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nano@stanford 2024 Open House

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nano@stanford 2024 Open House

October 09, 2024 | 12PM - 6PM PT

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All are welcome to visit us for the nano@stanford Open House, which will be held in the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center (Foyer & Amphitheater)! This free event will feature a Research Showcase (poster session), a Vendor Expo, and the opportunity to interact with industry professionals and representatives.

Please come network with the community, support your fellow lab members, and join us for all the festivities! We'll be giving away swag and other fun prizes including plushies, gift cards, and more!

Schedule

12:00PM-5:00PM - Scavenger Hunt (redeem prizes at Redemption Center)

12:00PM-5:00PM - Fun activities (Inflatable game, paint gun PPE activity, and more)

12:00PM-5:00PM - Vendor Expo

12:00PM-5:00PM - Industry Meet N' Greets (learn about careers in industry)

12:00PM-2:00PM - Research Poster Session (see list of posters here)

1:00PM - Facility Tour of McCullough (Sign Up!, meet at Welcome Table)

2:00PM - Facility Tour of Spilker (Sign Up!, meet at Welcome Table)

2:00PM-2:45PM - College & Career Panel (Allen 101X)

3:00PM - Facility Tour of Allen (Sign Up!, meet at Welcome Table or Allen 101X)

3:00PM-5:00PM - Research Lightning Talks (Allen 101X, hosted by Stanford's C-ShaRP program)

5:00PM-6:00PM - nano@stanford Trivia Night (hosted by the nano-LMC)

Research Poster Session

Our research showcase is open to all. If you are interested in presenting a poster at our Open House, please fill out this form by September 27th. Your research poster can be reused from previous conferences/events. View the current list of participants here.

A boxed lunch and a $25 Coupa gift card will be provided for presenters, and there will be a competition to win our top three prizes! Winners are determined by community votes, so please be sure to stop by to support and learn about your fellow nano@stanford lab members' research activities!

1st Prize: $500 gift card

2nd Prize: $250 gift card

3rd Prize: $100 gift card

Lightning Talks

This year, C-ShaRP is hosting a lightning talk series to showcase research conducted at our facilities. These talks will take place from 3:00PM - 5:00PM in AllenX. Our speakers for this session include:

Keynote Speaker: Professor Zihao Ou - "Enhancing Optical Transparency in Biological Tissues Using Photonics Engineering"

Lukas Michalek - "Seeing Chemistry - AFM-IR @ Stanford University"

Lucy Wang - "Single-Molecule Dynamics of Confined Branched Polymers"

Siddarth Doshi - "Electrochemically Mutable Soft Metasurfaces"

Liam Herndon - "Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy as a Label-Free Tool for Bacterial Wastewater-Based Epidemiology"

Robert I Lee - "How to Automate Data Transfer and Sharing Your Research Instruments"

Sergio Cordero - "Micro-patterning technique for Metal-Organic Framework based Gas Sensing Devices"

Beatriz de la Fuente - "Electronic characterization of chalcogenide-based materials for solar driven CO2 reduction applications with UPS/LEIPS"

More info can be found here:

Vendor Expo

Many of your favorite fabrication and characterization equipment vendors will be here to tell you about their latest technologies and answer your questions. Plus, there will likely be some great swag to stock up on! Companies that will be at the vendor expo include: Cameca, IonToF, KLA, Kurt J. Lesker, nanoSILICON, Oxford Instruments, Park Systems, PHI, Plasma Therm, Prudential Cleanroom, Bruker, and more!

Industry Career Meet N’ Greets (12-5PM)

Company representatives from EMD Electronics, Micron, Lam Research, and TSMC, will be hosting Meet n’ Greets to talk with students about industry careers from 12-5pm in the Huang Amphitheater.

2023 Event Recap

More than 500 members of our community from around the country attended the nano@stanford 2023 Open House event, where they got the chance to build new connections and learn more about nanotechnology. Here’s a quick look into our event, featuring research poster presentations given by students and interns, industry professionals, live instrument demos, lawn games, and a riveting pub-style safety trivia night!