Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 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 | Charge Transfer Processes in DNA |
| Discussion Leader: Leif Hammarstrom (Uppsala University, Sweden) |
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Opening Remarks |
7:50 pm - 8:20 pm | Frederick Lewis (Northwestern University, USA) "Tracking the Movement of Charge Through DNA: From Injection to Trapping" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | David Beratan (Duke University, USA) "Charge and Energy Transfer Near Resonance" |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Progress in Molecular Charge Transport and Energy Transfer Processes |
| Discussion Leader: Oliver Wenger (University of Basel, Switzerland) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Colin Nuckolls (Columbia University, USA) "Charge Transfer in Molecular-Based Materials" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Valentine Vullev (University of California, Riverside, USA) "Molecular Electrets: Multi-Level Control of Charge Transfer" |
10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 11:20 am | Sylwia Ptasinska (University of Notre Dame, USA) "Interfacial Processes at Water/Semiconductor Surfaces Under Operando Conditions" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Ana De Bettencourt-Dias (University of Nevada, Reno, USA) "Lanthanide Complexes for Visible and NIR Emission and Singlet Oxygen Generation" |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Power Hour |
| The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring. |
| Organizer: Natia Frank (University of Victoria, Canada) |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Energy Transfer Processes in Low Dimensional Systems |
| Discussion Leader: Elena Galoppini (Rutgers University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Bo Albinson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) "Migration of Excitation Energy in Conjugated Materials: Importance for Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Up-Conversion" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Elizabeth Harbron (College of William and Mary, USA) "Amplified Energy Transfer in Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Ming Lee Tang (University of California, Riverside, USA) "Directing Triplets Across the Molecular-Nanocrystal Interface for Photon Upconversion" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Charge Carriers in Photovoltaic Materials |
| Discussion Leader: James McCusker (Michigan State University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) "On the Role of Intermixed Phases in Organic Photovoltaic Blends" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:05 am | Juan Bisquert (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) "Features of Electronic Barriers in Perovskite Solar Cells" |
10:05 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am - 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:05 am | Hiroshi Imahori (Kyoto University, Japan) "Synthetic Approach for Modulating Photoinduced Charge Separation" |
11:05 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
11:15 am - 11:40 am | Richard Schaller (Northwestern University, USA) "Ultrafast Energy Transfer in Binary Nanoplatelet Solids and Multiexcitonic Phenomena" |
11:40 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:20 pm | Xiaoyang Zhu (Columbia University, USA) "The Nature of the Triplet-Pair State in Singlet Fission" |
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 | Photoinduced Charge Transport: Theory and Experiment |
| Discussion Leader: Felix Castellano (North Carolina State University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Gemma Solomon (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) "Calculation Without Computation: Predicting Molecular Charge Transport Using Chemical Structure Alone" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Ferdinand Grozema (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) "Quantum Interference Effects in Charge Transfer and Single Molecule Conductance: Similarities and Differences" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Alexandra Olaya-Castro (University College London, United Kingdom) "Counting Statistics of Electron Transport Through Photosynthetic Reaction Centres" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Charge Transfer for Chemical Fuels and Catalysis |
| Discussion Leader: Ksenija Glusac (Bowling Green State University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Sven Rau (Ulm University, Germany) "Active Repair of Molecular Photocatalysts" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Heinz Frei (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) "Transient Spectroscopy of Charge Transport in Inorganic Nanostructured Assemblies for Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 by H2O" |
10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 11:20 am | Erwin Reisner (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) "Towards Functional Donor-Acceptor Assemblies for Solar Fuels - Synthesis Without Sacrificial Agents and Precious Metals" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Shunichi Fukuzumi (Meijo University, Japan) "Combination of Water Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction for Solar Fuel Production" |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | General 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 in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Charge Transfer and Spins |
| Discussion Leader: Paula Diaconescu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Yasuhiro Kobori (Kobe University, Japan) "Primary Charge-Separation Mechanism in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center Studied by Time-Resolved EPR Spectroscopy" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Sandrine Heutz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) "Charge-Transfer Molecular Films for Spintronics" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Malcolm Forbes (Bowling Green State University, USA) "Quantitative Singlet Oxygen Topology on the Nanometer Scale" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Charge Transfer Dynamics in Nanomaterials |
| Discussion Leader: Thomas Whitesides (Independent Chemical Consultant, Canada) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Michael Therien (Duke University, USA) "Photoinduced Charge Transfer Reactions in Chiral, Semiconducting Polymer-Wrapped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Superstructures" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:05 am | Francis D'Souza (University of North Texas, USA) "Modulation of Electron Transfer Dynamics in Donor-Acceptor Systems upon Nanocarbon Interaction" |
10:05 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am - 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:05 am | Thomas Bein (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) "Covalent Organic Frameworks with Integrated Electron Donor Acceptor Interactions" |
11:05 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
11:15 am - 11:40 am | Tetsuro Majima (Osaka University, Japan) "Photoinduced Charge Transfer in Nanomaterials" |
11:40 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:20 pm | Tianquan Lian (Emory University, USA) "Charge Transfer from Quantum Dots and Quantum Rods" |
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 | Keynote Session: Light Harvesting for Energy Applications |
| Discussion Leader: Gerald Meyer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Joshua Vura-Weis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) "Shrinking the Synchrotron: Tabletop Femtosecond XANES" |
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion |
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm | Shane Ardo (University of California, Irvine, USA) "Ionic Photovoltaics: Proton Donor-Acceptor Interactions in Photoacid-Sensitized Ionic Diodes" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Matthew Reuter (Stony Brook University, USA) "Estimating the Landauer-Buttiker Transmission Function from Experiment" |
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm | Carolyn Lubner (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA) "Resolving the Mechanism of Flavin-Based Electron Bifurcation" |
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Ana Moore (Arizona State University, USA) "Light Harvesting and Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Artificial Photosynthetic Systems" |
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Closing Remarks |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |