SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Organic Optoelectronics |
| Discussion Leaders: Greg Scholes (University of Toronto) & Zhenan Bao (Stanford University) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Jean-Luc Brédas (Georgia Tech) "Organic Semiconductors: A Theoretical Insight into their Interfacial and
Transport Properties" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Takao Someya (The University of Tokyo) "Stretchable skin-like sensors and displays using organic transistors" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 10:40 am | Molecular Electronics |
| Discussion Leader: Linda Peteanu (Carnegie-Mellon University) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Dan Frisbie (University of Minnesota) "Step-wise Synthesis of Conjugated Molecular Wires Connected to Metals: An Approach to Examining the Physical Organic Chemistry of Hopping Conduction" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:30 am | Colin Nuckolls (Columbia University) "From Molecules to Materials" |
10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 12:30 pm | Morphology & Interfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Paulette Clancy (Cornell University) |
10:50 am - 11:30 am | Alberto Salleo (Stanford University) "Characterizing the microstructure of organic semiconductors and investigating its effect on charge transport" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:20 pm | Paul Barbara (University of Texas, Austin) "The Birth of Morphology in Conjugated Polymers" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Organic Photovoltaics |
| Discussion Leader: Garry Rumbles (NREL) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Quyen Nguyen (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Probing Nanostructures and Optoelectronic Properties of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells by Photoconductive Atomic Force Microscopy" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Rene Janssen (Eindhoven University of Technology) "New materials and multijunctions for polymer solar cells" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 10:40 am | Energy & charge transfer |
| Discussion Leader: Eric Bittner (University of Houston) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jasper Knoester (University of Gröningen) "Exciton localization and dynamics in linear and tubular molecular aggregates" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:30 am | Chris Bardeen (University of California, Riverside) "Photophysics of polyacenes: from exciton delocalization to exciton fission" |
10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 12:30 pm | Organic photovoltaics |
| Discussion Leader: Sean Shaheen (Denver University) |
10:50 am - 11:30 am | Luping Yu (University of Chicago) "Organic Single Molecular Junction and Bulk Heterojunction-From Molecular Rectification to Organic Photovoltaics" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:20 pm | Laurens Siebbeles (Delft University of Technology) "The mechanism of charge carrier photogeneration in polymer:fullerene blends
for photovoltaics" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Dynamics at interfaces |
| Discussion Leader: John Marohn (Cornell University) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Ifor Samuel (University of St. Andrews) "Exciton diffusion in organic conjugated polymers" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Xiaoyang Zhu (University of Texas, Austin) "Excitonic charge separation in organic and nano material based photovoltaics" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 10:40 am | Biosystems |
| Discussion Leader: Yuan-Chung Cheng (National Taiwan University) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Bob Silbey (MIT) "Energy Transfer, Coherence and Decoherence in Molecular Aggregates" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:30 am | Greg Engel (University of Chicago) "Probing the role of the bath in coherent photosynthetic energy transfer" |
10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 12:30 pm | Organic opto-electronics |
| Discussion Leader: Joe Perry (Georgia Tech) |
10:50 am - 11:30 am | Seth Marder (Georgia Tech) "New insights into third-order optical nonlinearities of molecular systems" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:20 pm | Valy Vardeny (University of Utah) "Ultrafast dynamics of photoexcitations in pi-conjugated polymers and their fullerene blends" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Charge transport & interfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Cherie Kagan (University of Pennsylvania) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Henning Sirringhaus (Cambridge University) "Charge transport physics of high mobility organic semiconductors" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | John Anthony (University of Kentucky) "Electronic applications of soluble small molecules" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 10:40 am | Carbon |
| Discussion Leader: Sergei Tretiak (LANL) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | David Goldhaber-Gordon (Stanford University) "Electron transport in carbon nanomaterials" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:30 am | Michael Strano (MIT) "New concepts in carbon nanoelectronics: stochastic resonance and thermopower waves" |
10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 12:30 pm | Optical processes for photovoltaics |
| Discussion Leader: David Ginger (University of Washinigton) |
10:50 am - 11:30 am | Peter Peumans (Stanford University) "Device architectures for organic solar cells" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:20 pm | Felix Castellano (Bowling Green State University) "Low Power Photon Upconversion" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Nanocrystals |
| Discussion Leader: George Malliaras (Cornell University) |
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | Moungi Bawendi (MIT) "Science and technology in semiconductor nanocrystals: the central role of excitons" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |