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Graduate Student Seminar Schedule - Fall 2016
The winner of the Best Graduate Student Seminar Speaker for Spring 2016 was Mehdi Jadidil for his talk titled "Graphene Plasmonics for Tunable Terahertz Technology" (Advisor: Professor Thomas Murphy).
Seminars for Fall 2016 are scheduled for Fridays at 12:00 p.m. in the Large Conference Room, 1207 Energy Research Facility. Everyone is welcome. Pizzas with a variety of toppings will be provided free of charge for graduate students; others will have to contribute a small fee of $5.00. Submit your requests for pizza toppings and refreshments to Peter Megson at pmegson@umd.edu.
The mission of the IREAP Graduate Student Seminars is to give graduate students the opportunity to practice short presentations of their work. This is a stepping stone for preparing them for their thesis defense, Ph.D. proposals, or even conference presentations. It is a valuable skill for all professionals, and students should be eager to present their work.
The talks will be informal with an approximate duration of 30 to 45 minutes allowing questions for about 15 minutes. There shouldn't be any stress since there is no evaluation committee coming up with grilling questions. Everyone is welcome to be in the audience.
After the conclusion of each talk, graduate students in the audience will fairly rate the speaker on a scale of 1-5 for Technical Merit and on a scale of 1-5 for Presentation. The total score will be averaged and the highest scoring speaker at the semester's end will receive a monetary prize for "Best Speaker." In the case of a tie, the winner shall be the speaker with the largest number of audience members providing ratings.
For additional information regarding the IREAP Graduate Student Seminar Series, please contact Peter Megson at pmegson@umd.edu.
- September 30, 2016
"Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices" - Nihal Jhajj - October 7, 2016
"Electron Energization in Guide Field Reconnection Outflows with Kinetic Riemann Simulations" - Qile Zhang - October 14, 2016
"Breaking of Neoclassical Tokamak Ripple Transport in ITER" - Elizabeth Paul - October 21, 2016
"Measuring the Casimir Force in the Presence of Patch Potentials" - Joe Garrett - October 28, 2016
"The Role of the Dense Amorphous Carbon (DACV) Overlayer in Photoresist Etching" - Adam Pranda - November 4, 2016
"High Spatial Resolution Performance Mapping in Thin Film Solar Cells" - Elizabeth Tennyson - November 11, 2016
"Simulating Stellarator Microinstabilities and Turbulence with a GPU-based Hybrid Gyrofluid/Gyrokinetic Code" - Michael Martin - November 18, 2016
"Metallic Materials for Plasmonics" - Chen Gong - December 2, 2016
"Laser Induced Electron Avalanches for Remote Detection of Radioactive Material" - Daniel Woodbury - December 9, 2016
"Wave-Breaking Radiation from a Laser-Wakefield Accelerator" - Bo Miao
Past Winners of the IREAP Graduate Student Seminar Best Speaker Award