Curriculum Vitae

INVITED TALKS

Conferences:

• Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April 2006, " Chain morphologies in blue-emitting polyfluorenes: impact on light-emitting diodes" (invited talk).
• Midwest Solid Sate Conference, Purdue University, October, 2004, "Photophysics of light-emitting organic semiconductors" (invited talk).
• High Pressure Semiconductor Physics XI conference in Berkeley Ca, 2-5 August, 2004, "Photophysics of organic emissive semiconductors under hydrostatic pressure" (invited talk).
• International Symposium on Anisotropic Organic Materials, Division of Organic Chemistry - 218th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, August 1999, "Optical properties of organic wide band-gap semiconductors under high pressure ", ( invited poster presentation ).
  

Colloquia and Seminars:

• Colloquium (Department of Physics) at Truman State University , Kirksville , Nov. 8, 2006 , “ Blue-emitting polymers: application in organic optoelectronics ”.
• Condensed Matter Seminar (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy) at the University of Missouri-Columbia , Nov. 1, 2006 , “ Space-charge-limited conduction in polyfluorenes ”
  
• Colloquium (Department of Physics) at National Taiwan Normal University-Taipei , Taiwan , June 7, 2006 , " Chain morphologies in blue-emitting polyfluorenes: impact on light-emitting diodes"
• Seminar (Civil and Environmental Engineering) at the University of Missouri-Columbia MO, Nov. 17, 2005, "A pedestrian approach to Raman scattering: applications in materials science".
• Colloquium (Physics and Materials Science Dept.) at Missouri State University-Springfield, Nov. 10, 2005, "Chain morphologies in polyfluorenes: what does one learn from Raman scattering studies?"
• Seminar (Department of Materials Physics and Mechanics) at the University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo , Brazil, June1, 2005, "Structure/Property relationships in emissive organic semiconductors: impact on optoelectronic devices".
• Seminar (Polymer Physics) at the University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil, May 23, 2005, "Structure/Property relationships in emissive organic semiconductors: impact on optoelectronic devices".
• R. G. Herb Solid State Seminar (Physics Dept.) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 28, 2005, "Light scattering studies of conjugated polymers and biomolecules ".
• Colloquium (College of Nanotechnology), University at Albany-SUNY, March 4, 2005, "Structure/Property relationships in emissive organic semiconductors: impact on optoelectronic devices".
• Soft-Matter Seminar at Arizona State University, October 6, 2004, "Photophysics of light-emitting organic semiconductors".
• Colloquium (Physics Dept.) at the University of Missouri-Columbia MO, March 17, 2003 , Photophysics of emissive organic semiconductors-a new generation of optoelectronic devices .
• Colloquium (Joint Physics and Chemistry Dept.) at Georgetown University, Washington DC , April 10, 2002, "Photophysics of emissive organic semiconductors".
• Colloquium (Physics Dept.) at the University of Missouri-Rolla, October 4, 2001, "Photophysics of emissive organic semiconductors".
• Solid State Seminar (Physics Dept.) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 18, 2000, "Optical properties of poly(para-Phenylenes) under high pressure ".
• Colloquium (Physics Dept.) at Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, April 20, 2000, "Vibrational spectroscopy of fullerenes-the isotope effect".
• Workshop on Inorganic /Organic Optoelectronic Devices, Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, April 21, 2000, "Raman spectroscopy of GaN".
• Solid State Seminar (Physics Dept.) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Feb 4, 1998, " Optical properties of conjugated polymers under high pressure ".
• "Isotope effect on the Raman spectrum of C60 "
  a) Colloquium at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India , January 2,1996.
  b) Solid State Seminar at the University of Missouri-Columbia, February 21, 1996.
  c) Solid State Seminar at the Rowland Institute of Science, Boston, June 12, 1996.
  d) Chemistry Colloquium, Marquette University, April 9, 1999.