PAUL PENG

Address
D38A Hildebrand Hall
U.C. Berkeley
Department of Chemistry
Berkeley, CA 94720-1460

Phone
510-642-1047

E-mail
paulpeng AT berkeley DOT edu

BIOGRAPHY
I am a fifth year Chemistry Ph.D. student in the Saykally Group at Berkeley. I received my S.B. degree in Chemistry from MIT in 2003, and attended University High School in Normal, IL.

RESEARCH
Femtosecond laser spectroscopy: (1) carrier dynamics of nanostructures and (2) nonthermal melting dynamics of carbon

P. Peng, D. J. Milliron, S. M. Hughes, Justin C. Johnson, A. Paul Alivisatos, and Richard J. Saykally; "Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Carrier Relaxation Dynamics in Type II CdSe/CdTe Tetrapod Heteronanostructures," Nano Lett. 5 (9) 1809-1813

TEACHING
I was a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) for the following classes at Berkeley:

Chem 1A: General Chemistry
Chem 3B: Organic Chemistry II
Chem 4A: General Chemistry (for Chem Majors)
Chem 125: Physical Chemistry Laboratory

COURSEWORK

Chem 221A: Quantum Mechanics
Chem 221B: Adv. Quantum Mechanics
Chem 253A: Materials Chemistry I
Chem 253B: Materials Chemistry II
EE 143: Microfabrication Laboratory
EE 236A: Quantum & Optical Electronics
Phys 141B: Solid State Physics II
Phys 208A: Quantum Optics
Phys 250: Special Topics in Physics

OTHER
NSF-IGERT student (designated emphasis in Nanoscale Science and Engineering); outstanding GSI teaching award 2004-2005 and 2005-2006. Proficient in Matlab, Mathematica, LabView, LaTeX.