| Saturday |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session: Chirality |
| Discussion Leader: Vicki Grassian (University of Iowa, USA) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Keynote: Karl-Heinz Ernst (EMPA - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland)
"World in a Mirror: Chirality in the Natural Sciences" |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Fundamental
Chemistry at Surfaces |
| Discussion Leaders: Vicki Grassian (University of Iowa, USA) and Yi Cui (Fritz-Haber-Institut Der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Albert Bruix (Aarhus University, Denmark)
"Combining Theory and Experiment for the Rational Design of Nanostructured Pt-CeO2 Catalytic Materials with Maximum Noble-Metal Efficiency" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Florencia Calaza (Fritz-Haber Institute for the Max-Planck Society, Germany)
"Surface Chemistry of Glycerol on Pd(111) and Au(111) as Model Catalysts" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Kathleen Schwarz (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
"Formic Acid Oxidation on Platinum: A Simple Mechanistic Study" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Jeremy Smith (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Revealing Hidden Dynamics by Single (Nano)Particle Spectroscopy" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Heterogeneous
Catalysis |
| Discussion Leaders: Susannah Scott (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) and Osman Karslioglu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Sara Blomberg (Lund University, Sweden)
"Laser Induced Fluorescence Applied to Catalysis" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Urs Hartfelder (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Reactive Intermediates in CO Oxidation: From Transient Spectroscopy to Reactor-Level Understanding" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Matthew Marcinkowski (Tufts University, USA)
"Pt/Cu Single Atom Alloys for Highly Selective Formic Acid Decomposition" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Nuoya Yang (Stanford University, USA)
"Investigating the Function of Metal Oxide Promoters on Supported Rh Catalysts for Syngas Conversion to Oxygenates Through Surface Modification" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Special
Topics |
| Discussion Leaders: Karl-Heinz Ernst (EMPA - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland) and Xiaodong Zhu (Yale University, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Weixin Huang (University of Notre Dame, USA)
"Functionalization of Graphene by Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet" |
| 1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Sicelo Masango (Northwestern University, USA)
"Nucleation and Growth of Silver Nanoparticles by AB and ABC-Type Atomic Layer Deposition" |
| 2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
