Program
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Session 1
Chair: Abe Nitzan
8:30 Vladimir M. Fridkin “Welcome and Perspective”
9:10 Boris Sturman “The Bulk Photovoltaic Effect: Concepts, Mechanisms, Models, and Developments”
9:50 Liang Z. Tan “Pushing nonlinear spectroscopy to its limit: Theoretical upper bounds for shift current and second harmonic generation in molecules and materials”
10:15 Break
Session 2
Chair: Charlie Kane
10:30 Ram S. Katiyar “Ferroelectric Photovoltaics”
11:10 Joel E. Moore “Shift and injection currents from wavefunction geometry”
11:50 Break
12:05 Joseph W. Orenstein “Giant nonlinear optical response in transition metal monopnictide Weyl semimetals”
12:45 Eugene J. Mele “Optically Controlled Orbitronics on the Triangular Lattice”
1:30 Lunch, Penn Chemistry Vagelos Building, Room 2000
Session 3
Chair: Peter Maksymovych
2:40 Heng Gao “Coexistence of Dirac and Weyl points in ABC hexagonal crystals”
3:05 Ritesh Agarwal “Circular Photogalvanic Effect in Silicon and Weyl Semimetals”
3:45 Break
4:00 – 4:40 Stephen Ducharme “Molecular Ferroelectric Materials for use Electronics and Photonics”
4:40 Group Photo, Outside Vagelos Building
5:00 Tour of Singh Center for Nanotechnology (walk to 33rd & Walnut)
5:30-7:00 Poster Session, A J Drexel Picture Gallery
(Drexel Main Building, 32nd and Chestnut Streets. Enter the Main Building on Chestnut, and walk up to the 3rd floor.)
Dinner. Reservations by sign-up during coffee breaks. (All reservations for 7:30 under the name Andrew Rappe.)
Friday, September 1, 2017
Session 4
Chair: Jon Spanier
8:30 Steven J. May “Polar Brownmillerite Superlattices Comprised of Centrosymmetric Constituent Layers”
8:55 Marin Alexe “Flexo-photovoltaic Effect”
9:35 Mariona Coll “Chemical substituted multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films for next generation photoabsorbers”
10:15 Jennifer Cano “Topological Quantum Chemistry”
10:40 Break
Session 5
Chair: Eugene Mele
10:55 Federico Rosei “Multiferroic materials for solar technologies”
11:35 Lauren Garten “The Prediction and Realization of Ferroelectric P4mm SrHfO3”
12:00 Karin M. Rabe “High-mobility ferroelectrics from first principles”
12:40 Lunch
2:00 Depart