Graduate Research and Creativity Symposium 2014
Friday April 18th
Schedule
8:00-8:40 am
Student Innovation Center
Registration & Breakfast
8:40 am
Student Innovation Center
Welcome
9:00-11:50 am
Student Innovation Center
& CIMS Rooms 2120-2150
Morning Presentations
12:00 pm
University Gallery
Lunch, Remarks & Awards
Begin at 12:15 p.m.
1:00-2:00 pm
University Gallery
Panel Presentation
2:00-2:50 pm
University Gallery
Poster Presentations
3:00-4:50 pm
Student Innovation Center
& CIMS Rooms 2120-2150
Afternoon Presentations
5:00 pm
Student Innovation Center
Closing Ceremony
Student Innovation Center is located in building USC 87-1600,
and is also known as The M.A.G.I.C. Center
University Gallery is located in James E Booth Hall, Room 2765
Oral Presentations Room 2130
MFA and MS Various Disciplines
9:00
Dance: A Communication Curiosity
Adrian
Safar
9:30
Biologic Significance of Dual Oriented P6 from
Nontypeable Haemophilus influenza
Casey
Reulbach
10:00
Communication and Media Technology
Raniaha
Alharbi
10:30
Investigating the bulk phenolic content of
Typha spp.: A potential link to invasion
success.
Melissa
Maurer
11:00
Native shrubs limit invasion of restored
wetlands by opportunistic invaders
Kaitlyn
Moranz
11:30
Does grazing control the spread of invasive
wetland plants?
Lisa
Kratzer
Break
Lunch, Panel and Poster Presentations
3:00
The intersecting structures of patriarchy and
racial oppression in Zora Neale Hurston's Their
Eyes Were Watching God
Jessica
Spies
3:30
Prisoner Recovery Process Model in the
National Penitentiary of La Victoria
Zelandia
Diaz
4:00
Innovating Dynamic Interactive Retail Banking
Services Design: A Service Innovation
Capabilities Framework
Rich
Davis
4:30
Lean Supply chain Management in Medical
Hrushikesh
Sagar
Oral Presentations Room 2150
Ph.D. and MS – Various Disciplines
9:00
Emission Line Analysis of
Brightest Cluster Galaxies
Kevin
Cooke
9:30
Cross-Correlation Methods in Search of
Gravitational Waves
from Low-mass X-ray Binaries
Yuanhao
Zhang
10:00
Ramsey Numbers Involving Pentagons
David
Narvaez
10:30
Action Figures as an Enabling Technology for
Participatory Design Sessions
Jeremiah
Parry-Hill
11:00
Ethnographic study on
Rock Climbing Beginners
Hardik
Shah
11:30
Improving requirements with user feedback to
achieve high quality on developing mobile apps
on time
Johanna
Maria
Calderon
Popa
Break
Lunch, Panel and Poster Presentations
3:00
Design of Efficient Inbound Logistics Networks:
Multi-stop Collection Routes with Operational
Constraints
Zhijie
Dong
3:30
Neuromemristive Systems for Neuro-inspired
Information Processing
Cory
Merkel
4:00
Profile Recognition in Silicon Wafer using
Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy
Chih-Yu
Jen
4:30
A Study on Performance and
Stability of IGZO TFTs
Nathan
Walsh
Oral Presentations Room 2120
MS – Engineering
9:00
Enhancement of pool boiling heat transfer
over open micro channels coated
with microporous surface.
Chinmay
Patil
9:30
Quantifying Frictional Losses for the Extended
Body Rimless Wheel Robotic Walking System
Konrad Ahlin
10:00
Dynamics of a River Kite Power Production
System with a Kinetic Energy Storage Device
Matthew
Douglas
10:30
Energy Conserving Design for an Impact-less
Walking Device using the Chebyshev Lambda
Mechanism
Daniel
Schuster Jr
11:00
Power Production from a Hydrokite System
Shriya
Gosavi
11:30
Dynamic Analysis of a Rimless Wheel on
Randomly Generated Rough Terrain
Saloni
Vardhan
Break
Lunch, Panel and Poster Presentations
Refer to
Schedule
3:00
Parametric study of sintered porous surface
for enhancement of
pool boiling heat transfer
Felix Liu
3:30
Power Generation for a 2D Tethered Wing
Model with a Variable Tether Length
Ashwin
Ramesh
4:00
4:30
Crystalization of Amorphous Silicon and
Dopant Activation using Xenon
Flash-Lamp Annealing
A simulation-based methodology to compare
reverse logistics network configurations under
uncertainy
Chris
Reepmeyer
Fatma Selin
Yanikara
Oral Presentations MAGIC Center
Ph.D. – Computing and Information Sciences
9:00
Behavior prediction based on action
history and social networks
Biru Cui
9:30
Single-Peaked Preferences and Partial Orders
Zack
Fitzsimmons
10:00
10:30
Mapping the Chasm: Using Grounded Theory
to Study Academic Scientific Software
Development Process Concerns
Co-registration of Eye Tracking with EEG data
for exploring humans' semantic
comprehension
Erika Mesh
Xuan
Guo
11:00
A Scheduling Approach to
Processor Performance Modeling
Sam
Skalicky
11:30
Proving Determinism for a Parallel Functional
Language with Speculation
Matthew Le
Break
Lunch, Panel and Poster Presentations
Refer to
Schedule
3:00
Probabilistic Inference for Obfuscated
Network Attack Sequences
Haitao Du
3:30
On Deriving a PROLOG Compiler
Arthur
NunesHarwitt
4:00
A Unified Design Methodology for Robust
and Temperature-Aware Millimeter-wave
Wireless Network-on-Chip
Naseef
Mansoor
4:30
Collaborative Eye Tracking for Image Analysis
Srinivas
Sridharan
Oral Presentations Room 2140
Ph.D. – Astrophysics, Physics & Imaging Science
9:00
Polarized vision for astronomers
and other humans.
Dimitry
Vorobiev
9:30
Exploring the composition of the planetforming disk around twin young suns in
Sagittarius
Valerie
Rapson
10:00
Simulating Highly Spinning
Black Hole Binaries
Ian Ruchlin
10:30
Gas kinematics in the inner kiloparsec of the
active galaxy NGC 1386
Davide Lena
11:00
Automation of Aperture Photometry Technique to determine the surface
brightness of galaxies
Sravani
Vaddi
11:30
Binary Black Hole Accretion Disks in General
Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics
Dennis
Brown
Break
Lunch, Panel and Poster Presentations
Refer to
Schedule
3:00
Water Constituent Retrieval over Case 2
Water using Landsat-8: Initial Results
Javier
Concha
3:30
Eigen Brains: PCA Analysis of
Structural MRI Brain Images
Gajendra
Katuwal
4:00
Progressive Connectivity and Using the Curse
of Dimensionality in your Favor
Thomas
Kinsman
4:30
Binary Black Hole Mergers
Brennan
Ireland