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Congratulations to the Students in our 2004 Summer Program!
 
2004 MRSEC REU
 
Program of the

2004 MRSEC REU SUMMER PROGRAM RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

Friday, August 6, 2004
Davis Auditorium, Schapiro CEPSR
Columbia University


SESSION I
SYNTHESIS OF NANOCRYSTALS

9:30 am – Caroline Guidry, Columbia University
"HMT and the Formation of ZnO Particles"
Professor Siu-Wai Chan, mentor

9:50 am – Mark Polking, Cornell University
"Synthesis and Characterization of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles of Variable Morphology"
Professor Stephen O’Brien, mentor

10:10 am – Tania Cabrera, Simmons College
"Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Contrast Agents"
Professor Nicholas J. Turro mentor

10:30 am - BREAK
SESSION II
PROPERTIES

10:40 am – Daniel Recht, Princeton University
"Nonlinear Optical Structrures in a Ferroelectric Crystal: Fabrication and Optical Characterization"
Professor Richard Osgood Jr., mentor

11:00 am – Gregory Fleizach, Duke University
"Ferromagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy"
Professor William Bailey, mentor

11:20 am – Milton Jones, University of Maryland, Baltimore
"Cylindrical Indentation Deformation Fields: Lattice Rotation Measurements"
Professor Jeffrey Kysar, mentor

11:40 am - LUNCH
SESSION III
METAL OXIDE NANOCRYSTALS

12:40 pm – Dana Peles, Randolph-Macon College
"Fabrication of Organic Semiconductors on Aluminum Oxide Nanorods"
Professor Colin Nuckolls and Dr. Michael Steigerwald, mentors

1:00 pm – Peter Zoogman, Harvard University
"Martensitic Phase Transformation of HfxZr1-xO2 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) Nanocrystals"
Professor Louis Brus, mentor

1:20 pm – Christopher Cheng, Marietta College
"Electrophoretic Deposition of Stabilized ZrO2 Nanocrystal Films"
Professor Irving P. Herman, mentor

1:40 pm - BREAK
SESSION IV
SURFACES


1:50 pm – Susannah Dickerson, Harvard University
"Formation of Gold Nanocrystals in Polymer Brush Films"
Professor Rastislav Levicky, mentor

2:10 pm – Jessica Meier, Barnard College
"Exploring Molecular Self-Assembly Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy"
Professor George Flynn, mentor

2:30 pm – Jonathan Cacciatore, Bucknell University
"Spatial Characterization of Surfaces: Spectroscopic and Tunneling Techniques"
Professor Tony Heinz, mentor

2:50 pm - FINAL PRESENTATIONS END


2004 MRSEC REU SUMMER PROGRAM SEMINAR
 

June 24, 2004
Guest Speaker Prof. Jeff Koberstein
"Fun & Games with Polymeric Materials"

MRSEC & NSEC REU students demonstrate a cross-linking polymer Prof. Koberstein demonstrates an experiment with cornstarch & water with Milton Jones Mark Polking assists Prof. Koberstein with a "memory" material