Department of Physics Michigan Biophysics
College of LSA National Science Foundation

UM REU Symposium – 2011

Wednesday, August 10 and Thursday, August 11, 2011 in 340 West Hall

Schedule of talks

Please note that each student talk is scheduled for 15 minutes.  There are an extra five minutes between talks reserved for questions and for setting up the next talk.

Wednesday, August 10
9:20
Opening

9:30
Tim McKay (University of Michigan)
Network Ideas and Galaxy Clustering
10:10
Garrett Rodriguez (Alma College) Time Resolved Photoluminescence of Quantum Dots
10:30
Corbin Taylor (University of Toledo) Diffuse Light and Crowded Fields: BCG Photometry with Galfit
10:50
Break

11:00
Amandine Lee (Swarthmore College)
Cholesterol in the Struggle Between Light and Dark Phase: Lipid Dynamics in Plasma Membranes
11:20
Elly Gray (University of Michigan)
The effect and functioning of general alcohol anesthetics
11:40
Matt Hankins (University of Central Arkansas) Mapping the Hyperfine Transition of Neutral Hydrogen in the Milky Way Galaxy
12:00
Lunch

1:00
Laura Maki (Winona State University)
PreCam Survey Image Analysis
1:20
Taylor Allen (Western Carolina University)
Fighting Alzheimer’s: Fluorescent Indicators & Cell Perforation
1:40
Break

1:50
Wayne Oswald (Bowling Green State University)
The Cosmic Microwave Background: An Adventure in Instrumentation
2:10
Jason Karslake (University of Michigan)
Investigations into Phase Separated Lipid Bilayer Dynamics and Transitions Using STORM

Thursday, August 11
9:30
Sarah Veatch (University of Michigan)
Lipid rafts reach a critical point
10:10
Maya Lewin-Berlin (Smith College)
Crystals, X-Ray Beams and the Search for the CTPS-GTP Active Site
10:30
Kevin Hu (Bard College at Simon's Rock)
Flux Measurement and Laser Building
10:50
Break
11:00
Elizabeth Gichana (Radford University)
Microfluidic Patch Clamp Technique for Measuring Cell Membrane Disruption
11:20
Meryl Spencer  (Grinell College) Photoluminescence of InGaN Quantum Dots
11:40
Tyler Ogden (Hampshire College)
Thermodynamic and Kinetic Characterization of the Folding Mechanisms of CheY Circular Permutants
12:00
Regina O'Brien (Hope College)
A Structural Study of CpA, ApC using NMR Chemical Shifts
12:20
Lunch

1:00
Kassandra Anderson (University of Michigan)
Extrasolar Planet Collisions and the Effects on the Structure of Hot Jupiters
1:20
Ann Kathryn Rockwell (University of Alabama)
The Search For FCNC
1:40
Nikola Whallon (University of Michigan)
The Automated Detection and Classification of Variable Stars
2:00
Break

2:10
Louis Baum (University of Rochester)
Time of Flight techniques for Neutron Measurement
2:30
Stasi Romadan (University of Michigan)
& Brett Sandler (University of Michigan)
Transient Detection and Verification with ROTSE-III

This REU symposium is held as part of the University of Michigan Physics summer REU and University of Michigan Biophysics summer REU programs, which are supported by funds from the National Science Foundation, Department of Physics and the College of LSA.  Additional information is available from the NSF REU website.

Link to last year's REU symposium 2010.