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

Description: A comprehensive survey of modern time- resolved spectroscopy and microscopy techniques. Emphasizes applications to outstanding problems in materials science and biology. Specific problems include the measurement of energy transport in organic semiconductors 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.