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Congratulations to the Students in our 2001 Summer Program!
    

 
2001 REU Picnic - on Monday, July 23, 2001 in Riverside Park



Program of the
2001 MRSEC REU SUMMER PROGRAM RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
Friday, August 3, 2001
Davis Auditorium, Schapiro CEPSR
Columbia University

SESSION I
NANOSTRUCTURES
9:30 am - Cynthia Heiner, University of New Hampshire
"Rayleigh Scattering and Correlated Atomic Force Microscopy Images of J-Aggregates"
Professor Louis Brus, mentor

9:50 am - Christene Banda, Lehigh University
"A Kinetic Study of Na-Alginate Beads"
Professor James Thomas, mentor

10:10 am - Kristen Pappacena, Carnegie Mellon University
"Chemical Modification of Gold Nanoparticles and TEM Image Analysis of their Behavior in Polymers"
Professor Rastislav Levicky, mentor

10:30 am - Mary Laura Lind, Yale University
"Polymeric Microstructures: Artificial Bone Structures for Optical Studies of Cell Dynamics"
Professor James Yardley, mentor

10:50 am - BREAK

SESSION II
OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL INTERACTIONS

11:10am - Michael Park, Vassar College
"Four Point Probe Measurements of the Giant Magnetoresistive Effect in Co/Cu/Co Spin Valves"
Professor William Bailey, mentor

11:30 am - Benjamin Jarvis, Yale University
"CdSe Nanoparticles Deposited from Solution onto Nano-scale Glass/Platinum Electrodes"
Professor Irving P. Herman, mentor

11:50 am - Christina Ho, The Cooper Union
"Microstructure and Electrical Properties of Spin Coated Lanthanum Strontium Manganese Oxide Thin Film Cathodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells"
Professor Siu-Wai Chan, mentor

12:15 pm - LUNCH

SESSION III
PROCESSING

1:15 pm - BMillicent Smith, Tufts University
"Processing of Nanocrystalline Zirconia Doped Ceria and Sample Characterization by X-ray Diffraction and Impedance Analysis"
Professor Siu-Wai Chan, mentor

1:35 pm - Carl Knutson, Haverford College
"Edge Transfer Lithography and its Applications to Patterning TiO2 Nanoparticles"
Professor David Adams, mentor

1:55 pm - Timothy McDonald, Oklahoma Baptist University
"Laser Heating of CdSe Nanoparticles During the Formation of Films by Solvent Evaporation"
Professor Irving P. Herman, mentor

2:15 pm - BREAK

SESSION IV
SURFACES AND INTERFACES

2:30 pm - Christopher Doss, Brown University
"Controlling Polymer Surfaces with Light: Photoionization of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Azobenzenes"
Professor Nicholas J. Turro, mentor

2:50 pm - Hiawatha Lane, Albany State University
"Ultrafast Laser Induced Desorption of O2 from Pd(111)"
Professor Tony Heinz, mentor

3:10 pm - Paul Morrow, Wofford College
"STM Investigation of the Orientation of Bromine Atoms on Straight Long-Chain Hydrocarbons at the Liquid-Solid Interface"
Professor George Flynn, mentor

3:30 pm - PRESENTATIONS END