Many thanks to Bern Kohler, Taiha Joo, Jennifer Ogilvie, Jinquan Chen, and Mahesh Hariharan for organizing the Frontiers in Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Photoexcited States symposium at Pacifichem this year, and for the invitation to participate. It was great to have a chance to share James’ work using SSTA to understand the surfaces of perovskite NCs during their synthesis.

Many thanks to Wei Zhao, Minhaeng Cho, Junrong Zheng, and Jeff Davis for organizing the Recent Advances in Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy symposium at Pacifichem this year, and for the invitation to share our work. It was great to have a chance to tell people about Zach, Laura, and Aine’s recent work studying the thermal annealing of squaraine films.

We wish James all the best as he makes his way up to Seattle to start a postdoc position in David Ginger’s group! James pioneered the synthesis and measurement of perovskite nanocrystals in our group, and also made huge contributions to our educational mission by developing a series of microscopy laboratories for our undergraduates. We will miss his unique personality, and already have noticed way less camo in our lives. Good luck James!

The squaraine project had a well-received debut at the virtual MRS meeting today. Thanks to Zach, Laura, and Aine for their work on the MRS Advances manuscript that accompanied this talk. Many thanks to Profs. Natalie Banerji, Ilaria Bargigia, Carlos Silva, and Mark Wilson for organizing an exciting symposium, and for taking the time to set up a virtual session for those of us who didn’t travel to Boston.