nano@stanford 2024 Open House
nano@stanford 2024 Open House
October 09, 2024 | 12PM - 6PM PT
Thank you to everyone who stopped by for the nano@stanford Open House, which was held in the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center (Foyer & Amphitheater)! This free event featured a Research Showcase (poster session), a Vendor Expo, and gave guests the opportunity to interact with industry professionals and representatives.
We hope you enjoyed getting to network with the community, support your fellow lab members, and participate in the many activities we had scheduled!
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
View the list of research poster participants here.
We had a high number of poster presenters this year, and we'd like to thank our judges and the community for stopping by to show their support, learn about nano@stanford lab members' research activities, and fill out a post-survey, which helped us determine the winners!
Judges' Vote
First Prize: Katya Mikhailova & Lerato Takana - Spin Wave-based electronics: a new platform for energy efficient information processing
Second Prize: Yi-Shiou Duh - Label-free, free-space optical neuron interface
Community Vote
Third Prize: Grant Lewis, Spectrometer-on-chip: Design of Ring Oscillator and Delay Circuits Using GF22nm FDx Process Technology for APD Array Control
Lightning Talks
This year, C-ShaRP hosted a lightning talk series to showcase research conducted at our facilities. These talks took place from 3:00PM - 5:00PM in AllenX. Our speakers for this session included:
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 were here to tell you about their latest technologies and answer your questions. Plus, there was some great swag to stock up on! Companies that were 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, hosted 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!
