Seminars and Events

NSF Center for Chemical Innovation on Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit at UCI
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CaSTL Lecture Series


Lectures will be held in room 2201 Natural Sciences II at 1:00 PM

October 8, 2009
Enrico Tapavicza - Non-adiabatic Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics: Implementation and Application to Photochemistry
August 20, 2009 Ara Apkarian - How to make lightning without thunder
July 9, 2009
Eric Potma - Nonlinear imaging of individual carbon nanotubes
June 25, 2009
Doug Mills -  Electric Field Fluctuations Near Material Surfaces; Their Physical Effects
October 30, 2008
Matt Law - Harnessing Multi-excitons in Energy Conversion: Current Challenges Facing PbSe Quantum Dot Solar Cells 
September 18, 2008
Zachary Fisk - An Introduction to Strongly Correlated Materials
September 11, 2008 Chi Chen - Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging at the Ultimate Spatial Resolution
September 4, 2008 Dmitrij Rappoport -  How polarizable are molecules?
May 1, 2008 Rob Corn - Extreme Biosensing
April 17, 2008 Wilson Ho - The Interior of Single Molecules
April 3, 2008 Phil Collins - Measuring reaction rates ... one molecule at a time
March 6, 2008 Eric Potma - Switching of nonlinear signals
February 21, 2008 Doug Mills - Polaritons; A Pedagogical Introduction
February 14, 2008 Nien-Hui Ge - Beyond One Dimension: What can we learn from coherent 2D IR spectroscopy?  
February 7, 2008 Kieron Burke - DFT calculations of molecular electronics
January 24, 2008 Filipp Furche - Different from bulk: Structure and reactivity of gold clusters
January 17, 2008 Ara Apkarian - What is a photon? 
January 10, 2008 Phil Collins - Fabricating molecular circuits

           

 Seminars and Events

December 10, 2009      CaSTL Seminar

Time: 1:00 PM

Prof. Ingve Simonsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Title: TBA

Host: Doug Mills


December 3, 2009      CaSTL Seminar

Time: 1:00 PM

Dr. Harald Ibach, Research Center Juelich, Institute of Bio- and Nanosystems

Title: The Metal/Electrolyte Interface - Electric Properties and Structure of Water at Stepped Gold Surfaces

Host: Doug Mills


November 5, 2009      CaSTL Seminar

Time: 2:00 PM

Prof. Micha Asscher   The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Title: Chemical and Photochemical Reactivity Over Metallic Nanoclusters

Host: Wilson Ho


October 29, 2009      CaSTL Seminar

Mats Persson   University of Liverpool and Chalmers University

Title: Theory of Organic Adsorption on Surfaces


October 15, 2009      CaSTL Seminar

Shiwei Wu   Lawrence Berkeley Labs

Title: Optical Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Nanostructures

Host: Wilson Ho


August 6, 2009      CaSTL Seminar

Shiwu Gao   Chinese Academy of Sciences

Title: Coupling and damping of surface plasmons, insights from theoretical studies

Host: Wilson Ho


June 4, 2009      CaSTL Postdoc Candidate Seminar

Hongtao Chen   Department of Chemistry, Purdue University

Title: A multimodal nonlinear optical microscope and its applications

Host: Eric Potma


May 27, 2009      CaSTL Postdoc Candidate Seminar

Hikari Kimura   Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Scanning Josephson tunneling microscopy of single crystal Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ from a conventional superconducting tip    

Host: Wilson Ho


April 28, 2009      Joint Physical Chemistry / CaSTL Seminar

Professor Hrvoje Petek   Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh

Title: Alkali atoms and superatoms: Electronic structure, surface femtochemistry and single molecular switching    

Host: Nien-Hui Ge


March 4, 2009      Joint Condensed Matter / CaSTL Seminar

Dr. Jordan Gerton   Department of Physics, University of Utah

Title: Exploring the Limits Apertureless Fluorescence Microscopy    

Host: Phil Collins

January 15, 2009    Special CaSTL Seminar

William A. Goddard III,  Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of  Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics,
Director, Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC), California Institute of Technology

Title: First Principles Approaches to Design of Materials with applications to Catalysis, Nanoelectronics, Fuel Cells, Superconductivity, and Microelectronics Processing     

Host: Wilson Ho

September 25, 2008    Special CaSTL Seminar

Professor Mats Persson, Department of Chemistry/ Surface Science Research Centre, The University of Liverpool

Title: Organic Molecules on Metal Surfaces: Free-electron-like states, Spin-labels and Covalent Bond Formation

Host: Wilson Ho

August 28, 2008    Special CaSTL Seminar

Professor H. Peter Lu, Bowling Green State University

Title: Probing Single-Molecule Electron Transfer Dynamics

Host: Wilson Ho

July 28, 2008    The Institute for Surface and Interface Science & the Chemical Bonding Center (ISIS & CBC) present:

Professor X. H. Qiu, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China

Title: Electrostatic characteristics of nanostructures by using electric force microscopy

Host: Wilson Ho


April 15, 2008    Special CaSTL Seminar

Professor Maxim S. Pshenichnikov, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands

Title: Water Dynamics near Lipid Interfaces

Host: Eric Potma

February 5, 2008  NSF Site Visit

An NSF panel visited CaSTL. The day included research talks by core directors, discussion sessions with collaborators, poster presentations by students and more.

December 13, 2007   Special Chemistry Seminar: Hosted by The Chemical Bonding Center (CBC)

Professor Doug Mills, University of California, Irvine

Title: The Origin of Plasmon Enhanced Fields at Surfaces and in Nanostructures; An Introduction

December 6, 2007   Special Chemistry Seminar: Hosted by The Chemical Bonding Center (CBC)

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Professor Gui Bazan, University of California, Santa Barbara

Title: Tailoring Molecular Structure in Organic Molecules for Optoelectronic Applications

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:

Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

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


Team Member Meetings


November 5, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
November 12, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
October 22, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
October 29, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
October 8, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
October 15, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
September 17, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
September 24, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
September 3, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
September 10, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
August 20, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
August 27, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
August 6, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
August 13, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
July 16, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
July 30, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
July 2, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
July 9, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
June 18, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
June 25, 2009
12:00 pm
310M Rowland Hall
CCI PI business meeting
June 4, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
June 11, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
May 21, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
May 28, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
May 14, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CCI PI business meeting
May 7, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
April 30, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
April 16, 2009
12:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
February 12, 2009
1:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
February 5, 2009
1:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
December 4, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
November 20, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
November 13, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
November 6, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
October 30, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
October 23, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
October 16, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
October 9, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
October 2, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
September 25, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
September 18, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
September 11, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
September 4, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
August 21, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
August 14, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
August 7, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting

July 17, 2008
12:00 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting

July 10, 2008
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
June 9, 2008
2:00 pm
1115 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting

May 22, 2008
5:00 pm
1115 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
March 6, 2008
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting

February 28, 2008
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting

February 21, 2008
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
February 14, 2008
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
February 7, 2008
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting

January 31, 2008
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting

January 24, 2008
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
January 17, 2008
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
January 10, 2008
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting

January 3, 2008
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting

December 20, 2007
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
December 13, 2007
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
December 6, 2007
4:30 pm
2120 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
November 29, 2007
5:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CBC research group meeting
November 15, 2007
5:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CBC research group meeting
November 8, 2007
5:00 pm
2201 Natural Sciences II
CBC research group meeting
October 19, 2007
3:00 pm
1115 Natural Sciences II
CBC research group meeting
October 16, 2007
12:00 pm
1115 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
October 9, 2007
12:00 pm
1115 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
October 2, 2007
12:00 pm
1115 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
September 25, 2007
12:00 pm
1115 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting
September 18, 2007
12:00 pm
1115 Natural Sciences II
CBC PI business meeting