Friday, September 21, 2012

11:30 am   Registration and Department BBQ Lunch (Front Plaza)

2:00 pm     Opening Remarks: Sid Redner, Department Chair

2:10 pm     Scientific Talks (COM 101):

                           Laszlo Barabasi - (PhD 1994) Distinguished University Professor of Physics,

                               Northeastern University

                               Taming Complexity: Controlling Networks (abstract)

                           Mike Naughton - (PhD 1986) Professor of Physics and Chair at Boston College

                                Nanocoaxial Arrays (abstract)

                           Richard Averitt - Associate Professor of Physics, Boston University

                                Controlling light with materials, controlling materials with light (abstract)

                           Pankaj Mehta - Assistant Professor of Physics, Boston University

                                Quantifying Waddington’s Landscape: Modeling the gene networks that

                                underlie cellular identity (abstract)

4:10 pm     Coffee Break

4:40 pm     Career Talks and Career Panel (COM 101):

                           Dennis Hamill - (PhD 1969) CEO, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp.

                                Physics Throughout a Non-Traditional Business Career (abstract)

                           Justin Pniower - (BA Physics & Philosophy 1999, PhD Oxford 2005),

                               Senior technical consultant, Ab Initio Software

                                Unforeseen Turns: How I Ended Up In Software

                           Kristen Stoops - (MA 1993) Business Development Director, Oxford Nanopore

                                Technologies, Ltd.

                                Do what comes naturally (most of the time!)

6:30 pm      Wine and Cheese Reception; Graduate Student Posters (SCI Basement Atrium)

Saturday, September 22, 2012

8:45 am       Light Breakfast (SCI Lounge)

9:15 am       Career Talks and Test-Run Job Interviews (SCI 109):

                            Reza Sadr - (PhD 1998, JD 2011) Associate, Electrical & Computer Technology

                                Group, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

                                From Physics to Patent Law

                             Terry Russell - (PhD 1998) Entrepreneur and investor in science and

                                technology-based startup companies.

                                Experimental Business          

                            Denise Ciotti Labieniec - (MA 1995) Director of Studies,

                                The Winsor School, a Boston all-girls school for the academically motivated

                                "Ms. Lab": how I became and stayed a high school physics teacher

                            Chris Serino - (PhD 2012) Technical Staff Member, Lincoln Labs

                                 My Journey through Massachusetts's Offerings in the Physical Sciences:

                                 Undergraduate, Graduate, and Industry

11:15 am   Scientific Talks (SCI 109):

                            Vito Scarola - (BA 1997, PhD Penn State 2002) Assistant Professor of Physics,

                                Virginia Tech.

                                 Searching for New Particles in Quantum Condensed Matter (abstract)

                            Bogdan Dobrescu - (PhD 1998) Scientist II, Theoretical Physics Department, Fermilab

                                Higgs particle as a tool (abstract)

                            Tulika Bose - Assistant Professor of Physics, Boston University

                               Discovering new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (abstract)

                            Andrew Cohen - Professor of Physics, Boston University

                                The strange story of superluminal neutrinos (abstract)

1:15 pm     Light Lunch (SCI Lounge)