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 | Electron Transfer in Photochemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Lin Chen (Argonne National Laboratories) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Felix Castellano (Bowling Green State University)
"Sensitized Upconversion through Regenerative Photochemistry" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Michael Wasielewski (Northwestern University)
"Using Spin to Probe and Control Long Distance Photoinitiated Electron Transfer" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Spectroscopy and Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Malcolm Forbes (University of North Carolina) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Penn State University)
"Ultrafast Dynamics of Photoinduced Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions in Solution" |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
10:15 am - 10:55 am | Glen Loppnow (University of Alberta)
"Spectroscopic Probes of Photophysics and Photochemistry in DNA and RNA Nucleobases: The First Steps in Photochemistry and Beyond" |
10:55 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:50 am | Rajendra Rathore (Marquette University)
"Electron and Exciton Transport through Cofacially-Arrayed Polybenzenoid Wires" |
11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm | Masahide Terazima (Kyoto University)
"Spectrally silent photochemistry is important for biological reactions" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 am | 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: Challa V. Kumar (University of Connecticut) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | J. C. (Tito) Scaiano (University of Ottawa)
"Using organic photochemistry to make nanoparticles and nanoparticles to direct organic chemistry" |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 9:05 pm | Sivaguru Jayaraman (North Dakota State University)
"From Containers to Catalysts: Supramolecular Photocatalysis Within Cucurbiturils" |
9:05 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Biological Photochemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Valentin Vullev (University of California, Riverside) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Anna Krylov (University of Southern California)
"The effect of environment on electronically excited and ionized states of the green fluorescent protein chromophore" |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am | Coffee Break |
10:15 am - 10:55 am | Lei Zhu (Florida State University)
"5-Arylvinyl-2,2’-bipyridyls as Components in Indicators for Zinc Ion" |
10:55 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:50 am | Claudia Turro (Ohio State University)
"Control of Excited States of Transition Metal Complexes for Applications in Biology" |
11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm | Marina Kuimova (Imperial College London)
"Molecular rotors measure intracellular viscosity" |
12:25 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 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Imaging and Sensors |
| Discussion Leader: Gonzalo Cosa (McGill University) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Bruce Armitage (Carnegie Mellon)
"Fluoromodules: Fluorescent Labels and Sensors Based on Noncovalent Dye-Protein Complexes" |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 9:05 pm | Samuel T. Hess (University of Maine)
"Localization-Based Super-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging" |
9:05 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Reactions and Mechanisms |
| Discussion Leader: William Jenks (Iowa State University) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Anna Gudmundsdottir (University of Cincinnati)
"Reactivity 1,2 Biradicals" |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am | Coffee Break |
10:15 am - 10:55 am | Jeffrey Rack (Ohio University)
"Spectroscopy of Photochromic Ruthenium and Osmium Sulfoxide Complexes" |
10:55 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:50 am | Axel Griesbeck (University of Köln)
"Photooxygenation in polymer and hydrogel environments: useful procedures for the synthesis for pharmaceutically active compounds" |
11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm | Angel Marti (Rice University)
"Monitoring of Amyloid beta Protein Fibrilization using Dipyridophenazine Ruthenium (II) Complexes" |
12:25 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 |
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 | Solar Energy Conversion |
| Discussion Leader: Maria Abrahamsson (Chalmers University of Technology) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Tom Moore (Arizona State University)
"Imagine* photosynthesis by rational design rather than evolution (*John Lennon)" |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 9:05 pm | Ksenija Glusac (Bowling Green State University)
"Excited-State Behavior of Flavin-Based Compounds" |
9:05 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Materials Photochemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Clemens Burda (Case Western Reserve University) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Elena Galoppini (Rutgers)
"Viologens@Cucurbiturils in Solution and at Interfaces: Electrochromism and Fluorescence Properties" |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am | Coffee Break |
10:15 am - 10:55 am | David Waldeck (University of Pittsburgh)
"Energetics and Photoinduced Charge Transfer in Nanoparticle Assemblies" |
10:55 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:50 am | Alexandre Brolo (University of Victoria)
"Plasmonic materials and applications" |
11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm | Julia Weinstein (University of Sheffield)
"Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopy, TRIR and (TR)2D-IR: An Insight into Photoinduced Charge Separation in Molecular Cascades" |
12:25 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 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Frontiers of Photochemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Kirk Schanze (University of Florida) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Miguel Garcia-Garibay (UCLA)
"Signal Amplification with a Gain by Quantum-Chain Reactions in Crystalline Solids" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Josef Michl (University of Colorado)
"Toward Singlet Fission Designed for Solar Cell Applications" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |