Center for Nonlinear Studies Conference
Excited State Processes in
Electronic and Bio Nanomaterials
(ESP2009)
La
Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, NM
June 29 - July 3, 2009
The conference is sponsored by Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS), Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT),
Theoretical,
Chemistry, Materials Physics and Applications, and Bioscience Divisions at Los
Alamos National Laboratory and supported by the U.S. Department of Energy
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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, emphasizing similarity of the phenomena rather than specifics of the systems.
Topical Areas:
- 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)
- Anne Kelley (UC Merced)
- Victor Klimov (LANL)
- John Lupton (University of Utah)
- David Nesbitt (JILA)
- Andrei Piryatinski (LANL)
- Andrew Shreve (LANL)
Invited speakers (confirmed):
- Enrique Batista (LANL)
- Christopher Bardeen (UC Riverside)
- Enrico Da Como (University of Muenchen)
- Scott Crooker (LANL)
- Susan Dexheimer (Washington State)
- Steven Doorn (LANL)
- Claudine Katan (University of Rennes, France)
- Patanjali Kambhampati (McGill University)
- Takayoshi Kobayashi (U. of Electro-Communications, Japan)
- Anna Krylov (USC)
- Xiaosong Li (University of Washington)
- Chen Lin (Northwestern University/ANL)
- James McCusker (Michigan State University)
- John Marohn (Cornell University)
- Sumit Mazumdar (University of Arizona)
- Oliver Monti (University of Arizona)
- Linda Peteanu (Carnegie-Melon University)
- Oleg Prezhdo (University of Washington)
- Ludmila Slipchenko (Purdue University)
- Valy Vardeny (University of Utah)
- Marcus Wohlgenannt (University of Iowa)
Contributed papers (confirmed):
- Michael Bedard-Hearn (University of Texas at Austin)
- Jefferson Bates (UC Irvine)
- Juan Duque (LANL)
- Golda Hukic-Markosian (University of Utah)
- Sanjeev Singh (University of Utah)
REGISTRATION
Registration is required for this event. Registration fees
should be paid at the door by check, Visa or Mastercard,
LANL cost codes, or cash.
Checks for registration fees must be made out
to Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Register for the conference
Registration Fee: - $150 (Includes all 5 days, the poster session and the dinner banquet)
Additional Payment Information:
- Additional Banquet tickets for companions or LANL attendees are available for $40 each.
- Attendees who stay at the hotel will be provided breakfast each day of the conference at no additional cost.
- The preferred method of paying registration fees is to pay at the door upon your arrival.
- Checks for registration fees must be made out to Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- There will be a cash bar at the banquet and poster session. Alcohol is not included in the registration cost.
- The conference is open to the public, with registration.
TALKS
We encourage participation of students and postdocs in the form of contributed talks (15-20 min) and posters. We will try to partially support junior researchers with the funds we have available (up to ~$500). Please inform interested people in your group/department about this opportunity. Potential contributed speakers need to submit titles and abstracts of their presentations directly to Sergei Tretiak (serg@lanl.gov) or, preferably, via the Abstract submission web page. The deadline for submission of contributed paper abstracts is June 15, 2009.
Contributed paper abstracts submission deadline is June 15, 2009
DURATION OF TALKS
Invited talks are 40 minutes + 5 minutes for questions. Contributed talks are 17 minutes + 3 minutes for questions.
Both an LCD projector (for PowerPoint presentations) and a standard overhead projector will be provided. We prefer that you bring your own laptop for PowerPoint presentations, but we have a Mac Laptop which can be used.
SCHEDULE
The program will be posted online as soon as it is available.
PLEASE NOTE: If you 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 approval can take significant time to process. If you are planning on visiting LANL please contact Sergei Tretiak (serg@lanl.gov) at your earliest opportunity so that we can initiate this paperwork. You may not visit LANL without going through this approval process.
Conference e-mail: serg@lanl.gov
Conference Web-page: http://cnls.lanl.gov/~esp/esp2009.html
Organizers: Sergei Tretiak serg@lanl.gov, Avadh Saxena abs@lanl.gov, and Richard L. Martin rlmartin@lanl.gov
Scientific Advisors: Alan R. Bishop arb@lanl.gov, Andrew P. Shreve shreve@lanl.gov, Victor I. Klimov klimov@lanl.gov
Coordinator: Adam Shipman conferences@cnls.lanl.gov.
Links to the Webpages of previous ESP meetings
ESP2001 ESP2003 ESP2005 ESP2007