Dr. David M. Bartels will be traveling to the Miller Conference held in Manchester, U.K. during September. While there, he will giving a talk at University of Leeds on September 16th, and the University of Manchester on September 17th. His talk is titled, "Partial Molar Volume of the Hydrated Electron and a Comment on its Vertical Detachment Energy."…
Dr. Jay LaVerne of the Radiation Laboratory will be giving a lecture at the American Chemical Society fall meeting in San Diego, California, this August. His presentation is titled, "Radiation Effects in Molten Salts."…
Professor Sylwia Ptasinska will be traveling to Belgrade to attend the International Workshop on Low-Energy Positron and Positronium Physics, and the International Symposium on Electron-Molecule Collisions and Swarms. While there, she will be presenting a paper titled "Electron-Induced Fragmentation of Peptide Model Molecules."…
Professor Prashant Kamat from the Radiation Laboratory will be presenting at several conferences in June. He will be presenting "Quantum Dots to Perovskites. Tuning Semiconductor Nanostructures for Light Energy Conversion" at the Nankai International Conference on Solar Energy Conversion in China. He will be presenting "Visualizing Halide Ion Mobility in Metal Halide Perovskite Films through Photo and Thermal Effects" at the SISF Conference in Seoul, Korea. Professor Kamat will also present "Stalking Halide Ion Migration in Lead Halides Perovskites" at the ICMAT Conference in Singapore.…
Professor Ireneusz Janik from the Radiation Laboratory will be attending the 74th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. He will present his paper titled, "Vibrational Spectroscopy of CS2- Radical Anion in Water."…
Sylwia Ptasinska of the Radiation Laboratory and Physics departments is among the twenty University of Notre Dame faculty members that have received the Rev. Edmund P.Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
The Joyce Awards, established in 2007, are supported by a gift from the late Father Joyce’s classmates of Notre Dame’s Class of 1937. They honor faculty members who have had a profound influence on undergraduate students through sustained exemplary teaching, and, in particular, recognize professors who create environments that stimulate significant student learning, elevate students to a new level of intellectual engagement and foster students’ ability to express themselves effectively within their disciplines. …
Professor Kamat will be doing several presentations during the month of February. He is traveling to New Delhi, India, to be the keynote speaker for the Conference of Hybrid and Perovskite Cells, being held from February 4th through the 6th at the Indian Institute of Technology. While in India, Professor Kamat will also deliver the C.N.R. Rao Distinguished lecture at the annual meeting of the Chemical Research Society of India in Chennai. He will also be traveling to Jerusalem, Israel, for the nanoGe Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells, Photonics and Optoelectronics (NIPHO19).…
Professor Prashant Kamat of the Radiation Laboratory will be traveling overseas this December to lecture. He will be presenting the plenary talk at the Frontiers in Chemical Sciences Conference being held December 6th through the 8th, organized by the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology in Guwahati, India. The second lecture will be at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology in Mohali, India. He will be there from December 11th through the 13th.…
Professor Kamat has been invited to talk at the annual Materials Research Society Meeting in November of 2018. His talk is titled, "Charge Injection from Excited CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals into TiO2 in Perovskite and its Role in the Degradation of Perovskite Layer in Visible Light."…
Professor Sylwia Ptasinska will be traveling to Portland, Oregon the November for the 71st Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC 2018). She has been invited to present "Dissociative Electron Attachment to Gas-Phase Molecules" and "In situ Measurements of Total Yield of Species Originating from Plasma Jets."…
Professor Kamat will be traveling to Brookhaven National Laboratory to present a seminar in November 2018. His talk is titled, "Intricacies of Halide Ion Movement in Mixed Halide Lead Perovskites."…
Dr. Jay LaVerne will be presenting at the Condensed and Phase Interfacial Molecular Science Meeting in Gaithersburg, Maryland, this October. He talk is titled, "Radiation Stability of Aromatic Compounds."…
Professor Carmichael will be attending the Condensed Phase and Interfacial Molecular Science meeting in Gaithersburg, Maryland, this October. He will be presenting on "Fundamental Advances in Radiation Chemistry."…
Congratulations to Dr. Dave Bartels and Dr. Jay LaVerne for being rewarded a grant by the Department of Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). They will be receiving $400,000 over the next three years to study Radiolytic Dissolution Rate of Silicon Carbide.…
Sylwia Ptasinska will be traveling to Germany to attend the Fifth International Conference of Dynamics of Systems on the Nanoscale this October where she has been invited to talk. Her presentation is titled, "Effects of Plasma Reactive Species on Biomolecular Systems."
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Professor Kamat has been invited to the Universidad de Cordba in Argentina to attend the Conference on Photovoltaics and Optoelectronic Devices (CELFI) this September. He will be speaking on "Nanostructures for Energy Conversion - Quantum Dot Solar Cells and Perovskite Solar Cells," and "How to Make your Scientific Paper Effective."…
Professor Ptasinska will be presenting at the Radiation Research Society Meeting on September 26, 2018, in Chicago. Her talk is titled, "Plasma Radiation-induced Chemistry in Molecular Systems."…
Ian Carmichael of the Radiation Laboratory will be presenting at the Radiation Research Society Meeting in Chicago on September 26, 2018. His paper is titled, "Radiation Chemistry Clouds Macromolecular Structure Determination."…
Dr. Jay LaVerne is traveling to Chicago to attend and give a lecture at the Radiation Research Society Meeting. His talked is titled "Radiation Stability of Organic Compounds".…
Dr. Bartels will be traveling to San Francisco to attend the International Conference on Nuclear Plant Chemistry in September of 2018. He will be giving two talks: "Fixing the Water Radiolysis Mechanism at High Temperature," and "High Dose Rate Corrosion Study of FeCrAl Alloys."…