Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Chemistry at Complex Environments
Discussion Leader: Barak Hirshberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
3:45 pm - 3:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
3:50 pm - 4:20 pm
Veronica Vaida (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
"Increasing Complexity in the Chemical, Natural and Social Environment"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Chemistry and Dynamics in Condensed Phases
Discussion Leader: James Thompson (University of Missouri, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Johannes Cremer (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
"Photoacoustic Measurements of Single Aerosol Droplets: Microscopic Heat Transfer and Accelerated Photoreactions"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Joseph Gord (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
"Flow Reactor and Gas-Liquid Scattering Studies of N2 O5 Uptake and Reactivity at the Surfaces of Sea-Spray Mimics"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Helen Kimber (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom)
"Scattering Dynamics of CN Radicals at the Gas-Liquid Interface"
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm
Leah Rader Bowers (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"It's Good to Be Flexible: Energy Transport Facilitated by Conformational Fluctuations in Light-Harvesting Polymers"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Jakub Husek (The Ohio State University, USA)
"Hole Thermalization Dynamics Facilitate Ultrafast Spatial Charge Separation in CuFeO2 Solar Photocathodes"
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Gas Phase Chemistry and Photochemistry
Discussion Leader: Victoria Barber (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:25 am
Erin Sullivan (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Fast Beam Coincidence Translational Spectroscopy of Alkyl Peroxy Radicals"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Bibek Samanta (Univeristy of Southern California, USA)
"A Tale of Two Carbenes: Electronic Structure and Rydberg-Core Interactions in Hydroxy- and Methylhydroxy-Carbene"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:05 am
Christopher Otolski (University of Kansas, USA)
"Excited-State Photoisomerization Dynamics of Encapsulated Stilbene and Azobenzene Derivatives"
10:05 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:25 am
Jemma Gibbard (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"Studying the Dissociative Photodetachment of I2 - and C2 O4 H- with a Photoelectron-Photofragment Coincidence Spectrometer for Heavier Anions"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Laura McCaslin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"The Reactions of N2 O5 and Seawater: A Bottom-up, Ab Initio Approach"
10:45 am - 10:50 am
Discussion
10:50 am - 11:00 am
General Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Panel
Discussion Leader: Laura McCaslin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Science at Interfaces: The International and Diverse Face of Chemistry
Spiridoula Matsika (Temple University, USA)
Jonathan Reid (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Veronica Vaida (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes