| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm | Arrival and Registration |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| EVENING | CHARGE TRANSPORT AND NANOWIRES |
| Discussion Leader: Vasudev Kenkre, University of New Mexico |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Dietrich Haarer, University of Bayreuth
"Charge Carrier Transport Mechanisms in Organic Materials: Pi Stacking vs. Conjugation" |
| 8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Charles Lieber, Harvard University
"Electrical and Optical Properties of Nanoscale Wires: Building a Foundation for Nanotechnology" |
| 9:00 pm - | Reception |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am -8:30 am | Breakfast |
| MORNING | CHARGE/EXCITON TRANSPORT AND DYNAMICS IN ORGANIC MATERIALS |
| Discussion Leader: Martin Abkowitz, University of Rochester |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Daniel Moses, University of California at Santa Barbara
"Photophysics of Semiconducting Polymers" |
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Paul Parris, University of Missouri-Rolla
"Polaronic Theories of Charge Transport in Organic Solids" |
| 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break / Photo |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Susanne Heun, Covion Organic Semiconductors
"New Developments in Materials for Organic Light Emitting Devices for Full Color Displays" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Frank Spano, Temple University
"Modeling the Photophysical Properties of Oligo-Phenylene Vinylene and Oligo-Thiophene Aggregates: The Influence of Band Excitons and Defect States" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| EVENING | ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY AND NONLINEAR PHENOMENA |
| Discussion Leader: Christopher Bardeen, University of Illinois |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Mike Wasielewski, Northwestern University
"Excitation and Electron Transport in Self-Assembled Donor-Acceptor Complex" |
| 8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Takayoshi Kobayashi, University of Tokyo
"Sub-5 fs Spectroscopy of Several Molecular Systems" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:45 pm | Seth Marder (University of Arizona)
"Electronic and Optical Properties of Electron Deficient Conjugated Organic Compounds" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| MORNING | BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: PHOTOSYNTHETIC SYSTEMS AND DNA |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Thijs Aartsma, Leiden University
"Electronic Structures of Light Harvesting II and Other Complexes of the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rps. Acidophila: A Single-Complex Study" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Joerg Wrachtrup, University of Stuttgart
"Observation of Charge and Energy Transfer in Single Photosynthetic Complexes" |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Dieter Braun, Rockefeller University
"Sensing of DNA with Molecular Beacons" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University
"Dip-Pen Nanolithography and Combinational Nanotechnology" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | POSTER SESSION (odd numbers) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| EVENING | NANOSYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTRONICS |
| Discussion Leader: Mark Ratner, Northwestern University |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Hongkun Park, Harvard University
"Transport and Scanned Probe Investigation of Chemical Nanostructures" |
| 8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Harald Kauffmann, University of Vienna
"Electronic Coherence and Decoherence in Poly(-Phenylene Vinylene), PPV: Site-Polarization Beating and Homogeneous Dephasing by fs-Luminescence Interferometry" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| MORNING | ORGANIC METALS, MAGNETS, CONDUCTORS, AND TRANSISTORS |
| Discussion Leader: Arthur Epstein, Ohio
State University |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Arthur Epstein, Ohio State University
"Photoinduced Magnetism: Using Light to Control Magnetism" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | David Yaron, Carnegie Mellon University
"Quantum Chemical Models of the Photophysics of Organic Semiconductors: Effective Particles and Energy Landscapes" |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Ananth Dodabalapur, Bell Labs/University of Texas at Austin
"Organic Transistors" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Hayao Kobayashi, Institute for Molecular Science
"Development and Electronic Properties of Magnetic Molecular Superconductors" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | POSTER SESSION (even numbers) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| EVENING | NEW MATERIALS AND ORGANIC CONDUCTORS |
| Discussion Leader: Shaul Mukamel, University of Rochester |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Stacey Bent, Stanford University
"Integrating Organic Materials with Silicon and Germanium" |
| 8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Robert Haddon, University of California at Riverside
"Phenalenyl-Based Neutral Radical Molecular Conductors" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| MORNING | LIGHT-HARVESTING, ENERGY TRANSFER AND NUCLEAR DYNAMICS IN MULTICHROMOPHORIC SYSTEMS |
| Discussion Leader: Joseph Klafter, Tel-Aviv University |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Paul Barbara, University of Texas at Austin
"The Role of Molecular Structure in Charge and Energy Migration in Nanoscale Organic Materials" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Theodore Goodson III, Wayne State University
"Optical Excitations in Organic Dendrimers and Dendrimer Metal Nanocomposites" |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Jonathan Lindsey, North Carolina State University
"Synthetic Light-Harvesting Arrays" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Robert Dickson, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Nanoscale Molecular Optoelectronics Based on Individual Ag Nanoclusters" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| EVENING | APPLICATIONS OF NONLINEAR OPTICAL EFFECTS |
| Discussion Leader: Vladimir Chernyak, Corning, Inc., N.Y. |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Susan Ermer, Lockheed Martin
"Polymer Electro-Optic Modulations: Balancing Sensitivity and Stability" |
| 8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Highlights of Poster Sessions |
