| SUNDAY, July 25 |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Nanomaterials |
| Discussion Leader: Susan M. Kauzlarich (UC-Davis) |
| 7:30 pm | Xianfeng Duan
"Semiconductor Nanowires and Nanoribbons: Synthesis, Structure and Application in Nanoelectronic and Macroelectronics" |
| 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm | Chris Murray (IBM/Watson Res. Centr.YH/NY)
"Assembly of Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices: a Route to Multi-Functional Solid State Materials" |
| 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY, July 26 |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Solid State Ionics: Oxide Ion Conductors |
| Discussion Leader: Hanno Zur Loy (U. South Carolina) |
| John A. Kilner (Imperial College, London, UK)
"Oxygen Transport in Materials for SOFC's and Related Devices" |
| Discussion |
| Allan Jacobson (Chemistry/UT-Houston)
"Transition Metal Oxides - Bulk and Surface Chemistry" |
| Discussion |
| Coffee Break / Photo |
| Materials for Batteries |
| Discussion Leader: Mike Thackeray (Argonne) |
| John B. Goodenough (Mater/UT-Austen)
"Advances in the Solid State Chemistry of Advanced Batteries" |
| Discussion |
| Clare P. Grey (Chemistry/SUNY-Stony Brook)
"Probing Structure and Dynamics in Disordered Systems: an NMR Study of Battery and Fuel-Cell Materials" |
| Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Free Time |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I / Reception |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Optical Materials |
| Discussion Leader: Art Ellis (NSF) |
| 7:30 pm | David Norris (U. Minnesota)
"Self-Assembled Photonic Band Gap Crystals" |
| 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm | Hideomi Koinuma (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)
"Solid State Combinatorial Chemistry
and Nanotechnology" |
| 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY, July 27 |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Theory of Solids |
| Discussion Leader: Nicola Spaldin (UC-Santa Barbara) |
| Roald Hoffmann (Cornell University)
"Thinking About Some Structures not Yet Made" |
| Discussion |
| Warren Pickett (UC-Davis)
"Localized Moments and Spin Couplings in Oxides" |
| Discussion |
| Coffee Break |
| Magnetic Materials |
| Discussion Leader: John Greedan (McMaster U., Canada) |
| Peter Battle (Oxford University)
"Low-Dimensional Oxides; Order, Disorder and a Surprise?" |
| Discussion |
| Mas Subramanian (DuPont)
"Magnetic Perovskites: Colossal Dielectrics, Magneto Capacitance and Valence Degeneracy" |
| Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Free Time |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II / Reception |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Novel Techniques |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Stephens (SUNY-Stonybrook) |
| 7:30 pm | Hellmut Eckert (Muenster University, Germany)
"Dynamic Coupling of Anion and Cation Motion in Plastic-Crystalline Ion Conductors" |
| 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm | Ivana Radosavljevic Evans (University of Durham, UK)
"Structural Complexity in Bismuth Oxides" |
| 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY, July 28 |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New Superconducting Oxides |
| Discussion Leader: Evgeny Antipov (Moscow State U., Russia) |
| R. Cava (Chem/Mater/Princeton U.)
"Superconductivity, High Thermopower, and Crystal Chemistry of Layered, Triangular Lattice Cobalt Oxides" |
| Discussion |
| James Jorgensen (Argonne National Labs)
"Crystal Chemistry of the New Superconductors MgB2 and NaxCoO2 • 4 H2O" |
| Discussion |
| Coffee Break |
| Clossal Magnetitoresistant Oxides |
| Discussion Leader: Paul Attfield (Cambridge) |
| Bernard Raveau (CNRS-Caen, France)
"The Extraordinary Magnetic and Transport Properties of Manganese and Cobalt Oxides" |
| Discussion |
| Anja V. Mudring (Institut for Anorganische Chemie)
"How Relativity Affects Chemistry" |
| Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Free Time |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session III / Reception |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | New Synthetic Methods |
| Discussion Leader: Miguel A. Alario-Franco (Universidad Complutense, Spain) |
| 7:30 pm | Richard Kaner (UC - Los Angeles)
"Metathesis Routes to Ultra-Incompressible Borides, High Surface Area Nitrides and Nanostructured Carbon" |
| 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm | Don Seo (Arizona State University)
"New Synthetic Methodologies for Metal Chalcogenides from Boron Chalcogenide Chemistry" |
| 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY, July 29 |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Open Framework Structures |
| Discussion Leader: Robert L. Bedard (UOP LLC) |
| Geoffrey A. Ozin (U. Toronto)
"Gazing into the Colloidal Photonic Crystal Ball" |
| Discussion |
| Pingyun Feng (UC-Riverside)
"Metal Chalcogenide Open Framework Materials from Tetrahedral Clusters" |
| Discussion |
| Coffee Break |
| Biomaterials |
| Discussion Leader: Joanna Aizenberg (Lucent) |
| Lia Addadi (Weizmann Institute of Science)
"Biological Strategies for Forming Materials: Calcium Carbonate in Biomineralization" |
| Discussion |
| Heavy Fermions |
| Discussion Leader: Frank DiSalvo (Cornell) |
| Julia Chan (Louisiana State University)
"A Chemist's Perspective on Heavy Fermion Intermetallics: Interplay of Magnetism and Superconductivity" |
| Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Solids for Catalysis |
| Discussion Leader: Ken Poppelmeier (Northwestern) |
| 7:30 pm | Laurence Marks (Northwestern University)
"Oxide Surfaces, Towards Predictive Rules and Finding the Electrons" |
| 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm | Raul Lobo (University of Delaware)
"Making Science of the Art of Zeolite Synthesis" |
| 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY, July 30 |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
