Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: At the Forefront of Inorganic Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Stosh Kozimor (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
Robert Crabtree (Yale University, USA)
"Stabilizing High Oxidation States for Water and CH Bond Oxidation Catalysis"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
Jonathan Sessler (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
"Expanded Porphyrins as Ligands and Probes for (Anti)aromaticity"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Carbon to Californium
Discussion Leader: Smaranda Marinescu (University of Southern California, USA)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Nilay Hazari (Yale University, USA)
"Mechanistic Studies Related to the Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Value-Added Chemicals"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Christopher Cummins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"New Phosphorus-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
William Evans (University of California, Irvine, USA)
"Recent Advances in the Reductive Chemistry of the Rare-Earth and Actinide Metals"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt (Florida State University, USA)
"Einstein Makes an Appearance in 21st Century Chemistry: Manifestations of Relativistic Effects in Heavy Elements"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 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: Amy Prieto (Colorado State University, USA)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Molecular Magnetism
Discussion Leader: David Harris (Northwestern University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Muralee Murugesu (University of Ottawa, Canada)
"Coupling Strategies in Molecular-Magnetic Materials"
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
Michael Nippe (Texas A&M University, USA)
"Bonding and Dynamics in Heterometallic Transition Metal-Lanthanide Complexes"
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
Matthew Shores (Colorado State University, USA)
"Controlling Spins with Chemistry, and Vice Versa"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Extended Solids to Nanomaterials
Discussion Leader: Jeffrey Long (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Christopher Ackerson (Colorado State University, USA)
"The Dynamic Surfaces of Gold Clusters"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Brent Melot (University of Southern California, USA)
"Learning to Holistically Design Materials for Next Generation Technologies"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Nathan Neale (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
"Main Group Chemistry of Silicon and Germanium Nanocrystals"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Daniel Gamelin (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
"Using Defects to Control the Electronic Structures of Inorganic Nanomaterials"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Energetic Materials
Discussion Leader: Alex Carpenter (ExxonMobil Chemical, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Jacqueline Veauthier (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
"Designing Energetic Coordination Complexes to Tune Explosive Initiation and to Discover New Routes to Important Materials"
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
Kenneth Suslick (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"The Mechanochemistry of Inorganic Solids"
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
Karl Christe (University of Southern California, USA)
"Polynitrogen Chemistry"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Physical Inorganic Chemistry
Discussion Leader: William Tolman (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Serena DeBeer (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany)
"X-Ray Spectroscopic Studies of Biological Dinitrogen Reduction"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
David Shultz (North Carolina State University, USA)
"Metal Complexes of Donor-Acceptor Biradical Ligands in Ground- and Excited States"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Stefan Minasian (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
"Aluminum K-Edge X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy: Chemical Insights for Molecules and Correlated Electron Materials"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
William Schneider (University of Notre Dame, USA)
"Inorganic Chemistry in a Heterogeneous Catalysis Context"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 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
Bioinspired Inorganic Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Rebecca Abergel (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Claudia Turro (The Ohio State University, USA)
"Dirhodium(II,II) Complexes as Panchromatic Dyes and Catalysts for Solar Energy Conversion"
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
Elisa Tomat (University of Arizona, USA)
"Oligopyrrolic Pigments: Heme Metabolites as Redox-Active Ligands"
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
Thomas Meade (Northwestern University, USA)
"Interrogating the Proteome via Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Is that Possible?"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Metal Organic Frameworks
Discussion Leader: Mircea Dinca (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Omar Farha (Northwestern University, USA)
"Functional Metal-Organic Framework Materials"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Natalia Shustova (University of South Carolina, USA)
"Metal-Organic Frameworks: A Middle Ground in Solution and Solid-State Chemistry"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
V. Sara Thoi (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"Using Molecular Frameworks to Model Sulfur Redox Cycling"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
John Anderson (University of Chicago, USA)
"Terminal Cobalt Oxo Complexes in Pseudo-Tetrahedral Geometries"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
William Harman (University of California, Riverside, USA)
"Boron-Doped Acenes for the Redox Activation of Small Molecules"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Future Challenges in Inorganic Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Amy Prieto (Colorado State University, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:05 pm
Andrew Borovik (University of California, Irvine, USA)
"Molecular Complexity and Inorganic Chemistry: Utilizing Non-Covalent Interactions to Control Function"
8:05 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:55 pm
Tobin Marks (Northwestern University, USA)
"At the Interface of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis"
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
General Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure