Convening meetings, workshops, seminars, and public programs is a key part of the mission at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center promoting collaboration between campus-based faculty, ASRC faculty, theorists, and experimentalists across New York City.
The ASRC offers event and meeting spaces that can accommodate up to 100 guests for your next conference, reception, meeting, workshop, film shoot, or private event.
Non-Hermitian Photonics: Optics at an Exceptional Point
Phase Changing Semiconductors
Nonreciprocal Photonics Without Magnetic Biasing
Scalable Nanophotonics For Quantum And Classical Information Processing
Manipulating Exciton Dynamics For Energy Conversion Applications
Paradigm Shift in Mems/Nems Toward Multi-functional and Near-zero Power Integrated Microsystems
Near-Quantum-Limited Microwave Amplification and Nonreciprocal Transmission Using Engineered Mechanical Dissipation
Quantum Optics with Two-dimensional Materials from Many-body Physics to Quantum Information
Topological Insulator Lasers
Manipulating Matter with Strong Coupling: Harvesting Triplet Excitons in Organic Exciton Microcavities
Nanowires and Nano-oxides as Building Blocks for Nonlinear Photonics
Quantum Experiments with Massive, Mechanical Oscillators
Pushing the Limits of Nanophotonic Control Via Inverse Design
Developments in the Science and Application of Metamaterials at the University of Alberta
Coupling of Photonic Fano Resonances with 2D Excitons
3D Plasmonic Nanostructures for Biology and Medicine
Steering Photons: From Detectors and Smart Windows to Space Propulsion and Quantum Forces
Enhanced Sensitivity in Non-Hermitian RF and Optical Sensors
On-chip Integration of Single-Photon Sources and Detectors
All-Dielectric Optical Antennas as Enablers of Chiral and Topological Applications
From Maxwell’s Demon to Einstein’s Speed Demon
Nanoscale Optical Modulators: Performance Metrics
Gradient Metasurface for Surface Wave Control
Curious about the Advanced Science Research Center? Learn more about our five research initiatives at the ASRC IlluminationSpace. At the ASRC IlluminationSpace, located at the Advanced Science Research Center of The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, students explore five exciting and interconnected areas of science — nanoscience, photonics, structural biology, neuroscience, and environmental
Photons as Energy and Fuel: Harnessing Nanoscale Light-Matter Interactions in Terrestrial and Space Domains. Ognjen Ilic, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Applied Physics and Materials Sciences, California Institute of Technology The diverse range of available thermodynamic resources—from the Sun at 6,000 degrees to cold space at 3 degrees—offers great potential for energy and environmental applications. To
Learn about applications in single-cell technologies and single-cell multi-omic automation, and discuss what technologies and tools could support your research. The workshop includes three presentations followed by discussions with investigators. 12 p.m.: Katy Richards-Hrdlicka, Snr Field Applications Specialist, Single Cell Isolation and Analysis on the Fludigm C1 Platform 12:45 p.m.: David Chappell, Snr Field APplications
Inherently Matched Self-Dual Structures
Dynamics of Topological Metastructures: Nonlinearities and Quasi-periodicity
An Experimental Look at Hydrophobic Mismatch
Speaker: Miruna Ghinia-Tegla, Emerson Lab, CCNY
Developing Models for Chromatin Folding and Function
Half-harmonic generation: enabling photonic solutions for molecular sensing and non-classical computing
Functional and pathological RNA-binding protein phase separation with atomistic detail
Silicon Mie-resonators with Embedded Ge Quantum Dots for NIR Light Control
Mining evolution for new biological principles and new treatments for glioblastoma, peripheral nerve damage and lysosomal storage disorders
Speaker: Nikos Konstantinide, Desplan Lab, NYU
Cytoskeletal structural plasticity in force generation and mechanosensation
Prion Biology: At the Intersection of Protein Folding and its Cellular Environment
Single-cell transcriptional states of oligodendroglia in development and disease
Selecting and managing financial assets based on social and environmental performance is undergoing rapid growth and fundamental change. Investors are increasingly pressed by asset owners to prove how one company's practices are more or less sustainable than those of another. Yet, sustainability measures that companies declare are hardly standardized and difficult to verify, with metrics
Using NMR and dynamics to move beyond ground state structures
New designer materials: Sculpting electromagnetic fields on the atomic scale
Dopamine Neurons and the Regulation of Motivated Behavior
Improved Physical Models Enable the Investigation of Molecular Recognition in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins at Atomistic Resolution
Quantum measurement and metrology with a mechanical oscillator
Dopamine Neurons and the Regulation of Motivated Behavior
Living Light: Towards Understanding the Fundamental Mechanism of Color & Light Production in Nature Speaker Dimitri Deheyn, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego Dimitri Deheyn is a Scripps marine biologist developing research in the field of biomimicry: the process of emulating Nature to support green and sustainable innovations for various industries. His research aims at
In this workshop, Melanie Sinche will discuss the skills that Ph.D.s organically develop during the course of their graduate and postdoctoral training as well as how to translate them to employers in various fields. Sinche will draw on the results from a large survey she recently conducted to identify which sectors Ph.D.s in STEM fields
Speaker: Maureen Wentling, Casaccia Lab, ASRC
High throughput cryo-electron tomography: Visualizing molecular machines in cells at high resolution
Workshop: Git for Scientific Software Development and Collaboration Speaker Zachary Tessler Environmental Sciences Initiative, ASRC Abstract Git is a software tool for managing and sharing code, and is often used for collaboration through GitHub (or Bitbucket, or GitLab, or …). If you write any code, or regularly use open-source software, git is a tool to
Room-temperature high-speed control of quantum emitters with plasmonic nanostructures
Speaker: Eric Tsai, Casaccia Lab, ASRC
Engineered Biomolecular Catalysts for Fuel Production
3D Metamaterials
Quantum Acoustics Experiments
Faculty Host Carmen Melendez-Vasquez Agenda 2:00 p.m. - Mechanisms of lipid homeostasis in peripheral nerve myelination Corey Hefferman, Ph.D. Haesun Kim Lab, Rutgers University 2:30 p.m. - Age-dependent decline of TET1-mediated DNA hydroxymethylation impairs myelin regeneration after injury Sarah Moyon, Ph.D. Patrizia Casaccia Lab, Advanced Science ResearchCenter 3:00 p.m. - Epigenetic regulation of brain region-specific
Molecular Machines that Make Membranes
Colorful Organic Solar Cells Employing Förster Resonance Energy Transfer
Neurovascular Interactions in Neurological Diseases: Mechanisms, imaging, therapeutics
Using Mass Spectrometry to Understand the Chemical Language of Insects
The EphA2 receptor: interactions, structure, and function
Time-Reversal Symmetry and its Applications to Waveform Shaping and System Protection
Single-cell transcriptional states of oligodendroglia in development and disease Speaker: Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Ph.D. Karolinska Institutet Sweden
Bioinspired materials for powering next generation biomedical devices Speaker Young Jo Kim University of New Hampshire. Abstract Biodegradable electronics presents an emerging paradigm in biomedical applications by exhibiting various advantages afforded by electronically active devices systems and obviating issues with chronic implants such as infection, inflammation, and costly surgical procedures. Devices designed for oral administration
Targeting neutral sphingomyelinase to improve remyelination Speaker Norman J. Haughey Ph.D. Professor and Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Neurology Professor of Neuroimmunology and Neurological Infections Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Abstract For reasons that are not completely understood, remyelination is often incomplete, resulting in thin myelin sheaths with a disorganized myelin
Type III secretion machines: bacterial devices for protein injection into eukaryotic cells
Theory of Thermal Relaxation of Electrons in Semiconductors and Two-Dimensional Materials
Increased Blood Flow and Oxidative Metabolism in the Human Brain by Transcranial Laser Stimulation
Speaker: Ayesha Chowdhury, Mano Lab, CCNY
Dissipative systems showing signs of life Speaker: Wilhelm Huck Radboud University Nijmegen Abstract Complex networks of chemical reactions together define how life works. We are familiar with the metabolic networks studied in biochemistry, and in recent decades many regularly recurring network motifs have been uncovered that are responsible for much of the functional behaviour in
Nanoscale Quantum Sensing Guest Speaker Jörg Wrachtrup Institute for Quantum Science and Technology (IQST) and Center for Applied Quantum Technologies University of Stuttgart, Germany Abstract The accuracy of measurements is limited by quantum mechanics. Ingenious demonstrations, like measuring gravitational fields or time have explored accuracy limits and reached fundamental obstructions. Yet, precision measurements so far
Higher symmetries: a new degree of freedom for the design of periodic structures
Stimuli-Directing Liquid Crystalline Nanostructures: From Dynamic Photonics to Renewable Energy
Emergence and complexity in dryland ecosystems | Transboundary integrative basin planning: Master plans for the Kidron/Elnar and the Yarqon/Eluja basins
This symposium brings together CUNY theorists and experimentalists in the expansive field of biophysics, giving us a chance to share recent research findings and discuss plans for future joint endeavors. We are pleased to welcome the three following keynote speakers: Qiang Cui, Professor of Chemistry, Boston University – “Exploring Membrane Remodeling by Protein and Nanoparticles”
Resilient Living Materials Built By Printing Bacterial Spores Speaker Lina M. Gonzalez Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, Voight Lab Abstract A route to advanced multifunctional materials is to embed them with living cells that can perform sensing, chemical production, energy scavenging, and actuation. A challenge in realizing this potential is that the conditions for keeping cells alive
Speaker: Mario Amatruda, Casaccia Lab, Advanced Science Research Center