Panelists and Presenters
Monday, October 13th 12:45 – 3:15
Nano/Bio 1 – Neuro, Optics
Session Chairs:
| Christy Landes Associate Professor of Chemistry, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University |
Astrid Aksnes Professor of Electronics and Communications, NTNU |
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Jacob Robinson |
Pawel Sikorski Professor of Physics, NTNU |
| Presenters: |
| Christy Landes – Introduction and opening comments Super-resolution methods for imaging dynamics at interfaces |
| Astrid Aksnes Sensor technology and optical imaging dynamics at interfaces |
| Jeff Jacot, Texas Children’s Hospital and BioE Rice Pediatric cardio, including the use of novel materials for tissue engineering or regenerative approaches. Tissue scaffold for pediatric heart valve therapy. |
| Jacob Robinson |
| Morten Kildemo, Professor of Physics, NTNU Using Mueller matrix (microscopy) imaging as a sensitive tool to ordered anisometric nanostructures in tissue |
| Amina Qutub, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, Rice University |
| Pawel Sikorski Nanotechnology based concepts for high throughout perturbation of single cells in cell arrays |
Nano Energy 1 – Oil & Gas
Opening Comments by Norway’s Consul General, Jostein Mykleton and
Session Chairs:
| Arne Graue Professor, Petroleum and Process Technology, University of Bergen |
Walter Chapman William W. Akers Professor in Chemical Engineering, Associate Dean for Energy in the School of Engineering, Rice University |
| Presenters: | Panelists: |
| Zhengdong Cheng, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M Nanoparticle Stabilized Emulsions and Foams for EOR and LNG Spill Mitigation |
Jim Friedheim, Corporate Director Fluids R&D at M-I SWACO, a Schlumberger Company |
| Jenn-Tai Liang, Professor, Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M Using Polyelectrolyte Complex Nanoparticles to Delay Gelation for in-depth conformance control |
John Maida, Chief Optical Scientist, Halliburton Applied Photonics CenterScott Wellington, Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Chemical and Biomolecular |
| Chu Huh, Research Professor, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, UT Austin Use of Surface-Modified Nanoparticles for improved oil recovery and flow assurance applications |
Andrew Barron, Duncan-Welch Professor of Chemistry, Prof. of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University |
| Sibani Lisa Biswal, Assoc. Prof. of Chemical and Biomolecular Eng. and Material Science and Nanoengineering, Rice University Use of Micro Channels to Visualize Oil Processes |
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| Katherine Aurand (also representing Gunnar Sie Dahle and Ole Torsaeter) NTNU: Determining the optimum nanofluid for EOR | |
| Torleiv Bilstad, Professor of Chemistry and Environment, University of Stavanger |
Tuesday, October 14th 8:15am – 11:00am
Nanomaterials 1 – Structure, Multifunction & Environment
Session Chairs:
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Ramanan Krishnamoorti Torleiv Bilstad |
Jianying He (in absentia) Associate Professor of Structural Engineering, NTNURouzbeh Shahsavari Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University |
| Presenters: | Panelists: |
| Hilde Lea Lein, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, NTNU Inorganic Materials and Ceramics Research Group @ NTNU |
Dr. Douglas Terrier, Center Chief Technologist, NASA-Johnson Space Center |
| Mohammed Naraghi, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M Structure-property relationships in carbon-based materials |
William “Billy” Wallace, Ph.D., Senior Scienctists, Wyle
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| Rouzbeh Shahsavari | |
| Ramanan Krishnamoorti Nanoparticle based Dispersants |
Nanomaterials 2 – Electronics Materials Synthesis & Characterization
Session Chairs:
| Kevin Kelly Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University Chair, Applied Physics Program |
Sverre Magnus Selbach Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, NTNU |
| Presenters: | Panelists: |
| Sverre Magnus Selbach Oxide nanomaterials for electronics at NTNU |
Gene Frantz, Professor in the Practice, Digital Signal Processing, Rice University; Former Principal Fellow at Texas Instruments |
| Kevin Kelly | Eric Malroy, Nanotechnology Lead, NASA-Johnson Space Center |
| Justin Wells Beyond nanoscale engineering-Experimenting at the single particle limit? |
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| Doug Natelson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University | |
| Jiming Bao, Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston Graphene Oxide Liquid Crystals for Reflective Display without Polarizing Optics |
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| Morten Kildemo, Professor of Physics, NTNU Revealing optical properties of nanostructured surfaces, nanoplasmonic surfaces and plasmonic metasurfaces using Spectroscopic Mueller matrix Ellipsometry |
Tuesday, October 14th 1:30pm – 4:00 pm
Nano/Bio 2 – Cancer & Optics
Session Chairs:
| Junghae Suh Assistant Professor in Bioengineering, Rice University |
Justin Wells Associate Professor of Physics, NTNU |
| Presenters: | Panelists: |
| Konstantin Sokolov, Associate Professor of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin Plasmonic nanosensors for molecular imaging of cancer micrometastasis |
Speakers to remain as panelists, if time permits.Also on panel:Eric Malroy, Nanotechnology Lead, NASA-Johnson Space Center |
| Justin Wells Understanding and manipulating the surface chemistry of chemotherapy drug delivery |
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| Sandra Bishnoi, Research Scientist in Halas Laboratory, Rice University Using plasmonic nanoparticles for the treatment of highly aggressive triple negative breast cancer tumors |
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| Jin Wang, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine “Slices-to-pie” approach for precise fabrication of sub-50 nm Monodisperse Nanoparticles |
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| Tony Hu, Assistant Member of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute Nanopore-enabled peptidomics analysis in disease detection |
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| Junghae Suh Programming genetically encoded nanoparticles to detect cancer-related proteases |
Nano Energy 2 – Solar/Photovoltaics, Optics, Renewable Energy
Session Chairs:
| Rafael Verduzco Louis Owen Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University |
Anne Borg Professor of Physics, Dean of Natural Sciences and Technology, Head of the Board of the NanoLab, NTNUAstrid Aksnes Professor of Electronics and Communications, NTNU |
| Presenters: | Panelists: |
| Isabell Thomann, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and NanoEngineering Light Management in Extremely Thin Photoelectrode ArchitecturesKevin Kelly Nanoscale investigation of organic photovoltaics @ interfacesRafael Verduzco Charge Separation in Conjugated Block Copolymer PhotovoltaicsTwo additional possible presentations pending. |
Dr. Jim Kauffman, Team Leader, SABIC Technology Center William “Billy” Wallace, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Wyle
Dr. Douglas Terrier, Center Chief Technologist, Johnson Space Center |