Department of Chemistry University of Toronto

presents

THE A. R. GORDON DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES

2018 - 2019

Professor Hongkun Park Harvard University

“Brain” on a Chip: Toward a Precision Neuroelectonic Interface March 12, 2019, 10am

Toward Quantum Optoelectronics in Flatland March 13, 2019, 10am

Quantum Sensing Based on Diamond Color Centers March 14, 2019, 10am

All lectures take place in Room MS 3154, 3rd floor Medical Sciences Building, 1 King’s College Circle Professor Hongkun Park Harvard University

Hongkun Park is Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry and professor of Physics at Harvard University. He is also an Institute Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and a member of the Harvard Quantum Initiative. Harvard Center for Brian Science, and Harvard Stem Cell Institute. He serves as an Associate Editor of Nano Letters and a member of the Editorial Board of Chemical Science as well as Advisory Boards of several companies.

Hongkun Park received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the College of Natural Sciences at Seoul National University, Korea, where he graduated summa cum laude and valedictorian in 1990. Following two years of mandatory military service in the Republic of Korea Army, he proceeded to Stanford University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1996 under the direction of Richard N. Zare, with a thesis on photoionization dynamics of nitric oxide probed by angle– and energy- resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. He joined the faculty at Harvard University in 1999 after a three-year postdoctoral fellowship with Paul Alivisatos and Paul McEuen at the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

His current research group focuses on fundamental studies of nanoscale electrical, optical, and plasmonic devices that operate based upon quantum mechanical principles as well as the development of new nano– and microelectronic tools that can interface with living cells, cell networks, and organisms. The goal of his quantum optoelectronics effort is to develop solid- state photonic, optoelectronic, and plasmonic devices that work all the way down to the single quantum level, thus paving the way for all-optical computing and solid-state quantum information processing. His nano-bio interfacing effort is geared toward developing new nanoscale tools for interrogating living cells and cell networks, with the focus in illuminating the behavior of immune cells in health and disease as well as the inner workings of the brain. He is also developing ultra-sensitive magnetic, electric, and temperature sensors based on diamond color centers and using them to address various problems spanning condensed matter physics, molecular structural determination, and biological sensing.

Awards and honors that Hongkun Park has received include Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, Ho-Am Foundation Prize in Science, David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Camille Dregyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and Kavli Lectureship from the Delft University of technology. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the World Technology Network. Andrew Robertson Gordon (1896-1967)

It is fitting that the Distinguished Lecture Series of the Department of Chemistry should bear the name of one of its most distinguished graduates and faculty members.

As a teacher, A. R. Gordon’s greatest delight was to guide his students through the rigours of Gibbsian thermodynamics, and in this sense, he was a follower of his mentor, Lash Miller. As a researcher, he was a pioneer in quantum chemistry, one of the first to appreciate the chemical significance of the new quantum theory. In 1932, he published the first quantum statistical calculations ever made on a molecule with more than two atoms. While pursuing his own theoretical work in statistical mechanics, the work conducted in his laboratory on the properties of electrolytes was also gaining fame. His elegant work on diffusion coefficients, conductivities, transference numbers and activity coefficients have played an important role in testing and elaborating modern theories of electrolytic solutions.

In 1944, A. R. Gordon became the first head of the Chemistry Department to be chosen from its staff since its inception some hundred years earlier. He made a number of key appointments which set the stage for the kind of department it is today. Over the years he accepted many other positions of responsibility such as Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, Member of the National Research Council and the Defense Research Board, Director of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, and Vice-President of the American Association of Graduate Schools. However, he always remained loyal to this Department where his high standards in both teaching and research have had a lasting effect.

The A. R. Gordon Distinguished Lecture Series Previous Lecturers

1971-72 D. R. Herschbach 1995-96 L. Brus 1972-73 R. C. D. Breslow 1996-97 A. J. Kirby 1973-74 H. B. Gray 1997-98 G. Whitesides 1974-75 A. D. Buckingham 1998-99 C. Lineberger 1975-76 J. M. Lehn 1999-00 M. T. Reetz 1976-77 F. G. A. Stone 2000-01 J-M. Lehn 1977-78 S. A. Rice 2001-02 R. Hochstrasser 1978-79 J. A. Berson 2002-03 R. Bergman 1979-80 G. Wilke 2003-04 M. R. Hoffmann 1980-81 R. B. Bernstein 2004-05 R. R. Schrock 1981-82 R. U. Lemieux 2005-06 W.E. Moerner 1982-83 M. L. H. Green 2006-07 B. Feringa 1983-84 G. C. Pimentel 2007-08 R. Grubbs 1984-85 W. P. Jencks 2008-09 R. N. Zare 1985-86 S. Otsuka 2009-10 S. V. Ley 1986-87 M. Karplus 2010-11 R. van Grondelle 1987-88 G. Stork 2011-12 D. Nocera 1988-89 D. F. Shriver 2012-13 J. V. Sweedler 1989-90 A. Pines 2013-14 J. Clardy 1990-91 J. R. Knowles 2014-15 A. R. Ravishankara 1991-92 T. J. Marks 2015-16 M. Ratner 1992-93 P. G. de Gennes 2016-17 Klaus Müllen 1993-94 S. J. Lippard 2017-18 Donna Blackmond 1994-95 F. Diederich