Our program is finalized. Abstract booklet located online here.

Friday, September 20
Pancoe Auditorium

**Please note that Prof. Forbes & Prof. Guldi have switched spots. Prof. Guldi will now present Friday at 2:40pm, and Prof. Forbes will present on Saturday at 9:25am**

 

1:00 – 1:25pm: Emily Weiss (Northwestern University)

Talk title:  “Organic Synthesis with Quantum Dots”

 

1:25pm – 1:50pm: Bern Kohler (Ohio State University)

Talk title:  “Seeing the Colors in Black: Probing Distinct Chromophores in Emelanin and their Carbon Dot-like Dynamics”

 

1:50pm – 2:15pm: Atsuhiro Osuka (Kyoto University)

Talk title: “Stable Porphyrin Radicals”

 

2:15pm – 2:40pm: Michael Therien (Duke University)

Talk title: “U-Turn Electron Transfers in Chemistry and Biology”

 

2:40-pm-3:05pm: Dirk Guldi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nurnberg)

Talk title: “Towards breaking the barrier to 100% charge transfer”

 

3:05pm – 3:30pm: Coffee break

 

3:30pm – 3:55pm: David Beratan (Duke University)

Talk title: “Electron Bifurcation without Maxwell Demons”

 

3:55pm – 4:20pm: Frank Würthner (Universitaet Wüerzburg)

Talk title: “Supramolecular Materials Based on Perylene Dyes”

 

4:20pm – 4:45pm: Hiroko Yamada (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

Talk title: “Engineering Thin Films of a Tetrabenzoporphyrin toward Efficient Charge-Carrier Transport”

 

4:45pm – 5:15pm: Group Photo (Assemble in front of Tech Building, Northwestern)

 

5:15pm – 7:00pm: Poster Session in ISEN Atrium ( J-wing, Tech Building, Northwestern)

Please note: The poster session is a closed event for registered guests only. 

 

Saturday, September 21

Pancoe Auditorium

9:00am – 9:25am Josh Vura-Weis (University of Illinois-Urbanana Champaign)

Talk title: “What did the metals know, and when did they know it?”

 

9:25am – 9:50am Malcolm Forbes (Bowling Green State University)

Talk title: “Molcules, Photons and Spins”

 

9:50am – 10:15am Gary Brudvig (Yale University)

Talk title: “Molecular Catalysts for Water Oxidation”

 

10:15am – 10:40am Coffee break

 

10:40am – 11:05am Ana & Thomas Moore (Arizona State University)

Talk title: “Multiple Proton Transfers Coupled to a Single Electron Transfer in Artificial Photosynthesis” 

 

11:05am – 11:30am Boris Rybtchinski (Weizmann Institute)

Talk title: “Noncovalent Aqua Materials”

 

11:30am – 11:55am Felix “Phil” Castellano  (North Carolina State University)

Talk title: “Triplet Migration Across Quantum Dot-Molecular Interfaces”

 

12:00pm – 1:00pm Break

 

1:00pm – 1:25pm Raanan Carmieli (Weizmann Institute)

Talk title: “EPR and ENDOR Characterization of Cu-Chelex, a Comparison Study with Cu(Gly)2 and Cu(IDA)2”

 

1:25pm – 1:50pm Qixi Mi (Shanghai Tech University)

Talk title: “Charge Separation and Energy Transfer in Photoexcited Tin-Based Perovskite Materials”

 

1:50pm – 2:15pm Yasuhiro Kobori  (Kobe University)

Talk title: “Transport of Spin-Correlated Multiexciton via Singlet Fission”

 

2:15pm – 2:40pm Coffee break

 

2:40 pm – 3:05pm Gary Wiederrecht (Argonne National Lab)

Talk title: “Ultrafast Nanophotonics and Quantum Optics Research at the Center for Nanoscale Materials”

 

3:05pm- 3:30pm Claudia Turro (Ohio State University)

Talk title: “Excited States of Transition Metal Complexes: What Can We Do with Them?”

 

3:30pm- 3:55pm: Alexey Gusev (Ultrafast Systems)

Talk title:  “Ultra-broadband transient absorption”

 

3:55pm – 4:20pm: Stenbjörn Styring (Emeritus, Uppsala University)

Talk title: “Far Red photochemistry in Photosystem II”

 

4:20pm – 4:45pm: Jim McCusker (Michigan State University)

Talk title: “Using Spin to Control Excited-State Reactivity”

4:45pm – 5:00pm: Closing events