Center for EXcitonics

events

2008-2009 Seminars

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

 

 











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