| Sunday July 15th |
| 2:00-11:00pm | Arrival, Registration & Dinner |
Session #1
7:30-9:30pm | Consequences and Chemistry of Photoinduced Electron Transfer |
| 7:30pm | Opening Remarks-R. Givens, University of Kansas |
| 7:40pm | Linda Johnston, National Research Council Canada
Psoralen Photochemistry: The Role of Electron Transfer |
| 8:40pm | David I. Schuster
Photoinduced Electron Transfer as a Function of Molecular Topology in Fullerene-Donor Dyads and Complexes. |
| Monday July 16th |
| 7:30am-8:30am | Breakfast |
Session #2
9:00am-12:30pm | Photogenerated Reactive Intermediates: Triplet States of Carbenes |
| | Discussion Leader: Ed Hilinski, Florida State University |
| 9:10am | Irene E. Kochevar, Wellman Laboratory Massachusetts General Hospital
Singlet Oxygen and Apoptosis |
| 10:10am | Peter R. Ogilby, Aarhus University
Two-Photon Photosensitized Production of Singlet Oxygen: Using a Focused Laser to Impart Spatial Resolution to a Singlet Oxygen Experiment |
| 10:40am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00am | Anne Gudmundsdittor, University of Cincinnati
Triplet Sensitized Photolysis of Alkyl Azides |
| 11:30am | Hideo Tomioka, Mie University
How does interaction between a nitrene and a carbene center affect the overall electronic configuration of phenylene(nitreno)carbenes? |
| 12:30pm | Conference Photo |
| 12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm-4:00pm | Free Time |
| 4:00pm-6:00pm | Poster Session: Chair: Laren Tolbert, Georgia Tech |
| 6:00pm-7:00pm | Dinner |
Session #3
7:30-9:50pm | Supramolecular Spectroscopy and Photochemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Steve Fleming, Brigham Young |
| 7:30pm | Cathy Murphy, University of South Carolina
Inorganic and Organic Optical Probes of DNA Structure and Dynamics |
| 8:30pm | Marye Anne Fox, North Carolina State
Modification of Photoreactivity by Constraint within a Self-assembled Monolayer. |
| Tuesday, July 17th |
| 7:30am-8:30am | Breakfast |
Session #4
9:00am-12:30pm | Supramolecular Photochemistry and Spectroscopy |
| Discussion Leader: Linda Peteanu, Carnegie-Mellon |
| 9:00am | Tim Swager, MIT
Conjugated Polymers: Sensors, Electronic States, Aggregation, and Energy Migration |
| 10:00am | Dario Basani, Universite Bordeaux
Supramolecular Control of Photoinduced [2+2] cycloaddition reactions |
| 10:30am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50am | Joe Hupp, Northwestern
Photoinduced Electron Transfer at Nanoscale Semiconductor/Molecule/Solution Interfaces |
| 11:50am | Bo Albinsson, Chalmers University (Sweden)
Mediated Energy and Electron Transfer in Porphyrin Dimers
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| 12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm-4:00pm | Free Time |
| 4:00pm-6:00pm | Poster Session 2: Chair: Laren Tolbert, Georgia Tech |
| 6:00pm-7:00pm | Dinner |
Session #5
7:30pm-9:30pm | Metal Mediated Energy Migration |
| Discussion Leader: Don Arnold, Dalhousie |
| 7:30pm | Gerald J. Meyer, Johns Hopkins
Electron-, Energy-, and Ligand-Transfer Reactions from Copper Diimine Excited States |
| 8:30pm | Clemens Burda, Georgia Tech. And Case Western Reserve
The Relaxation Pathway of CdSe Nanoparticles Monitored with Femtosecond Time-Resolution in the Spectral Range from UV t o IR: Assignment of the Transient Features with Organic Electron Donors and Acceptors |
| 9:00pm | Steve Fleming, Brigham Young University
Tethered Intramolecualr Photocycloaddition-Phosphorus Tethered Intramolecular Photocycloaddition |
| Wednesday, July 18th |
| 7:30am-8:30am | Breakfast |
Session #6
9:00am-12:30pm | Shapes and Motion on the Excited State Surface |
| Discussion Leader: Howard Zimmerman, Wisconsin |
| 9:00am | Diego Armesto, Universidad Complutense of Madrid
Di-pi-methane Rearrangements: New Perspectives for a Classical Reaction |
| 9:30am | Robert S. H. Liu, Hawaii
Isomerization by Hula-Twist, a Supramolecular Photochemical Reaction |
| 10:30am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50am | Frederick Lewis, Northwestern
Potential Energy Surfaces for Photoisomerization Reactions of Aryl Olefins |
| 11:20am | Mostafa El-Sayed, Georgia Tech
Small is different; some interesting properties of material confined to the nanometer length scale of different shapes |
| 12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm-4:00pm | Free Time |
| 4:00pm-6:00pm | Poster Session 3:Chair: Laren Tolbert, Georgia Tech |
| 6:00pm-7:00pm | Dinner |
Session #7
7:30-9:30pm | Molecular Spectroscopy and Energy Migration |
| Discussion Leader: Marshall Wilson, Cincinnatti |
| 7:30pm | John Toscano, Johns Hopkins
Time-Resolved IR Spectroscopy as a Powerful Mechanistic Tool and the Rational Design of Novel Photochemical Precursors to Nitric Oxide |
| 8:30pm | Fumio Toda, Okayama University
Enantioselective photoreactions in inclusion crystals |
| 9:30pm | Paul Margaretha, University of Hamburg
Photocycloaddition of Isocoumarins and Isothiocoumarins to Alkenes |
| Thursday, July 19th |
| 7:30am-8:30am | Breakfast |
Session #8
9:00am-12:00pm | Medical and Information Storage Applications of Photochemistry |
| | Discussion Leader: Robert DeVoe |
| 9:00am | Matt Platz, Ohio State
Photosensitized inactivation of pathogens in blood products |
| 10:00am | Lisa Dhar, InPhase Technologies
High Performance Photopolymer Recording Media for High Density Holographic Data Storage |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break |
| 12:10am | Elizabeth Gaillard, Northern Illinois
Photochemical studies of A2-E, a component of Human Retinal Lipofuscin |
| 11:50pm | Edward Clennan, Wyoming
Photochemically Initiated Molecular Oxygenations in Zeolites |
| 12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm-4:00pm | Free Time |
| 4:00pm-6:00pm | Poster Session 4: Laren Tolbert, Georgia Tech |
| 6:00pm-7:30pm | Dinner |
Session #9
7:45-9:45pm | Organic Photochemistry: A Look to the Past with an Eye to the Future |
| Discussion Leader: Laren Tolbert |
| 7:45pm | Business Meeting & Elections for Vice Chair 2003 |
| 8:15pm | Tony Trozzolo, Notre Dame
The Gordon Research Conference on Organic Photochemistry: A Historical Retrospective |
| 8:45pm | Waldemar Adam, University of Wurzburg
Forty Years of Inquiry into the Mechanism of the Stereoselective Double Inversion in the Photodenitrogenation of Bicyclic Azoalkanes and Still a Puzzle |