Program Schedule

4^th Tuesday

5^th Wednesday

6^th Thursday

7^th Friday

8^th Saturday

3^rd January, Monday 2005

evening 6 - 8 pm MIXER

Venue: IISc Guest House Lawn

6^th International Topical Conference on Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers and Biosystems

4^th January, Tuesday 2005

Venue: IISc Faculty Hall

Time	Programme
8.00 am to 9.00 am	Registration
9.00 am to 9.15 am	Inaugural Session
9.15 am to 9.45 am	Session 1 Soos, Zoltan Polarization in Organic Molecular Crystals and Charge-Transfer Salts
9.45 am to 10.15 am	Epstein, Arthur Organic-Based Magnetic and Non-magnetic Semiconductors for Spintronics
10.15 am to 10.45 am	Tea/Coffee
10.45 am to 11.15 am	Session 2 Mazumdar, Sumit Excitons in Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
11.15 am 11.45 am	Lanzani, Guglielmo Energy relaxation in nanotubes
11.45 am to 12.15 pm	Vardeny, Valy Exciton Dynamics in Single-Walled Nanotubes
12.15 pm to 12.35 pm	Reufer, Martin Spin – conserving carrier recombination in conjugated polymer
12.35 pm to 12.55 pm	Ravhi, Kumar S. Pressure effect on multi-walled carbon nano tubes (MWCNT) up to 25 Gpa probed by X-ray Raman Spectroscopy
1.00 pm to 2.00 pm	Lunch Break
2.00 pm to 2.30 pm	Session – 3 Monkman, Andy Triplet and Singlet Exciton Dynamics in Polyfluorene and the Remote Heavy Atom Effect in Ir (ppy) 3 Doped Systems
2.30 pm to 3.00 pm	Taliani, Carlo Carrier Dynamics in Organic Light Emitting Diodes
3.00 pm to 3.20 pm	Kshirsagar, Rajendra Quantiative correlations between the organization and charge mobility in organic thin film transistors
3.20 pm to 3.45 pm	Tea/Coffee
3.45 pm to 4.15 pm	Session – 4 Chandrashekar, H.R. Optical Properties conjugated Polymers and Bio medical Imaging
4.15 pm to 4.45 pm	Blanchard-Desce, Mireille Molecular NLO-probes for nonlinear microscopies: from structural non-damaging imaging to functional imaging of biological processes
4.45 pm to 5.05 pm	Thayumanavan, S. Custom-designed Molecules for Photoinduced Charge Separation
5.05 pm to 5.25 pm	Jespersen, Kim G. Excited state dynamic and charge formation in low-bandgap alternating polyfluorene copolymers

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6^th International Topical Conference on Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers and Biosystems

5^th January, Wednesday 2005

Venue: IISc Faculty Hall

Time	Programme
9.00 am to 9.30 am	Session – 5 Inganas, Olle Photoprocesses in conjugated thiophene polyelectrolytes – tools to record biomolecular processes.
9.30 am to 10.00 am	Dodaballapur, Ananth Novel devices for chemical and biosensing
10.00 am to 10.20 am	Valiyaveettil, Suresh Conducting polymers: A versatile tool for the fabrication of thin films and devices
10.20 am to 10.40 am	Castet, Frederic Experimental and theoretical determination of the first-order hyperpolarizability of photo-and acidochromic indoline [2,1-b] oxazolidines
10.40 pm to 11.10 am	Tea/Coffee
11.10 am to 11.40 am	Session – 6 Bobbert, Peter Charge transport in highly ordered and highly disordered organic-electronic materials
11.40 am to 12.10 pm	Lupton, John Universal Picture of Chromophores in Conjugated Polymers: a Single Molecule Appraoch
12.10 pm 12.30 pm	Terenziani, F. Effect of Branching and Charge Symmetry on Linear and Nonlinear Optical properties of Multipolar Structures
12.30 pm 12.50 pm	Mhaisalkar, S.G. Effect of Deposition Rates, Substrate Temperature, Surface Treatments, and Annealing on the Characteristics of Pentacene Thin Film Transistors
1.00 pm to 2.00 pm	LUNCH BREAK
2.00 pm 3.30 pm	Poster session – 1 poster details
3.30 pm to 4.00 pm	Tea/Coffee
4.00 pm 4.30 pm	Session - 7 Girlando, Alberto Pressure and temperature induced neutral-ionic transition in Tetrathiafulvalene-Chloranil (TTF-CA) : a comparative optical study
4.30 pm to 5.00 pm	Ehrenfreund, Eitan Apparent phonon side-band modes in pi-conjugated Systems: polymers, oligomers and crystals
5.00 pm 5.30 pm	Pati, Swapan Nonlinear polarizations and transport in molecules: Role of dipole-dipole, H-bonding and electron-phonon interactions
5.30 pm to 5.50 pm	Das, Mousumi Role of Electron-Electron Interactions on Spin Effects in Electron-Hole Recombination in Organic Light Emitting Diodes
7.30 pm	Banquet Dinner

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6^th International Topical Conference on Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers and Biosystems

6^th January,  Thursday 2005

Venue: JNCASR

Time	Programme
9.00 am 9.30 am	Session – 8 Papadimitrakopoulos, Fotios Bulk Separation of Metallic from Semiconducting Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes and their Characterization using Resonance raman Spectroscopy
9.30 am to 10.00 am	Venkateswaran, Uma D. Raman spectroscopy as an optical probe of carbon nanotube properties
10.00 am to 10.20 am	Tsukuda, T. Structural Evolution from Gold(I) – Thiolate Complex to Thiolate-Protected Gold Clusters
10.20 am to 10.40 am	Ray, Debdutta Measurement of the built-in voltage in Organic Semiconductor Devices
10.40 am to 11.10 am	Tea/Coffee
11.10 am to 11.40 am	Session – 9 Sood, Ajay Raman Scattering from Carbon Nanotubes
11.40 am to 12.10 pm	Nishi, Nobayuki Carbon-skinned metallic wires and magnetic nanocrystals prepared from metal acetylides
12.10 pm to 12.30 pm	Zhao, Hongbo Coulomb effect and nonlinear optical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes
12.30 pm to 12.50 pm	Ananthakrishnan, Nisha Utilization of Ternary Polymer Blend Systems for Color Tuning in Polymer Light Emitting Devices
1.00 pm to 2.00 pm	LUNCH BREAK
2.00 pm to 2.30 pm	Session – 10 Meng, Hsin-Fei Triplet exciton formation in polymer light-emitting diode
2.30 pm to 3.00 pm	Heremans, Paul High-efficiency photodetectors using organic semiconductors
3.00 pm to 3.20 pm	Dutta, Soumya Spectroscopic studies of photoinduced transport in polymer field effect transistors
3.20 pm to 3.40 pm	Xia, R. On the significant improvement of conjugated polymer thin film optical gain properties by liquid crystalline orientation
3.40 pm to 4.10 pm	Tea/Coffee
4.10 pm to 4.40 pm	Session – 11 Meneghetti, Moreno Non-linear excited state absorption of fullerene induced by light harvesting of gold nanoparticles.
4.40 pm to 5.10 pm	Wei, Huang Fluorescence Quenching of Cationic Poly(p-phenylenevinylen)s with difference Contents of cis-and trans-vinylic Linkages.
5.10 pm to 5.30 pm	Mohapatra, Y.N. Time domain spectroscopic study of PL decay in Zinc Benzothiazole suitable for White light emitting OLEDs

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6^th International Topical Conference on Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers and Biosystems

7^th January, Friday 2005

Venue: JNCASR

Time	Programme
9.00 am to 9.30 am	Session – 12 Persoons, Andre Nonlinear Optical Properties of Thin Films of Chiral Conjugated Polymers & Systems
9.30 am to 10.00 am	Shukla, Alok Theory of photoinduced absorption and nonlinear optical properties of poly(diphenyl)-polyacetylenes
10.00 am to 10.20 am	Fritsch, Alain Charge Transport in DNA strands using Fragment Orbital Theory
10.20 am to 10.40 am	Dartigalongue, Thibault Observation of ultrafast conformational charge in carboxymyoglobin by time-resolved circular dichroism
10.40 am to 11.10 am	Tea/Coffee
11.10 am to 11.40 am	Session – 13 Shinar, Joseph Optically detected Magnetic Resonance (ODMR) Studies of p-Conjugated Materials & OLEDs & the Yield of Singlet Excitons in Fluorescence- Based OLEDs
11.40 am to 12.10 pm	Moses, Daniel The Carrier Photoexcitation Mechanism and the Carrier Recombination Dynamics in Single Conjugated Polymer Chain
12.10 pm to 12.30 pm	Morteani, Arne C. Exciton Regeneration at Polymeric Semiconductor Heterojunctions
12.30 pm to 12.50 pm	Davidov, D. Probing Microwave effects and protein folding by Green Fluorescent Protein
1.00 pm to 2.00 pm	LUNCH BREAK
2.00 pm to 3.30 pm	Poster Session – II poster details
3.30 pm to 3.50 pm	Tea/Coffee
3.50 pm to 4.20 pm	Session – 14 Rothberg, Lewis Optical detection of DNA sequences using metal nanoparticle suspensions
4.20 pm to 4.50 pm	Lewis, Aaron Plasmon Enhancement of the Second Harmonic Generation of Membrane Potential Sensitive Molecular Systems
4.50 pm to 5.20 pm	Scherf, Uli Structural design towards tunable electronic properties of semiconducting polymers
5.20 pm to 5.40 pm	Singh, Birendra Th. Ambipolar organic field-effect transistors
6.30 p.m.	Cultural Program

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6^th International Topical Conference on Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers and Biosystems

8^th January, Saturday 2005

Venue: IISc Faculty Hall

Time	Programme
9.00 am to 9.30 am	Session – 15 Painelli, Anna Electron-transfer and electrostatic interactions in molecular materials
9.30 am to 10.00 am	Shuai, Zhijang Aggregation and nanosize effects in organic light-emitting materials
10.00 am to 10.20 am	Muccini, Michele Molecular organization in ultra-thin films of alpha-sexithiophene on silicon dioxide revealed by spatially and time-resolved confocal spectroscopy
10.20 am to 10.40 am	Pivrikas, Almantas Bimolecular charge carrier recombination in bulk heterojunction solar cells probed with time-of-flight & extractions current transient techniques
10.40 am 11.10 am	Tea/Coffee
11.10 am to 11.40 am	Session – 16 Birch, David Metabolic sensing with Fluorescence
11.40 am to 12.10 pm	Krishnamurthy, G. Time – domain fluorescence probes the dynamics of proteins and protein-DNA complexes
12.10 pm to 12.30 pm	Bhat, Asha N. Understanding the Electronic structure and properties of organic polymers: A density functional theory approach
12.30 pm to 12.50 pm	Riccardo Tubino Optical Excitations of porphyrin J-aggregates in Silica Nanochannels
1.00 pm to 2.00 pm	LUNCH BREAK
2.00 pm to 2.30 pm	Session – 17
2.30 pm to 3.00 pm	Closing Session
3.00 pm to 3.30 pm	Tea/Coffee
3.30 pm to 4.00 pm

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