professor Nicholas J. Turro, mentor

2:50 pm - Joshua Hoerner, Hobart and William Smith College
"Patterning of Biological Ligands on Polymeric Surfaces"
Professor Jeffrey Koberstein, mentor

3:10 pm - Ryan Karchner, Bucknell University
"Atomic Force Microscopy of Self-Assembled Generation Nine Polyamidoamine Dendrimers at the Solid-Liquid Interface"
Professor George Flynn, mentor

3:30 pm - PRESENTATIONS END