Funding Provided by the President's Initiative for Education, Research, and Service

CHEMICAL PHYSICS PROGRAM

Co-Directors: J. L. Musfeldt and R. N. Compton

2006: Frontiers in Chemical Physics Workshop

Detailed Program (PDF)

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Time Speaker Affiliation Seminar Location

Thursday, February 16, 2006

12.30pm - 1.30pm
Faculty Lunch at University Club
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Graduate Students Round Table Discussion
Buehler 511
3.30pm
Gabor Somorjai
Berkeley
The Nanoscience Revolution: The Merging of Colloid Science, Catalysis and Nanoelectronics
SERF 307
6.00pm
Dinner, James White's Fort in Knoxville
[Fort Website]
[Driving Directions]

Friday, February 17, 2006

9.00am - 10.00am
Jack Simons
Utah
How Very Low-Energy Electrons Break Strong Bonds in DNA and Peptides
SERF 307
10.00am - 11.00am
James Coe
Ohio State
Surface-Plasmon-Mediated Extraordinary Infrared Transmission of Metal Arrays with Subwavelength Holes
SERF 307
11.00am - 12.00pm
Peer Fischer
Harvard
New Forms of Chiral Spectroscopy
SERF 307
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Lunch Break & Coffee
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Gotthard Seifert
Dresden
Inorganic Nanotubes, Fullerenes and Platelets - Structure, Stability, Electronic and Mechanical Properties
SERF 307
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Sang-Wook Cheong
Rutgers
Multifunctional Multiferroics
SERF 307
3.00pm - 4.00pm
Marshall Luban
Ames Lab
Interdisciplinary Adventures in Magnetic Molecules - Why YOU Should Enlist, Now!
SERF 307
4.00pm - 6.00pm
Lab Tours and Discussions
6.00pm
Dinner and Reception,
Downtown Gallery and Emporium
All are welcome!

[Driving Directions]

Saturday, February 18, 2006

9.30am - 10.15am
Bruce Bursten
UT
Structure of Novel Actinides
SERF 307
10.15am - 11.00am
Khaled Al-Hassanieh
UT
Electron Transport in Quantum Dots and Molecular Conductors
SERF 307
11.00am - 11.45am
David Schultz
ORNL
Astrophysical Puzzles and Chemical Physics Clues: Unraveling the Message of the H2 Spectrum Within the Interstellar Medium
SERF 307
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Box Lunches - Panera's
1.00pm - 1.45pm
Jian Shen
ORNL
Taming Electronic Spins in Conjugated Polymers
SERF 307
1.45pm - 2.30pm
Jason Haraldsen
UT
Properties of the Smallest Molecular Magnets
SERF 307
2.30pm - 3.15pm
Vince Meunier
ORNL
Molecular Nanoelectronics : Simulating and Designing Devices on the Nanoscale
SERF 307