7:30 – 8:00am - Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:00 – 8:20am - Welcome and Report from CAMD Director

8:20-11:30am - Morning Session; Basic-Sciences

8:20 – 9:00 - Keynote Speaker, Donald L. Sparks, S. Hallock du Pont Chair and Department Chairperson of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, "The Role of Synchrotron Radiation in Addressing Grand Challenges and Opportunities in Environmental Science”

9:00 – 9:15 - Vic Suller, LSU-CAMD, "Report on Status of CAMD Accelerators"

9:15 – 9:30 - John Scott, LSU-CAMD, "Report on Status of CAMD Beamlines"

9:30-9:45 - Break

9:45 – 10:00 - Derek Dorman, Department of Chemistry, LSU, "Small Angle X-Ray Scattering at CAMD"

10:00 – 10:15 - David Wisbey, Department of Physics, University of Nebraska, "Interface Induced Dipole Ordering of the Copper Spin-1/2 Molecule: Bis(4-cyano-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptanedionato)copper(II)"

10:15 – 10:30 - D. Keith Chambers, Department of Physics, Louisiana Tech University, "UPS Studies of Energy Level Alignment, Crystallinity and Photodegradation in MEH-PPV"

10:30 – 10:45 - Andrew Campos, Chemical Engineering, LSU, "A XANES and Activity Study of Mn-Promoted Fe-based Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts"

10:45 – 11:00 - Peter Jacobson, Department of Physics, Tulane University, "Bonding configurations of catechol on rutile TiO2 (110)"

11:00 – 11:15 - Balaji Gopalan, LSU-CAMD, "Cobalt-based Single Molecular Magnets and Nanoparticles"

11:15 – 11:30 - Joseph P. Dugas, Department of Physics, LSU, "Monochromatic Beam Characterization for X-ray Activated Auger Electron Dosimetry and Radiotherapy"

11:30am-1:00pm - Break for lunch

1:00-3:30pm - Afternoon Session; Microfabrication

1:00 – 1:30 - Jost Goettert, Shaloma Malveaux, LSU-CAMD, "Update on CAMD Microfabrication"

1:30 – 1:45 - Junseo Choi, Mechanical Engineering, LSU, "Fabrication of Perforated Polymer Membranes Using Imprinting Technology"

1:45 – 2:00 - Fanghua Mei, Mechanical Engineering, LSU, "Recent progress on fabrication, assembly, and testing of metal-based microchannel heat exchangers"

2:00 – 2:15 - Quoc Nguyen, LSU-CAMD, "Deposition and Characterization of Parylene-C for BioMEMS Applications"

2:15 – 2:30 - Scott McDaniel, Environmental Studies, LSU, "Recent progress in LIGA fabricated GC column fabrication and testing"

2:30 – 2:45 - Johannes Beuerle, LSU-CAMD, "Investigation of a novel SU-8 based product from Gersteltec as X-ray resist for high aspect ratio applications"

2:45 – 3:00 - Kyung-Nam Kang, LSU-CAMD, "Back-side exposure for micro lens and micro nozzle"

3:00 – 3:15 - Jiajun Chen, Kai Wang, AMRI, UNO, "Highly sensitive H2S gas sensor based on hierarchy nanostructured metal oxide nanowires"

3:15 – 3:30 - Paul I. Okagbare, Department of Chemistry, LSU, "Label-Free Detection Method for Enumeration of Circulating Tumor Cells Using Polymer-Based Microfluidic Devices with Integrated Conductivity Sensor"

3:30 – 3:45pm - Break

3:45 – 4:15pm - Report from CAMD User Committee / Election of New CUC Members

4:15 – 4:45pm - Radiation Safety Recertification, CAMD Conference Room

4:45 – 6:00pm - Poster Session in Experiment Hall

6:00pm - Social Time and Crawfish Boil, CAMD “Backyard”

J. Bennett Johnston Sr., Center for Advanced Microstructures & Devices
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