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
Keynote Session: Fundamentals and Applications for Charge Transfer in the F-Block
Discussion Leader: Alexandra Barth (North Carolina State University, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:25 pm
Eric Schelter (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
"Energy and Electron Transfer at Lanthanide Centers Towards New Applications"
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
Elucidating Fundamental Charge and Energy Transfers
Discussion Leader: Jacob Spies (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Ashley Arcidiacono (University of Chicago, United States)
"Functionalization of Monolayer MoS2 with Modular Multimolecular Architectures"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Andrew Smith (Duke University, United States)
"Are Cable Bacteria the Future of Long Distance Biological Charge Transfer?"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Kai Cui (Princeton University, United States)
"Theory for Proton-Coupled Energy Transfer"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Sean Roget (Argonne National Laboratory, United States)
"Monitoring Charge Transfer in a Cu(I)diimine Bridged Donor-Acceptor Dyad Through the Alkyne Bridge Vibration"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Adrian Mena (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
"Optically Detected Coherent Control of Molecular Spins at Room Temperature"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Samantha Disanayaka Mudiyanselage (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
"Study of Effects on Azulene’s Five-Membered Ring Substitution for Radiative and Non-Radiative Decay Rates"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Applications of Electron and Energy Transfer
Discussion Leader: Max Kudisch (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Dana Westmoreland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Cryogenic-Electron Microscopy Elucidates the PCET Pathway of Ribonucleotide Reductase"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Baldeep Sidhu (University of Manitoba, Canada)
"(Re)Assigning the Long-Lived Photo-Excited State in Fe-N(amido) Coordination Complexes Using X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Vinh Dang (University of Houston, United States)
"Reductive Photoredox Transformations of Carbonyl Derivatives Enabled by Strongly Reducing Photosensitizers"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Sarah Kromer (North Carolina State University, United States)
"Ligand Modification in Platinum(II) Dimers Alters Observed Photophysics Through Enhanced Orbital Overlap"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Kaeden Teindl (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Tuning the Secondary Coordination Sphere to Alter Catalyst Speciation and Reaction Selectivity During Electrochemical CO2 Reduction"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Shirley Chang (University of California, Irvine, United States)
"Microscopic Reversibility is a Critical Consideration when Performing Stern-Volmer Quenching Analysis of Excited-State Proton Transfer of Strong Photoacids"
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: Success as an Underrepresented Chemist
Discussion Leader: Leigh Anna Hunt (Uppsala University, Sweden)
1:30 pm - 2:25 pm
Deborah Mitchell (University of Denver, United States)
"Understanding and Navigating Being an Underrepresented Chemist"
2:25 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes