Speakers

Invited Speakers from the region will highlight research. Sessions are intended to help provide nearby contacts and the possibility of close collaborations and visiting fellow arrangements within easy driving distance for students, staff scientists, and faculty.

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Dr. Tomek M Kott
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems and applications / Condensed Matter and Device Physics. 
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Dr. Naoko Kurahashi Neilson
Drexel University
Neutrino astroparticle physics and IceCube Neutrino Observatory Project. Measurements of cosmic events from large scale (cubic kilometer) detector array frozen in ice at South Pole.

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Dr. Abdul K. Rumaiz
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Detector development for next generation synchrotron and XFEL applications. Electronic structure and interface phenomenon in semiconducting heterojunctions and complex oxides.

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Dr. Thomas  A. Planchon
Delaware State University
Optical beam shaping and microscopy methods for biological and biomedical imaging applications
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Dr. Fabienne Bastien
Pennsylvania State University
Photometric and radial velocity manifestations of stellar magnetic activity including time-series photometry of eruptive young variable stars.
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Dr. Peter Gehring
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Structure and lattice dynamics of relaxor ferroelectrics by means of neutron scattering.
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Dr. Alyson Brooks

Rutgers University
Astrophysics and cosmological simulations of high resolution galaxy models including simulations with cold dark matter (CDM) and baryons.

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Dr. Xuemei May Cheng
Bryn Mawr College
Fabrication, characterization of nanoscales materials for energy and medical applications; time-resolved imaging of spin dynamics and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism.

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Dr. Sergey Novikov
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Quantum computing with superconducting devices

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Dr. David A. Schaffner
Bryn Mawr College
Turbulence and Fusion at the Tri-Co: Plasma Research at Bryn Mawr College and Swarthmore College
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Dr. David Chuss
Villanova University
Astronomical Polarimetry of long wavelength light from astrophysical phenomenonmagnetic fields in our Milky Way’s Galactic center, origin of the universe
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Dr. Amy Lytle
Franklin & Marshall College
Nonlinear frequency conversion, applications of ultrafast pulse shaping to frequency conversion, experimental tests of Born’s rule.

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Dr. Kiyong Kim
University of Maryland College Park
Ultrafast optical, x-ray and terahertz science, and high-energy density laboratory plasma
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Dr. Julia Mikhailova
Princeton University
Attosecond science, high-­field physics, relativistic laser‐plasma interaction, x‐ray radiation, laser­‐driven particle acceleration. Few cycle nonlinear optics. Quantum optics and biphoton states in spontaneous parametric light scattering.

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Dr. Matthew Pelton

University of Maryland Baltimore County
Optical measurements on metal nanoparticles, semiconductor nanocrystals, and assemblies of these particles, to reveal emergent physical phenomena at the nanoscale, and to enable future applications in solar energy conversion, optical information processing, and sensing.

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Dr. Cristiano Luis Dias
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Molecular Bio-Physics using large scale computer simulations to understanding protein function, stability, and aggregation. These efforts are important for drug design and diseases from misfolding and/or aggregation.

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Dr. Alan D. Bristow
West Virginia University
Ultrafast Nanophotonicsn including coherent control, nano-optics, photonics, semiconductors, and terahertz radiation.

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Dr. Lars Gundlach
University of Delaware
Energy transport on the nanoscale probed via ultrafast laser spectroscopy. Electron transfer reactions at interfaces and charge carrier dynamics in nanomaterials.

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Dr. Natalia Drichko
Johns Hopkins University
Breakdown of the Kondo insulating state in SmB6 by introducing Sm vacancies and organic frustrated magnets and magnetic excitations observed in these materials by Raman scattering.
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Dr. Ed Lyman
University of Delaware
Material properties of the cell membrane emerge from the interactions between lipids and proteins. How the cell exploits these properties to perform the physical chemistry of life.

 

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