Events Calendar
As an effort to provide professional development opportunities for CMDITR students and postdoctoral fellows, the Graduate Student Advisory Council (GPAC) has started a new seminar series entitled Café Photonique. We are providing this seminar series as a way for students to gain experience presenting their research, and to foster collaborations throughout the Center through enhanced awareness of STC research across multiple disciplines and campuses.
During Café Photonique seminars, students and postdocs are invited to give a 30 minute presentation wherein their current STC-related research is shared with an audience at his/her campus. The presentation and slides are also recorded and uploaded to the CMDITR website, where students at other campuses have the freedom to view these talks at their leisure. This is a change from our past student-led series. While the previous seminars were more inclusive, there were often many obstacles associated with coordination between multiple campuses spanning several time zones. By providing members with web versions of each presentation, Café Photonique offers a solution to time constraints, allowing members to learn about current STC research at their convenience.
If you are interested in presenting your work at a Café Photonique seminar, please contact Ariel Marshall, GPAC Chair or Nathan Sylvain, GPAC Co-chair.
List of Seminar Presentations
The many uses of phosphonic acids: a collection of organic electronic stories
Sergio A. Paniagua, Marder Group
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012
Location: Georgia Tech; MS&E 1201A
Surface science is becoming increasingly important with the widespread of nanomaterials and the reduction in size of devices and their features. Modification of surfaces has been crucial for the advancement of several technologies, including organic electronics. In this talk I will present the case for phosphonic acids as universal modifiers of metal oxides, how surface properties can be tuned through their use, and their application towards conductive and insulating polymer growth from surfaces.
To view the talk, visit: http://chem-stc-vid.chemistry.arizona.edu/p88023488/
