Young Researcher Symposium

Friday 30 Nov 2012, 09:00 → 18:00 EST

Berkner Hall (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:00 → 09:20 Welcome to YRS

Speaker: Dr Doon Gibbs

09:25 → 10:25 Morning Parallel Session A

09:25 Mapping the phase diagram of strong interactions with a beam scan at RHIC

Speaker: Vladimir Skokov

09:45 Reactivity induced accidents in a light water reactor with fully ceramic micro-encapsulated fuel

Speaker: Nicholas R. Brown

10:05 Turn Humble into Noble in Hydrogen Energy: From Nanosheets to Biomass

Speaker: Wei-Fu Chen

09:25 → 10:25 Morning Parallel Session B

09:25 Microwave mobility of charge carriers on conjugated polymers

Speaker: Michael J. Bird

09:45 Analysis of the combined Hera-Zeus data set using the dipole model

Speaker: Merjin H. F. van de Klundert

10:05 Simulation of Ptychography Experimental Design

Speaker: Shengyu Wang

09:25 → 10:25 Morning Parallel Session C

09:25 Programmable Self-Assembly of DNA-Nanoparticle Mesostructures

Speaker: Jonathan D. Halverson

09:45 N-alkylpyrrolidine·Alane Compounds for Energy Applications

Speaker: Chengbao Ni

10:05 Measuring Proton Beam Polarization at RHIC

Speaker: Dmitri Smirnov

10:30 → 11:00 A Day in the Life of a Nuclear Watchdog

Speaker: Ms Shirley J. Johnson

11:00 → 12:00 Career Panel

12:00 → 14:00 Poster Session

14:00 → 15:20 Afternoon Parallel Session A

14:00 Physics at the future eRHIC

Speaker: Salvatore Fazio

14:20 Can Electrophoretic Deposition be Used to Build 2D Supercrystals

Speaker: Alex J. Krejci

14:40 Development of an acoustic injector for high-throughput protein crystallography at the National Synchrotron Light Source II

Speaker: Christian G. Roessler

15:00 Reduction of Background in Observation of W Decay Using FVTX Tracker in PHENIX

Speaker: Abraham Meles

14:00 → 15:20 Afternoon Parallel Session B

14:00 Well-defined core-shell nanocatalysts for renewable energy

Speaker: Yu Zhang

14:20 Surface Chemistry over Inverse Catalysts: UHV to NAP Conditions

Speaker: Asleigh E. Baber

14:40 RHIC: a new collider to explore the femto-scale structure of protons and nuclei

Speaker: Benedetto Di Ruzza

15:00 Front-end ASICs for High Resolution Detectors

Speaker: Alessio D’Andragora

14:00 → 15:20 Afternoon Poster Session C

14:00 Plasmonic metal/inorganic/organic hybrid nanoclusters with regulated photoluminescence output

Speaker: Zhongwei Liu

14:20 Monte Carlo simulation techniques used in the study of different physics channels at the future eRHIC at BNL

Speaker: Liang Zheng

14:40 Density Functional Kinetic Monte Carlo Modeling of Water Gas Shift Reaction on ZnO-supported Cu Nanoparticles

Speaker: Liu Yang

15:00 Insulator to metal transition in WOx induced by electrostatic charging

Speaker: Xiang Leng

15:30 → 16:30 Battery Science: The Keystone of the Energy Future (Making a Contribution)

Speaker: Dr Esther Takeuchi

16:30 → 17:00 The Role of Postdocs and Graduate Students in BNL’s Mission

Speaker: Dr Sam Aronson

17:00 → 18:00 Poster Session/Reception