U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Excited State Dynamics in the Condensed Phases/November 1989/Honolulu, HI

该奖项将支持由美国乔治亚大学的William M. Yen教授和日本大阪大学的T. Kushida教授联合举办的“凝聚态激发态动力学”研讨会。与会者将于1989年11月在夏威夷檀香山举行会议，讨论物质凝聚态中光激发态动力学特性研究的现状和未来方向。近年来引进的一些新的光谱技术为研究凝聚态物质的光学性质，特别是固体中高能电子态的光学性质提供了新的途径。此外，新型的光学活性材料和系统同时增加了这一领域的活性。这次研讨会将使该领域的领导人能够将他们自己的结果和对这项最近工作的印象联系起来。两国的工作人员将讨论兴奋状态的放松过程；有序系统和各种无序系统中激子的特性以及新的实验技术。所选择的主题跨越学科界限，使研讨会具有多学科的味道。本次研讨会讨论的工作对激光器等仪器的设计和使用以及光纤通信等重要技术领域都有影响。

This award will support a seminar, "Excited State Dynamics in the Condensed Phases", organized jointly by Prof. William M. Yen of the University of Georgia, and Prof. T. Kushida of Osaka University, Japan. Participants will meet in Honolulu, Hawaii in November 1989 to discuss the current status and future directions of studies on the dynamical properties of optically excited states in the condensed phases of matter. Recent introduction of a number of novel spectro- scopic techniques has allowed new approaches to the study of the optical properties of condensed matter and particularly of higher- energy electron states in solids. In addition, new types of optically active materials and systems have simultaneously increased activity in this area. This seminar will allow leaders in the field to correlate their own results and impressions of this recent work. Workers from both countries will discuss relaxation processes of the excited state; characteristics of excitons in both ordered and various kinds of disordered systems; and new experimental techniques. The subjects chosen cross disciplinary boundaries, giving the seminar a multidisciplinary flavor. The work discussed in this seminar has implications for the design and use of such instruments as lasers, and in such important technological fields as optical-fiber communi- cations.