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Quantum2020 Poster Session Winners

  • By Jenny Stein •
  • 13 November 2020

The Quantum2020 Spooky Action at a Distance poster session was held remotely over multiple Zoom sessions on October 29th, 2020. We had a team of 20 judges coming from various departments at Pitt, CMU, and Duquesne comprising both faculty members, postdocs and previous poster award winners, who evaluated the poster presentations of 44 participants hailing from physics, engineering, chemistry, and other disciplines. 

The full video playlist is linked here, and the descriptions of each video contain quicklinks to the beginning of each presentation. Thank you to everyone who participated!

The six presenters that received the highest overall scores are: 

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PQI2020 Poster Session Winners

  • By Jenny Stein •
  • 24 April 2020

The PQI2020 poster session was held remotely over a Zoom call with poster presenters and judges and streamed live to Youtube for the PQI community to attend and discuss in the live chat. A huge thank you to all who contributed and took time out of their chaotic lives to be PQ-engaged with us. We had the help of 29 judges for the recorded presentation round, and 6 judges sit in for the 15 finalists. A special thank you to our live judges, Prof. David Waldeck, Prof. Rongchao Jin, Prof. Nathan Youngblood, Prof. Andrew Daley, Prof. Kaushik Dayal, and previous poster award winners, Dacen Waters and Jierui Liang. 

You can watch the full video here, with helpful shortcuts to each poster in the description.

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Science2018 Poster Award Winners

  • By Ke Xu •
  • 20 October 2018

Congratulations to the Science2018 Poster Award Winners!

Yasemin Basdogan (Keith group, Pitt Chemical and Petroleum Engineering), Xi Cao (Hatridge Group, Pitt Physics), Tejal Sawant (McKone Group, Pitt Chemical and Petroleum Engineering), Dengyu Yang (Levy Group, Pitt Physics), Amanda Dumi (Jordan Group, Pitt Chemistry), Matthew Grasinger (Dayal Group, CMU Civil and Environmental Engineering) won the poster awards ($1,000 travel award plus Echo Dot or Google Home mini).

Scott Crawford (Millstone Group, Pitt Chemistry), Lu Chen (Levy Group, Pitt Physics), Xing Yee Gan (Millstone group, Pitt Chemistry), Jierui Liang (Fullerton group, Pitt Chmemical and Petroleum Engineering) won the veteran awards (choice of Amazon Echo Dot or Google Home mini).

PQI undergraduate students Phillip Shenk (Levy group, Pitt Physics) won the best undergraduate award (choice of Amazon Echo Dot or Google Home mini).

Also, special thanks to the poster judges for participating in this event. 

 

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Science2017 Poster Award Winners

  • By Leena Aggarwal •
  • 15 November 2017

Congratulations to the Science2017 Poster Award Winners!

Jierui Liang (Fullerton group, SSOE Chemical and Petroleum Engineering) won the grand prize award ($1,000 travel award plus an iPad).

Minh Nguyen Vo (Johnson Group, SSOE Chemical and Petroleum Engineering), Olivia Lanes (Hatridge Group, Pitt Physics), Scott Crawford (Millstone Group, Pitt Chemistry), Maxwell Li (Sokalski Group CMU Materials Science and Engineering), Zeeshan Ahmad (Viswanathan Group, CMU Mechanical Engineering) won the poster awards ($1,000 travel award plus Echo Dot).

Megan Kirkendall Briggeman (Levy Lab, Pitt Physics), Amy Carlson (Evanseck Group, Duquesne Chemistry and Biochemistry), David Myers (Snoke Group, Pitt Physics) won the veteran awards (choice of Amazon Echo Spot/Echo or Google Home mini).

PQI undergraduate students Jessica Montone (Levy Lab) and Joe Albro (Levy Lab) presented a poster at the undergraduate session of Science2017.

Also, special thanks to the poster judges for participating in this event. 

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PQI2017 Poster Award Winners

  • By Aude Marjolin •
  • 10 May 2017

Congratulations to the PQI2017 Poster Award Winners!

Ms. Amy Carlson (Evanseck Group, Duquesne Chemistry), Ms. Megan Briggeman (Levy Lab, Pitt Physics), Mr. Cheng Fang (Liu Group, Pitt Chemistry), Ms. Xing Yee Gan (Millstone Group, Pitt Chemistry), Mr. Devashish Gopalan (Hunt Group, CMU Physics),  and Mr. Gregory Houchins (Viswanathan Group, CMU Engineering/Physics) won a $1,000 travel award to a conference in 2017.

We warmly thank all the poster participants and judges as well as all the attendees for participating in this event!

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Science2016 Poster Award Winners

  • By Aude Marjolin •
  • 5 December 2016

Congratulations to the Science2016 Poster Award Winners!

Dr. Ran Cheng (Xiao's group, CMU Physics), Ms. Xing Yee Gan (Millstone Group, Pitt Chemistry), Mr. Clinton Johnson (Garrett-Roe Lab, Pitt Chemistry), Ms. Megan Kirkendall (Levy Lab, Pitt Physics), Mr. Jun Li (Feenstra Group, CMU Physics), and Mr. Jierui Liang (Fullerton group, Pitt, Chemical Engineering) won a $1,000 award for conference travel in 2017 and an Amazon Echo Dot.

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PQI Graduate Student Profile: Edward Beall

Edward Beall is a graduate student in in the Department of Chemistry at Pitt.

He works in the Waldeck lab and observes charge transport through molecular bridges by studying the electrical conductance of a single molecule. This will aid in miniaturizing circuitry, hopefully to the nanoscale. 

Edward won a travel award at the Science 2015 poster session for his poster on "Scanning Tunneling Microscope Break Junction Method with Continuous Bias Modulation”.

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PQI Graduate Student Profile: Megan Kirkendall

Megan Kirkendall is a graduate student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Pitt.

She works in the Levy lab where she researches quantum simulation at the lanthanum aluminate strontium titanate interface. Her research involves engineering a lattice interface on the nanometer scale, and then using that information to simulate a quantum system that can be studied. This process provides insight into quantum systems that cannot be simulated with a normal computer.

Megan won the grand prize at the Science 2014 poster session for her poster on “Experimental Quantum Simulation Using 1D LaAlO3/SrTiO3”.

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PQI Graduate Student Profile: Devashish Gopalan

Devashish Gopalan is a graduate student in the Department of Physics of Carnegie Mellon University. 

He works in the Feenstra lab where he normally researches the large-scale synthesis of 2D heterotructures. He has recently shifted his interest in the direction of studying physical phenomena within the 2-dimensional limit. 

Devashish won a travel award at the Science 2015 poster session for his poster on “Formation of Hexagonal Boron Nitride On Graphene-Covered Copper Surfaces”.

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PQI Graduate Student Profile: Mitchell Groenenboom

Mitch Groenenboom is a graduate student in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at Pitt.

He works in the Keith group on molecular-promoted CO2 reduction, anti-corrosion coatings, and multiscale modeling of metal nanoparticles.

Mitch won a travel award at the Science 2015 poster session for his poster on "Aqueous Phase CO2 Reduction with Sodium Borohydride: an Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics and Nudged-Elastic Band Mechanistic Study." 

 

 

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