Stanford
Conferences and Workshops - LCLS, SLAC

Research Opportunities in Photochemistry, Solar Energy & Advanced X-ray Methods, 2016: Agenda

Research Opportunities in Photochemistry, Solar Energy & Advanced X-ray Methods, 2016

June 16-17, 2016 SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Menlo Park, CA

Agenda (Printed Version)

 

 

Thurs. June 16 - Plenary (Bldg. 53 Panofsky Auditorium)

 
8:00 AMbreakfast 
8:30 AMWelcomeK. Gaffney               SSRL                   M. Dunne                  LCLS
8:45 AMRobust Catalysts for Solar-Driven Water SplittingHarry Gray                                          Cal Tech
9:15 AMdiscussion 
9:30 AMSemiconductor Nanocrystals and Solar Energy Conversion: Challenges and OpportunitiesVictor Klimov                                       LANL
10:00 AMdiscussion 
10:15 AMbreak 
10:35 AMElement-, site- and orbital-specific probes of chemical interactions – So what?Philippe Wernet                           BESSY
11:05 AMdiscussion 
11:20 AMChemical Dynamics in an X-ray Scattering PerspectiveMartin Nielsen                                   T.U. Denmark
11:50 AMdiscussion 
12:05 PMlunch(Bldg. 48 Redwood Lobby/Breezeway) 
   
  

 

 

Breakout: Nano- and solid state materials for solar energy conversion(Bldg. 48 Redwood Rooms C/D)

Leads: Aaron Lindenberg, Diling Zhu, Aymeric Robert

 
1:20 PM

Introduction

 

Aaron Lindenberg                                SLAC
1:25 PMX-ray spectroscopy at SLAC: Capabilites, science program and future directionsDimosthenis Sokaras                          SLAC
1:40 PMdiscussion 
1:50 PMUsing Near-Edge Absorption and Decay of Core-Excited States to Probe Charge and Exciton Transfer in Organic Semiconductor AssembliesAlex Ayzner                                          UCSC
2:15 PMdiscussion 
2:30 PMTime-domain ab initio studies of excited state dynamics in solar energy materialsOleg Prezhdo                                         USC
2:55 PMdiscussion 
3:10 PMbreak 

3:25 PM

 

Resolving reversible optically-driven phase transitions in hybrid perovskitesNaomi Ginsberg                                    U.C. Berkeley
3:50 PMdiscussion 
4:05 PM

Chemical approaches to addressing the instability and toxicity of lead-halide perovskite absorbers

 

Hemamala Karunadasa                       Stanford
4:30 PMdiscussion 
4:45 PMdiscussion and contributed talks 
6:00 PMdinner - on your own 
   
   

  

 

 Breakout: Molecular materials for solar energy conversion(Bldg. 48 Redwood Rooms A/B)

Leads: Amy Cordones-Hahn, Bill Schlotter, Dennis Nordlund

  
1:20 PMExcited State Processes in Pt(II) Charge Transfer DimersPhil Castellano                N.C. State 
1:45 PMdiscussion  
2:00 PMX-ray Methodology: SSRLDennis Nordlund         SLAC 
2:20 PMdiscussion  
2:40 PMbreak  
2:55 PM1st invited speaker: short talkAlex Ayzner 
 discussion  
3:20 PM2nd invited speaker: short talkShu Hu 
 discussion  
3:45 PM3rd invited speaker: short talkKasper Kjaer 
 discussion  
4:10 PMbreakout contributed talks and discussionTBD 
5:30 PMbreak  
6:00 PMdinner - on your own  
    
    
 

Breakout: Fundamental chemistry and physics of light driven phenomena in molecular and nanomaterials (Bldg. 53 Panofsky Auditorium)

Leads:Mike Minitti, Thomas Wolf, Josh Turner

  
1:20 PMUsing Femtosecond X-rays to Probe Ultrafast Photochemistry in SolutionMunira Khalil                      U. Washington 
1:45 PMdiscussion  
2:00 PMVibronic Coherence as a Mechanistic Probe for UltrafastExcited-state Dynamics in Transition Metal Complexes(invited)James McCusker             Michigan State 
2:25 PMdiscussion  

2:40 PM

 

 

 

Tabletop femtosecond XANES of transition metal complexes: does high-harmonic generation complement or compete with FELs?

Josh Vura-Weis                    U. Illinois

 

 
3:05 PMdiscussion  
  3:20 PMbreak  
3:40 PMChallenges in catalytic surface dynamicsJerry LaRue                        Chapman U. 
5:30 PMbreak  
6:00 PMdinner - on your own  

 

 

 

 

 

Fri. June 17 - Plenary(Bldg. 51 Kavli Auditorium)

 
8:30 AMbreakfast 
9:00 AMFunctional materials and interfaces for artificial photosynthesisIan Sharp                                  JCAP - LBNL
9:30 AMdiscussion 
9:45 AMUltrafast Dynamics in Molecular Assemblies for Solar Energy ConversionJohn Papanikolas                    U. North Carolina
10:15 AMdiscussion 
10:30 AMbreak 
10:50 AMImaging Ultrafast Excited State Pathways in Transition Metal Complexes by X-ray Transient Absorption and Scattering Using X-ray Free Electron Laser SourceLin Chen                                 Northwestern, ANL
11:20 AMdiscussion 
11:35 AMUltrafast charge separation at semiconductor/metal nanorod heterojunctionsTim Lian                                          Emory U.
12:05 PMdiscussion 
12:20 PMLunch(Bldg. 48 Redwood Lobby/Breezeway) 
   
   
 

Breakout: Nano- and solid state materials for solar energy conversion(Bldg. 48 Redwood Rooms C/D)

Leads: Aaron Lindenberg, Diling Zhu, Aymeric Robert

 
1:35 PMIntroductionAymeric Robert                                     SLAC
1:40 PMExploring Nanoscale Thermal Transport via Time-DomainX-ray ScatteringMike Kozina                                          SLAC
1:55 PMdiscussion 
2:05 PMUsing coherent x-rays to characterize phonon and thermaltransport for energy applicationsKeith Nelson                                            MIT
2:30 PMdiscussion 
2:45 PMAtomic layer deposited metal oxides for efficient photoelectrochemical and photovoltaic transformationsPaul McIntyre                                      Stanford
3:10 PMdiscussion 
3:25 PMbreakout contributed talks, discussion and closeout prepTBD
4:15 PMbreak 
   
 Plenary Closeout 
4:30 PMBreakout A presentation 
4:45 PMdiscussion 
4:50 PMBreakout B presentation 
5:05 PMdiscussion 
5:10 PMBreakout C presentation 
5:25 PMdiscussion 
5:30 PMclosing remarks 
   
   

 

 

 Breakout: Molecular materials for solar energy conversion(Bldg. 48 Redwood Rooms A/B)

Leads: Amy Cordones-Hahn, Bill Schlotter, Dennis Nordlund

 

  
1:35 PMLight driven carbon dioxide reduction by water -dynamic X-ray spectroscopy as an essential toolHeinz Frei                                      LBNL 
2:00 PMdiscussion  
2:15 PMX-ray Methodology: LCLSBill Schlotter                                   LCLS 
2:35 PMdiscussion  
2:55 PM1st invited speaker: short talkJunko Yano 
 discussion  
3:20 PM 2nd invited speaker: short talkClaudia Turro(tentative) 
 discussion  
3:45 PMbreakout contributed talks and discussionTBD 
4:15 PMbreak  
    
 Plenary Closeout  
4:30 PMBreakout A presentation  
4:45 PMdiscussion  
4:50 PMBreakout B presentation  
5:05 PMdiscussion  
5:10 PMBreakout C presentation  
5:25 PMdiscussion  
5:30 PMclosing remarks  
    
    
 

Breakout: Fundamental chemistry and physics of light driven phenomena in molecular and nanomaterials(Bldg. 51 Kavli Auditorium)

Leads: Mike Minitti, Thomas Wolf, Josh Turner

  

1:35 PM 

 

Ultrafast X-ray Studies of Interfacial Charge Transfer DynamicsOliver Gessner                                LBNL 
2:00 PMdiscussion  
2:15 PMInstrument overviewMike Minitti                                      LCLS 
2:40 PMbreakout contributed talks, discussion & closeout prep  
4:15 PMbreak  
    
 Plenary Closeout  
4:30 PMBreakout A presentationTBD 
4:45 PMdiscussion  
4:50 PMBreakout B presentationTBD 
5:05 PMdiscussion  
5:10 PMBreakout C presentationTBD 
5:25 PMdiscussion