Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Designing New Classes of Materials
Discussion Leader: Yi Xie (Northwestern University, United States)
3:45 pm - 3:55 pm
Megan O'Shaughnessy (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
"Porous Isoreticular Non-Metal Organic Frameworks"
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 4:10 pm
Jinyoung Seo (Harvard University, United States)
"Manipulating Phase Transitions in Barocaloric Materials"
4:10 pm - 4:15 pm
Discussion
4:15 pm - 4:25 pm
Fiona Wasson (University of Cincinnati, United States)
"Exploring Crystal Lattice Effects on the Photomechanism of Azides for Dimerization in Photodynamics and Topotactic Control"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Measurement of Crystal Properties
Discussion Leader: Ibrahim Tahir (New York University / New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Jacob Holmes (EPFL, Switzerland)
"Quantifying the Chemical Shift Sensitivity of Atomic Sites to their Chemical Environment"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Paul Hager (Stockholm University, Sweden)
"High-Speed Disentangling of Phase Complexity in Polycrystalline MOF Samples, Using Advanced Serial Electron Diffraction Techniques"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Alyson Plaman (Northwestern University, United States)
"Investigating the Synthetic Nuances of Uranyl Metal–Organic Frameworks"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Zoe Soilis (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
"Predictive Incremental Tuning of Metal-Organic Framework Color and Quantum Yield"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Jesus Loya (Reed College, United States)
"Polymorphism Control via Mechanochemistry and Design of Crystalline Sponges for Petrochemical Separation"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Madison Bardot (Northwestern University, United States)
"2D Interlocked Polymerizations in the Solid State"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Data Driven Crystal Engineering
Discussion Leader: Emma Wolpert (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Yizhi Xu (University of Warsaw, Poland)
"Machine Learning Driven Ab Initio Crystal Structure Prediction of Metal-Organic Frameworks"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Peter Spackman (Curtin University, Australia)
"Removing Needles from the Haystack: Automated Crystal Shape Comparison, Optimization and Extraction from Images"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Steven Tendyra (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
"A Convolutional Neural Network for 2D-3D Particle Reconstruction from Synthetic Lithium Nickel Oxide Microscopy Data"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Lucia Gigli (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
"Large-Scale Chemical and Crystal Packing Space Exploration for HOF-Based Porous Materials"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Michaela Loveless (Indiana University, United States)
"Generative Models of Cationic Dyes for Photon Upconversion in Fluorescent Crystals"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Miloslav Torda (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
"Geometry-Informed Programming: From Statistical Manifolds to Hard Packings of van der Waals Models"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Envisioning and Creating a Successful Career in Crystal Engineering
Discussion Leader: Michelle Dao (University of Windsor, Canada)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Envisioning and Creating a Successful Career in Crystal Engineering
James Gordon (Rigaku, United States)
Alfred Lee (Merck & Co., Inc., United States)
Erin Johnson (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Ivana Brekalo (Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes