Episode 10: Perovskites and photon upconversion with Prof. Lea Nienhaus

04/27/21 • 52 min

We are joined by Prof. Lea Nienhaus from Florida State University to learn about photon upconversion with perosvkites, a strategy for increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic energy conversion among other applications that her group has pioneered in the last few years. We also talk to Lea about her science communication project, "Kitchen Spectroscopy", that she launched at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that empowers people to discover the plethora of "glowy things" that can be found at home.

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Episode 9: Transient Absorption

It's Season 2 of the Goeppert Mayer Gauge! We kick things off with an introduction to transient absorption spectroscopy and discuss what it is, why it's useful, and how it's done before getting a bit philosophical on how best to think about the signal that is actually measured. And just to prove how serious we are, Jay has scored us our first (fake) sponsorship, and Dugan finally recorded with a microphone that doesn't sound like it's under water. Things are about to get CRAZY. Are you ready for Season 2?!?!?
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Episode 11: Statistical Mechanics with Prof. Katja Lindenberg

We're unbelievably honored and excited to have the legendary Prof. Katja Lindenberg on the show to take us through her life in physics and physical chemistry. We talk to Prof. Lindenberg about her early life and education, her transition from mathematics to physics, and of course her incredible 50 year career at UCSD, during which she used "the language of science" (statistical mechanics) to describe problems involving random processes in nearly every discipline you could possibly imagine. We also get to hear a few stories about some of her first friends and mentors at UCSD, Maria Goeppert Mayer and her husband Joe Mayer!