Center for Nonlinear Studies Conference

Excited state processes in electronic and bio nanomaterials

Los Alamos National Laboratory 
August 8-11 2005

The conference is sponsored by Center for Nonlinear Studies, Theoretical, Chemistry, Materials Science and Technology, and Bioscience Divisions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and supported by the U.S. Department of Energy

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During the past 15 years, extraordinary experimental advances have made the manipulation and fabrication of structures at the nanoscale possible. Parallel developments of theoretical and simulation capabilities aim to achieve quantitative understanding and prediction of fundamental physical properties of these materials. This interdisciplinary workshop will provide an open forum for active interactions between researchers from different subfields.

The scope of the conference is a variety of excited state phenomena in several technologically important materials and biosystems, including size-dependent and time-dependent electronic interactions, excited state dynamics, quantum confinement, and carrier transport.

Key Topics:

·       Organic polymers and nanotubes: ultrafast processes and functional devices;

·       Organo-metallic complexes: excited state potentials and photocatalysis;

·       Semiconductor nanocrystals: from novel structures to novel physical phenomena;

·       Biosystems: conformations, energy/charge transport, spectroscopy and photosynthesis.

Discussion leaders (confirmed):

 Vladimir Chernyak (Wayne State University)

 Alexandr Efros (NRL)

 Anne Myers Kelley (UC, Merced)

 Anna Krylov (USC)

 David Nesbitt (University of Colorado)

 Thomas Meyer (University of North Carolina)

 Gregory Scholes (University of Toronto)

 Andy Shreve (LANL)

Invited speakers (confirmed):

 Paul Barbara (UT) 

 Glenn Bartholomew (University of Washington)  

 Alex Benderskii (Wayne State University)

 Steven Boxer (Stanford University) 

 Silvana Botti (Ecole Polytechnique, France)

 Patrik Callis (Montana State University)

 Giulio Cerullo (Politecnico of Milan, Italy) 

 Susan Dexheimer (Washington State)

 Jennifer Herek (AMOLF, Netherlands)

 Dewey Holten (Washington University)

 Stefan Franzen (North Carolina State University)

 Tadashi Itoh (Osaka University, Japan)

 Guglielmo Lanzani (Politecnico of Milan, Italy)

 Antoni Llobet  (University of Barcelona, Spain) 

 Todd Martinez (University of Illinois)

 Hedi Mattoussi (NRL)

 James McCusker (MSU)

 Daniel Nocera (MIT) 

 Mohammad Omary (University of North Texas)

 John Papanikolas (University of North Carolina)

 Paras Prasad (University at Buffalo)

 Adrian Roitberg (University of Florida)

 Sergio Ulloa (Ohio University) 

 Zeev Valy Vardeny (University of Utah)  

 Antonin Vlcek (University of London, United Kingdom)

 Peter Weber (Brown University)

Contributed papers (confirmed):

 Ekaterina Badaeva (New Mexico Highlands)

 Enrique Batista (LANL)

 Marta Cerruti (North Carolina State)

 Josh Coe (University of Illinois)

 Veaceslav Coropceanu (Georgia Institute of Technology)

 Cristian  Diaconu (LANL)

 Tieneke Dykstra (University of Toronto)

 Demetrio Filho (Georgia Institute of Technology)

 Serge Gorelsky (Stanford University)

 Serguei Goupalov (LANL)

 Valeria Kleiman (University of Florida)

 Anne Myers Kelley (UC, Merced)

 Oleg Korovyanko (Argonne National Laboratory)

 Philipp Kukura (Berkeley)

 Youmei Lu (New Mexico Highlands)

 Artem Masunov (Central Florida University)

 Andrei Piryatinski (LANL)

 Oleg Poluektov (Argonne National Laboratory)

 Crissy Rhodes (North Carolina State)

 Ilya Rumyantsev (University of Toronto)

 Gregory Scholes (University of Toronto)

 Ping Yang (Michigan Technological University)

 Dong Yu (University of Chicago)

We encourage participation of students and postdocs in the form of contributed talks (20 min) and posters by waiving the registration fee and reimbursing part of their travel expenses (up to $400). Potential contributed speakers need to submit titles and abstracts of their presentations to <esp@cnls.lanl.gov>.  The deadline for submission of contributed paper abstracts is July 1, 2005

Registration fee for the conference is $150.

The meeting will be held in the beautiful Hotel Santa Fe (http://www.hotelsantafe.com), located in the very heart of Santa Fe, NM. A block of rooms has been reserved for conference participants.

 

The conference is open to public.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are a Foreign National (i.e. not a US citizen) and have plans to visit LANL (i.e. visit experimental labs and/or meet our researchers), you need an approval from the LANL security office. Depending on the country of residence or birth, such pre-approval can take us as much as 6 weeks to process. If you are a foreign national planning on visiting LANL please contact Rod Garcia < rgarcia@cnls.lanl.gov> at your earliest convenience so that we can initiate this paperwork.

Conference e-mail: <esp@cnls.lanl.gov>
Conference Web-page: http://cnls.lanl.gov/~esp/esp2005.html

Organizers: Sergei Tretiak <serg@cnls.lanl.gov>, Avadh Saxena <abs@viking.lanl.gov>, and Richard L. Martin <molecule@lanl.gov>

Scientific Advisors: Alan R. Bishop <arb@lanl.gov>, Andrew P. Shreve <shreve@lanl.gov>, and Victor Klimov <klimov@lanl.gov>

Coordinator: Rod Garcia <rgarcia@cnls.lanl.gov> 

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