Talks from graduate students
“The age of plastics: progress, prospects, and problems”
Renee Sifri (CCB)
“Simulations in soft matter physics”
Maya Martirossyan (MSE)
“Guiding Students to Graduate School”
Dana Chapman and Konrad Hedderick (both MSE)
“Atoms and EELS: Probing materials at the lattice scale with scanning transmission electron microscopy”
Berit Goodge (AEP)
“Computational Photography: Images & Imagination”
Mel White (ECE)
Lab tours
Tour of the Cornell Electron Microscopy Facility: How can we probe materials at the atomic scale?
Berit Goodge (AEP)
Tour of a Biofuels Lab: How can we convert agricultural waste into fuel and sustainable energy?
Zoe Pollard (BEE)
Tour of an Electrochemical and Optics Lab: What instruments do we use to discover new materials for electrocatalysts?
Abby Nason (MSE)
Tour of a Polymer Synthesis Lab: How are polymers synthesized and tested?
Scott Spring and Jesse Hsu (both CCB)
Activities
Creating Designer Organisms: How the tools for gene engineering are easier than ever
David Specht (AEP)
Symmetry in the Real World
Aileen Luo (MSE)
The Physics of Interatomic Bonding and Phases of Matter
Tucker Swenson (MSE)
- Activity 1: Exploring the Two-Atom System
- Activity 2: The Many-Atom System
- Activity 3: Crystalline Solids in Three Dimensions [use Firefox or Chrome browser]
- Slides
- Activity Description
Glued Into Science
Scott Spring and Jesse Hsu (both CCB)
- Presentation slides
- Activity sheet for grades 6–8
- Activity sheet for grades 9–12
- Activity Description
