Joint CeNS/e-conversion Workshop Venice

Sep 22, 2024, 9:00 AM → Sep 26, 2024, 6:15 PM 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.

Monday, September 23

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM Welcome

9:15 AM → 10:00 AM Advances in Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Capture and Conversion using Sunlight

Speaker: Harry Atwater (Caltech)

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

Speaker: David Norris (ETH Zürich)

10:45 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee break

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

Speaker: Jie Shan (Cornell University)

12:15 PM → 1:00 PM A foundation model for materials chemistry

Speaker: Gábor Csányi (University of Cambridge)

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 2:45 PM Simulations of structural rearrangements in electrochemical systems

Speaker: Núria López (ICIQ)

2:45 PM → 3:30 PM Charge transport and thermoelectric physics of conjugated polymers at ultrahigh charge densities

Speaker: Henning Sirringhaus (University of Cambridge)

3:30 PM → 4:15 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM → 4:45 PM DNA origami nanoagents to decipher protein-protein interactions

Speaker: Amelie Heuer-Jungemann (MPI of Biochemistry)

4:45 PM → 5:30 PM Tracking charge, spin & light polarization in space & time in emerging semiconductors

Speaker: Sascha Feldmann (Harvard University)

5:30 PM → 6:30 PM Welcome reception

6:45 PM → 6:55 PM Vaporetto to San Zaccaria

Tuesday, September 24

9:00 AM → 9:45 AM Operando X-ray Studies of Model Catalysts

Speaker: Andreas Stierle (DESY / U Hamburg)

9:45 AM → 10:30 AM Revolution in Single Component Organic Solar Cells

Speaker: Safa Shoaee (University of Potsdam)

10:30 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee break

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

Speaker: Anum Glasgow (Columbia University)

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

Speaker: Akif Tezcan (UCSCF)

12:45 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch break

1:45 PM → 2:30 PM The Catalytic Mechanics of Programmable Catalytic Condensers

Speaker: Paul Dauenhauer (University of Minnesota)

2:30 PM → 3:05 PM Poster Flash Talks 1

3:05 PM → 3:15 PM Group picture

3:15 PM → 5:15 PM Poster session I & Coffee

5:15 PM → 5:45 PM Oxynitrides - A Materials Platform for Solar Fuels Synthesis

Speaker: Verena Streibel (TU Munich)

5:45 PM → 6:30 PM Exciton-polaritons: From engineering quantum materials to out-of-equilibrium condensates

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

6:45 PM → 6:55 PM Vaporetto to San Zaccaria

Wednesday, September 25

9:00 AM → 9:45 AM Chiral symmetry breaking in strongly correlated artificial graphene

Speaker: Kin Fai Mak (Cornell University)

9:45 AM → 10:30 AM High Specific Power Perovskite Solar Cells for Healthcare Devices and Energy Autonomous Robotics

Speaker: Martin Kaltenbrunner (KJU Linz)

10:30 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee break

11:15 AM → 12:00 PM tba

Speaker: Anastassia Vorobieva (Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie)

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

Speaker: Mohammad ElGamacy (University Hospital Tuebingen)

12:45 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 2:00 PM Mechanical characterization of neural organoids

Speaker: Friedhelm Serwane (LMU Munich)

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Ultra-efficient perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells

Speaker: Erkan Aydin (LMU Muncih)

2:30 PM → 3:15 PM Electronic properties of hybrid metal halide perovskites: Contemporary understanding and future challenges

Speaker: Norbert Koch (HU Berlin)

3:30 PM → 3:40 PM Vaporetto to San Zaccaria

3:40 PM → 6:40 PM Open discussions

Thursday, September 26

9:00 AM → 9:45 AM Nanophotonic Engineering for Light-Energy Storage Devices

Speaker: Giulia Tagliabue (EPFL)

9:45 AM → 10:30 AM Engineering Local Chemical Environments in Electrolytes for Efficient Batteries

Speaker: Maria Lukatskaya (ETH Zürich)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

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

Speaker: Charlotte Vogt (Technion)

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

Speaker: Dieter Neher (University of Potsdam)

12:30 PM → 1:15 PM Lunch break

1:15 PM → 2:00 PM The Role of Intermolecular Interactions in the Exciton Dissociation Process Exemplified for PM6 and Y6

Speaker: Anna Köhler (University of Bayreuth)

2:00 PM → 2:35 PM Poster Flash Talks 2

2:35 PM → 4:30 PM Poster Session II & Coffee

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Spectrally selective metasurfaces for spatially encoded light-matter coupling

Speaker: Andreas Tittl (LMU Munich)

5:00 PM → 5:45 PM Towards AI-enabled Fully Quantum (Bio)Molecular Simulations

Speaker: Alexandre Tkatchenko (University of Luxembourg)

5:45 PM → 5:50 PM Concluding remarks

6:00 PM → 6:10 PM Vaporetto to San Zaccaria