Mercedeh Khajavikhan
University of Southern California

Non-Hermitian and Topological Photonics: Optics at an Exceptional Point

Miles Rouches
Title: “Building a Non-cooperative Repressilator through Competitive Binding”
Advisor: Guillaume Lambert

~Light refreshments provided~

Ankit S. Disa
Assistant Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics
Cornell University

"Using light to engineer beyond equilibrium quantum materials"

Manu Prakash
Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Stanford University

Recreational Biology: From Animals in Flatland to Topological Traps

Prof. Amitabha Chattopadhyay
CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Cholesterol and GPCR Function: A Molecular Sensor for Cholesterol in the Serotonin1A Receptor

Judy Cha
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Cornell University

1D topological systems for next-generation electronics

Alex Holehouse
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Washington University School of Medicine

Sequence- and chemical specificity define the functional landscape of intrinsically disordered regions

Gleb Finkelstein
Professor of Physics
Duke University

"Chiral Andreev edge states in the quantum Hall regime"

Hui Cao
John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics, Professor of Physics, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Yale University

Targeted Light Delivery Deep Inside Strong-Scattering Media

Title: Charge and energy transport in mixed-dimensional systems: graphene, nanotubes, and graphene quantum dots