Saturday
1:00 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: Relationship Between Structure and Reactivity in Functional Materials
Discussion Leader: Xueting Wei (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Karena Chapman (Stony Brook University, United States)
"Operando: The Inside Story"
4:20 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
Crystals in Motion and Motion in Crystals
Discussion Leader: Durga Prasad Karothu (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Luca Catalano (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
"Understanding Martensitic Organic Crystals: From Molecular-Scale Dynamics to Macroscopic Motion"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Alan Eaby (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
"Direct Observation of Rapid Water Uptake and Release from a Solvatochromic Single Crystal"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Md Faizul Islam (University of South Carolina, United States)
"Exploring Electron Transfer and Polymerization Reactions within Self-Assembled Triphenylamine bis -Urea Macrocycles?"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Navkiran Kaur Juneja (Texas Tech University, United States)
"Inducing Pedal Motion in Bis Imine via Cocrystallization with Flexible Hydrogen Bond Donor Molecules"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Leanna Patton (University of Cincinnati, United States)
"Photofracking: Driving Macroscopic Motion in Crystals with Photochemically-Released Nitrogen Gas"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Morphology, Structure and Their Effect on Properties
Discussion Leader: Thomas Fellowes (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Idan Biran (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Real-Space Crystal Structure Analysis by Low-Dose Focal-Series TEM Imaging of Organic Materials with Near-Atomic Resolution"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Megan Fleming (Georgetown University, United States)
"Cooperative Molecular Motions in a Nucleobase Hydrate under Thermal and Mechanical Stress"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Yevheniia Kholina (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Tuning Local Structure in Prussian Blue Analogues (PBAs)"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Elena Meirzadeh (Columbia University, United States)
"Graphullerene: a New Form of Two-Dimensional Carbon"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Noam Pinsk (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Not only Guanine: on Solid Solutions in Biogenic Guanine Crystals"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Yongfan Yang (New York University, United States)
"Enhanced Charge Transport in Twisted Crystalline Organic Semiconductors"
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: Careers in Crystallography and Crystal Engineering
Panel discussion exploring some possible career paths in crystallography and crystal engineering.
Discussion Leader: Oren Elishav (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Career Panel
Karena Chapman (Stony Brook University, United States)
Sonja Krane (American Chemical Society, United States)
Ren Wiscons (Amherst College, United States)
Ivana Brekalo (Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
