excitonics seminar series
Light refreshments will served at each seminar.
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2009-2010 Seminars
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| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Location |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| November 3, 2009 |
Charles Black
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Self Assembly for Nanostructured Electronic Devices at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials |
3:00pm/36-428 |
| November 10, 2009 |
Greg Engel
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago |
Design Principles of Coherent Phtosynthetic EnergyTransport: Insights from Two Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy |
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 |
| December 1, 2009 |
Peter Sutter
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Metal catalyzed sp2 bonded carbon - large-scale graphene synthesis and beyond |
3:00pm/36-428 |
| December 8, 2009 |
Brigitta Whaley
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
|
TBA |
3:00pm/Harvard |
| December 15, 2009 |
Sergei Tretiak
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
TBA |
3:00pm/36-428 |
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2008-2009 Seminars
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| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Location |
| January 28, 2009 |
Troy Van Voorhis
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Exploring Electron Transfer in Organic Semiconductors
(video) |
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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 22, 2009 |
Leonid Butov
Department of Physics
University of California, San Diego |
Indirect Excitonics |
3:00pm/36-428 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
