Schedule

AVS 2020 Major Awardee Speakers

• 2020 AVS Medard W. Welch Award Lecture: “Chemically Tailoring Interfaces in Two-Dimensional Heterostructures,” Mark Hersam, Northwestern University, USA | View Awards Bio | View Newsletter Interview
• 2020 AVS Gaede-Langmuir Award Lecture: “How Advances in High-Power Magnetron Impulse Sputtering (HiPIMS) Can Control Ion Energy, Ionization, and have High Deposition Rates,” David Ruzic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA | View Awards Bio | View Newsletter Interview
• 2020 AVS Peter Mark Memorial Award Lecture: “Efficient Graphene Hot Electron Devices: Electrochemistry and Electron Emission,” Rehan Kapadia, University of Southern California, USA | View Awards Bio | View Newsletter Interview

Invited Speakers

• Invited: “Emulsion-Templated Asymmetric Vesicles,” Laura Arriaga, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• Invited: “Thin Film Growth One Sstep at a Time: Unraveling Mechanisms in Atomic Layer Deposition,” Stacey Bent, Stanford University
• Invited: “Light Management Strategies for Photovoltaics: Luminescent Concentrators and Passive Cooling for Modules,” Vivian Ferry, University of Minnesota, USA
• Invited: “Chirality Detection of Surface Desorption Products Using Photoelectron Circular Dichroism” Tim Schäfer, University Goettingen, Germany
• Invited: “Atom-Defined Silicon Circuit Elements For Fast, Low Power Computing,” Robert Wolkow, University of Alberta and The National Institute for Nanotechnology, Canada

Early Career Speakers

• Early Career: “Catalytic Upcycling of Single-Use Polyolefins using Pt Nanoparticles Prepared via Atomic Layer Deposition,” Ryan Hackler, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Early Career: “Atomic-scale Studies of Fe₃O₄(001) and TiO₂(110) Surfaces Following Immersion in CO₂-acidified Water,” Francesca Mirabella, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Student Awardee Speakers

• 2020 AVS Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Scholarship Award Talk: “Ru Precursors for Photoassisted Chemical Vapor Deposition: Comparison of Allyl and Diene Complexes,” Christopher Brewer, University of Florida, USA
• 2020 AVS Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Scholarship Award Talk: “Selective Gas-Phase Surface Functionalization to Enable Ultra-High ALE Etch Selectivity of Si-Based Dielectrics,” Ryan Gasvoda, Colorado School of Mines, USA
• 2020 AVS Russell & Sigurd Varian Award Talk: “Rhodium Copper Single-Atom Alloys for Selective and Coke-Free C-H Activation,” Ryan Hannagan, Tufts University, USA
• 2020 AVS Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Award Talk: “Sorption and Desorption of TMA During Vapor Phase Infiltration Into Polystyrene and Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Thin Films,” Emily McGuinness, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• 2020 AVS Graduate Research Award Talk: “Hydrogen migration at restructuring palladium–silver oxide boundaries dramatically enhances reduction rate of silver oxide,” Christopher O’Connor, Harvard University, USA
• 2020 AVS Graduate Research Award Talk: “Monolithic Integration of Crystalline III-Vs on Amorphous Substrates using a Combination of Epitaxial and Non-epitaxial Methods,” Debarghya Sarkar, University of Southern California, USA
• 2020 AVS Graduate Research Award Talk: “The Study of the Effects of Local Environments on Self-Assembled Nanostructures with Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy,” Jeremy Schultz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• 2020 AVS Nellie Yeoh Whetten Award Talk: “Overcoming Obstacles to Nano-Scale X-ray Tomography of Solid-State Li Battery Electrolytes,” Natalie Seitzman, Colorado School of Mines, USA