Conference Description
The Photochemistry GRS provides a unique forum for young doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to present their work, discuss new methods, cutting edge ideas, and pre-published data, as well as to build collaborative relationships with their peers. Experienced mentors and trainee moderators will facilitate active participation in scientific discussion to allow all attendees to be engaged participants rather than spectators.
Light-driven methods provide sustainable alternatives to many of the fundamental chemical processes foundational to building and maintaining modern society and contribute to entirely new technological capabilities. To harness highly photoactive systems in the pursuit of these aims, we must determine how such light-driven transformations proceed and uncover design principles critical for the materials involved. Taking full advantage of photochemistry’s potential additionally demands the use of energies across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from high-energy X-rays to low-energy radio waves. Approaching these challenges through interdisciplinary study is the route towards developing the next generation of light-absorbing materials and controlling their light-matter interactions. This seminar will center on scientific approaches that blend diverse experimental techniques and novel design strategies that result in meaningful insight and discovery within photochemistry. Topics will span a diverse breadth of subfields such as photophysics, organic and inorganic mechanistic photocatalysis, time-resolved and steady-state spectroscopy, quantum information science, next-generation photosensitizer design, interfacial electron transfer dynamics, medicinal or biological photochemistry, and energy conversion and storage.
Application Instructions
The seminar will feature approximately 10 talks and 2 poster sessions. All attendees are expected to actively participate in the GRS, either by giving an oral presentation or presenting a poster. Therefore, all applications must include an abstract.
The seminar chair will select speakers from abstracts submitted by April 20, 2025. Those applicants who are not chosen for talks and those who apply after the deadline to be considered for an oral presentation will be expected to present a poster. In order to participate, you must submit an application by the date indicated in the Application Information section above.
Program Format
Gordon Research Seminars are 2-day meetings which take place on the Saturday and Sunday just prior to the start of the associated GRC. The GRS opens with a 1-hour introductory session on Saturday afternoon, followed by a poster session, dinner and a 2-hour session in the evening. Sunday morning begins with breakfast and is followed by another 2-hour session, a second poster session, and lunch. A final 1-hour session takes place just after lunch, and the associated GRC begins later that evening.
An outline of the program components for this GRS is displayed below. The seminar chair is currently developing their detailed program schedule, which will include the speakers they select from submitted abstracts, in addition to any additional components outlined below. The detailed program will be available by May 27, 2025. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Speaker
Speakers
- To Be Selected from Submitted Abstracts
Discussion Leaders
- To Be Selected from Submitted Abstracts
