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Event Highlights
Sep 2015
Co-chaired by Prof Ching W. Tang, IAS Bank of East Asia Professor and Prof Kam Sing Wong,
Professor of Physics at HKUST, the 11th International Conference on Optical Probes of
Conjugated Polymers and Organic Nanostructures was held in IAS from
14 to19 June 2015, attracting more than 100 participants.
The Optical Probes Conference has been a leading series of meetings
in the field of photophysics of organic semiconductors. Previous
conferences took place biannually at different locations, from the
inaugural one in Snowbird (1992) to the one immediately before
Hong Kong in Durham (2013). The scope of the Conference in
2015 was a variety of excited state phenomena in technologically
important materials and biosystems, including size- and
time-dependent electronic interactions, excited state dynamics,
quantum confinement, carrier transport and optical measurement.
Attended by close to 70 speakers and 40 poster presenters across the
continents, this year the Conference brought together an interdisciplinary
group of physicists, chemists, material scientists, and device engineers to
exchange ideas, identify obstacles and possible solutions, as well as future
issues related to photophysics and applications of organic materials
and devices.
The 11
th
International Conference on
Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers
and Organic Nanostructures
