SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | ELECTRON TRANSFER AND TRANSPORT IN NANO-SCALE ASSEMBLIES AND MACROMOLECULES |
| Discussion Leader: Dirk Guldi (University of Erlangen) |
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Luisa de Cola (Wilhelms-Universität Munster) "Photoinduced processes in nanomaterials" |
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm | Joseph T. Hupp (Northwestern University) "New Architectures for Light to Electrical Energy Conversion" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Elizabeth Harbron (College of William and Mary) "Photoresponsive Conjugated Polymers" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SPIN AND MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS IN ELECTRON TRANSFER REACTIONS |
| Discussion Leader: James McCusker (Michigan State University) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Michael R. Wasielewski (Northwestern University) "Dynamics of Photogenerated Three-Spin Systems in Electron Donor-Acceptor Molecules" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo (10:15 am) |
10:40 am - 11:20 am | David Schultz and Marty Kirk (North Carolina State University / University of New Mexico) "Donor-Acceptor Biradicals: From Nanoscale Electron Correlation to Analogs of Photoinduced Charge-Separated Excited States" |
11:20 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 11:55 am | Tatiana Nekipelova (Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics) "Effect of Solvent-Dihydroquinoline and Solvent-Solvent Interactions on ESPT Dynamics in Dihydroquinolines" |
11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Masa-Aki Haga (CHUO University) "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reaction in Surface Immobilized Ru Complexes Bearing Tetrapodal Phosphonic Acid Tethers on Electrode" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ULTRAFAST ELECTRON TRANSFER AND TECHNICAL FRONTIERS |
| Discussion Leader: Eric Vauthey (University of Geneva) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Erik T.J. Nibbering (Max-Born-Institut fur Nichlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie) "Femtosecond vibrational spectroscopy probing bimolecular charge transfer reactions in solution: electrons, protons, protons and electrons?" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Dongho Kim (Yonsei University) "Excitation Energy Migration Processes in Cyclic Porphyrin Arrays (Ensemble vs. Single Molecule Measurements)" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Majed Chergui (EPFL Lausanne) "Ultrafast spin and structural relaxation in molecular complexes probed by laser and X-ray spectroscopies" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | COUPLED ELECTRON TRANSFERS |
| Discussion Leader: Justine Roth (Johns Hopkins University) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Daniel G. Nocera (Massachussets Institute of Technology) "Solar fuels production by proton-coupled electron transfer" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Gregory Voth (University of Utah) "Proton Solvation and Transport: Insights and Surprises from Computer Simulation" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Pennsylvania State University) "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions in Solution, Proteins, and Electrochemistry" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SINGLE MOLECULAR ELECTRON TRANSFER AND TRANSPORT I, AND CONTRIBUTED TALKS |
| Discussion Leaders: Henrik Ottosson and Clifford Kubiak (Uppsala University / UC San Diego) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Theresa Mayer (Pennsylvania State University) "Electrical and spectroscopic characterization of nanoscale metal-molecule-metal junctions" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Bo Albinsson (Chalmers University of Technology) "On the distance and energy gap dependence of electron transfer reactions: the applicability of beta-values" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Contributed Talk 1: TBA |
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Contributed Talk 2: TBA |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SINGLE MOLECULAR ELECTRON TRANSFER AND TRANSPORT II, AND CONTRIBUTED TALKS |
| Discussion Leaders: Henrik Ottosson and Clifford Kubiak (Uppsala University / UC San Diego) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Marcel Mayor (University of Basel) "Inter- and Intramolecular Effects in ‘Single’ Molecule Junctions" |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:15 am | Marc Tornow (TU Braunschweig) "Semiconductor based nanogap devices for hybrid molecular electronics" |
10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 11:30 am | Latha Venkataraman (Columbia University) "Measuring the Conductance of Single Molecule Junctions" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Contributed Talk 3: TBA |
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Contributed Talk 4: TBA |
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | BIOLOGICAL ELECTRON TRANSFER |
| Discussion Leader: Ksenija Glusac (Bowling Green State University) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Steven Boxer (Stanford University) "Re-engineering photosynthetic charge separation: how well can we model electrostatics?" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Joanne Stubbe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Site Specific Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids to Investigate Long Range PCET in E. coli Ribonucleotide Reductase" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Brian Hoffman (Northwestern University) "Modulation of Interprotein ET by Interfacial Dynamics" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION |
| Discussion Leader: Felix Castellano (Bowling Green University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Tom Mallouk (Pennsylvania State University) "Designing catalysts for visible light water photolysis" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Stenbjörn Styring (Uppsala University) "Ruthenium-Manganese chemistry for water oxidation - from natural to artificial photosynthesis" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | James Durrant (Imperial College) "Electron transfer dynamics in nanostructured solar cells" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Villy Sundström (Lund University) "Light harvesting and photoinduced charge generation in nanostructured organic materials: the primary steps" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ELECTRON TRANSFER ON A LARGER SCALE |
| Discussion Leader: Harry B Gray (California Institute of Technology) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Mark Ratner (Nortwestern University) Introduction |
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm | Tom Meade (Northwestern University) "Probing Weak Interactions with Transition Metal Reporters" |
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Marshal Newton (Brookhaven) Introduction |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Rudolph A Marcus (California Institute of Technology) "Theory of Electron Transfer Processes: Origin, Applications, and Fluorescence Intermittency of Semiconductor Nanoparticles" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |