Seminars and Events

December 6, 2007 SPECIAL CHEMISTRY SEMINAR: Hosted by The Chemical Bonding Center (CBC)

Professor Gui Bazan, University of California, Santa Barbara

Title: Tailoring Molecular Structure in Organic Molecules for Optoelectronic Applications
PowerPoint presentation

October 25, 2007 The Institute for Surface and Interface Science & the Chemical Bonding Center (ISIS & CBC) present:

Dr. Erik Muller, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Title: Electric force microscopy of pentacene transistors and scanning tunneling microscopy of hydrogen dissociation in sodium alanate
Host: Wilson Ho

October 16, 2007 Special Physical Chemistry/CBC Seminar:

Professor Vladimir Chernyak, Wayne State University

Title: Classical Nonlinear Response in a Chaotic System

Host: Shaul Mukamel

October 16, 2007 The Institute for Surface and Interface Science & the Chemical Bonding Center (ISIS & CBC) present:

Professor Vladimir Chernyak, Wayne State University

Title: Electronic Excitations in Conjugated Molecules: Exciton Scattering Approach

Host: Shaul Mukamel

October 1, 2007 The Institute for Surface and Interface Science & the Chemical Bonding Center (ISIS & CBC) present:

Kristin L. Wustholz, University of Washington

Title: Dispersive Kinetics from Single Molecules Oriented in Single Crystals of Potassium Acid Phthalate

Host: Eric Potma

September 25, 2007  Physical Chemistry Seminar

Professor Harald Kauffmann, Institut f. Physikalische Chemie der Universitat Wien

Title: Inter-Band Coherence and Exciton Coupling-at-a-Glance-2D Electronic Spectroscopy of a Double-Wall, Tubular (Molecular) Aggregate

Host: Shaul Mukamel

September 10, 2007  The Institute for Surface and Interface Science & the Chemical Bonding Center (ISIS & CBC) present:

Justin Rajian, Texas Tech University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Title: Probing the dynamics of complex fluids by OHD-OKE and holographic FRAP

Host: Eric Potma

August 27, 2007 The Institute for Surface and Interface Science & the Chemical Bonding Center (ISIS & CBC) present:

Mats Persson, Surface Sci Research Centre/Dept of Chemistry, The University of Liverpool, UK

Title: Electronic Friction and Excitations in Molecule-Surface Interactions

May 25, 2007 The Institute for Surface and Interface Science & the Chemical Bonding Center (ISIS & CBC) present:

Professor H. Kumar Wickramasinghe
IBM Fellow
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and The Henry Samueli Endowed Chair
University of California, Irvine

Title: Scanning Probe Microscopy and their Applications to Technology

May 11, 2007  The Chemical Bonding Center (CBC) presents:

Assistant Professor Suzanne Blum, University of California, Irvine

Title: What can be learned about chemistry from single molecule studies

April 13, 2007  The Institute for Surface and Interface Science & the Chemical Bonding Center (ISIS & CBC) present:

Hans Ågren
Professor and Department Head
Department of Theoretical Chemistry
Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden

Title: Modeling of lightmatter interaction of strong laser pulses

March 12, 2007 The Institute for Surface and Interface Science & the Chemical Bonding Center (ISIS & CBC) present:

Shiwu Gao
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science
Dept. of Physics, Goteborg University, Sweden

Title: Collective plasmon excitations in low-dimensional nanostructures

Host: Wilson Ho

February 1, 2007

Professor Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M

Title: QUANTUM CONTROL OF LIGHT: From Slow Light and FAST CARS to Nuclear gamma-ray Spectroscopy

Host: Shaul Mukamel

November 17, 2006

Professor Tigran Shahbazyan, Jackson State University

Title: Surface-enhanced Raman scattering on small metal nanoparticles: Microscopic effects

Host: Shaul Mukamel

November 3, 2006

Professor Thomas Elsaesser, Max Born Institut, Berlin

Title: From Terahertz to X-Rays - Ultrafast structural Dynamics in Liquids and Solids

Host: Shaul Mukamel

July 27, 2006

Professor Torsten Meier, Philipps University, Germany

Title: Ultrafast Dynamics of Photocurrents in Semiconductor Nanostructures analyzed by Microscopic Many-Body Theory

Host: Shaul Mukamel

May 30, 2006

Timothée Toury, Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan, France

Title: Electro-Optical Microscopy: Mapping Electrical fields with Micrometric Resolution, from polymer films to neurons

Host: Shaul Mukamel

April 5, 2006

Dr. Sergei Tretiak, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Title: Photoprocesses in conjugated polymers and carbon nanotubes: similarities and differences

Host: Shaul Mukamel

February 23, 2006

David Cardoza, Stony Brook University

Title: Ultrafast Coherent Control

January 26, 2006

Professor Joseph Zyss, Ecole Normale Supérieure Cachan, France

Title: Advances in Nonlinear Light-Matter Interactions in Molecular Media: from Materials to Single Molecules

Host: Shaul Mukamel