ESP 2011 / OP2011 Conference

The Optical Probes Conference is the number one series in the field of photophysics of organic semiconductors. The previous conferences took place at Snowbird (1992), Salt Lake City (1994), San-Diego (1997), Salt Lake City (2000), Venice (2003), Bangalore (2005), Turku (2007), and Beijing (2009). The Excited State Processes Conference focuses on fundamental photoinduced phenomena in various nanostructured materials. Please browse links below to explore topics of our past (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009) ESP meetings at LANL.

The scope of the current conference is a variety of excited state phenomena in technologically important materials and biosystems, including size-dependent and time-dependent electronic interactions, excited state dynamics, quantum confinement, and carrier transport, emphasizing similarity of the phenomena rather than specifics of the systems.

Topics Include:
      • Organic and polymeric materials
              photophysics, chemistry, and dynamics
      • Organic/polymeric electronic devices
                energy transfer and charge transport
      • Carbon nanotubes
                ultrafast processes and functional devices
      • Organo-metallic complexes
                excited state potentials and photocatalysis
      • Semiconductor nanocrystals and metal nanoparticles
                from novel structures to novel physical phenomena
      • Biosystems
                conformations, energy/charge transport, spectroscopy and photosynthesis
      • Organic and inorganic nanostructured photovoltaic phenomena
                physics, chemistry, and devices
      • Molecular and supramolecular ordered assembly at nanoscales
      • Energy transfer phenomena and chemico- and bio-sensors
      • Spin dynamics in organic systems

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Harvard)
Dimitry Basov (UC San Diego)
Guillermo Bazan (UC Santa Barbara)
Mireille Blanchard-Desce (Rennes)
David Blank (Univ. of Minnesota)
Christoph Boehme (Univ. of Utah)
Stephen Bradforth (USC)
Gary Brudvig (Yale)
Bill Buhro (Washington Univ., St. Louis)
Felix Castellano (Bowling Green State Univ.)
Vladimir Chernyak (Wayne State)
Jenny Clark (Cambridge)
Veaceslav Coropceanu (Georgia Tech)
Fernando Dias (Durham Univ.)
Sasha Efros (NRL)
Greg Engel (Chicago)
Andrea Ferrari (Cambridge)
Daniel Gamelin (Univ. Washington)
Andre Gesquiere (Univ. Central Florida)
Rienk van Grondelle (Amsterdam)
Dirk Guldi (Erlangen-Nurnberg)
Tobias Hertel (Vanderbilt)
Niek van Hulst (Barcelona)
Ado Jorio (UFMG, Brasil)
Anna Koehler (Bayreuth)
Jun Kono (Rice)
Todd Krauss (Rochester)
Matt Law (UC Irvine)
Efrat Lifshitz (Technion)
John Lupton (Utah)
Sumit Mazumdar (Univ. of Arizona)
Mike McGehee (Stanford)
Andrew Monkman (Durham)
Michele Muccini (Bologna)
Shaul Mukamel (UC Irvine)
David Nesbitt (JILA)
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen (UCSB)
Robin Nicholas (Oxford)
Fotios Papadimitrikopoulos (Connecticut)
Linda Peteanu (Carnegie Mellon)
Garry Rumbles (NREL)
Ulli Scherf (Wuppertal)
Gregory Scholes (Toronto)
Benjamin Schwartz (UCLA)
Zhigang Shuai (Tsinghua)
Laurens Siebbeles (Delft)
Carlos Silva (Montreal)
Frank Spano (Temple)
Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann (Imperial College London)
Valy Vardeny (Utah)
Bruce Weisman (Rice)
Frank Wise (Cornell)
Xiaoyang Zhu (UT Austin)