Oleg V. Prezhdo

Talk Title:

Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics in Nanoscale   Materials

Oleg Prezhdo served as an Editor in the Journal of Physical Chemistry and Surface Science Reports. Currently, he is an Executive Editor for the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Recipient of multiple national and international awards. With about 500 papers, 400 invited talks, and h-index of 77, his research interests range broadly from semiclassical physics and time-dependent density functional theory, to quantum dynamics and far-from-equilibrium processes in nanoscale, condensed matter, molecular and biological systems.

Christy F. Landes

Talk Title: 

Nanophotonic Approaches for Chirality Sensing

Christy F. Landes is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Rice University in Houston, TX, with appointments in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She serves as a senior editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, on the Editorial Committee of the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. The Landes Group is comprised of chemists, applied physicists, and engineers who develop next-generation tools to image dynamics at soft interfaces at the limit of a single event. 

Zhan Chen

Talk Title:

Probing Chemical Reactions at Interfaces   and Molecular Interactions between Biomolecules and 2D materials

Professor Zhan Chen is a professor of chemistry, macromolecular science and engineering, biophysics, and applied physics at the University of Michigan. Professor Chen’s research is focused on the molecular level understanding of structures of polymers and biological molecules at interfaces using advanced spectroscopic methods. He published 300 peer reviewed research articles and gave more than 350 invited talks at various institutions and conferences.  

Talk Title: 

Exotic Electronic Excitation of Materials by Plasmons

Kei Murakoshi is the professor at Hokkaido University. He is recipient of awards from The Japanese Photochemistry Association in 2008, The Chemical Society of Japan for Creative Work in 2009, The Electrochemical Society of Japan Association in 2014, and The Spectroscopical Society of Japan in 2019. He is Guest Editor for the special issue of J. Phys. Chem. C in 2009, 2010, and 2016. He is currently Vice-Dean of Faculty of Sciences at Hokkaido University.