SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
IN NOBLE METAL NANOPARTICLES |
| Discussion Leader: Teri W Odom (Northwestern University) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Mostafa El-Sayed (George Tech) "Gold Nanoparticles confine Photons Ten Time Their Own Sizes: Consequences and Applications in Material Science, in Biology and in Cancer Therapy" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecture: Chad A. Mirkin (Northwestern University) "Nanoparticle Bioconjugates: A New Frontier in Materials Science, Biology, and Medicine" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:45 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ADVANCES IN SYNTHESIZING NOBLE METAL NANOPARTICLES |
| Discussion Leader: Jennifer Shumaker-Parry (University of Utah) |
9:05 am - 9:30 am | Younan Xia (Washington University, St Louis) "Etching and growth: An intertwinned pathway to nanocrystals with different shapes" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:10 am | Juergen Biener (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) "The role of surface chemistry on the properties of nanoporous gold" |
10:10 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
10:25 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:25 am | Francesco Stellacci (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and EPFL) "Ligand Coated Gold Nanoparticles: a great tool to study solid-liquid and bio-interfaces" |
11:25 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 11:55 am | Hot Topic Talk: Marc Knecht (University of Kentucky) "Bio-inspired strategies to design efficient nanocatalysts: elucidating the role of the biotic/abiotic interface" |
11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Hot Topic Talk: Nathaniel Rosi (University of Pittsburgh) "Designed peptide conjugates for the simultaneous synthesis and assembly of nanoparticles" |
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 1 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ASSEMBLY AND PROPERTIES OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES |
| Discussion Leader: Andrea Tao (UCSD) |
7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Carsten Sonnichsen (University of Mainz) "Plasmonic single particle biosensors" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | Marie-Paule Pileni (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) "Nanocrystals organized in 2D superlattices and 3D Supra crystals: a new challenge for a new chemistry and physics" |
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:10 pm | Bartosz Gryzbowski (Northwestern University) "Photoconductance and inverse photoconductance in assemblies of metal nanoparticles" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Poster Session 1 (continued) |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 10:25 am | MODELING |
| Discussion Leader: Cecilia Noguez (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) |
9:05 am - 9:30 am | Christine Aikens (Kansas State University) "Achieving Theory-Experiment Agreement for the Optical Absorption, EPR, and Chiroptical Properties of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:10 am | Peter Nordlander (Rice University) "Plasmonic nanoparticle clusters: Sharp plasmon resonances for LSPR sensing and SERS" |
10:10 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
10:25 am | Coffee Break |
10:55 am - 12:30 pm | YOUNG INVESTIGATORS |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Natan (Oxonica) |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Hao Yan (Arizona State University) "Organizing Metal Nanoparticles using DNA Tiles" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | Rongchao Jin (Carnegie Mellon) "Quantum Sized Gold Nanoclusters: Bridging the Gap between Organometallics and Nanocrystals" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Amanda Haes (University of Iowa) "Noble Metal Nanoparticle Rattles as SERS Substrates" |
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 2 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NEW TOOLS FOR DETERMINING STRUCTURE/NON-LINEAR PROPERTIES |
| Discussion Leader: Katherine Willets (UT Austin) |
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm | Anton Plech (University of Konstanz) "Understanding the structural dynamics of nanoparticles in strong laser fields" |
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm | Gregory Hartland (U. Notre Dame) "Coupling to light, energy transport and dissipation in metal nanoparticles and nanowires studied by single particle transient absorption spectroscopy" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Poster Session 2 (continued) |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NOBLE METAL NANOPARTICLES AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS |
| Discussion Leader: Naomi Halas (Rice University) |
9:05 am - 9:35 am | Rebekah Drezek (Rice University) "Activatable Multimodal Gold Nanostructures for Cancer Theranostics" |
9:35 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:20 am | Jin Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz) "Hollow Gold Nanospheres for SERS and Photothermal Ablation Therapy of Cancer" |
10:20 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
10:35 am | Coffee Break |
11:05 am - 11:35 am | Kimberly Hamad-Schiffer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "How to Deliver Nanoparticles into Tumors: Probing the Interactions of Nanoparticles with Biological Systems" |
11:35 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:20 pm | Catherine Murphy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) "The Interface of Gold Nanorods with Living Systems" |
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 3 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SUPPORTED PARTICLES AND CATALYSIS |
| Discussion Leader: Israel Rubenstein (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Sean McClure (Texas A&M University) "Simulating the Complexities of Heterogeneous Catalysts with Model Systems" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | Peng Chen (Cornell University) "Single Molecule Nanocatalysis" |
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:10 pm | Michael Wong (Rice University) "Harnessing the Catalytic Properties of Metallic Nanoparticles to Clean Contaminated Water" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Poster Session 3 (continued) |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NANOPARTICLES, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND ENERGY |
| Discussion Leader: Jiaxing Huang (Northwestern University) |
9:05 am - 9:40 am | Jim Hutchison (University of Oregon) "Green Nanotechnology and Nano Safety" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:20 am | Vicki Colvin (Rice University) "Cytotoxicity of Noble Metal Nanoparticles" |
11:20 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 11:55 am | Hot Topic Talk: Stephan Link (Rice University) "Energy transport in one-dimensional plasmonic nanostructures" |
11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Hot Topic Talk: Sang-Hyun Oh (University of Minnesota) "Plasmonic nanohole arrays for membrane protein biosensing" |
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 4 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SINGLE MOLECULE SENSING AND SERS |
| Discussion Leader: Richard Van Duyne (Northwestern University) |
7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Martin Moskovitz (University of California, San Diego) "How well do we currently understand SERS" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | John Lombardi (City College New York) "Unifying the Disparate Strands of SERS" |
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:10 pm | Dana Dlott (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) "Ultrashort laser pulse surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Poster Session 4 (continued) |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |