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 | SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION |
| Discussion Leader: Ana Moore (Arizona State University) |
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Leif Hammarström (Uppsala University) "Controlling Electron Transfer for Artificial Photosynthesis" |
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm | Devens Gust (Arizona State University) "Photochromic Control of Photochemical Processes: From Photosynthesis to Molecule-Based Signal Transduction" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Emily Weiss (Northwestern University) "The Surface Chemistry of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | REACTIONS AND MECHANISMS (In Memory of N.C. Yang) |
| Discussion Leader: Anthony Trozzolo (University of Notre Dame) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Samir Farid (University of Rochester) "Quantum Amplification via an Adiabatic Triplet Reaction" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Andrei Kutateladze (University of Denver) "Detection and Massive Photoamplification of Molecular Recognition Events" |
10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am - 10: 40 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:10 am | Igor Alabugin (Florida State University) "The Many Faces of Alkyne Photochemistry" |
11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:50 am | Willie Leigh (McMaster University) "Group 14 Reactive Intermediates. Photochemical Methods for the Study of Silylenes, Germylenes and Stannylenes - the Heavy Cousins of Singlet Carbenes" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm | Deepak Shukla (Eastman Kodak Co.) "Chain Amplification in Photoreactions of N-alkoxypyridinium Salts in the Presence of Bases" |
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SUPRAMOLECULAR PHOTOCHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Linda Shimizu (University of South Carolina) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | J. Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University) "Light-Gated STOP-GO Molecular Shuttles and Shuttles" |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 9:05 pm | Frank Würthner (University of Würzburg) "Dye Assemblies for Supramolecular Electronics and Photovoltaics" |
9:05 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BIOLOGICAL PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND IMAGING |
| Discussion Leader: Sarah Schmidtke (College of Wooster) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Linda Johnston (National Research Council - Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences) "Fluorescence Imaging and Dynamics on the Nanoscale" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Alexander Deiters (North Carolina State University) "Photochemical Regulation of Gene Expression" |
10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am - 10: 40 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:10 am | Bern Kohler (Ohio State University) "UV Photoproduct Formation in Free and Nucleosomal DNA" |
11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:50 am | Dmitry Matyushov (Arizona State University) "Energetics of Protein Charge Transfer and Bacterial Photosynthesis" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm | Cristian Strassert (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) "Photoactive Hybrid Nanomaterials For Targeting, Labeling And Killing Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria" |
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SINGLE MOLECULE PHOTOCHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Jason Kahn (University of Maryland) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Marcel Bruchez (Carnegie Mellon University) "Photorobust and Regularly Blinking Fluorogen-Activating Peptides for Super-resolution Imaging" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Johan Hofkens (KU Leuven) "Performant Dyes for Demanding Microscopy Applications" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Dongho Kim (Yonsei University) "Excitation Energy Delocalization Processes of Various Porphyrin Arrays Probed by Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SPECTROSCOPY AND DYNAMICS |
| Discussion Leader: Torsten Fiebig (Boston College) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | David McCamant (University of Rochester) "Ultrafast Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopy of Charge Transfer Compounds" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Lin Chen (Argonne National Laboratories) "Structural Dynamics of Transition Metal Complexes for Solar Energy Conversion" |
10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am - 10: 40 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:10 am | David Jonas (University of Colorado) "Nonadiabatic Electronic Dynamics at Conical Funnels and in Quantum Dots" |
11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:50 am | Niels Damrauer (University of Colorado) "Manipulating Electron Transfer Phenomena through Structure and Quantum Control" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm | Karen Mulfort (Argonne National Laboratory) "Correlating ground and excited-state solution X-ray structures with ultrafast transient optical spectroscopy for cobaloxime-based H2 photocatalysts" |
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SPIN EFFECTS IN PHOTOCHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Tijana Rajh (Argonne National Laboratories) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Christiane Timmel (University of Oxford) "A Bird’s Eye View of Molecular Compasses" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | David Shultz (North Carolina State University) "A Lecture in Two Parts: I. Electronic Coupling in Donor-Acceptor Biradicals. II. Photo-switchable Valence Tautomers" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Malcolm Forbes (University of North Carolina) "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions: The Radicals Behind the Ru(bpy)3" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MATERIALS PHOTOCHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Pavel Anzenbacher (Bowling Green State University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Uwe Bunz (Georgia Institute of Technology) "Cruciform Fluorophores in Blue, Green and Yellow" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Elizabeth Harbron (College of William and Mary) "Photoswitchable Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles" |
10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am - 10: 40 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:10 am | Dirk Guldi (University Nürnberg-Erlangen) "Carbon Nanostructures - Supramolecular Approach to Power Solar Energy Conversion" |
11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:50 am | Thuc-Quyen Nguyen (University of California at Santa Barbara) "Organic Semiconducting Nanostructures for Solar Energy Conversion" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm | Jye-Shane Yang (National Taiwan University) "Pentiptycene-Derived Oligo(p-phenyleneethynylene)s: Conformation, Chain-Length Effect, and Intrachain Energy transfer" |
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | FRONTIERS OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Francisco Raymo (University of Miami) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Klaus Hahn (University of North Carolina) |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Valentina Emiliani (University of Paris-Descartes) "Good Shape Photolysis" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |