Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Water Hydrogen Bond Dynamics
Discussion Leaders: James Skinner (University of Chicago, USA) and Martina Havenith (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
Richard Saykally (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Hydrogen Bond Network Rearrangement Dynamics in Water Clusters: Dramatic Effects of Intermolecular Vibrational Excitations on Tunneling Rates"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
David Wilkins (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
" Atomistic Modelling of Second Harmonic Scattering"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Water at Electrified Interfaces and Electrochemical Energy Storage
Discussion Leaders: Adam Willard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) and Marivi Fernandez-Serra (Stony Brook University, SUNY, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Michiel Sprik (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
"The Electrostatics of Electrolyte-Solid Interfaces Viewed from the Perspective of Dielectric Theory and Simulation"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Frieder Mugele (Physics of Complex Fluids Group, University of Twente, The Netherlands)
"Wetting of Electrically Functionalized Surfaces: From Molecular Scale Challenges to Macroscopic Opportunities"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Veronica Augustyn (North Carolina State University, USA)
"Structural Water in Transition Metal Oxides: Effects of Nanoconfinement on Energy Storage Mechanisms and Kinetics"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Valeria Molinero (University of Utah, USA) and Sapna Sarupria (Clemson University, USA)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Hydrophobic Gating and Interaction
Discussion Leaders: William Ducker (Virginia Tech, USA) and Ian Bourg (Princeton University, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Zuzanna Siwy (University of California, Irvine, USA)
"Hydrophobic Gating and Water Diode"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Uri Sivan (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
"The Inner Structure of the Hydrophobic Interface in X10,000,000 Magnification"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Water in the Environment
Discussion Leaders: Pablo Debenedetti (Princeton University, USA) and Francesco Paesani (University of California, San Diego, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Thomas Koop (Bielefeld University, Germany)
"Environmental Phase Transition Processes Involving Water"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Werner Kuhs (Universitaet Goettingen, Germany)
"From Gas Hydrates to Nanobubbles: Firm Experimental Evidence for Hydrophobic Assembly"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Douwe Jan Bonthuis (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
"Ions and Charged Surfactants at Air-Water Interfaces"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Water with Ionic Liquids and Electrolytes
Discussion Leaders: John Weeks (University of Maryland, USA) and Gregory Schenter (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Markus Valtiner (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
"Interfacial and Bulk Structuring of Ionic Liquids in the Presence of Water: From Neat Liquids to Aqueous Solutions"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Peter Hamm (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
"2D-Raman-THz Spectroscopy of Water and Aqueous Salt Solutions"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Water in Materials and Biomimetic Design
Discussion Leaders: Susan Rempe (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) and Amish Patel (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
David Quere (ESPCI Paris / École Polytechnique, France)
"On the Mobility of Liquid Pearls"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Sophie Marbach (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)
"From Nanofluidic Transport to Active Sieving"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Baoxia Mi (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Water Transport in 2D Nanochannels and Through a Biomimetic Tree"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Water and Origin of Life / Late-Breaking Topics
Discussion Leaders: Pavel Jungwirth (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) and Claudiu Stan (Rutgers University - Newark, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Ali Hassanali (International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy)
"Will Aliens Drink Water? AKA: What Do Hydrogen Bonds Have to Do with the Origin of Life"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Marius Millot (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
"Water at Extreme: Dynamic Compression with Lasers"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Water in Biological Systems and Medicine
Discussion Leaders: Peter Rossky (Rice University, USA) and Toshiko Ichiye (Georgetown University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Songi Han (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
"Surface Programing of Hydration Water Dynamics on Protein Systems"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Pratyush Tiwary (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
"Water in Drug Unbinding: Actor, Director or Sidekick? Insights from Predictive All-Atom Simulations"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Sean Sun (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"Water Dynamics in Cell Mechanics, Cell Motility and Disease"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Young Investigator Presentations / Keynote Session: Fifty Years of Water Research: Future Challenges
Discussion Leaders: Nancy Levinger (Colorado State University, USA) and Shekhar Garde (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Devendra Mani (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
"Dissociation of HCl at 0.4 K: Sequence Matters"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Jenée Cyran (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany)
"Molecular Hydrophobicity at a Hydrophilic Surface"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Eva Pluharova (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
"Solvent Effects on Enantioselectivity of a Lipase-Catalyzed Reaction"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Camille Bilodeau (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
"Ligand Chemistry, Architecture, and Surface Density Control Pattern Formation on Multimodal Chromatographic Surfaces"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
John Finney (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Fifty Years of Water Research: Where Do We Go from Here?"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure