Schedule for “Physical Chemistry on the Nanometer Scale

Sunday

7-10 PM Dinner : Keynote Address by Professor Calvin Quate

Monday

8:15am – Introductory remarks
8:25am – White: Some distinctive concepts of electrochemistry.
9:15am – Short break
9:20am – White: Interfacial structure and electrode reactions.
10:10am – Short Break
10:25am – White: How do the rules of electrochemistry change as electrode size is reduced?
11:25am – Lunch Break
1:00pm – Hipps: Deposition methods for ordered molecular films I
1:50pm – Break
2:00 Hipps: Deposition methods for ordered molecular films II
2:50pm – Break
3:05pm – Hipps: Imaging single molecules by STM
4:00pm – Free time and Dinner
7:00pm – Hipps: Electronic transport through molecules: Elastic and Inelastic Tunneling
7:55pm – Break
8:00pm – Hipps: Single Molecule Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopy in the STM
8:45pm – Break
9:00pm – Buratto: Optical Microscopy Fundamentals.

Tuesday

8:15am – Buratto: Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM
9:15am – Short break
9:20am – Buratto: Applications of NSOM
10:10am – Short Break
10:25am – Buratto: Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy
11:25am – Lunch Break
1:00pm – Buratto: Applications of Single Molecule Spectroscopy
1:50pm – Break
2:00pm – Tao: Electrochemical etching and deposition
2:50pm – Break
3:05pm – Tao: Electrochemical STM Imaging
4:00pm – Free time and Dinner
7:00pm – Tao: STM-based electrochemical nanofabrication
7:55pm – Break
8:00pm – Tao: Template-based electrochemical nanofabrication
8:45pm – Break
9:00pm – Tao: Quantum phenomena-based electrochemical nanofabrication

Wednesday

8:15am – Hamers: Electronic structure of nanoscale materials I
9:15am – Short break
9:20am – Hamers: Electronic structure of nanoscale materials II
10:10am – Short Break
10:25am – Hamers: Nanoscale control of molecular organization at surfaces
11:25am – Lunch Break
1:00pm – Hamers: Using molecules as electronic devices I
1:50pm – Break
2:00pm – Hamers: Using molecules as electronic devices II
2:50pm – Break
3:05pm – Sankey: Topics related to electronic structure theory I
4:00pm – Free time and Dinner
7:00pm – Sankey: Topics related to electronic structure theory II
7:55pm – Break
8:00pm – Sankey: Molecular electronics – transport of electrons through molecules.
8:45pm – Break
9:00pm – Sankey: Semi-quantitative estimates

Thursday

8:15am – Sankey: Semi-quantitative estimates
9:15am – Short break
9:20am – Lindsay: Review experimental methods of contacting molecules
10:10am – Short Break
10:25am – Lindsay: The nature of the contact
11:25am – Lunch Break
1:00pm – Lindsay: Methods for making well defined covalently bonded contacts
1:50pm – Break
2:00pm – Lindsay: Single molecule-metal electronic phenomena
2:50pm – Break
3:05pm – Lindsay: Discrepancy between calculations and measured conductivity of molecules
4:00pm – Free time and Dinner
7:00pm – Hoh: AFM Cantilevers
7:55pm – Break
8:00pm – Hoh: Force Spectroscopy – Force distance curves
8:45pm – Break
9:00pm – Hoh: Force Spectroscopy – Force distance curves

Friday

8:15am – Hoh: Force Spectroscopy – Spatially resolved force spectroscopy
9:15am – Short break
9:20am – Hoh: Imaging Soft Samples by AFM I
10:10am – Short Break
10:25am – Hoh: Imaging Soft Samples by AFM II
11:25am – Lunch Break
1:00pm – Hoh: Image interpretation I
1:50pm – Break
2:00pm – Hoh: Image interpretation II
2:50pm – Break
3:05pm – Dickenson: SPM technology in Tribology and Adhesion I
4:00pm – Dickenson: SPM technology in Tribology and Adhesion II
4:50pm – Break
5:00pm – Dickinson: Examples of Fundamental Studies I
5:50pm – Break
6:00pm – Dickinson: Examples of Fundamental Studies II
6:50pm – Break
7:00pm – Posters and Buffet

Saturday

8:00am – White: Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) of electrochemical interfaces.
8:55am – Break
9:00am – White: Applications of SECM imaging at the micrometer to nanometer lengthscale
10:00am – Break
10:30am – Leave for CdA
10:30am-12:00pm – Bus trip to Coeur d’Alene
12:00-1:30pm – Lunch
1:30pm – White: Electrical Wiring to Biological Systems
2:30pm – Break
2:40pm – Buratto: Raman microscopy and single molecule Raman
3:40pm – Break and Unguided tour of Couer d’Alene
5:20pm – Be at dock for boarding!!
5:30-8:00pm – Dinner and cruise
8:30-10:00pm – Return to Pullman

Sunday

Instrument Demonstrations by groups

These will be available for groups of less than 10 students from 9 am to 4 pm in 50 minute time slots. We will try to give preference to those having to depart early.

Scheduled meetings with Lecturers

Jan Hoh — Image display and Surface rendering. Sunday AM.
Others: To be announced

Please email hipps@wsu.edu ASAP if you would like to participate in the Sunday Program. Include, your preferred time period and if you are interested in AFM, STM, Image Display, or all. Also indicate what time you will be leaving Pullman. If you are interested in more than one area, please order them by priority in case it is not possible to schedule you for all of them.