SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
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: Claudia Turro (Ohio State University) |
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Dirk Guldi (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg)
"Electron Transfer in Low Dimensional Nanocarbons" |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:55 pm | Benjamin Schwartz (UCLA)
"Does the hydrated electron occupy a cavity, or not" |
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Photoassisted Synthetic Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Axel Griesbeck (University of Cologne) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Thorsten Bach (Technical University München)
"Chirality and Light: Enantioselective Catalysis in Photochemical Reactions" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:05 am | David Nicewicz (University of North Carolina)
"New Avenues in Chemical Synthesis via Organic Photoredox Catalysis"
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10:05 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Tehshik Yoon (University of Wisconsin)
"Visible Light in Photochemical Synthesis" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Michael Oelgemöller (James Cook University)
"Continuous Microflow Photochemistry - The photochemistry of the future?" |
12:15 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 | Reaction Mechanisms |
| Discussion Leader: Anna Gudmundsdottir (University of Cincinnati) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | John Toscano (Johns Hopkins University)
"Studies Toward the Photogeneration of HNO and Related Species" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Petr Klán (Masaryk University)
"Challenges in the Development of Photoactivatable Groups and Fluorescent Probes" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Richard Givens (University of Kansas)
"New Insight on photo-Favorskii Rearrangement Gained from the Zimmerman Paradigm"
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9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Photobiology |
| Discussion Leader: Bruce Armitage (Carnegie Mellon University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Catherine Murphy (University of Illinois)
"Heat and Light from Plasmonic Nanomaterials: The Intersection with Biology" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:05 am | Alexander Greer (City University of New York, Brooklyn College)
"New Sensitized Photorelease Systems: Autocatalytic Control of Drug Photorelease Processes"
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10:05 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Vladimir Popik (University of Georgia)
"Photo-click chemistry: from surface patterning to reversible protein modification" |
11:00 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
11:15 am - 11:45 am | Carlos Crespo-Hernández (Case Western Reserve University)
"Excited-State Dynamics in Sulfur-Substituted DNA Base Analogues"
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11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Matthew Hartman (Virginia Commonwealth University)
"Controlling cellular permeability with light"
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12:20 pm - 12:25 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: Molecules and Methods |
| Discussion Leader: Laren Tolbert (Georgia Tech) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Stefan Hell (MPI Gottingen)
"Nanoscopy with focused light" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Vladislav Verkhusha (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
"Engineering fluorescent proteins for multiparameter imaging" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Marcin Ptaszek (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
"Hydroporphyrin energy transfer arrays as fluorophores for multicolor in vivo imaging"
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9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Solar Energy Conversion |
| Discussion Leader: Ana Moore (Arizona State University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Gerald Meyer (Johns Hopkins University)
"Solar Photochemistry with Charge Transfer Excited States" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:05 am | Annemarie Huijser (University of Twente)
"Manipulation of electron transfer dynamics in zinc phthalocyanine sensitized TiO2 nanoparticles by modification of the anchoring ligand"
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10:05 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Luping Yu (University of Chicago)
"The Dipolar Change That Matters - Design Ideas of Highly Efficient Solar Cell Polymers" |
11:00 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
11:15 am - 11:45 am | James Durrant (Imperial College London)
"Materials design for solar energy conversion: the energetic cost of lifetime gain" |
11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Amanda Morris (Virginia Tech)
"Solar Energy Harvesting and Storage by Metal Organic Frameworks"
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12:20 pm - 12:25 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 | Materials Photochemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Elena Galoppini (Rutgers) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Luisa De Cola (ISIS Strasbourg)
"Photophysics in confined space" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Art Bragg (Johns Hopkins University)
"Structural characteristics and dynamics of excited conjugated polymers probed by time-resolved Raman spectroscopy" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Evgueni Nesterov (Louisiana State University)
"Turn-On Amplifying Fluorescent Sensors: 'Higher Energy Gap' Control in Fluorescent Conjugated Polymers" |
9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Spectroscopy and Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Ksenia Glusac (Bowling Green State University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Frederick Lewis (Northwestern University)
"Photoinduced Charge Separation and Charge Transport in DNA" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:05 am | Mahesh Hariharan (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research)
"Conformational and Excited State Dynamics of Near-Orthogonal Donor-Acceptor Bichromophores"
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10:05 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Tahei Tahara (RIKEN)
"Photochemical dynamics revealed by multi-pulse femtosecond spectroscopy" |
11:00 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
11:15 am - 11:45 am | Leticia Gonzalez (University of Vienna)
"Photochemistry of DNA/RNA nucleobases" |
11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Vasilios Stavros (University of Warwick)
"A comparative study of gas and solution phase photochemistry: excited state dynamics in guaiacol"
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12:20 pm - 12:25 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: V. Ramamurthy (University of Miami) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Cornelia Bohne (University of Victoria)
"Characterization of Bile Salt Gels as Soft Supramolecular Hosts" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Dario Bassani (University of Bordeaux)
"Using light to control supramolecular interactions, in solution and on surfaces" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Belinda Heyne (University of Calgary)
"Specific Ions Effects as tool for tuning the organization of organic dyes in supramolecular systems"
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9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |