Updated: August 2, 2007

NOTE: Schedule and agenda below are subject to change. Please check back for updated information.

Symposium Schedule: Thursday, August 2, 2007

EVENT

TIME

LOCATION

Poster Presentations

8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.

(DISL) Bldg. 915 Lobby

Oral Presentations

8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

(DISL) Bldg. 915 Rooms S101, W133, and S145

Oral Presentation Agenda
(Format: 10-minute presentations with 5-minute Q&A, and 5 minute break between each session)

LOCATION:

915/S101

915/W133

FACILITATORS:

Kelly Nykodym, Mable Choi
and Catherine Marasco

Eilene Cross

TIME

PRESENTER/TOPIC

PRESENTER/TOPIC

8:30 a.m.

Jaime Horton (DHS)
Cytokine Secretion in Innate Immune Signaling via Flow Cytometry

Steve Widmer (PSI)
Block-Partitioning for Multi-Wavelet Polynomial Chaos Expansions

Mark J. Harrison**
Investigation of Strengthening Agents for Lanthanide Halide Scintillators
(Mark’s presentation will be given in 915/S145)

8:50

Gina Cremona
Microfluidic Immunoassays for Cytokine Detection

Victoria Lee (PSI)
Quality Optimization of Staggered Adaptive Grid Systems in Generalized Coordinates

9:10

Jay Sy
Microfluidic Cell Sorting Using Photonic Forces: Determining the Biological Effects of Optical Tweezers on Mouse Macrophages

Michael Starr (PSI)
The CN + O2 Reaction: Measuring the Branching Ratio and Reactant/Product State Distributions by TR-FTIR

9:30

Matthew McCrink
Novel Electrophoretic Separations

Kyle Kattke (PSI)
1-D Transient Diesel Sprays Model

9:50

Juan Blandon
Phonon-Mediated Heat Conduction Across GaN

Paul Abel (PSI)
Kinetic Measurements and Modeling of OH Formation in Alkyl Oxidation Reactions

10:10

Abe Greenstein
Themal Conductivity of Gallium Nitride Nanowires

Hem Wadhar (PSI)
Carbon Monoxide Concentration Through Laser Induced Fluorescence

10:30

Tiffany Wilson
Order and Charge Collection Correlations in Organic Materials for Neutron Detection

Gregory Sommer
Microscale Immobilized Polymer Gradients for Rapid, On-Chip Protein Analysis

10:50

Alex Ockfen**
Thermal Analysis of Optical Maskless Lithography
(Alex’s presentation will be OUO)

R. Spencer Behling (PSI)
Temperature Profile Determination for Low Pressure Laminar Methane Flames from OH Laser-Induced Fluorescence

11:10

Benjamin Wilde
Computational Environmental Modeling Techniques and their Application to Microalgal Biodiesel Production

John Bustamante (PSI)
Sonic Nozzle Calibration System

11:30

Kaycie Butler (DHS)
Blocked Isocyanate Foams

Alison Harris
Insulator-Based Dielectrophoresis (iDEP): Concentrating & Separating Water-Borne Pathogens

11:50

Amanda Dropkin
B83 Fracture Modeling

12:10 p.m.

Edward Baker/Jason Honda (SIMS)
Using Game Technologies for Training First Responders

12:25

END