2011 Rogers Research Program Brown-Bag Presentations

 Tuesdays 12:00-1:15, Olin 301
Presentations are free and open to the public
Dessert provided

Students discuss their research projects during a series of brown-bag talks on Tuesdays in June and July. Each presentation is 20 minutes; there are generally three talks per session. For more information about projects see Abstracts.

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JUNE 14

Artificial Intelligence and the Game of Go
Student Presenters:  Sam Dodson, Ben Lohre, Nick Sylvester
Faculty Collaborator:  Peter Drake

Parallel Computing and Security
Student Presenters:  Julian Dale, Jonathan Growchowski, Chris Mitchell, Nic Wilson
Faculty Collaborator:  Jens Mache

Social Motivation and Acoustic Communication
Student Presenters: Christina Greever, Christopher Dang
Faculty Collaborator: Garet Lahvis

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JUNE 21

Event-Related Potential and Psychological Correlates of Risk Taking and Risky Patterns of Alcohol Use in College-Aged Adults
Student Presenters: Hannah Louis, Stacey Patino, John Sweeney
Faculty Collaborator:  Todd Watson

Serious Games to Change Attitudes and Advance Science
Student Presenters: Dmitri Alvarado, Louis Moore, Seth Olund
Faculty Collaborator: Erik Nilsen

Research in the Vocal and Auditory Learning Laboratory
Student Presenters: Lisa Hodges, Karina Destine
Faculty Collaborator: Chris Olson (Mello Lab)

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JUNE 28

Reaction-diffusion equations with applications in chemistry
Student Presenters: Allison Fankhauser, Jenny Louthan
Faculty Collaborator: Paul Allen

Arachnids in the Caribbean - a large-scale study of island biogeography
Student Presenters: Trevor Bloom, Ian Peterson
Faculty Collaborator: Greta Binford

Venom diversity of spiders related to the brown recluse
Student Presenters: Ian Voorhees, Jared Delahaye, Gillian Beran-Maryott
Faculty Collaborator: Greta Binford, Pamela Zobel-Thropp

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JULY 5

Hormonal Responses to Stress, Prefrontal Lobe Executive Functions and Drinking Behavior in College Students
Student Presenters: Jahnavi Caldwell-Green, Stephanie Schwartz, Zainab Abdulaziz
Faculty Collaborator: Yueping Zhang

Combinatorial Interpretations of Commutative Ideals
Student Presenters: Heather Kitada, Christopher Van Putten
Faculty Collaborator: Naiomi Cameron

From Orbitals to Orbigraphs
Student Presenters: Gabriel MontesdeOca, Omar Lopez
Faculty Collaborator: Liz Stanhope

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JULY 12

Investigating the biogenesis of lysosomes in a multi-cellular animal
Student Presenters: Thomas Curtin, Daniel Saxton, Kaila Warren, Ghassan Eiwaz
Faculty Collaborator: Greg Hermann

A CASSCF Computational Study of the Mechanism of the Key Cyclization Step in the Synthesis of Isoindazole Heterocycles from Diazines and Triazines: Are the Transition State Orbital Topologies Coarctate or Pseudocoarctate?
Student Presenters: Hillary Henthorn, Sarah Sandholtz, Cassie Settle,
Faculty Collaborator: James Duncan

Leveraging Pathway Knowledge for Cancer Treatment
Student Presenters: Christopher Anderson, Joey Chastain
Faculty Collaborator: Armand Bankhead

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JULY 19

Manipulation of Nanoparticle Surface Chemistry and Formation of Nanoparticle/Thin Film Composite Materials
Student Presenters: Stephen  Kubota, Kathleen Murphy
Faculty Collaborator: Anne Bentley

Synaptic Secretion of Neuromodulatory Proteins from Dense-Core Granules
Student Presenters: Daniel Shaver, Taylor Murphy, Balal Rahim
Faculty Collaborator: Janis Lochner, Greta Glover

Genetic and Environmental Impact on Learning and Memory
Student Presenters: Alexandra MacCollGarfinkel, Rosey Moeung
Faculty Collaborator: Jacob Raber