Alan is giving a big talk at MIT today. The title of his presentation is "Learning from Nature: Bacterial light harvesting antennas and perspectives for new organic materials for solar cells" and he will combine some of the excitonics work in the group as well as our Clean Energy Project. Here is the full abstract:

"Green-sulfur bacteria is a remarkable organism that can carry out photosynthesis in low-light conditions such as those present in the bottom of the ocean or moonlight. In this talk, geared for a general scientific audience, I will describe my group's efforts to understand how this organism harvests sunlight so efficiently. I will proceed to describe the possible implications of these light-harvesting mechanisms for enhancing energy transport in organic materials. I will end by briefly discussing our screening efforts for materials for organic solar cells using computer time from distributed donors around the world."