Scientific Challenges in Solar Energy Conversion and Storage

November 01, 2008

Content

Overview

Organizers:

Eray Aydil	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Weinan E	Princeton University

The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) in conjunction with the National Science FoundationDivision of Math Sciences is organizing a one-day workshop on the new initiative called SOLARhttp://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503298.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together a mixed audience of mathematicians, chemists and materials scientists to discuss scientific challenges in high efficiency harvesting, conversion and storage of solar energy. The workshop will aim to plant the seeds for interdisciplinary collaborations necessary to address the grand challenges in solar energy conversion and storage. It will aim to educate the mixed audience of attendees about the issues and provide a framework for detailed discussions on what needs to be done to surpass the grand challenges. The workshop will begin with four talks by speakers who are experts in fundamental science of solar energy conversion and culminate in the afternoon with panel discussions.

Schedule

Saturday, November 01, 2008

9:00 am - 9:45 am	Breakfast and registration	EE/CS 3-176
9:45 am - 10:00 am	Welcome (Fadil Santosa and NSF officer) Fadil Santosa	EE/CS 3-180
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Challenges in efficient and inexpensive solar-to-electric energy conversion Eray Aydil (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	EE/CS 3-180
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Multiple exciton generation in semiconductor quantum dots and novel molecules: Applications to third generation solar photon conversion Arthur Nozik (Department of Energy)	EE/CS 3-180
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Break and discussion	EE/CS 3-176
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Quantum dots and dye-sensitized semiconductors for solar energy conversion: time-domain ab initio studies of the photoinduced dynamics Oleg Prezhdo (University of Washington)	EE/CS 3-180
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Engineering morphology in small molecule organic photovoltaic cells for efficient exciton diffusion and dissociation Russell Holmes (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	EE/CS 3-180
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Lunch and discussion	EE/CS 3-180
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Exciton dissociation in solar cells Xiaoyang Zhu (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	EE/CS 3-180
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Functionalized quantum dots and conjugated polymers for light harvesting applications: Theoretical insights Sergei Tretiak (Los Alamos National Laboratory)	EE/CS 3-180
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Break and discussion	EE/CS 3-176
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Computational aspects of solid state transport Christian Ringhofer (Arizona State University)	EE/CS 3-180
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Receiver technology for today and tomorrow Alex Marker (Schott North America, Inc.)	EE/CS 3-180
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Environment-assisted quantum transport in photosynthetic complexes: Learning from nature for potential organic photovoltaic applications. Alán Aspuru-Guzik (Harvard University)	EE/CS 3-180
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm	CHE-DMR-DMS solar energy initiative Henry Warchall (National Science Foundation)	EE/CS 3-180

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
Rigoberto Advincula	Department of Chemistry	University of Houston
Alina Alexeenko	School of Aero & Astronautics	Purdue University
Alán Aspuru-Guzik	Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology	Harvard University
Eray Aydil	Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Gregory Baker		Michigan State University
Gang Bao	Department of Mathematics	Michigan State University
James Brannick	Department of Mathematics	The Pennsylvania State University
Wei Cai	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of North Carolina
Carme Calderer	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Stephen Campbell	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Eric Cances	ENPC	CERMICS
Bernardo Cockburn	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jeffrey Derby	Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
David Dobson	Department of Mathematics	The University of Utah
Dan Dougherty	Department of Physics	North Carolina State University
Phillip Duxbury	Department of Physics and Astronomy	Michigan State University
Weinan E	Department of Mathematics and Applied Computational Mathematics	Princeton University
Maria Esteban	Ceremade	Université de Paris IX (Paris-Dauphine)
Heather Finotti	Department of Mathematics	University of Tennessee
Daniel Flath	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	Macalester College
Stephen Foster	Department of Chemistry	Mississippi State University
Irene Gamba	Department of Mathematics	The University of Texas at Austin
Carlos Garcia-Cervera	Department of Mathematics	University of California
Guillermo Goldsztein	School of Mathematics	Georgia Institute of Technology
Timothy Havel	MIT Building NW-14	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William Henry		Mississippi State University
Jan Hesthaven	Division of Applied Mathematics	Brown University
Russell Holmes	Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
YunKyong Hyon	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Mark Iwen	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Richard James	Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Samson Jenekhe	Department of Chemical Engineering	University of Washington
Shi Jin		University of Wisconsin, Madison
Terry Joyce	Library Systems	3M
Markos Katsoulakis	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of Massachusetts
Markus Keel	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yongho Kim	Chemistry Department	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Robert Kohn	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences	New York University
Claude Le Bris		CERMICS
Hijin Lee	Mathematics Department	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Long Lee	Department of Mathematics	University of Wyoming
Jichun Li		Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA)
Yongfeng Li	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Di Liu	Department of Mathematics	Michigan State University
Jian-Guo Liu		Duke University
Kevin Long	Department of Mathematics	Texas Tech University
Gang Lu	Department of Physics and Astronomy	California State University
Mitchell Luskin	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Alex Marker		Schott North America, Inc.
Vasileios Maroulas	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
James McCusker	Department of Chemistry	Michigan State University
Peter Monk	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Zuhair Nashed	Department of Mathematics	University of Central Florida
David Norris	Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Arthur Nozik	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Department of Energy
Sang- Hyun Oh	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Isamu Ohnishi	Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences	Hiroshima University
Richa Pandey	Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Stephen Pankavich		University of Texas
Oleg Prezhdo	Department of Chemistry	University of Washington
Emil Prodan	Department of Physics	Yeshiva University
Keith Promislow	Department of Mathematics	Michigan State University
Christian Ringhofer	Department of Mathematics	Arizona State University
Andreas Savin	Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique	Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)
Tsvetanka Sendova	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Stephen Shipman	Department of Mathematics	Louisiana State University
Chi-Wang Shu	Division of Applied Mathematics	Brown University
Donald Singley		3M
Qiyu Sun	Department of Mathematics	University of Central Florida
P. Craig Taylor	Department of Physics	Colorado School of Mines
Brooke Timp	Department of Chemistry	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
William Tisdale	Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Sergei Tretiak	Theoretical Division	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Donald Truhlar	Supercomputer Institute and Department of Chemistry	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Erkan Tüzel	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Mark van Schilfgaarde	Engineering Research Center	Arizona State University
Tho Vu		Top-Vu Technology, Inc
Hong Wang	Department of Mathematics	University of South Carolina
Lin-Wang Wang	Scientific Computing Group	Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Qi Wang	Department of Mathematics & USC NanoCenter	University of South Carolina
Henry Warchall	Department of Applied Mathematics	National Science Foundation
Colin Wolden	Chemical Engineering Department	Colorado School of Mines
Jue Yan	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Chao Yang	Computational Research Division	Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Xingzhou Yang	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Mississippi State University
Luping Yu	Department of Chemistry	University of Chicago
Trihua Yu		3M
Xiaoyang Zhu	Department of Chemistry	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yu Zhuang	Department of Computer Science	Texas Tech University