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Photochemistry
July 20-25, 2003
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPhotochemistry on the Nanoscale
Discussion Leader: Laren Tolbert (Georgia Tech)
7:30 pm - 8:20 pmRobert Dickson (Georgia Tech)
"Single-molecule Electroluminescence"
8:20 pm - 9:10 pmAlex Jen (Washington)
"Organic Light Emitting Diodes Incorporating Nanometer Thick Films"
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:45 amGroup Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pmPhotoinduced Electron-Transfer In Biomolecules
Discussion Leader: Daniel Falvey (Maryland)
9:00 am - 9:50 amGary B. Schuster (Georgia Tech)
"Long-range Electron Transfer in DNA"
9:50 am - 10:10 amGlen Loppnow (Alberta)
"Comparative Photochemistry and Excited-state Dynamics of Thymine, Uracil, and their Dinucleotides"
10:10 am - 10:40 amCoffee Break
10:40 am - 11:30 amClaudia Turro (Ohio State)
"Excited States of Bimetallic and Mononuclear Transition Metal Complexes: Photoreactivity in Solution and with DNA"
11:30 am - 12:20 pmFred Lewis (Northwestern)
"Single Step Hole Transport in DNA Hairpins"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmOrganic Photochemistry in Solution
Discussion Leader: V. Ramamurthy (Tulane)
7:30 pm - 8:20 pmJ.-S. Yang (NCU-Taiwan)
"The Photochemistry of N-Aryl Substituted trans-3- and 4-Aminostilbenes"
8:20 pm - 9:10 pmDouglas C. Neckers (Bowling Green)
"p-Benzoyl Radical Perester Chemistry"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pmIgor Alabugin (Florida State)
"New Photochemical Reactions of Enediynes: Mechanism and Applications"
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmAdvances in Photobiology
Discussion Leader: V. Ramamurthy (Tulane)
9:00 am - 9:50 amJames Remington (Oregon)
"Third-generation GFP biosensors for real-time readout of pH and redox potential in living cells"
9:50 am - 10:10 amAxel Griesbeck (Cologne)
"Isotope Effects in Triplet Photocycloadditions: A Terra Incognita"
10:10 am - 10:40 amCoffee Break
10:40 am - 11:30 amJohn Simon (Duke)
"The Spectroscopy and Aerobic Photoreactivity of A2E, A Constituent of Human Ocular Lipofuscin"
11:30 am - 12:20 pmRoseanne Sension (Michigan)
"Spectroscopic studies of B12 coenzymes"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPhotochemistry in Complex Systems
Discussion Leader: Kirk Schanze (Florida)
7:30 pm - 8:20 pmHaruo Inoue (Tokyo-Metropolitan)
"Photochemical Oxygenation Sensitized by Ruthenium(II) Porphyrin With Water As Both Electron And Oxygen Atom Donor"
8:20 pm -9:10 pmGuillermo Bazan (UC-Santa Barbara)
"Three-dimensional chromophores"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm Cornelia Bohne (Victoria)
"Mechanistic Study on the Photochromism of Dimethyldihydropyrenes"
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmProspects for Organic Electronics
Discussion Leader: E.A. Chandross (Lucent)
9:00 am - 9:50 amFrançisco Raymo (Miami)
"Optical Processing with Molecular Switches"
9:50 am - 10:10 amLinda Peteanu (Carnegie Mellon)
"Effects of Aggregation and Disorder on the Excited States and Emission Properties of Materials Used to Make Organic LED's"
10:10 am - 10:40 amCoffee Break
10:40 am - 11:30 amMark E. Thompson (USC)
"How Ir and Pt Complexes May Lead to a Brighter Future"
11:30 am - 12:20 pmAmilra De Silva (Queen's--Belfast)
"Luminescent Molecules as Information Processors"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:15 pmBusiness meeting
7:45 pm - 9:30 pmPhotochromism and Spectroscopy
Discussion Leader: Cornelia Bohne
7:45 pm - 8:35 pmYasushi Yokoyama (Yokohama)
"Photochromism Based on 6p-Electrocyclization: Stereochemistry and Properties"
8:35 pm - 9:25 pmWerner Nau (Basel)
"Biopolymer Motions Probed by Fluorescence"
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmNanolithography and other Topics
Discussion Leader: Frank Saeva (Kodak)
9:00 am - 9:50 amC. Grant Willson (Texas)
"Imaging materials for 157nm lithography"
9:50 am - 10:40 amJames Crivello (RPI)
"Photochemical Generation of Acids by the Irradiation of Onium Salts"
10:40 am - 11:10 amCoffee Break
11:10 am - 11:30 amDan Huppert (Tel Aviv)
"Effect of temperature and pressure on proton transfer rate from a photoacid to solution"
11:30 am - 11:50 pm Jack Saltiel (Florida State)
"Nonvertical Triplet Excitation Transfer to cis- and trans-1,1-Biindanylidene: The Role of CC Double Bond Torsion"
11:50 am - 12:10 pmShort talk
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPhotoinduced Electron-Transfer
Discussion Leader: Linda Johnston
7:30 pm - 8:20 pmDirk Guldi (Notre Dame)
"Supramolecular Donor-Acceptor Nanoensembles"
8:20 pm - 8:40 pmJohn Kauffman (Missouri)
"Photoinitiated, Intramolecular Electron Transfer in 1-(9-anthryl)-3-(4-dimethylaniline)propane: Static and Dynamic Regimes of Solvent Control of Charge Transfer"
8:40 pm - 9:00 pmStephan Landgraf (Graz)
"Determination of Electron Self-Exchange Rates by MARY Spectroscopy"
9:00 pm - 9:20 pmZoe Pikramenou (Birmingham)
"Vectorial Control of Photoinduced Processes in Non-covalently Assembled Metal Complexes
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

 
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