Interdisciplinary Colloquium



COSAM Interdisciplinary Colloquium

2016 - 2017

Fall Semester

September 13th 2016

  • Katherine Perry (Mathematics) - Seeking Rainbow Trees
  • Xinxing Ma (Physics) - Suppresion of density limit disruptions in a current-carrying stellarator
  • Carly Engel (Chemistry) - Investigating Flavin-Based Electron Bifurcation in Heterodisulfide (HDR)

October 11th 2016

  • Dylan Reedy (Physics) - The many deaths of a water molecule
  • Safique Islam (Chemistry) - Radical Chain Reduction of CCl4 Initiated by Illumination of SPEEK Solutions
  • Samantha Smoot (Biology) - Life at Sea: Working as a Bering Sea Shellfish Fisheries Observer

November 15th 2016

  • Curtis Johnson (Physics) - Ultraviolet spectroscopic measurements of high-Z plasma facing components
  • Jianzhen Liu (Mathematics) - Toeplitz matrices are unitarily similar to symmetric matrices
  • Xiangpeng Li (Chemistry) - “Mouse-on-a-chip” model for Diabetes research

Spring Semester

February 7th 2017

  • Ana Dmytrejchuk Gil (Chemistry) - Conformationally restricted macrocyclic nucleosides for RNA-based therapeutic applications**
  • Nicholas Barbre (Geosciences) - Irrigation and Certificate of Use Compliance in the Wiregrass Region of Alabama
  • Taylor Hall (Physics) - Dust particle flows in the presence of imposed ordered structures

March 7th 2017

  • Ana Dmytrejchuk Gil (Chemistry) - Conformationally restricted macrocyclic nucleosides for RNA-based therapeutic applications
  • Austin Bush (Geosciences) - Assessing Rainwater Harvesting Potential for Urban Multi-family Housing Developments in Auburn, AL using UAS
  • Matthew Galaska (Biology) - Crossing barriers: Admixure revealed across the Antarctic Polar Front in brittle star (Astrotoma agassizii) phylogeography

April 4th 2017

  • Richard Strom (Physics) - Momentum Imaging Techniques for Dissociative Electron Attachment of the Carbon Tetrafluoride Molecule through Cold Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy (COLTRIMS)
  • Breanna Sipley (Biology) - Genomics of parasites: investigating the evolution of blood parasitism in parasitic flatworms
  • Bin Yeh (Mathemtics) - Decomposing graphs with two associate classes into paths of length 3

**Moved to March 7th