  Event Date:
Fri, 08/17/2012 (All day) - Sat, 08/18/2012 (All day)
Location:
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Levine Hall), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
The Energy Frontier:
August 17 & 18, 2012 Registration is free, but you must [ register on-line ] in advance.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Schedule of Events Day 1 - Friday, August 17, 2012 Introductions I 9:00 - 9:20 Welcome/Introduction - Jennifer Lukes Session I - Chair: John Vohs 9:20 - 10:00 Talk 1 - Philipp Wagener - Heterogeneous catalysts by colloidal deposition of ligand-free nanoparticles 10:00 - 10:40 Talk 2 - Chris Murray - Designing transition metal nanocrystals for magnetic and catalytic applications 10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Session II - Chair: Jay Kikkawa 11:10 - 11:50 Talk 3 - Fuqiang Huang - Controllable preparation of graphene and its solar cell applications 11:50 - 12:30 Talk 4 - Yohei Yamamoto - Donor-Acceptor Dyads as Materials for Organic Optoelectronics and Dispersants 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Session III - Chair: Ritesh Agarwal 2:00 - 2:40 Talk 5 - Eran Rabani - Near-Field Manipulation of Spectroscopic Selection Rules on the Nanoscale 2:40 - 3:40 Panel - International Collaborations in Science, Technology, and Education Dat Tran, International Program Manager, Office of International Activities, American Chemical Society Carina Barth, Executive Director, Academic Liaison Office, ConRuhr North America
3:40- 5:00 Poster Session and Refreshments (Reading Room) 6:00 Social/Dinner catered on campus TBD
Day 2 - Saturday, August 18, 2012 Session IV - Chair: So-Jung Park 9:00 - 9:40 Talk 1 - Shu Yang - From Cell Contractility to Sensing Materials to Adaptive Building Skins 9:40 - 10:20 Talk 2 - Takaki Kanbara - Synthesis of p-Conjugated Semiconducting Polymers via Direct Arylation 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Session V - Chair: Daeyeon Lee 10:50 - 11:30 Talk 3 - Taeghwan Hyeon - Large-scale Synthesis and Designed Assembly of Uniform Sized Nanocrystals for Medical Applications 11:30 - 12:10 Talk 4 - Uri Banin - Hybrid nanoparticles for solar energy harvesting 12:10 - 1:30 Lunch Session VI - Chair: Andrew Rappe 1:30 - 2:10 Talk 5 - Cherie Kagan - Nanocrystal Solar Photovoltaics 2:10 - 3:10 Concurrent panels on Nanoscale Materials to Meet the Challenges in Energy Science and Technology to Address: 1. Solar and Thermal Photovoltaics - Yohei Yamamato, Uri Banin, Jennifer Lukes 2. Catalysis and Fuel Cells - Ray Gorte, Joe Elabd, Philipp Wagener 3. Batteries - Yury Gogotsi, Shu Yang 3:10-3:40 Coffee 3:40 - 4:20 Breakout sections: Directions for International Exchange and Collaboration 1. Solar and Thermal Photovoltaics Chair -Cherie Kagan Assistant - Ed Goodwin 2. Catalysis and Fuel Cells Chair - Chris Murray Assistant - Tom Gordon
3. Batteries Chair - Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania Assistant - Lili Yang 4:20 - 4:30 Closing remarks
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The Energy Frontier: Controlling Matter at the Nanoscale
Engineering Research & Education Collaboration (ISEREC)