Conference Program
Saturday, October 6
| 8:00-12:00 | Registration | Lobby Auditorium |
| 8:00-8:45 | Continental Breakfast | Ballroom |
| Opening of Conference and Plenary Session | Auditorium | |
| Chair: Sitaram S. Jaswal | ||
| 8:45-9:00 | Welcome remarks by David Sellmyer, Director, Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, and Prem Paul, Vice Chancellor for Research | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Prof. Lu J. Sham; University of California San Diego "Quantum Engineering of Individual Electron Spins" |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break | Ballroom |
| Session A | ||
| Chair: Steve Ducharme | Auditorium | |
| 10:30-11:00 | A.1: Steve Smith, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology "Near-Field Spectral Imaging of Solar Cell Materials" |
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| 11:00-11:30 | A.2: Owen Vajk, University of Missouri - Columbia "Experimental Signatures of Magnetic-Ferroelectric Coupling from Neutron Scattering" |
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| 11:30-12:00 | A.3: Hongxing Jiang, Kansas State University "Nitride Micro- and Nano-Photonics" |
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| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch + Poster Session Preparation | Ballroom |
| Session B | Auditorium | |
| Chair: Ralph Skomski | ||
| 1:00-1:30 | B.1: Walter Lambrecht, Case Western Reserve University "Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Transition-Metal and Rare-Earth Nitrides" |
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| 1:30-2:00 | B.2: Axel Enders, University of Nebraska - Lincoln "Growth and Magnetism of Surface-Supported Metallic Nanoclusters" |
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| 2:00-2:30 | B.3: Andre G. Petukhov, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology "Thermodynamics of Carrier-Mediated Magnetism in Semiconductors" |
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| 2:30-3:00 | B.4: Viatcheslav V. Dobrovitski, Iowa State University "Quantum Spin Dynamics and Decoherence in Nanosystems" |
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| 3:00-6:30 | Poster Sessions P-S | Ballroom |
| Chair: Sy-Hwang Liou, Co-Chair: Christian Binek | ||
| 3:00-3:30 | Coffee Break | Ballroom |
| 5:00-6:30 | Bierstube | Ballroom |
| 6:30-8:00 | Banquet | Ballroom |
| 8:00-8:30 | Performance: Kokyo Taiko Drummers | Ballroom |
Sunday, October 7
| 8:00-9:00 | Continental Breakfast | Lobby Auditorium |
| Session C | Auditorium | |
| Chair: Evgeny Tsymbal | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | C.1: Anupam Garg, Northwestern University "Collective Spin Tunneling in Magnetic Molecules" |
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| 9:30-10:00 | C.2: Hui Zhao, University of Kansas "Optical Studies of Ballistic Pure Spin Transport" |
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| 10:00-10:30 | C.3: Michael E. Flatté, University of Iowa "Single-Ion Magnetic Moments in Semiconductors" |
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| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break | Lobby Auditorium |
| Session D | Auditorium | |
| Chair: Shireen Adenwalla | ||
| 10:45-11:15 | D.1: Wai-Yim Ching, University of Missouri - Kansas City "Ab initio Calculations on Complex Biomolecular Systems" |
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| 11:15-11:45 | D.2: Maikel Rheinstädter, University of Missouri -Columbia "Impact of Neutrons on the Understanding of Dynamics in Soft-Matter and Biophysics" |
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| 11:45-12:00 | Closing Session | Auditorium |
| (Chair: Sitaram S. Jaswal) |
