Scientific Presentations

NSF-Engineering Education Awardees conference, September 26-28, 2007, Arlington, Virginia. "Implementation of Research Based Experiments Into Upper Division Physics Undergraduate Courses: Studies on the Photo-formation of Gold Nanoparticles in Au(III)-chitosan-silica aerogels" Narayanan Kuthirummal and Adam Dean.

19th SSM Annual Scientific Research Poster Session, College of Charleston, April 13, 2007. “Preparation and Characterization of Neodymium-doped Borophosphateglasses”, Richard Smith and Narayanan Kuthirummal.

19th SSM Annual Scientific Research Poster Session, College of Charleston, April 13, 2007. “Dating of Thorium Consumer Products by High Resolution Gamma Spectroscopy”, Damon Hansen, Frank Kinard, and Narayanan Kuthirummal.

19th SSM Annual Scientific Research Poster Session, College of Charleston, April 13, 2007. “Characterization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Visible and Fourier Transform Infrared Photoacoustic Spectroscopy”, Jason Duty and Narayanan Kuthirummal.

"Photoacoustic Spectroscopy: Listening to Atoms and Molecules", Department of Chemistry, University of South Carolina (3-13-2006, Invited Talk).

"Photoacoustics: Applications to Spectroscopy and Depth-profiling", Department of Physics, Clemson University (5-22-2006, Invited Talk).

"Optics and Spectroscopy Research at CofC" , Institute of Optics, University of Rochester (6-16-2006, Invited Talk).

Optics in the South East (OISE) meeting, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, September 6-8, 2006. “Photoacoustic Studies on Er-Doped Glass and Polymer Samples” N. Kuthirummal, J. Hansen, and D. Pang.


Frontiers in Optics 2006/Laser Science XXII conferences, Rochester, New York, October 8-12, 2006. “Ring-Opening Reaction of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene: Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy of 1B2 Excited State” Narayanan Kuthirummal and Peter Weber.

18th SSM Annual Scientific Research Poster Session, College of Charleston, April 15, 2006. “Spectroscopic Characterization of Erbium-Doped Silicate and Polymer Optical Fibers”, Jon Hansen and Narayanan Kuthirummal.

18th SSM Annual Scientific Research Poster Session, College of Charleston, April 15, 2006. “Spectroscopic and elastic properties of Er3+ ions doped lithium niobate (LiNbO3) crystals”, Daniel Morrall, Narayanan Kuthirummal, and Alem Teklu.

Optics in the South East (OISE) meeting, Georgia Tech., Atlanta, Georgia, October 6-8, 2005. “UV-generation of nanoparticles: Photoacoustic studies on gold-chitosan-slica aerogel”, N. Kuthirummal , A. Dean, C. Yao, and W. Risen Jr.

7th SSM Annual Scientific Research Poster Session, College of Charleston, April 15, 2005. “Determination of Absorption of Individual Layers of Esophageal Tissue via Photoacoustic Spectroscopy”, Jacqueline Maurer, Narayanan Kuthirummal and Linda Jones (poster).

17th SSM Annual Scientific Research Poster Session, College of Charleston, April 15, 2005. “Photoacoustic Investigations of the Reactions Between Eye Lens Proteins and Cobalt (II) Chloride”, John Eley and Narayanan Kuthirummal (poster).

American Physical Society Meeting, Tampa, Florida, USA., April 16-19, 2005. “ Structure sensitive photoionization via Rydberg levels”, Narayanan Kuthirummal and Peter Weber.

227th  American Chemical Society National Meeting, Anaheim, California,USA., March 28-April 1, 2004, “Intermediate State Dynamics Spectroscopy of  1.3-cyclohexadiene”, Narayanan Kuthirummal and P.M.Weber.

227th  American Chemical Society National Meeting, Anaheim, California,USA., March 28-April 1, 2004, “Ultrafast Ionization Induced Charge Transfer in 2-Phenyl-N,N-dimethylamine (PENNA)”, Wei Cheng, Narayanan Kuthirummal, Jaimie Gosselin, Weiyan Nie and P.M.Weber.

227th  American Chemical Society National Meeting, Anaheim, California,USA., March 28-April 1, 2004, “Ultrafast Ionization Induced Charge Transfer in 2-Phenyl-N,N-dimethylamine (PENNA)”, Wei Cheng, Narayanan Kuthirummal, Jaimie Gosselin, Weiyan Nie and P.M.Weber.

Femtochemistry VI, Paris, France, July 6-10, 2003, “Dynamics of the intermediate 1B2 state of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene probed through the Rydberg sates”, Narayanan Kuthirummal and Peter M. Weber.

225th  American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans,USA., March 23-27, 2003, “Dynamics of Rydberg-excited 1.3-cyclohexadiene”, Narayanan Kuthirummal, N.Kuthirummal, J.L.Gosselin, and P.M.Weber.

 225th  American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans,USA., March 23-27, 2003, “Rydbery fingerprint spectra of monocyclic and bicyclic molecules”, N. Kuthirummal,  J.L.Gosselin, and P.M.Weber.

57th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus, Ohio, USA., June 17-21, 2002. “Photoelectron spectra of 1,3-cyclohexadiene”, Narayanan Kuthirummal, Conor Evans, Wei Cheng, Jaimie Gosselin and Peter Weber.

23rd American Chemical Society National Meeting, Orlando, USA., April 7-11, 2002, “Electron diffraction and photoelectron studies of the electrocyclic ring opening reaction of 1,3-cyclohexadiene”, Peter Weber, Narayanan Kuthirummal, Ray Dudek, Conor Evans, Wei Cheng, Job Cardoza, and Jaimie Gosselin. 

New England Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, June 2001, New Hampshire, USA., “The ring Opening reaction of 1,3-cyclohexadine:Photoelectron and electron diffraction studies on femtosecond and picosecond time scales”, Narayanan Kuthirummal, Ray Deudek, Conor Evans, Wei Cheng, Job Cardoza, Jaimie Gosselin, and Peter Weber (Invited talk).

Gordon Research Conference ‘Photoions, Photoionization and Photodetachment’, USA., July 2001: “Probing the electrocyclic ring opening reaction of  1,3-cyclohexadiene”, Peter M. Weber, Narayanan Kuthirummal, Ray Deudek, Wei Cheng and Conor Evans. 

The 4th Asian International seminar on Atomic and Molecular Physics, Taipei, October 13-18, 2000. “High-Resolution 1+1’ photoionization spectroscopy of Autoionizing Rydberg states of C2H2”, Narayanan Kuthirummal, Sheunn-Jiun Tang, Chi-Kung Ni, Yen-Chu Hsu, and Andy H. Kung. 

The 4th Asian International seminar on Atomic and Molecular Physics, Taipei, October 13-18, 2000.  “Ab initio calculation of l-C3H radical”, Narayanan Kuthirummal, Alexander M. Mebel, and Yen-Chu Hsu. 

The Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, March 1999, “Laser spectroscopy of aromatic molecules and van der Waals clusters”, Narayanan Kuthirummal (invited talk)

Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India, February 1994, “Photoacoustic spectroscopy of some biological samples”, Narayanan Kuthirummal (invited talk).

7th International topical meeting on photoacoustic and photothermal phenomena, The Netherlands, August 26-30, “High resolution photoacoustic spectroscopy of Ho2O3 and Nd2O3 powders with a piezoelectric detector”, Narayanan Kuthirummal and S.N.Thakur.