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Joint ICTP-KFAS Workshop on Nanoscience for Solar Energy Conversion | (smr 1938)
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  • Monday, 27 October 2008
    • 08:30 - 09:00 REGISTRATION / ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 08:30 REGISTRATION / ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES 30'
    • 09:00 - 09:15 OPENING SESSION 
      Professor K.R. SREENIVASAN
Director, ICTP
      • 09:00 OPENING SESSION 15'
    • 09:15 - 10:00 Power from the Sun: the Advent of Mesoscopic Solar Cells
      • 09:15 Power from the Sun: the Advent of Mesoscopic Solar Cells 45'
        Speaker: Michael GRAETZEL (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:30 - 11:10 Quantum Dot Solar Cells: Semiconductor Nanocrystals As Light Harvesters
      • 10:30 Quantum Dot Solar Cells: Semiconductor Nanocrystals As Light Harvesters 40'
        Speaker: Prashant KAMAT (University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 11:10 - 11:50 Recent developments in the design of dye sensitized solar cell components
      • 11:10 Recent developments in the design of dye sensitized solar cell components 40'
        Speaker: Carlo Alberto BIGNOZZI (University of Ferrara, Italy)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 11:50 - 12:30 Materials-related aspects of TiO2-based photocatalysis
      • 11:50 Materials-related aspects of TiO2-based photocatalysis 40'
        Speaker: Annabella SELLONI (Princeton University, U.S.A.)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:10 Photoelectrochemical Solar Energy Conversion Based on Conducting Polymers
      • 14:30 Photoelectrochemical Solar Energy Conversion Based on Conducting Polymers 40'
        Speaker: Teketel Yohannes ANSHEBO (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia / CNR-ISM, Bologna, Italy)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 15:10 - 15:50 Correlation between nanomorphology, local optical properties and device response in solution processed organic photovoltaic cells
      • 15:10 Correlation between nanomorphology, local optical properties and device response in solution processed organic photovoltaic cells 40'
        Speaker: Michele MUCCINI (CNR-ISMN, Bologna, Italy)
        Material: abstract
    • 15:50 - 16:20 Coffee Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 15:50 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:20 - 17:00 Charge Transport in Metal Oxides: Multi-scale Studies
      • 16:20 Charge Transport in Metal Oxides: Multi-scale Studies 40'
        Speaker: Michel DUPUIS (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, U.S.A.)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 17:00 - 17:40 Dye sensitized solar cells: toward a low cost, industrial viable, photovoltaics
      • 17:00 Dye sensitized solar cells: toward a low cost, industrial viable, photovoltaics 40'
        Speaker: Aldo DI CARLO (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 17:40 - 18:00 Round Table discussion on: Solar Energy Research Initiatives in Central European Countries
      • 17:40 Round Table discussion on: Solar Energy Research Initiatives in Central European Countries 20'
  • Tuesday, 28 October 2008
    • 09:00 - 09:40 Charge Recombination Studies in Hybrid Molecular Photovoltaic Devices
      • 09:00 Charge Recombination Studies in Hybrid Molecular Photovoltaic Devices 40'
        Speaker: Emilio PALOMARES (ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 09:40 - 10:20 Dynamics on the Nanoscale: Time-domain ab initio studies of quantum dots and carbon nanotubes
      • 09:40 Dynamics on the Nanoscale: Time-domain ab initio studies of quantum dots and carbon nanotubes 40'
        Speaker: Oleg PREZHDO (University of Washington, U.S.A.)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:50 - 11:30 Quantum simulations of electrochemical systems
      • 10:50 Quantum simulations of electrochemical systems 40'
        Speaker: Nicola MARZARI (MIT, Cambridge, U.S.A.)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 12:10 Impedance Spectroscopy of nanostructured dye-sensitized and organic bulk heterojunction solar cells
      • 11:30 Impedance Spectroscopy of nanostructured dye-sensitized and organic bulk heterojunction solar cells 40'
        Speaker: Juan BISQUERT (Universitat Jaume 1, Castello de La Plana, Spain)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 12:10 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria
      • 12:10 Lunch Break 1h50'
    • 14:00 - 14:40 Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells: device operation, optimization, charge generation mechanism and novel electrodes structured from diblock copolymers
      • 14:00 Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells: device operation, optimization, charge generation mechanism and novel electrodes structured from diblock copolymers 40'
        Speaker: Henry SNAITH (University of Oxford, U.K.)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 14:40 - 15:20 Reduced and doped TiO2: what is the nature of the defect states?
      • 14:40 Reduced and doped TiO2: what is the nature of the defect states? 40'
        Speaker: Gianfranco PACCHIONI (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 15:20 - 16:00 Long Term Stability of Dye Solar Cells - Influence of Dye Chemistry
      • 15:20 Long Term Stability of Dye Solar Cells - Influence of Dye Chemistry 40'
        Speaker: Keith BROOKS (Leysin, Switzerland)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 18:30 POSTER SESSION 
      Poster Gallery (behind the Main Lecture Hall)
      • 16:30 POSTER SESSION 2h0'
    • 18:30 - 21:30 WELCOME RECEPTION
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria
      • 18:30 WELCOME RECEPTION 3h0'
  • Wednesday, 29 October 2008
    • 09:00 - 09:40 Molecular engineering of sensitisers for solar cell applications
      • 09:00 Molecular engineering of sensitisers for solar cell applications 40'
        Speaker: Md. Khaja NAZEERUDDIN (EPFL-LPI, Lausanne, Switzerland)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 09:40 - 10:20 Charge Photogeneration and collection in dye sensitized solar cells
      • 09:40 Charge Photogeneration and collection in dye sensitized solar cells 40'
        Speaker: Piers BARNES (Imperial College, London, U.K.)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:50 - 11:30 Mesoscopic Donor-Acceptor Multilayer by Ultra-High-Vacuum deposition of Zn-Tetraphenyl-Porphyrin and C70
      • 10:50 Mesoscopic Donor-Acceptor Multilayer by Ultra-High-Vacuum deposition of Zn-Tetraphenyl-Porphyrin and C70 40'
        Speaker: Andrea GOLDONI (Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 12:10 Toward high performance plastic solar cells: basics and recent development
      • 11:30 Toward high performance plastic solar cells: basics and recent development 40'
        Speaker: Nadia CAMAIONI (CNR-ISOF, Bologna, Italy)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 12:10 - 12:30 CLOSING SESSION
      • 12:10 CLOSING SESSION 20'
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