| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:45 pm | NANOTECHNOLOGY/MATERIALS |
| Discussion Leader: Bill Buhro (Washington University, St. Louis) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome and Introduction |
| 7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Tom Mallouk (Penn State)
"Nanowires" |
| 8:20 pm - 9:00 pm | Peidong Yang (Berkeley)
"Nanowire Building Blocks: Rational Synthesis and Novel Properties" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:45 pm | Tobin Marks (Northwestern)
"Hard Meet Soft Photonic Materials" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY AND CATALYSIS I |
| Discussion Leader: John Briggs (Dow Chemical Company) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Chuck Casey (Wisconsin)
"The Role of Metallocene-Alkyl-Alkene Complexes in Alkene Polymerization" |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Piotr Sobota (Wroclaw)
"Incorporation of Ziegler-Natta Catalyst Components. Structures and Reactivity of the Intermediates" |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Joe Pelati (Dow Chemical Company)
"Dehydrogenation Catalyst Development for Industrial Styrene Production (...still perplexing after all these years)" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Susannah Scott (Ottawa)
"Composition and Surprising Reactivity of Silica-supported Titanium Oxidation Catalysts Prepared by Grafting" |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time (Business Meeting - Current, Vice, and Former Chairs) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:40 pm | SOLID STATE AND MATERIALS |
| Discussion Leader: Dave Hoffman (Houston) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Tong Ren (Miami)
"Diruthenium Metalla-ynes: Monomers, Oligomers, and Molecular Wires" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:55 pm | Stan Ching (Connecticut)
"Manganese Oxide Colloids and Thin Films" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:40 pm | Jeff Brinker (Sandia National Laboratories / New Mexico)
"Self-Assembly of Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Porous and Composite Nanostructures" |
| 9:45 pm - | Poster Session |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:15 pm | MAIN GROUP CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Mike Lattman (SMU) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Alan Cowley (Texas)
"Some Adventures in Low-Coordinate Main Group Chemistry" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Ian Manners (Toronto)
"Catalytic Routes to Rings, Chains, and Polymers Based on Main Group Elements" |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:30 am | François Gabbaï (Texas A&M)
"Boron and Mercury Polyfunctional Lewis Acids - Formation of Unusual Radicals and Supramolecules" |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Don Tilley (Berkeley)
"Reactivity in Transition Metal - Main Group Systems" |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Chairman's Wine and Cheese Reception, Ochre Court |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:40 pm | TRANSITION METALS AND HEAVIER ELEMENTS I |
| Discussion Leader: Max Roundhill (Texas Tech) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Judy Eglin (Mississippi State)
"The Activation of Small Molecules at a Dinuclear Core" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:55 pm | Sarah Stoll (Oberlin)
"Inorganic-Organic Multilayers of Mn-12" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:40 pm | Mike Scott (Florida)
"Controlling the Conformation of C3-Symmetric Triphenoxymethanes: From Simple Coordination Compounds to Multinuclear Transition Metal Complexes" |
| 9:45 pm - | Poster Session |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:15 pm | ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY AND CATALYSIS II |
| Discussion Leader: Bill Geiger (Vermont) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Geoff Coates (Cornell)
"Discovery and Development of Homogeneous Catalysts for the Synthesis of Defined Polymer Architectures" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Karen Goldberg (Washington)
"Mechanisms of Organometallic Reactions Relevant to Selective Alkane Oxidation" |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:30 am | Morris Bullock (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"Catalytic Ionic Hydrogenations and Deoxygenations" |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Didier Astruc (Bordeaux)
"Organo-Transition Metal Chemistry and Catalysis at the Nanoscale" |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Nominating Speeches and Election of New Vice-Chair |
| 7:30 pm - 9:40 pm | TRANSITION METALS AND HEAVIER ELEMENTS II |
| Discussion Leader: Bill Evans (Irvine) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Bruce Bursten (Ohio State)
"Fun at the Bottom of the Periodic Table: Theoretical Studies of the Structure and Bonding in Organoactinide and Actinide Coordination Complexes" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:55 pm | Casey Raymond (Kent State)
"Metal Complexes of Functionalized Poly(pyrazolyl) Ligands" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:40 pm | John Gordon (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Some New Approaches Towards the Stabilization Of Lanthanide Main-Group Element Multiple Bonds" |
| 9:45 pm - | Poster Session |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:15 pm | BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Steve Koch (SUNY - Stony Brook) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Vince Pecoraro (Michigan)
"Heavy Metal Complexation by de Novo Designed Peptides" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Margaret Harding (Sydney)
"Metal-Based Anticancer Drugs" |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:30 am | Bahram Moasser (General Electric)
"Applications of Inorganic Chemistry to the Development of New Molecular Imaging Probes" |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Marty Kirk (New Mexico)
"How Mo-Oxo/Sulfido π-Bonding Affects Reactivity in Pyranopterin Mo Enzymes" |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | THE TWO P's - POSTERS AND PLUTONIUM |
| Discussion Leader: Rick Kemp (Sandia National Laboratories) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Poster Talk I - Graduate Student or Postdoctoral Student Level |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Poster Talk II - Assistant Professor Level |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Dave Clark (Seaborg Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"The Weird World of Plutonium" |
| 9:30 pm - | Poster Session |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
