wisconsin science & technology symposium Energizing innovationthrough meaningful collaboration August 2-3,2016 UW Oshkosh SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM Sponsors PLATINUM UW Oshkosh UW Oshkosh Business Success Center UW System

GOLD Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium (AMIC) & Wisconsin Materials Institute (WMI) Boyle Fredrickson Intellectual Property Law Quarles & Brady LLP Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

SILVER Center for Technology Commercialization Marshfield Area Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Planning Committee Members WISYS TECHNOLOGY UW OSHKOSH FOUNDATION Chancellor Leavitt Arjun Sanga Tom Grogan Jennifer Cook Cynthia Maas Mike Cenci Leah Mann Mads Gjefsen Bob Roberts Tony Hanson Laura Rommelfanger Bri Maas Kelly Schill WiSys Technology Foundation Will Ploch Sabrina Mueller-Spitz 401 Charmany Dr. Suite 205 Kristen Ruka Susan Surendonk Madison, WI 53719 Alicia Schiff www.wisys.org Caitlin Washburn Bob Wise “It is a pleasure working alongside the innovative minds of UW System students, faculty, staff and alumni, and we at WiSys are proud of the progress the campuses have made in fostering such an innovative and entrepreneurial culture.” HISTORY -Arjun Sanga Executive Director of WiSys In its ninth year, the Wisconsin Science & Technology Symposium is bigger and more collaborative than ever.

The Wisconsin Science & System campuses, WSTS now Technology Symposium (WSTS) highlights impactful research began in 2007 as a way to happening in the humanities encourage interdisciplinary and social science fields. Parallel research among scientists scientific and educational across the state. What began tracks, new this year to WSTS, as a small gathering focused offer a deeper look into a wider almost entirely on research variety of topics and allow presentations surrounding participants to customize the the “hard sciences” of symposium to their interests. biotechnology, nanotechnology, Adjustments to programming medical science and clean each year have helped make energy quickly grew into WSTS grow to more than 150 Wisconsin’s signature registrants, allowing for more networking opportunity for meaningful and interdiscplinary WELCOME researchers, students, alumni collaborations. and industry professionals. Beyond showcasing cutting- Ideas fly. Collaborations spark. edge research in science and What will you take home? TO WSTS technology happening on UW 2016 3 Research and technology development are vital to the economic growth of Wisconsin. To encourage interdisciplinary research in the state, WiSys Technology Foundation and UW SCHEDULE Oshkosh have jointly organized the 9th Annual Wisconsin Science & Technology Symposium to bring together innovative TUESDAY, AUGUST 2 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3 researchers and students from the University of Wisconsin 7:30-9:00am Poster & Sponsor Setup 8:00-9:00am Breakfast & Networking System and other public and private organizations. Great Hall Great Hall It is our hope that this symposium will provide the opportunity 8:00-9:00am Registration & Breakfast 9:00-9:30am WiSys Update for critical networking and the formation of partnerships to help Great Hall Ballroom further innovative ideas in Wisconsin. Arjun Sanga, WiSys 9:00-10:45am Welcome & Keynote Ballroom 9:30-10:45am Regent Scholar Presentations Arjun Sanga, WiSys Ballroom Chancellor Andrew Leavitt, Toivo Kallas, UW Oshkosh UW Oshkosh Mohammad Rabbani, UW-Platteville Daniel Burrus, Burrus Research Joseph Hupy, UW-Eau Claire 10:45-11:00am Break & Refreshments 10:45-11:00am Break & Refreshments “We are thrilled what to expect Great Hall Great Hall to be hosting such 11:00-12:00pm Reverse Pitch 11:00-12:00pm with Impact create meaningful spark new Ballroom Cheng-Chen Huang, UW-River Falls a key event for Athula Gunawardena, UW-Whitewater connections ideas 12:00-1:15pm Lunch & Presentations Bart Dahl, UW-Eau Claire our state. The Ballroom Mark Hogan, WEDC 12:00-1:15pm Lunch, Awards & Presentation research and Chancellor Dennis Shields, Ballroom UW-Platteville Jim Henderson, UW System innovative work gain IP grow entrepreneurial through WiSys knowledge insight 1:15-2:30pm Parallel Sessions 1:15-2:30pm ARG & WiSys-supported Projects Scientific Track: ARG Recipients Jonathan Gutow, UW Oshkosh demonstrates the Ballroom BC David Lewis, UW-Eau Claire Information Wi-Fi & Internet Access Meals Sabrina Mueller-Spitz, UW Oshkosh Heidi Fencl, UW-Green Bay value of connecting Brian Barry, UW-Platteville For information and answers to Wireless Internet access is Beverages and various snacks Min Liu DeGruson, UW-Stout 2:30-2:45pm Closing Remarks UW resources any questions you may have, available throughout the UW will be available throughout the Educational Track: Grant Writing Ballroom please visit the WSTS registration Oshkosh campus guest network. conference. & Development Dean John Koker, UW Oshkosh with the business desk. No password is needed. Please Ballroom A see the registration desk with any Dave Linz, CTC 3:00-4:00pm Optional: Biodigester Tour community and Cell Phones issues. Name Badge Please silence your cell phone 2:30-3:00pm Break & Refreshments it’s great to be Great Hall Please wear your name badge at while inside the presentation hall. showcasing this in all times to ensure admission to Sponsor Booths & Poster 3:00-4:30pm Poster Symposium & Gaming our own region.” all presentations and meals. Symposium Presentations Showcase Certain presentations and other Ballroom BC Sponsor and poster exhibits will materials from the symposium Parking Information be on display throughout Tuesday may be available on the WiSys 5:00pm Transportation to Revs Bowl Bar Parking at UW Oshkosh is and Wednesday. The main poster & Grill Web page after the event: www. -Andrew Leavitt available in the AWCC visitor lot. session is Tuesday afternoon. *Bus departs at 5:15pm wisys.org/events. For parking concerns please see This year, we will also feature 5:30-8:30pm Bowling, Networking & Dinner Chancellor of the registration desk. select gaming projects from Revs Bowl Bar & Grill UW Oshkosh around the UW System alongside 9:00pm Arrive back at UW Oshkosh Transportation the Poster Symposium. AWCC For those who signed up for transportation to the evening bowling event, please board Follow along on social media! the buses at 5:00pm. Buses will @wisystto leave promptly at 5:15pm from the AWCC. facebook.com/wisystechfdn

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Each presenter over the duration of the Wisconsin Science & Technology Symposium was hand- selected by WiSys to provide exposure to the extensive research, and resources available across the Badger state.

Read on for a detailed schedule of events and to learn more about each presenter.

“The Wisconsin Science & Technology Symposium exemplifies what is possible when academic institutions and industry professionals FOR WISCONSIN’S WORKFORCE. join forces. I encourage you to make the best of this MORE THAN 36,000 NEW UW GRADUATES WILL ENTER THE WORKFORCE THIS YEAR, ready to put their talent and entrepreneurial spirit to work. They are prepared for careers opportunity to build your network and advance in finance, engineering, science, nursing, information systems and manyother fields. UW grads communicate clearly, solve problems creatively and work well in teams. They will scientific research for the state.” complete their degrees on campus and online, in numbers that top national averages. They are Wisconsin’s strong workforce for tomorrow. -Ray Cross UNIVERSITY OF President of UW System WISCONSIN SYSTEM Wisconsin.edu

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8:00 - 9:00 am Registration & Breakfast Daniel Burrus, CEO and Innovation Expert 9:00 - 10:45 am Welcome & Keynote THE FUTURE OF INNOVATION LEADERS | RESEARCHERS | CHAMPIONS Daniel Burrus is considered one of the World’s Leading Futurists on UW Oshkosh: A research-enhanced CHECK OUT Arjun Sanga, Executive Director, WiSys Global Trends and Innovation. comprehensive university The New York Times has the spotlight on scholarly and creative Arjun Sanga leads the WiSys pursuits in the spring edition of Engage team with 20+ years of referred to him as one of the With a strong focus on research, Titans demonstrate on a magazine. The issue features the unveiling experience leading research top three business gurus. daily basis what faculty, staff and students can do to change of UW Oshkosh as a research-enhanced collaborations, managing IP, He is a strategic advisor the world. to executives from Fortune university—along with faculty who are closing licensing deals and working on complex ideas and student 500 companies, helping them to UW Oshkosh’s new focus as a research-enhanced public fostering startup companies. university puts student-centered, collaborative research research-focused achievements. develop game-changing strategies based on his A registered patent attorney, projects at the heart of the institution. Faculty members have uwosh.edu/engage Sanga has been involved proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology a strong focus on teaching, while maintaining impressive in every aspect of technology innovations and their future impact. His client list research and publishing credentials. Classes taught by transfer, from operations to management. He has a includes companies such as Microsoft, GE, American professors and low faculty-to-student ratios mean that background in chemistry and computer science. Express, Google, Toshiba, Procter & Gamble, Honda students work directly with faculty to conduct, publish and and IBM. He has founded six businesses, four of present research. which were national leaders in the U.S. in the first year. Titans are problem solvers in a globally-focused world— Andrew Leavitt, Chancellor, UW Oshkosh He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and with research projects like geographic mapping across consulting firm that monitors trends to help clients the country, studying wild orangutans in Indonesia, Dr. Andrew J. Leavitt became the profit from technological, social and business forces and improving the health of beaches and water tables 11th chancellor of the University that are converging to create enormous opportunities. throughout the state. To read stories about UW Oshkosh’s of Wisconsin Oshkosh in focus on research, visit uwosh.edu/today/research. November 2014. Leavitt has a Burrus’ accurate predictions date back to the early strong foundation in academic 1980s where he became the first and only futurist to leadership with more than accurately identify the 20 technologies that would 20 years as an educator, become the driving force of business and economic researcher and fundraiser. In change for decades to come. Since then, he has his time at UW Oshkosh, Leavitt continued to establish a worldwide reputation for has led the campus in enhancing student success, his exceptional record of predicting the future of increasing the profile of research by faculty and technology-driven change and its direct impact on the students, and furthering the University’s commitment business world. to sustainability and community engagement. Burrus is the author of six books, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller Flash Foresight: How To See the Invisible and Do The Impossible, as well as the international best-seller Technotrends.

9 tuesday august 2 agenda UW Oshkosh Business Success Center 10:45 - 11:00 am Break & Refreshments Moderator: Jennifer Cook, WiSys Providing value to our community. 11:00 - 12:00 pm Reverse Pitch Session Jennifer Cook joined WiSys as For this Reverse Pitch session, audience members the Associate Director in The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Business will hear from companies operating across different October 2014. She helps lead Success Center (BSC) offers lab testing, expert sectors and stages of development from a large technology transfer operations analysis and specialized equipment to the region’s multinational firm to a Wisconsin-based startup. across the UW System businesses and industries. Companies will “pitch” their areas of interest including WiSys’ patenting and and needs as well as the challenges they face in licensing initiatives, the Applied The BSC is powered by an entire university—and developing new technology and market ready Research Grant program, the offers customized, cost-effective solutions in a student ambassador program and timely manner. products. This session is intended to provide attendees with a better understanding of what other outreach efforts aimed at promoting research industry is looking for as well as spark ideas for and collaboration across system campuses. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry, BSC programs and services include: solutions or collaborative research projects that could be undertaken to address these needs. an MBA and has more than 12 years of experience in R&D, Intellectual Property management and Faculty and industry experts commercialization of intellectual capital developed Survey research facilities and lab equipment out of the academic base.

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(920) 424-0833 Several research, medical, and state-of-the-art lab testing facilities call Marshfield home: uwosuccess.com 0 Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation is the largest private medical research [email protected] institute in Wisconsin and one of the largest in the U.S. 400+ medical studies are Find us on in progress at any given time. www.marshfieldresearch.org @UWOshkoshBSC PreventionGenetics is a Clinical DNA testing and banking facility with the largest DNA test menu of any lab in America. They do business with UW Oshkosh Business more than 70 countries. www.preventiongenetics.com Success Center Group Other companies growing here include Marshfield Labs, AgSource Laboratories, and Marshfield Food Safety, LLC.

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12:00 - 1:15 pm Lunch & Presentations 1:15 - 2:30 pm Parallel Tracks: Choose 1 Sabrina Mueller-Spitz, UW Oshkosh Brian Barry, UW-Platteville SCIENTIFIC TRACK: ARG RECIPIENTS QUORUM SENSING IN PLANT DISEASE ELECTROCATALYTIC CO2 CONVERSIONS Mark Hogan, CEO, WEDC Join the 2016 recipients of the UW System-funded Dr. Sabrina Mueller-Spitz is an Associate Dr. Brian Barry (Assistant Professor Mark R. Hogan is secretary and Applied Research Grants and learn about the Professor of Biology and Director of Inorganic Chemistry) received CEO of the Wisconsin Economic research they will undertake in the coming year. of the Environmental Health his B.S. in Chemistry from Development Corporation Program at UW Oshkosh. She the University of Northern earned her B.S. and M.S. in Iowa in 2004 and his Ph.D. in (WEDC), Wisconsin’s lead Moderator: Mads Gjefsen, WiSys economic development Soil Science at UW-Madison Chemistry from the University organization. A Green Mads Gjefsen represents WiSys and Ph.D. in Environmental of Iowa in 2010. He was then Bay native, Mark earned a Technology Foundation in Microbiology from the University of a postdoctoral fellow at Sandia Bachelor’s degree in Finance northeastern Wisconsin, Cincinnati. Her main research interests National Labs (Albuquerque, NM) from the University of Notre Dame serving as a Regional involve charactering the diversity and ecological niche until starting his first professorship at St. Mary’s and received his MBA from Marquette University. Associate to UW-Green of freshwater bacteria and examining how bacteria University (Halifax, NS, Canada) in 2013. He then Bay, UW Oshkosh and UW- respond to environmental pollutants. Her current came back to the Midwest to UW-Platteville, starting Stevens Point, as well as their research is focused on finding novel ways to inhibit there in the fall of 2014. Dr. Barry’s research can Dennis Shields, Chancellor, UW-Platteville surrounding communities. He bacterial communication. The objective of this ARG- be broadly defined as ‘rational homogeneous funded project is to characterize bacterial enzymes catalyst design.’ His presentation at the WSTS will Dennis J. Shields, Chancellor of UW- assists current and prospective from freshwater bacteria that can degrade the acyl focus on his current efforts in electrocatalytic CO2 Platteville, joined the Pioneer innovators in the UW System by educating homoserine lactone molecules (e.g. chemical language) conversions. community in 2010 and is faculty, staff, students and alumni about WiSys’ that can be used against bacterial pathogens. the 14th chief executive of grants and services in the areas of technology the university. Chancellor transfer, intellectual property law, licensing and Shields’ vision for higher commercialization. Before joining the WiSys team, education includes a focus on Gjefsen served as a Project Manager for the academic excellence, serious Norwegian Board of Technology. Gjefsen earned pursuit of scholarship including his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies at the applied research and high quality teaching, and University of Oslo in Norway. experiences and services for students, employees, alumni and friends. Initiatives are focused on giving students the tools that they will need throughout life to be independent, critical thinkers and problem solvers who are contributing citizens within their communities.

“Faculty and students across the UW System continue to inspire me with their research and innovation. The symposium is a great way to showcase how UW faculty and students contribute to innovation and discovery that boost the Wisconsin economy.” -David Ward Chair of WiSys’ Board of Trustees

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Min Liu DeGruson, UW-Stout 2:30 - 3:00 pm Break & Refreshments BIO-BASED ANTIMICROBIAL FOOD PACKAGING Dr. Min Liu DeGruson is an Assistant 3:00 - 4:30 pm Poster Symposium Professor in the Packaging Browse through and speak with researchers about program at UW-Stout, where more than 60 innovative projects happening on her research focuses on UW System campuses across diverse disciplines. synthesis and characterization Student posters will compete for cash prizes. This of bio-based polymers for year, the symposium will also feature select gaming food packaging applications projects from across the UW System campuses. and using nanotechnology to improve their mechanical, thermal and barrier properties with additional functions such 5:00 pm Transportation to Evening Event as antimicrobial properties. Before coming to UW- Buses for Revs Bowl Bar & Grill will depart at 5:15 Stout in 2015, DeGruson earned her Ph.D. in Food pm. If you requested transportation, please board Science at Pennsylvania State University and her the bus at 5:00pm. If you plan to drive yourself, B.S. in Food Science and Technology at Shanghai directions to Revs Bowl Bar & Grill will be available Hiaotong University in China. at the registration desk.

EDUCATIONAL TRACK: GRANT DEVELOPMENT 5:30 - 8:30 pm Revs Bowl Bar & Grill Hear from grant proposal expert Dave Linz on how to identify proposal opportunities for funding and Your ideas will shape the future. strategies to increase your chances of success. We’re here to protect them. Why are the United States of America Moderator: David Linz, CTC such a great place to do research?* Great ideas don’t come around every day, and David Linz has a varied professional *According to the 2015 Global Innovation Index they can be gone in the blink of an eye if left background as an engineer, manager, research program unprotected. At Boyle Fredrickson, intellectual manager, software business Out of 141 countries on the development executive, Global Innovation Index property law isn’t a specialty, it’s all we do. management and technical #5 consultant and entrepreneur. He Whether it’s patent, trademark, copyright, trade currently is the Director of Client secret and unfair competition, or non-compete Services for the Center for Technology Ranked #1 most sophisticated Commercialization (CTC), providing assistance with market in the world law, you can rest assured your ideas will receive Small Business Innovation Research grant proposal preparation and business development. In 11 years the highest level of legal protection. You’ve got with CTC and its predecessor organization, Linz In the world for University/ has provided strategic guidance and assistance for ideas. We protect them. It’s as simple as that. over 500 companies and helped several technology 2nd Industry research collaboration companies secure over $25M in competitive SBIR/ STTR funding. His education background includes 840 N. Plankinton Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53203 a B.S in Chemical Engineering and a M.S. in Nuclear Ranked #1 in total value of 414.225.9755 | www.boylefred.com Engineering, both from the University of Arizona, and stocks, as percent of GDP an MBA from Webster University. 15 agenda WEDNESDAY august 3

8:00 - 9:00 am Breakfast & Networking Toivo Kallas, UW Oshkosh, AABT 9:00 - 9:30 am WiSys Update TERPENE CHEMICALS FROM CYANOBACTERIA Toivo Kallas is a Distinguished Learn about WiSys’ activity over the last year from Professor of Biotechnology at Executive Director Arjun Sanga and hear about the UW Oshkosh. More than 80 first ever Prototype Hackathon, the second annual undergraduates, 24 master’s WiSys Quick Pitch competition and two new awards students and several senior honoring people who have shaped WiSys over the scientists have participated years. You will also get a taste of these programs in his research funded by the from Tiffany Huynh, of UW-Eau Claire, who took NSF, USDA, WiSys, UW Oshkosh first place in the second annual WiSys Quick Pitch and UW System. WiSys funding competition. Hear Huynh condense her complex enabled Kallas, Matthew Nelson and Eric Singsaas research on quantum mechanics and E. coli into a to initiate work on engineering cyanobacteria three-minute pitch that communicates the impact of and photobioreactors that use solar energy to her project. convert waste carbon emissions into hydrocarbon chemicals. The team has founded a startup 9:30 - 10:45 am Scientific Session #2 company, Algoma Algal Biotechnology (AABT), to further develop and commercialize this technology. 2016 REGENT SCHOLARS Current research and development is funded by NSF-STTR Phase 1-1B, UW CTC SBIR-Advance and The Regent Scholar program provides one-time UW Regent Scholar awards. grants to faculty or campus programs working with INVESTING IN RESEARCH, MAKING A DIFFERENCE students who undertake innovative and collaborative undergraduate research projects. Hear from the 2016 Mohammad Rabbani, UW-Platteville Regent Scholars about their fascinating research projects and what steps they took to get funded. POROUS MEMBRANES FOR GAS SEPARATION Dr. Mohammad Rabbani is an Assistant Professor of Moderator: Tim Higgins, UW System Chemistry at UW-Platteville. Tim Higgins, of Appleton, WI, is He completed his the owner and principal of undergraduate in Chemistry ChiRho Services, a consulting from the University of Dhaka, firm focused on health care Bangladesh and then his payment reform issues and the Ph.D. in Materials Science from integration of complementary Osaka City University, Japan. He FOR UW–MADISON, WISCONSIN and traditional medicine. spent several years as a post-doctoral fellow in Higgins is a member of the Japan and the USA. Before joining UW-Platteville, & THE WORLD SINCE 1925. Audit and Business and Finance he worked as a senior research scientist at Virginia Committees of the Board of Regents and he Commonwealth University. His current research chairs the Research, Economic Development and focus at UW-Platteville is the synthesis of porous Innovation (REDI) Committee and the Committee materials and their applications. He received a UW on Student Discipline and Other Student Appeals. System Regent Scholar Grant in 2016. During WSTS, He represents the Board of Regents on the he will be speaking on making porous membranes Oversight and Advisory Committee of the Wisconsin for carbon dioxide gas separation. warf.org Partnership Program and serves on the WiSys Technology Foundation Advisory Committee.

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Joseph Hupy, UW-Eau Claire 11:00 - 12:00 pm Scientific Session #3 UAS IN INDUSTRIAL AGGREGATE & SAND MINING INNOVATIONS WITH IMPACT Joseph Hupy, a Ph.D. in Geography This special session will feature three WiSys- from Michigan State University, supported projects that have potential to directly thrives on utilizing geospatial impact the state of Wisconsin. technology in the field. Hupy has experience ranging from Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Moderator: David Brukardt, UW System to GPS, to surveying, in a wide David Brukardt has a joint range of field environments from appointment with the Wisconsin the mountains of Viet Nam to the hills of Economic Development France, to the wilds of Upper Michigan, to the chili fields Corporation (WEDC). In of southern New Mexico. Hupy’s extensive field work, 2013, he was appointed background and expertise in physical geography, soils to the Governor’s Council and geomorphology are leveraged to link the geography on Workforce Investment. of the problem to the solution in applied research Brukardt has more than 20 years contexts. Hupy teaches several extensive geospatial of public affairs experience with field courses including curriculum in UAS. His knowledge global organizations and entrepreneurial start-ups in of UAS platforms and associated sensors ties into much Wisconsin and in Washington State. He was elected of the curriculum he teaches. Joe has over a dozen- to the WiSys Board in December 2013. peer reviewed publications, numerous book chapters and secured grant funding for UAS related projects. Most recently he was awarded the 2016 Regent Scholar Cheng-Chen Huang, UW-River Falls Award for his work with UAS in mining applications. NOVEL THERAPY FOR MELANOMA Dr. Cheng-Chen Huang grew up and WHEN CURIOSITY AND PASSION 10:45 - 11:00 am Break & Refreshments completed his undergraduate education in Taiwan and then received his Ph.D. in Cell & “The Wisconsin Science & Technology Developmental Biology at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Symposium is an excellent opportunity to After receiving his Ph.D., Huang CONVERGE highlight innovative projects that are enhancing took a postdoc position at Wash U in St. Louis to study regeneration and GREAT THINGS CAN HAPPEN the business climate in published a pioneer paper on blood vessel regeneration using zebrafish caudal fin. Later, he took a second postdoc Wisconsin.” position at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, where he began to develop disease models for drug discovery using zebrafish -Tom Still embryo. In 2008, Huang started his teaching and research career in the Biology Department at UW-River Falls where LEARN mORE AT he continued drug discovery projects and has identified Happening.InWisconsin.com President of Wisconsin several interesting compounds. Several years ago, he collaborated with Chinese medicine researchers in Taiwan Technology Council to develop a study abroad course which offers students unique biomedical research, Chinese medicine and study abroad experiences in Taiwan. 19 WEDNESDAY august 3 agenda

Athula Gunawardena, UW-Whitewater 12:00 - 1:15 pm Lunch & Awards Ceremony Please join us in honoring student poster award OPTIMIZED DEGREE PLANNER winners, along with two new special awards. First, Athula Gunawardena is currently second and third place prizes will be awarded to a professor in the Computer the winning teams of the WSTS Student Poster Science Department at Competition. UW-Whitewater and CTO of OptSolv LLC and IDP The Robert R. Wise Award will be presented as a part Interactive Degree Planner of the student poster competition to a student poster LLC. He received a Ph.D. in demonstrating significant innovative, economic and Computer Sciences from UW- societal impact. Madison and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Wyoming. He received The Carl E. Gulbrandsen Innovator of the Year his B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Award will be presented to a UW System faculty, staff from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. member or student making exemplary contributions as Athula’s research interests include mathematical a WiSys Innovator. optimization, discrete algorithms and algebra and combinatorics. Jim Henderson, UW System Bart Dahl, UW-Eau Claire Jim Henderson is the Vice President for Academic and Student OLIGOCOUMARINS FOR pH SWITCHES Affairs at UW System. He Bart Dahl received his B.S. degree earned an M.A. and Ph.D. at UW Oshkosh and his Ph.D. in in Mathematics from UW- Chemistry from the University Madison. Prior to joining the of . He has held UW System, he served as the industrial positions at Sigma- Provost and Vice President for Aldrich (Sheboygan Falls, WI) Academic Affairs at the University and academic positions at of Louisiana at Lafayette. Henderson earned his Trinity University (San Antonio, undergraduate degree and a Master’s in Mathematics TX) and the University of St. Thomas at the University of Texas at Austin. His academic (St. Paul, MN). Since 2010, Dahl has been a member appointments include faculty positions at the of the Chemistry Department at UW-Eau Claire. University of Tennessee, Texas A&M, Colorado At UWEC he was the first faculty member to be College and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. designated an Emerging Mentor in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. His research with undergraduate students focuses on new highly conjugated molecules capable of covalent-bonding and geometry switching.

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2016 1:15 - 2:30 pm Scientific Session #4 David Lewis, UW-Eau Claire ARG RECIPIENTS & WISYS-SUPPORTED PROJECTS CHIRAL ORGANOCATALYSTS AMIC ANNUAL MEETING Hear from two more 2016 recipients of the UW David E. Lewis was born in South Network with experts, researchers and System-funded Applied Research Grants and one Australia. He received his researcher who earned funding through the WiSys- education at the University of students in the materials science field supported App Factory at UW-Parkside. Adelaide: B.S. (Chemistry, 1972), Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry, THE FLUNO CENTER THURSDAY, SEPT 8, 2016 1978), D.Sc. (chemistry, 2012). 601 University Ave. University of Wisconsin - Madison Moderator: Tom Still, WTC After moving to the U.S. for post- The 2016 AMIC Annual Meeting brings together industry and academic researchers, students Tom Still is president of the Wisconsin doctoral study, he held positions at Arkansas, Illinois, Baylor and South and experts in the materials science field. Learn about the synergy of combined resources Technology Council, a non-profit, Dakota State before moving to UW-Eau Claire in 1997. from the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), Advanced Materials bipartisan science and technology policy advisory board to the He is the author of more than 80 refereed papers and Industrial Consortium (AMIC) and the Wisconsin Materials Institute (WMI). governor and the Legislature. book chapters and five books (including “Advanced Still is a senior lecturer in the Organic Chemistry” from Oxford University Press), Department of Life Sciences and holds 18 U.S. patents. He is a member of the Communication at UW-Madison. Still Editorial Advisory Board of “Minireviews in Organic serves on advisory boards for the UW- Chemistry.” His research interests are in synthetic Madison College of Engineering, the WiSys Technology organic chemistry, applications of organic chemistry Foundation and the Waisman Center Biomanufacturing in biology and medicine and the history of organic Center, among other civic and business groups. He is the chemistry in Russia. former associate editor of the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison. Still writes a syndicated column that appears regularly in more than two-dozen publications. LEARN from specialists in niche research initiatives NETWORK with students and This year, we are featuring parallel sessions to meet your postdoctoral researchers for mentoring, research and workforce opportunities. research needs. Session themes: Jonathan Gutow, UW Oshkosh America is spending more on • Materials & Manufacturing • Polymer Engineering Research & Development than DISCOVER the latest in campus POTENTIAL CURES FOR THE COMMON COLD • Computation & Data Analytics • Materials & Microbial facilities, instrumentation, and how to Chemistry Professor Jonathan Gutow ever before* Systems access these resources. joined the UW System in 1993 and the UW Oshkosh faculty REGISTER TODAY AT in 1995. He received his goo.gl/C21EyS Bachelor’s in Chemistry from Princeton University, his Ph.D. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT from Stanford University, and did uwamic.wisc.edu/annual-meeting or materials.wisc.edu/amic postdoctoral research at Columbia University. His research since joining the Oshkosh faculty often involved undergraduates The 2016 AMIC ANNUAL MEETING is hosted by and included investigations of: molecules at interfaces; Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium (AMIC) | Wisconsin Materials Institute (WMI) coatings one molecule thick; contributions to software for molecular visualization and symbolic mathematics; and quantum mechanical computations of molecular behavior. He will discuss potential cures for the common cold developed using computations and results of preliminary experiments testing their efficacy. *According to the National Science Board 23 WEDNESDAY august 3 agenda

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