Prerequisites: senior or graduate standing in Chemistry or consent of instructor

Description: A comprehensive survey of modern time-resolved spectroscopy and microscopy techniques. Emphasiz- es applications to outstanding problems in materials science and biology. Specific problems include the measurement of energy transport in organic semi- conductors and DNA dynamics in biological media. Students who present a seminar or submit a term paper receive a letter grade; other students receive a Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grade. Course is repeatable. Bardeen