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Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy

SPRING SEMESTER 2012

The Seminar on Modern Optics and Spectroscopy continues its tradition of inviting a broad spectrum of researchers to share their latest work in optics and spectroscopy.

February 28

Robert Jones, University of Virginia
Electronic coherence in a gas of dipole-dipole coupled Rydberg atoms

March 6

Andrew Moran, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ultrafast dynamics in photosynthetic complexes and components of DNA

March 13

21st Annual Lord Lecture:
Erich Ippen, MIT
Clocks, Combs, and OAWG

March 20

Nathan Gabor, MIT
Hot carrier-assisted photoresponse in graphene

April 3

William Tisdale, MIT
New opportunities in nonlinear optical imaging

April 10

Niels Damrauer, University of Colorado
From electron transfer to singlet fission: exploiting molecular motions to control excited state energy conversion

April 17

Kevin Jones, MIT
Protein conformational dynamics probed by multidimensional infrared spectroscopy

April 24

Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chemical imaging - an emerging approach to molecular analysis in cancer pathology

May 1

Nicholas Xuanlai Fang, MIT
Lighting up tightly confined photon modes in plasmonic nanostructures

TUESDAYS, 12:00-1:00 p.m., GRIER ROOM (34-401)
Refreshments served following the seminar

George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and School of Science, MIT

Sponsored by the George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory,
the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and
the School of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.