Dr. Alexander Govorov
The Ohio University and Athens communities are invited to attend events honoring Dr. Alexander Govorov, 2016 Distinguished Professor of Physics, and Judith Yaross Lee, 2016 Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies, on Monday, Feb. 20, at the Baker University Center.
- 6:30 p.m. – Reception – Pre-function area outside the ballroom
- 7 p.m. – Portrait Unveilings and Lectures
Alexander “Sasha” Govorov – Ballroom B
Trapping Photons and Heat Using Nanocrystals
Abstract: Govorov’s lecture will inform the audience regarding the properties of the electromagnetic field and light, the optical properties of nanocrystals, the interaction of light with biomolecules, designing optical materials with unusual properties, and applications of optical materials.
Biography: Govorov joined Ohio University in 2002 as an associate professor. He is an esteemed physics professor and researcher, who is credited for starting the field of chiral plasmonics and plasmonic assemblies. He is considered to be an expert regarding the theory of optical properties of nanomaterials and nanostructures, and some of his more than 200 published works on the subject are highly-cited by academic peers. His research has appeared in top academic journals such as Nature and Physical Review Letters. Dr. Govorov has organized 16 national and international conferences since 2007. Dr. Govorov is frequently invited to participate in academic conferences. Between 2006 and 2016, he has been invited to give 80 talks regarding his research. Dr. Govorov is Fellow of the American Physical Society (2012) and a recipient of Bessel Research Award (A. v. Humboldt Foundation, Germany), Ikerbasque Research Fellowship (Spain), E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award (Ireland), 2013 Chang Jiang Chair Professorship of the Scholar Program of MOE of China, 2014 Jacques-Beaulieu Excellence Research Chair Award (INRS, Montreal), and 2015 Arts & Sciences Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship Award at Ohio University. Dr. Govorov is a well-regarded professor and colleague who teaches and mentors both undergraduate and graduate students, and collaborates widely with his peers.
Judith Yaross Lee – Ballroom A
Sociable Sam: Mark Twain among Friends
Abstract: Samuel Langhorne Clemens met thousands of people through his writing and travels as Mark Twain, and many of them turned up in his tales or shaped them in other ways. In this illustrated talk, Judith Yaross Lee draws on the Mark Twain archives to share details on the family, friends, editors, and others–including a pastor, a cook, and a delivery boy–behind “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,” 1601, and other works by Mark Twain.
Biography: Lee is the Charles E. Zumkehr Professor and Director of Honors Tutorials in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. An interdisciplinary Americanist educated at Oberlin College (A.B.) and the University of Chicago (A.M., Ph.D.), she studies popular rhetorics in the contexts of media, social, political, and intellectual history. Dr. Lee is one of the world’s leading experts on American literary humor and an eminent scholar of Mark Twain. She has written 60 essays in scholarly books and learned journals along with three university-press books–Twain’s Brand: Humor in Contemporary American Culture (2012), Defining New Yorker Humor (2000), and Garrison Keillor: A Voice of America (1991)–which are in the libraries of more than 50 nations around the globe as well as in every U.S. state and Canadian province. Dr. Lee has lectured across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and held visiting professorships at Leiden University, The Netherlands; Bangkok University, Thailand; and the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has received the Provost’s Transformational Teaching Award (2010), Honors Tutorial College Outstanding Tutor Award (2010), and School of Communication Studies Outstanding Graduate Faculty Teacher Award (2010, 2015). In 2015, she won a Fulbright Scholar Award for research and teaching in The Netherlands as the 2016 Senior Professor of American Culture.
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