Kai Huang was educated in Beijing (China), Toronto (Canada) and Berlin (Germany). He obtained his BSc from Peking University (北京大学) in 2006, and his PhD with Prof. John Polanyi (Nobel Laureate) from the University of Toronto in 2011...
Physics and Chemistry at Solid Surfaces,
Novel Surface Materials for Energy, Catalysis and Health Applications,
Scanning Probe Microscopy and Spectroscopy,
First-principles Computations.
Sehoon Park received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2008 under the co-supervision of Prof. Kohtaro Osakada and Prof. Daisuke Takeuchi. After postdoctoral research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in USA with Prof. Maurice Brookhart (2009-2012)...
C-H Functionalizations of Hydrocarbons,
Asymmetric Catalysis,
Metal-Free Organocatalytic Reduction,
Single-Site Olefin Polymerization,
Biomass Conversion,
Heterogeneous Catalysis.
Obtained the B.Sc. (Summa cum laude, 1967), M.Sc. (1970) and D.Sc. (1972) degrees at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1973 [professor since 1982, incumbent, Abronson Family Chair of Chemistry, since 1989]. Served as Head of the Physical Chemistry Division (19841986) and as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry (1989-1991), as well as on many Technion committees and at the Technion Faculty Union.
Electronic structure: Excited atoms, confined atoms, quantum dots, atoms embedded in plasmas.
Applications of q-analysis: q-bosons, q-Stirling numbers, the q-BCH formula.
Representation theory of the symmetric group. Partition identities.
