10:00–11:30 a.m.
Desi Fest 2024, a vibrant South Asian arts and cultural festival, will take place in Eugene from October 3-5. As part of this three-day celebration, a free Navarasa dance workshop, presented by the Sindhoor and Natyaveda Navarasa Dance Theater, will be held on the University of Oregon campus. This five-member South Asian dance theatre troupe specializes in both Bharatanatyam classical dance as well as kalarippayattu, a South Asian martial art that is used in theatre training and performance throughout South Asia.
This workshop aims to enhance the understanding and appreciation of South Asian culture, enriching both the campus community and the broader Eugene area. For the full festival schedule, please visit:
Choreographers Sindhoor and Natyaveda along with the filmaker, S.M. Raju, create a unique dance-theater style that is world-class and has performed with many professional companies and venues including Cirque du Soleil, Asian Art Museum, Lincoln Center, UCSB, UCLA, Bates Dance Festival, Brandies University, Wellesley College, East West Players, USA and Teesri Duniya Theatre, York Theatre, Harborfront Theatre, (Canada), Rangayana, Naradagana Sabha, India. They have been awarded by California Arts Council, National Performer's Network, New England Foundation for the Arts among others.
Navarasa's "Dance for Everyone" program offers scholarships and free dance training for over 200 underprivileged children and adults every week. Navarasa is the primary institution for Kalari and Mysore Style Bharatanatyam in North America.
3:00 p.m.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Organic/Inorganic/Materials SeminarSeries
Professor Dirk M. Guldi, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Title: Towards Adaptive Light Capture, Conversion, and Storage
The sun is an abundant and sustainable source of energy that is vital for the on-going energy transition. However, while abundant, the solar radiation reaching the earth’s surface covers a broad range of energies, from high-energy ultraviolet, through the visible region, to low-energy infrared. This poses significant challenges for efficient capturing and converting solar energy.
For photons with energies well-above the bandgap of the absorbing material, excess energy is lost predominantly by thermalization in the form of heat. In contrast, photons with energies below the optical bandgap are not absorbed at all. Even at peak efficiencies, both thermalization and sub-bandgap losses account for over 50% of incident solar power. Therefore, single-junction solar cells are limited to a maximum performance of 33%, which is known as the detailed balance limit. It is therefore imperative to find strategies to reduce thermalization and sub-bandgap losses to achieve efficiencies beyond the detailed balance limit. Here, down- and up-conversion processes could, theoretically, increase solar-energy conversion efficiencies beyond current limitations by reaching 39% and 49%, respectively. Additionally, the integration of down- and up-shifters with the aforementioned elements will aid in controlling light throughout the solar radiation spectrum, spanning from the ultraviolet up to the infrared.
The spectral conversion enables modifying the incident solar spectrum such that a better match is obtained with the wavelength-dependent conversion efficiency of, for example, the photoactive layer of photovoltaics. We thereby demonstrate to harness down- and/or up-converting or down- and/or up-shifting of the spectrum, meaning that the energy of photons is modified at demand to either lower or higher energy. Hereby, we systematically vary the electronic coupling in molecular dimers and oligomers to tune the dynamics of all relevant down- and up-conversion steps and, in turn, deciphering not only the full mechanisms of singlet-fission (SF) and triplet-triplet-annihilation up-conversion (TTA-UC), but also all bottlenecks enroute towards the conversion targets of 200% down-converted triplets at minimum driving forces and 50% up-converted singlets at maximum anti Stokes shifts. All of our down- and up-converters will be combined with complementary absorbers to round off the optimal spectral overlap across the solar spectrum by either down- or up-shifting of the spectrum. Crucially, we achieve this not only in solution, but also in the solid state with optimized arrangement and panchromatic absorption from 300 to 1000 nm.
Publications & Resources
Guldi Group, Friedrich-Alexander University
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Come learn more about the Global Service minor and Peace Corps Prep Certificate. Drop in to chat with the advisor for the minor and the Peace Corps rep and have a snack between classes!
Learn more about the UO + Peace Corps at https://career.uoregon.edu/jobs-and-internships/peace-corps
6:00 p.m.
Join the University Film Organization and Cinema Studies for an open house! Meet UFO members and CINE faculty, learn about CINE courses, and win some film-related prizes! All majors welcome! Free food and giveaways! Questions? DM @uofilm on Instagram.
UFO is a student club for UO student filmmakers to connect, create, share, and discuss their films.
Monday, October 7th at 6 pm LLC South Performance Hall Free and open to all majors
8:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
The Summit’s goal is to share expertise and knowledge about tools and services that promote a more secure and resilient community and combat the risks associated with cyber threats affecting all critical infrastructure sectors and our society as a whole.
The event will take place at the University of Oregon’s Eugene campus.
OCRS will take place at the Erb Memorial Union (EMU) at the University of Oregon’s Eugene campus.
Additional information about the summit can be found on the OCRS website.
10:00–11:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
5:30–6:30 p.m.
It’s not too early to strategize about your future career. Come learn about the many career preparation and professional development tools, resources, and hands-on guidance that the university has to offer, and that you are paying for with your tuition! Presented by Paolo from the gradCareers team at the Division of Graduate Studies in partnership with the Office of International Students & Scholar Services and the Career Center.
Remote presentation (zoom) – register here.
6:30–8:30 p.m.
THE SCIENCE PROGRAM TO INSPIRE CREATIVITY AND EXCELLENCE (SPICE) WILL HOLD THE 13TH ANNUAL “SCIENCE OPEN HOUSE."
The purpose of this event is to help connect community families and educators to science outreach programs on campus and in the community. All activities are completely free and open to the public! There will be something fun for children of all ages.
Hands-on activities and demonstrations will include the Flubber Factory, the Egg Drop, Laser Maze, and much more. Attendees can also sign up for the Science Pentathlon where they’ll complete five activities in the core science disciplines (biology, chemistry, and physics).
4:30–6:30 p.m.
Come spend an afternoon with old friends, meet new colleagues, and enjoy fine food and drinks. All History graduate students, faculty, and staff are invited. Families warmly welcomed.
5:00–6:30 p.m.
What is exciting about Pacific/Asian/American studies right now? How it may grow in the future on UO’s campus? What work is still to be done? Join us for a panel discussion with leading scholars in Pacific Islander and Asian American studies erin Khuê Ninh, Keith Camacho and Kēhaulani Vaughn who will discuss the present and future of the field as they see it. The talk will explore current issues and critical scholarship occurring in Pacific, Native Hawaiian, and Asian American studies. This panel is organized by the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and is free and open to the public.
Dr. erin Khuê Ninh, UC Santa Barbara | Chair Asian American Studies. Her research centers on the model minority not as myth, but as racialization and identity. Throughlines in her writing and teaching are the subtleties of power, harm, and subject formation, whether in the contexts of terror and war, of family and immigration, or of gendering and rape culture.
Dr. Keith Camacho, UCLA | Chair Asian American Studies. Professor Camacho received his training in the anthropology, history, and literature of the Pacific Islands at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His research has mainly focused on Chamorro cultural and historical politics, as well as American and Japanese colonialisms and militarisms. Presently, Professor Camacho is studying Samoan youth violence and justice in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States.
Dr. Kēhaulani Vaughn, UC, Riverside | Associate Professor of Indigenous Feminisms. Kēhaulani Vaughn’s (Kanaka Maoli) book manuscript, Trans Indigeneity: The Politics of California Indian and Native Hawaiian Relations, is about the trans-Indigenous recognitions between Native Hawaiians living in the U.S. and California Indian tribes. As a scholar-practitioner, her teaching and research interests are in Pacific Island Studies, Indigenous epistemologies, higher education, and decolonial practices and pedagogies.