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excitonics seminar series

2012-2013 Seminars	2010-2011 Seminars	2008-2009 Seminars
2011-2012 Seminars	2009-2010 Seminars

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2012-2013 Seminars

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Date	Speaker	Title	Time/Location
May 9, 2013	Bradley Olsen Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Self-Assembly of Functional Polymers	3 pm/36-428
April 25, 2013	Graham Fleming Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley	Excitation Energy Flow in Photosynthesis	3 pm/36-428
February 28, 2013	Frank Wuerthner Institut für Organische Chemie Universität Würzburg	Supramolecular Photosystems Based on Dye Aggregates	3 pm/36-428
February 21, 2013	Andrei Piryatinski Physics of Condensed Matter & Complex Systems Group Los Alamos National Laboratory	Surface-Plasmon Assisted Exciton and Charge Carrier Transport in One Dimensional Nanostructures	3 pm/36-428
February 7, 2013	Ted Goodson Department of Chemistry University of Michigan	Enhanced Optical Effects from Excitons in Multi-Chromophore Systems	3 pm/36-428
December 13, 2012	Seth Marder Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry, Director, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Tech	Organic Semiconductor Chemistry	3 pm/36-428
November 29, 2012	Karl Leo Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics Technical University of Dresden	Excitons in Highly Efficient Organic Devices (VIDEO)*	3 pm/36-428
October 25, 2012	Adreas Stein Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota	Structuring Materials on Multiple Length Scales for Energy Applications	3 pm/36-428
October 11, 2012	Michael R. Wasielewski Director, Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center Northwestern University	Exciton Dynamics and Structural Investigations of Singlet Fission in Molecular Solids (VIDEO)*	3 pm/36-428
September 27, 2012	Ted Sargent Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering -Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology University of Toronto, Canada	Solution-Processed Solar Cells using Colloidal Quantum Dots	3 pm/36-428

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2011-2012 Seminars

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Date	Speaker	Title	Time/Location
April 24, 2012	Alan Aspuru-Guzik Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University	Finding renewable energy materials using one screensaver at a time: Combinatorial quantum chemistry for organic photovoltaics	3:00pm/36-428
April 3, 2012	Josef Michl Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Colorado, Boulder	Singlet Fission	3:00pm/36-428
March 20, 2012	George T. Wang Advanced Materials Science Sandia National Laboratories	III-Nitride Nanowires: Emerging Materials for Lighting and Energy Applications	3:00pm/36-428
March 14, 2012	Mark Hybertsen Brookhaven National Laboratory Columbia University	Exploring Competing Kinetic Processes in Quantum Dots Linked to Electrode Surfaces	2:30pm/4-349
March 6, 2012	Christopher Bardeen Department of Chemistry University of California, Riverside	Singlet fission in tetracene and rubrene: evidence for the direct formation of entangled triplet pairs (VIDEO)*	3:00pm/36-428
February 7, 2012	Mark Allendorf Sandia National Laboratories	Luminescent metal-organic frameworks (MOFs); a nanolaboratory for photophysics (VIDEO)*	3:00pm/36-428
December 13, 2011	Mark Wilson Optoelectronics Group University of Cambridge	Singlet Exciton Fission in Polyacenes: Photphysics and Photovoltaic Applications	3:00pm/34-401A
December 1, 2011	Eric Stach Center for Functional Nanomaterials Brookhaven National Laboratories	Real time observations of the nucleation and growth of nanowires and nanotubes (VIDEO)*	3:00pm/36-428
November 29, 2011	Jasper Knoester Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen, Netherlands	Spectroscopy of complex molecular systems: Physics on an exciton cake-walk (VIDEO)*	3:00pm/36-428
November 15, 2011	David Snoke Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Pittsburgh	Superfluid Phase Transition of Long-lifetime Polaritons	3:00pm/34-401A
October 4, 2011	Garry Rumbles National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Univeristy of Colorado, Boulder	Comparing the Primary Electron Transfer Process in Organic Photovoltaic Heterojunctions with Photosynthetic Reaction Centers (VIDEO)*	3:00pm/36-428
September 20, 2011	Shaul Mukamel University of California, Irvine	Probing Valance and Core Excitons in Molecules by Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy with Clasical and Quantum Light (VIDEO)*	3:00pm/36-428
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2010-2011 Seminars

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Date	Speaker	Title	Time/Location
July 18, 2011	Christian Martin Associate Editor, Nature Materials	Publishing with NPG and Nature Materials	1:30pm/34-401A
May 17, 2011	Thomas Renger Institute for Theoretical PhysicsJohannes Kepler Universitat -Linz, Austria	Theory of light-harvesting in photosynthesis: From structure to function (VIDEO)*	3:00pm/36-428
May 10, 2011	Benoît Deveaud-Plédran Physics Department EPFL, Switzerland	Bose-Einstein condensates of polaritons: Vortices and superfluidity (VIDEO)*	3:00pm/36-428
April 26, 2011	Micea Dinca Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Crystalline Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks: Opportunities in Energy Research	3:00pm/Grier A 38-401
April 5,2011	Carlos Silva Physics Department Universite de Montreal	Charge separation by photoexcitation in semicrystalline polymeric semiconductors: An intrinsic or extrinsic mechanism?	3:00pm/36-428
March 15, 2011	Paul E. Burrows Reata Research	How many scientists does it take to change a lightbulb? -The challenges and potential of organic solid state lighting	3:00pm/36-428
March 8, 2011	Vinod M. Menon Department of Physics Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY)	Control of Light-matter Interaction Using Dispersion Engineered Photonic Structures (VIDEO)*	3:00pm/36-428
February 15, 2011	Rachel Segalman Department of Chemical Engineering University of California, Berkeley	Molecular and Hybrid Solution Processable Thermoelectrics (slides)	3:00pm/36-428
February 8, 2011	Jonathan Fan Department of Applied Physics Harvard University	Self-Assembled Colloidal Plasmonic Systems	3:00pm/36-428
February 1, 2011	Mihaela Stefan Department of Chemistry University of Texas, Dallas	Benzodithiophene Based Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Photovoltaics	3:00pm/36-428
January 26, 2011	Matteo Cavalleri Associate Editor J. of Polymer Science: Polymer Physics	How Scientific Publishing Works	1:30pm/MIT Endicott House
December 14, 2010	Jagadeesh Moodera Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Organic spintronics: Influence of Interface Structure and Magnetism	3:00pm/36-428
December 7, 2010	Jianshu Cao Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Optimization of Energy Transfer Processes in Photosynthetic Systems	3:00pm/36-428
November 9, 2010	Wei You Chemistry Department University of North Carolina	Molecular Engineering of Conjugated Polymers to Reach Higher Efficiency "Plastic" Solar Cells (SLIDES)	3:00pm/36-428
October 26, 2010	Mark Thompson Chemistry Department University of Southern California	Steering and Separating Excitons in Organic Thin Films and Devices (SLIDES)	3:00pm/36-428
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2009-2010 Seminars

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Date	Speaker	Title	Time/Location
May 24, 2010	Sebastian Reineke Institute Fur Angewandte Photophysik of the TU, Dresden	Concepts for Phosphorescent Organic LEDs at High Brightness	3:00pm/36-428
May 4, 2010	Sylvija Gradecak Department of Material Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Semiconductor nanowires: from LEDs to Solar Cells	3:00pm/36-428
April 15, 2010	Patanjali Kambhampati McGill University	State-Resolved Exciton Dynamics in Quantum dots	3:00pm/34-401A (Grier A)
April 13, 2010	Koen Vandewal University of Linkoping	Charge-transfer absorption and emission in polymer: fullerene solar cells (VIDEO)*	3:00pm/36-428
March 30, 2010	Will Tisdale University of Minnesota	Hot Electron Transfer from Semiconductor Nanocrystals	3:00pm/36-428
March, 16, 2010	Shaul Mukamel University of California, Irvine	Quantum Transport Effects and Coherent Ultrafast Multidimensional Spectroscopy of Light Harvesting Photosynthetic Complexes	3:00pm/36-428
March 2, 2010	René Janssen Eindhoven University of Technology	Polymer Solar Cells: New Materials, 3D Morphology, and Tandem Devices (VIDEO)	3:00pm/36-428
December 15, 2009	Sergei Tretiak Los Alamos National Laboratory	Dynamics of excitons and phonons in disordered nanoscale materials	3:00pm/36-428
December 8, 2009	Brigitta Whaley Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley	Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis	3:00pm/Rm. 330 60 Oxford Street Harvard
December 1, 2009	Peter Sutter Brookhaven National Laboratory	Metal catalyzed sp2 bonded carbon - large-scale graphene synthesis and beyond	3:00pm/36-428
November 11, 2009	Angel Rubio Departamento de Fisicode Materiales Universidad del Pais Vasco	Theoretical Spectroscopy of Low Dimensional Systems	2:00pm/Harvard
November 10, 2009	Greg Engel Department of Chemistry University of Chicago	Design Principles of Coherent Phtosynthetic Energy Transport: Insights from Two Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy	3:00pm/36-428
November 3, 2009	Charles Black Brookhaven National Laboratory	Self Assembly for Nanostructured Electronic Devices at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials	3:00pm/36-428
October 20, 2009	Alan Heeger Department of Physics University of California, Santa Barbara	"Plastic" Solar Cells: Self-Assembly of Bulk Heterojunction Nano-Materials by Spontaneous Phase Separation	3:00pm/36-428
October 6, 2009	Frank Spano Department of Chemistry Temple University	The Role of Intermolecular Coupling in Photophysics of Disordered Organic Semiconductors	3:00pm/36-428
September 29, 2009	Ian Mercer Department of Physics University College Dublin	Quantum Dimension of Photosynthesis Revealed by Angular Resolved Coherent Imaging	3:00pm/36-428
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2008-2009 Seminars

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Date	Speaker	Title	Time/Location
May 20, 2009	Russell J . Holmes Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota	Overcoming the Exciton Diffusion Bottleneck in Organic Photovoltaic Cells	3:00pm/W20-407
April 29, 2009	Jenny Nelson Department of Physics Imperial College	Factors influencing phtocurrent generation inorganic bulk heterojunction solar cells: interfacial energetics and blend microstructure	3:00pm/36-428
April 22, 2009	Leonid Butov Department of Physics University of California, San Diego	Indirect Excitonics	3:00pm/36-428
April 15, 2009	Keith A. Nelson Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Excitons, biexcitons, and higher-order correlations: Direct observations of ultrafast many-body dynamics	3:00pm/36-428
April 8, 2009	Xiang Zhang NSF Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) University of California, Berkeley	Photonic Metamaterials, nano plasmonics and Superlens	3:00pm/34-401A (Grier A)
April 1, 2009	Vladimir Bulovic Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Excitonic Processes in Nanostructured Optoelectronic Devices	3:00pm/36-428
February 25, 2009	Gregory D. Scholes Department of Chemistry University of Toronto	Electronic Structure and Excited State Dynamics in Biological and Nanoscale Systems (video)	3:00pm/36-428
February 18, 2009	Moungi G. Bawendi Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The Importance of Excitons in the Science and Technology of Semiconductor Nancocrystals	3:00pm/36-428
February 4, 2009	Kenneth B. Crozier School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University	Optical Antennas for Nanophotonics(video)	3:00pm/36-428
January 28, 2009	Troy Van Voorhis Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Exploring Electron Transfer in Organic Semiconductors (VIDEO)*	3:00pm/36-428
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The Center for Excitonics is an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science and Office of Basic Energy Sciences

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