US-FRENCH POST-GRADUATE SEMINAR

ON ADVANCED ARCHITECTURES FOR SOLAR CELLS: materials optimization, performances improvement and aging analysis

March 23-27, 2015

Advisor Authorization Form

The Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States is organizing a seminar for PhD students on advanced architectures for solar cells. The objective of the seminar is to enhance scientific exchanges between young researchers, increase mutual awareness of laboratories of excellence in this field and to possibly trigger collaborations between US and French laboratories through PhD students.

The 2-day seminar will take place atINESin Le Bourget-du-Lac, France in March 2015. This seminar will give PhD students the opportunity to present their work to their peers and discuss their results freely. English will be the working language. Moreover, the seminar will also include four lectures by photovoltaic experts and will be followed byvisits to five state-of-the-art French photovoltaic laboratories: INES and Energy PoolinLe Bourget-du-Lac, Soitec and Minatecin Grenoble, and IPVF in Paris. Up to 12 PhD students from the US will be able to participate in this post-graduate seminar and will be selected according to their level of excellence.

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I confirm that I have been informed by the student listed below of their desire to participate in the US-French Post Graduate Seminar in France and authorize the student to attend this seminar from March 23-27, 2015 should he be selected.

Student Information

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Advisor Authorization

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Please return this form to Lucile Alexandre at with the subject “US-French Photovoltaic Seminar" followed your first and last name.

Embassy of France in the United States –Office for Science and Technology

4101 Reservoir Road NW – Washington, DC 20007