2012-2013

WPI at APS

WPI faculty and students are featured this year at the American Physical Society March Meeting 2013 from March 19–22 in Baltimore, Maryland.

WPI faculty and students are featured this year at the American Physical Society March Meeting 2013 from March 19–22 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Plan to join us at these panels and sessions to hear about exciting research projects.

Mark your calendars!

 

TUESDAY, MARCH 19

8:00 AM–11:00 AM
Session F30: Membranes, Micelles, Vesicles, Gels and Complex Fluids in Room: 338

Arne Gericke, Chair of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is a co-author on Phase separation in a DMPC/Dchol mixed Langmuir Film: A combined Brewster Angle, Fluorescence, and Light Scattering Microscopy study.

 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20

8:00 AM–10:48 AM
Session M43: Focus Session: Protein Misfolding and Aggregation II in the Hilton Baltimore
Room: Holiday Ballroom 2

Izabela Stroe, Assistant Professor of Physics at WPI, and students Yusuke Hirai, Reem Mahommed Assiri, and Donal Barry are presenting In-Vivo Like Studies of the hIAPP Amyloid Precursors Using Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy.

2:00 PM–2:00 PM
Session Q1: Poster Session II in Room: Exhibit Hall EF

Germano Iannacchione, Chair of the Department of Physics at WPI, Izabela Stroe, Assistant Professor of Physics at WPI, graduate student Parvathalu Kalakonda, and undergraduates John Arnold and Shaun Marshall will present Effect of protein (Myoglobin) on the isotropic to nematic phase transitions.

2:30 PM–5:18 PM
Session R26: Foundations of Quantum Theory in Room: 328

P.K. Aravind, Professor of Physics at WPI and student Mordecai Waegell are co-authors of Entangled states associated with N-qubit GHZ paradoxes.

2:30 PM–5:42 PM
Session R7: Si and Other Semiconductors in Room: 303

L. Ramdas Ram-Mohan, Professor of Physics at WPI and students Nandan Tandon and Lisa Pugsley are co-authors on Variation of electron-phonon coupling in group IV elemental semiconductors.

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 21

8:00 AM–11:00 AM
Session T8: Carbon Nanostructures: Transport and Optical Phenomena in Room: 307

L. Ramdas Ram-Mohan, Professor of Physics at WPI and student Zehao Li are co-authors on The Aharonov-Bohm effect in M\"obius rings.

2:30 PM–5:42 PM
Session W21: Optoelectronics & Photonics in Room: 323

Germano Iannacchione, Chair of the Physics Department at WPI, Hektor Kashuri, Assistant Teaching Professor at WPI, and graduate student Saad Algarni will present Development of an image-analysis light-scattering technique.

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 22

8:00 AM–10:48 AM
Session Y32: Polymer Nanocomposites III in Room: 340

Germano Iannacchione, Chair of the Physics Department at WPI, Sabyasachi Sarkar, Assistant Teaching Professor at WPI, and graduate student Parvathalu Kalakonda will present Optical characterization of isotactic polypropylene and carbon nanotube composites using spectroscopic ellipsometry.

8:00 AM–11:00 AM
Session Y38: Focus Session: Scalable Technologies for Photovoltaics II in Room: 347

Anthony Gianfrancesco, a graduate student in the Physics Department at WPI is a co-author on Local excitation and local collection of photocurrent in thin-film polycrystalline photovoltaic devices.

8:00 AM–10:48 AM
Session Y43: Spectroscopy, Photochemistry, and Electrochemistry in the Hilton Baltimore Room: Holiday Ballroom 2

N. Aaron Deskins, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at WPI is a co-author on Site-Specific Photosimulated Reactions of O2 on TiO2(110).