Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Frontiers of Crystal Engineering... and Beyond
Discussion Leader: Eftychios Hadjittofis (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Stuart James (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)
"Reactions that Shouldn't Happen and Materials that Shouldn't Exist"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Crystal Engineering for Design of Advanced Functional Materials
Discussion Leader: Kamal Ray (University of Iowa, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Patrick Commins (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
"Self-Healing Molecular Crystals"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Shalisa Oburn (University of Iowa, USA)
"Exploiting Modularity to Code Solid-State Reactivity: Reversible Imine and Coordination Chemistry"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Ren Wiscons (University of Michigan, USA)
"Quaternary Charge-Transfer Solid Solutions: Tunability Through Stoichiometry"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Rishika Rai (Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, India)
"Spontaneous Mechanical Responses of Pseudopolypeptides Synthesized via Topochemical Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition (TAAC) Reactions"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Nandini Sarkar (Kansas State University, USA)
"Covalent Modifications to Form Versatile Functionalized Cavitands"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Insight into the Crystalline State: Theory Meets Experiment
Discussion Leader: Mihails Arhangelskis (Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Canada)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Athanassios Katsenis (McGill University, Canada)
"Understanding the Thermodynamic Driving Forces Underlying Mechanochemical Transformations of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs)"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Ian Walton (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Towards Understanding Stability in Metal-Organic Frameworks"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Isabella Claassens (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
"Solvent-Mediated Photoactivity in a Cadmium MOF"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Nathan Abraham (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
"Improved Thermal Gradient Quasiharmonic Approximations for Thermodynamic Properties of Organic Crystals with the Inclusion of Anisotropy"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Everardo Jaime Adan (Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico, Mexico)
"Designing Crystal Networks: Competition Among Hydrogen Bonds, Halogen Bonds and pi Interactions"
10:55 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 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Discussion Panel
A panel of experienced chemists from industry and academia with crystal engineering background answer questions about career options.
Discussion Leader: Ivana Brekalo (Georgetown University, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Career Building
Ashlee Howarth (Concordia University, Canada)
Nathan Schultheiss (Purdue University, USA)
Nicholas Vukotic (PROTO Manufacturing Ltd., Canada)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
