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<div align="center"><font face="Times" color="#000000">Independent
Activities Period Lectures and Poster Presentations</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times" color="#000000">January 15,
2009; 9:30 am-3:00 pm, Grier Room (34-401)</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000"><b>Spooking the spooks with
spectroscopy</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times" color="#000000">9:30 am - 11:30
am</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Timothy Swager, MIT
Chemistry Department</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Amplifying
fluorescent polymers for national security</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Richard Larsen,
Jasco Inc.</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Bringing
criminals to light using molecular spectroscopy</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Narayan Khandekar,
Harvard Art Museum</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Science and art
attribution</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times" color="#000000"><b>Poster
session and lunch</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times" color="#000000">11:30 am - 1:30
pm (poster set-up 8:30 am - 9:30 am)</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><i>Prizes
awarded for the posters with the most science, the most spectroscopy,
and the most originality!</i></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times" color="#000000"><b>Graduate
student talks</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times" color="#000000">1:30 pm -3:00
pm</font></div>
<div><font face="Times"
color="#000000">Introduction: Michael
Feld</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Zoya Volynskaya,
Feld Group</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Clinical studies
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Barratt Park, Field
Group</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Development and
chemical application of chirped-pulse millimeter-wave
spectroscopy</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Alfonso Reina,
Dresselhaus Group</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Raman
spectroscopy of single-and few- layer
graphene </b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Harold Hwang, Nelson
Group</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Nonlinear
terahertz spectroscopy of bulk semiconductors</b></font></div>
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