| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | BIOINORGANIC AND BIORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Etsuko Fujita (Brookhaven National Laboratory) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Edward Stiefel (Princeton University)
"Bioinorganic Chemistry and the Biogeochemical Cycles" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Catherine Drennan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"One Carbon Chemistry at Unique Enzyme Metalloclusters |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Bruce Averill (University of Toledo)
"The FeMo-cofactor of Nitrogenase: What Can Insights into its Biosynthesis Teach the Synthetic Chemist?" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Reception |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | INORGANIC CHEMISTRY FROM MINERALS, CO2 AND SiO2 |
| Discussion Leader: Michelle Millar (SUNY Stony Brook) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Martin Schnoonen (SUNY Stony Brook)
"Minerals and Prebiotic Chemistry" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Coffee Break / Conference Photo |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Philip G. Jessop (University of California, Davis)
"Applications of CO2 in 'Green' Homogeneous Catalysis" |
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Florian Schattenmann (General Electric)
"Sand to Silicones: New Route from Si-O to Si-C Bonds" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Pingyun Feng (University of California at Riverside)
"Recent Development in Porous Chalcogenides" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session (Group #1) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | TRANSITION METAL CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Sheila Morehouse (Manhattanville College) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Tom Meyer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Photophysics and Photochemistry of Polypyridyl Complexes on Surfaces and in Confined Spaces" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Lutz Gade (Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg)
"Transition Metal Complexes bearing Polydentate N-Donor Ligands: Structural Building Blocks, Chemical Reagents and Homogeneous Catalysts" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Elise Megehee (St. John's University)
"Transition Metal Diimine Complexes-Luminescence from Mixed Ligand Systems" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session (Group #1) |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Bill Buhro (Washington University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Dan Nocera (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Spin Frustration in Extended Solids - A Problem for Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Kim Dunbar (Texas A&M University)
"Molecular Magnetism: From Nanomagnets to Extended Solids" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | David B. Mitzi (IBM)
"Solution and Melt Processed Hybrid Semiconductors" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Stephanie Brock (Wayne State University)
"Chalcogenide-Based Aerogels: A New Class of Nanostructured Semiconductors Demonstrating High Porosity and Tunable Optical Properties" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session (Group #1) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ENVIRONMENTAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: David Clark (Los Alamos) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | D. Webster Keogh (Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science)
"Actinide Coordination Chemistry for Energy and the Environment" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | William H. Casey (University of California, Davis)
"One Carbon Chemistry at Unique Enzyme Metalloclusters" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Charles Madic (CEA-Saclay)
"Partitioning of minor actinides from high level liquid wastes. Recent progress obtained within the European PARTNEW Program" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session (Group #1) |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY AND CATALYSIS |
| Discussion Leader: Louis Stuhl (Chemmotif) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Ged Parkin (Columbia University)
"Kinetic and Equilibrium Isotope Effects Pertaining to the Interaction of C-H and H-H Bonds with Transition Metal Centers" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Catherine Radzewich (DuPont)
"Influence of Ligand Structure on Nickel Catalyzed Copolymerization of Ethylene and Polar Monomers" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | William Jones (University of Rochester)
"Cleavage of Strong Carbon-Fluorine Bonds by Early Transition Metals" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Poster talk: Karsten Meyer (UC San Diego)
"Engendering Highly Reactive Uranium Species with a Single Pocket for Reactivity: A Synthetic, Spectroscopic, and Computational Study" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Wine and Cheese Reception in Ochre Court |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CHEMISTRY OF REPRESENTATIVE ELEMENTS |
| Discussion Leader: John Gordon (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Sonya Franklin (University of Iowa)
"Chimeric Metallopeptide Nucleases: The Helix-turn-helix as a Scaffold for De Novo Design" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | William Durfee (Buffalo State College)
"Macrocyclic Compounds of Boron" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Poster talk: Marina A. Petrukhina (University atAlbany)
"Buckybowls as Multidentate Ligands for Metal Coordination" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session (Group #2) |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | INORGANIC MATERIALS CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Chuck Winter (Wayne State University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Daniel R. Gamelin (University of Washington)
"Synthesis and Spectroscopy of Transition-Metal-Doped Inorganic Nanocrystals" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Frank Osterloh (University of California at Davis)
"Clusters of Inorganic Nanoparticles: Bonding, Properties and Applications" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Tim Boyle (Sandia National Laboratory)
"Investigation of the Sulfuryl Chloride/Aluminum Chloride Electrolyte for a Self-Destruct Fuse Reserve Battery" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Poster Talk: Garth R. Giesbrecht (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Mechanisms of Exchange for pi-Arene Bridged Anilido and Aryloxide Dimers" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session (Group #2) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | TEACHING INORGANIC CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Stephen Koch (SUNY Stony Brook) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Arthur Ellis (National Science Foundation)
"The ABCs of Teaching Nanotechnology: Atoms, Bits, and Curriculum" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Panel Discussion/Demonstrations
(Dean Johnston, George Stanley, Bahram Moasser, Peter Dorhout., Bruce Averill) |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session (Group #2) |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
