成人大片Materials Symposium
The 2026 成人大片Materials Symposium will be held on Friday, May 8th from 9:30 am - 4:30 pm in the Talon Room on the 4th floor of Osprey Commons (Building 16) on the 成人大片campus. It will feature invited talks, a catered lunch, and a student poster session. There is no registration fee, but attendees are asked to by April 17th so we have an accurate head count for planning purposes. The registration form includes the opportunity to sign up to present a poster at the student poster session. Posters should describe research that is related to the field of materials science and engineering, broadly defined.
| 9:30-9:35 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
| 9:35-10:35 | Materials Research Across UNF: Part I | |
| 9:35-9:55 | Title TBD Eirin Sullivan, Associate Professor of Chemistry, UNF |
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| 9:55-10:15 | “End-of-Life Materials Management: Implications for Human Health and the Environment” Florentino De la Cruz, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, UNF |
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| 10:15-10:35 | “Design and Processing-Structure-Properties Interrelationship in Advanced Alloys” Nelson Delfino de Campos Neto, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UNF |
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| 10:35-10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45-11:45 | Industry Focus Session | |
| 10:45-11:00 | “Scrap to Strength: How CMC Advances Sustainable Steelmaking” Justin Gibson, Reliability Engineer, CMC Steel |
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| 11:00-11:15 | “From 成人大片to Space: Entrepreneurship and Space Technology” Andrew Rush, President & CEO, Star Catcher |
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| 11:15-11:30 | “Selective Laser Sintering Material Considerations – A Pragmatic Approach” Peyton Hopson, Fellow, 3D Printing Polymer and Pharmaceutical Lead, Johnson & Johnson |
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| 11:30-11:45 | “Redwire Defend Above” Paul Sheldon, Director of Operations, Redwire Space Missions |
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| 11:45-12:45 | Symposium Lunch | |
| 12:45-1:30 | Keynote Talk | “Materials at the Heart of Semiconductor Innovation” David Arnold, Director of the Florida Semiconductor Institute and George Kirkland Engineering Leadership Professor, University of Florida |
| 1:30-2:10 | Materials Research Across UNF: Part II | |
| 1:30-1:50 | “Magnetic Interactions in Quantum Clusters and their Effect on Quantum Decoherence” Jason Haraldsen, Professor of Physics, UNF |
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| 1:50-2:10 | “The Tale that Fish Can Tell: Advancing Interdisciplinary Research Through Morphological Analysis” M. Laura Habegger, Assistant Professor of Biology, UNF |
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| 2:10-2:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 2:20-3:20 | Graduate Student Research Talks | |
| 2:20-2:35 | “Systemic Delivery of Nanoparticles to Osteoarthritic Joints” Molly Dobrow, Doctoral Student in Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida |
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| 2:35-2:50 | “Growth Optimization of YBa2Cu3O7-x Thin Films Using MBE Flux Gradients and Closed-Loop Electronic Transport” Daniela Amalfi Ojeda, Master's Student in Materials Science and Engineering, UNF |
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| 2:50-3:05 | “Graphene-Based Josephson Junctions” Emily Frederick, Doctoral Student in Physics, University of Central Florida |
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| 3:05-3:20 | “Mechanical Properties and Hydrophobic Tendencies of Additively Manufactured Ultem 9085 for Maritime Environment Applications” Zach Williams, Master's Student in Materials Science and Engineering, UNF |
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| 3:20-4:20 | Student Poster Session | |
| 4:20-4:30 | Concluding Remarks | |
This event is made possible through support from the 成人大片College of Arts and Sciences and the 成人大片College of Computing, Engineering, and Construction.