Joint CeNS/e-conversion Workshop Venice

22.09.2024, 09:00 → 26.09.2024, 18:15 Europe/Berlin

Aula Magna (Venice International University)

This workshop brings together young researchers of the Center for NanoScience (CeNS) and e-conversion with experienced scientists from the fields of physics and chemistry. The talks of the workshop are intended to give the graduate students and post-doctoral researchers of CeNS and e-conversion an overview of current research topics on nanometer-scale science.

Mo., 23. September

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome

09:15 → 10:00 Advances in Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Capture and Conversion using Sunlight

Sprecher: Harry Atwater (Caltech)

10:00 → 10:45 Optical and Electronic Fourier Surfaces

Sprecher: David Norris (ETH Zürich)

10:45 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Electrical transport in dipolar excitonic insulators

Sprecher: Jie Shan (Cornell University)

12:15 → 13:00 A foundation model for materials chemistry

Sprecher: Gábor Csányi (University of Cambridge)

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:45 Simulations of structural rearrangements in electrochemical systems

Sprecher: Núria López (ICIQ)

14:45 → 15:30 Charge transport and thermoelectric physics of conjugated polymers at ultrahigh charge densities

Sprecher: Henning Sirringhaus (University of Cambridge)

15:30 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 16:45 DNA origami nanoagents to decipher protein-protein interactions

Sprecher: Amelie Heuer-Jungemann (MPI of Biochemistry)

16:45 → 17:30 Tracking charge, spin & light polarization in space & time in emerging semiconductors

Sprecher: Sascha Feldmann (Harvard University)

17:30 → 18:30 Welcome reception

18:45 → 18:55 Vaporetto to San Zaccaria

Di., 24. September

09:00 → 09:45 Operando X-ray Studies of Model Catalysts

Sprecher: Andreas Stierle (DESY / U Hamburg)

09:45 → 10:30 Revolution in Single Component Organic Solar Cells

Sprecher: Safa Shoaee (University of Potsdam)

10:30 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:00 Extracting site-resolved energetic information from HX/MS experiments

Sprecher: Anum Glasgow (Columbia University)

12:00 → 12:45 Chemical Design of Functional 2D Protein Materials

Sprecher: Akif Tezcan (UCSCF)

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 14:30 The Catalytic Mechanics of Programmable Catalytic Condensers

Sprecher: Paul Dauenhauer (University of Minnesota)

14:30 → 15:05 Poster Flash Talks 1

15:05 → 15:15 Group picture

15:15 → 17:15 Poster session I & Coffee

17:15 → 17:45 Oxynitrides - A Materials Platform for Solar Fuels Synthesis

Sprecher: Verena Streibel (TU Munich)

17:45 → 18:30 Exciton-polaritons: From engineering quantum materials to out-of-equilibrium condensates

Sprecher: Vinod Menon (The City College of New York)

18:45 → 18:55 Vaporetto to San Zaccaria

Mi., 25. September

09:00 → 09:45 Chiral symmetry breaking in strongly correlated artificial graphene

Sprecher: Kin Fai Mak (Cornell University)

09:45 → 10:30 High Specific Power Perovskite Solar Cells for Healthcare Devices and Energy Autonomous Robotics

Sprecher: Martin Kaltenbrunner (KJU Linz)

10:30 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:00 De novo design of transmembrane beta-barrels with defined shapes and functions

Sprecher: Anastassia Vorobieva (Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie)

12:00 → 12:45 Accelerating physics-based protein design

Sprecher: Mohammad ElGamacy (University Hospital Tuebingen)

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:00 Mechanical characterization of neural organoids

Sprecher: Friedhelm Serwane (LMU Munich)

14:00 → 14:30 Ultra-efficient perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells

Sprecher: Erkan Aydin (LMU Muncih)

14:30 → 15:15 Electronic properties of hybrid metal halide perovskites: Contemporary understanding and future challenges

Sprecher: Norbert Koch (HU Berlin)

15:30 → 15:40 Vaporetto to San Zaccaria

15:40 → 18:40 Open discussions

Do., 26. September

09:00 → 09:45 Nanophotonic Engineering for Light-Energy Storage Devices

Sprecher: Giulia Tagliabue (EPFL)

09:45 → 10:30 Engineering Local Chemical Environments in Electrolytes for Efficient Batteries

Sprecher: Maria Lukatskaya (ETH Zürich)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:45 Correlating Transient Events at the Electrified Solid-Liquid Interface Relevant to Electrocatalysis

Sprecher: Charlotte Vogt (Technion)

11:45 → 12:30 On the ultimate limits of free charge generation in organic solar cells with low energetic offset

Sprecher: Dieter Neher (University of Potsdam)

12:30 → 13:15 Lunch break

13:15 → 14:00 The Role of Intermolecular Interactions in the Exciton Dissociation Process Exemplified for PM6 and Y6

Sprecher: Anna Köhler (University of Bayreuth)

14:00 → 14:35 Poster Flash Talks 2

14:35 → 16:30 Poster Session II & Coffee

16:30 → 17:00 Spectrally selective metasurfaces for spatially encoded light-matter coupling

Sprecher: Andreas Tittl (LMU Munich)

17:00 → 17:45 Towards AI-enabled Fully Quantum (Bio)Molecular Simulations

Sprecher: Alexandre Tkatchenko (University of Luxembourg)

17:45 → 17:50 Concluding remarks

18:00 → 18:10 Vaporetto to San Zaccaria