Basic Research Innovation and Collaboration Center (BRICC)
4075 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 350
Arlington, VA 22203
AGENDA Day 1 – Monday, May 19, 2014
Time
Title of Project
Speaker
7:00-8:25
Registration
8:25-8:30
Opening Remarks
Michael Berman,
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
8:30-9:05
Organizational Stability, Structural Fluxionality, and MachineLike Response of Nanostructures
Uzi Landman,
Georgia Institute of Technology
9:05-9:40
On the Evolution from Non‐plasmonic Metal Nanoclusters to
Plasmonic Nanocrystals
Rongchao Jin,
Carnegie Mellon University
9:40-10:15
Towards Understanding Endothermic Fuels: Probing Pyrolysis
and Electron Impact Ionization Fragmentation Reactions from
Supercritical Hexane and Dodecane
Christopher Bunker,
Air Force Research Laboratory
10:15-10:45
BREAK
10:45-11:20 Catalyst and Fuel Interactions to Optimize Endothermic
Cooling
Scott Anderson,
University of Utah
11:20-11:55 Doped Metal Clusters on Oxides for Catalytic Dehydrogenation Anastassia Alexandrova,
of Alkanes: Realistic Modeling and Chemical Bonding Insight.
University of California, Los Angeles
11:55-12:30
Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry:
Application to the Analysis of Surfaces of Coked Catalysts
12:30-1:55
Richard Zare,
Stanford University
LUNCH
2:00-2:35
Direct Molecular Simulation of Nonequilibrium Reacting
Gases
Thomas Schwartzentruber,
University of Minnesota
2:35-3:15
Ab Initio Dynamics of Energy Transfer in Photo-‐‐Excited
Methyl-‐‐Benzyl-‐‐Benzaldehyde
Joseph Subotnik,
University of Pennsylvania
3:15-3:45
BREAK
3:15-4:10
The Bulk Photovoltaic Effect in Polar Oxides for
Robust and Efficient Solar Energy Harvesting
Andrew Rappe,
University of Pennsylvania
4:10-4:45
The First Hole Transfer in Photocatalytic Water Oxidation by
Transient Spectroscopy
Tanja Cuk,
University of California, Berkeley
4:45
ADJOURN FOR THE DAY
5:00-7:00
DINNER (NOT PROVIDED)
Basic Research Innovation and Collaboration Center (BRICC)
4075 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 350
Arlington, VA 22203
AGENDA Day 2 – Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Time
Title of Project
Speaker
7:30-8:30
Registration
8:30-9:05
Reactivity of Transient Species in Water Splitting and CO2
Reduction Using Cryogenic Ion Spectroscopy
Mark Johnson,
Yale University
9:05-9:40
Accurate and Systematically Improvable Density Functional
Theory Embedding for Correlated Wavefunctions
Thomas Miller,
California Institute of Technology
9:40-10:15
Precision Gas-‐‐Surface Scattering and Imaging Studies of
Complex Interfaces
Steven Sibener,
University of Chicago
10:15-10:45
BREAK
10:45-11:20
Novel Catalytic Mechanisms for the Chemical Reduction of
Carbon Dioxide to Energy-Dense Liquids (MURI)
Andrew Bocarsly,
Princeton University
11:20-11:55
First Principles Quantum Simulations of
the Essential Steps in (Photo)Electrocatalysis
Emily Carter,
Princeton University
Inverse Design, Development and Characterization of
Catalytic Adsorbates at Semiconductor/Liquid Interfaces
Victor Batista,
Yale University
11:55-12:30
12:30-2:00
LUNCH
2:00-2:35
Entanglement and Correlation between Electronic Domains
of Molecules and Materials
David Mazziotti,
University of Chicago
2:35-3:15
Excited State Behavior of Chalcogenide-Capped
Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Gordana Dukovic,
University of Colorado
3:15-3:35
3:35-4:15
BREAK
Program Status Update
Michael Berman,
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
4:15-6:00
POSTER SESSION
6:00
ADJOURN FOR THE DAY
Basic Research Innovation and Collaboration Center (BRICC)
4075 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 350
Arlington, VA 22203
AGENDA Day 3 – Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Time
Title of Project
Speaker
7:30-8:30
Registration
8:30-9:05
Exciton Transport in Carbon Nanotube Photovoltaic Films
using 2D White-Light Spectroscopy
Martin Zanni,
University of Wisconsin
9:05-9:40
New Approaches to Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic
Reduction of CO2
Robert Hamers,
University of Wisconsin
9:40-10:15
Chemical Dynamics and Structures on Metal Nanomaterial
Surfaces
Junrong Zheng,
Rice University
10:15-10:45
BREAK
10:45-11:20
A Case for Staying Home: What We Learned about Plasma
Chemistry during the AF Travel Ban
A. A. Viggiano,
Air Force Research Laboratory
11:20-11:55
Synthesis and Spectroscopy of Ultra-Small Ligand-Coated
Nanoclusters
Michael Duncan,
University of Georgia
Toward the Development of Aluminum Cluster-Containing
Materials for Propulsion Applications
Kit Bowen,
Johns Hopkins University
11:55-12:30
12:30-1:30
LUNCH
1:30-2:05
Hyperthermal Collision Dynamics at the Gas-RTIL Interface
and Photoelectron Imaging Microscopy of Plasmonic
Nanoparticles
2:05-2:40
Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Dynamics and Thermochemistry W. Carl Lineberger,
of Nitrogen-rich Cyclic Anions and Combustion Intermediates University of Colorado
2:40-3:00
David Nesbitt,
University of Colorado
BREAK
3:00-3:35
Molecular Beam Studies of Jet Fuel Surrogates using Liquid
Microjets
Gilbert Nathanson,
University of Wisconsin
3:35-4:10
A Computational Study of the Dynamics, Structure and
Thermodynamic Properties of Solutions of Ionic Liquids and
Dissolved Solutes
Edward Maginn,
University of Notre Dame
4:10
CLOSING REMARKS/MEETING ADJORNED