First Annual Young Scientist Day

Argonne National Laboratory

Thursday, October 24, 2002
Building 203 Auditorium

AGENDA

8:30 AM Registration and Poster Mounting
9:00 AM Opening Remarks Jason Shergur, Conference Chairperson

Session I. Chair-Songkasiri Warinthorn

9:15 AM Amy Myers, Advanced Photon Source Operations Division, Argonne National Laboratory Study of Phosphor Screen Failure Mechanism and the Benefit of Ink Formation
9:35 AM Xu Du, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University Atom Trap, Kr-81, and Egypt
9:55 AM Ravi Madduri, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory and Illinois Institute of Technology Reliable File Transfer in Grid Environments/Grid Computing
10:15 AM Coffee Break/Poster Presentations/Group Photo

Session II. Chair-Chris Deemer

10:45 AM Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory and Ohio State University Selective Reservation Strategies for Backfill Job Scheduling
11:05 AM Warinthorn Songkasiri, Chemical Technology Division, Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University Bioremediation of Neptunium (IV/V) on Soil Bacteria Under Various Conditions
11:25 AM Rodney Guico, Experimental Facilities Division of the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University Real Time Measurements of Nanoparticle Diffusion in Ultrathin Polymer Films Using X-Ray Standing Waves
11:45 AM Lunch/Poster Presentations
1:00 PM Introduction of Keynote Speaker, Dr. Harold W. Myron, Director, Division of Educational Programs, Argonne National Laboratory
Keynote Address - Dr. Beverly Hartline, Deputy Laboratory Director, Argonne National Laboratory

Session III. Chair-Rodney Guico

1:30 PM Aditi Majumder, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Color Seamlessness in Tiled Multi-Projector Displays
1:50 PM Li-Bang Wang, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois-Urbana Measuring the Charge Radius of He-6 Nucleus
2:10 PM Chris Deemer, Energy Technology Division, Argonne National Laboratory, and Northwestern University Characterization of CMC Components and Estimating Remaining Useful Life of CMC Components Using NDE Data
2:30 PM Break/Poster Presentations

Session IV. Chair-Ravi Madduri

3:00 PM Rachel Popelka, University of Missouri-Columbia Marie Curie Meeting Indiana Jones: The Applications of Analytical Chemistry to Archaeological Questions
3:20 PM Ning Yang, Experimental Facilities Division of the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory and Iowa State University Role of the Fe Sub-lattice on the Invar Anomaly in R1#1Fe2#2B Compounds
3:40 PM Argonne Student Roundtable
4:15 PM Announcement of Award Recipients and Closing Remarks Harold W. Myron, Director, Division of Educational Programs, Argonne National Laboratory

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Kaizer Amin, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory and University of North Texas Grid Services Framework for Active Thermochemical Tables (ATcT)
Sungchool Hwang, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory Determination of Thermal Expansion Coefficient and Isotopic Dependence of Lattice Constants by Exact Bragg Scattering Technique
Chunguang Jing, High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory and Illinois Institute of Technology Verification of Dipole in Dielectric Loaded Rectangular Waveguide Accelerating Structure
Andrew Locock, University of Notre Dame X-Ray Absorption Spectra of Hexavalent Uranium at Room Temperature: A Study of Well-Defined Crystal Structures
Zachary Metzger, Energy Technology Division, Argonne National Laboratory and College of DuPage Comparison of Large-Area Flat Panel Direct Digital X-Ray Detectors
Amy Myers, Advanced Photon Source Operations Division, Argonne National Laboratory Study of Phosphor Screen Failure Mechanism and the Benefit of Ink Formulation
Janelle Neubauer, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois-Chicago Multiple Scattering Simulations for 257Rf Recoils Through a Multi-Foil Gas Detector
Ayman Said, Experimental Facilities Division of the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory and Western Michigan University Collective Excitations in Metal-Ammonia Mixtures as a Function of Electron Density
Kedar Sharma, Energy Technology Division, Argonne National Laboratory and Illinois Institute of Technology Characterization of Corrosion Behavior of Refractories
Jason Shergur, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Maryland Using a Resonance Ionization Laser Ion Source to Enhance Neutron-Rich Radioactive Nuclei Production
Michael Shields, Energy Technology Division, Argonne National Laboratory and Loyola University of Chicago Nondestructive Evaluation of Advanced Ceramics Using Elastic Optical Laser Backscatter
Keita Teranishi, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory and Pennsylvania State University Latency Tolerant Parallel Incomplete Cholesky Preconditioning Using Selective Inversion
Barbara Truett, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory and Purdue University-Calumet Lifetime Measurements of 3#3-Transitions in 4#4Na
Eric Warren, Energy Technology Division, Argonne National Laboratory and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale 3-D X-Ray CT Analysis
Ning Yang, Experimental Facilities Division of the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory and Iowa State University Role of the Fe Sub-lattice on the Invar Anomaly in R5#5_14B Compounds
Zhan Zhang, Environmental Research Division, Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University Condensed Layer Ion Positions at the Rutile-Water Interface with High Brilliance X-Rays