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: Vibrational Probes for Local Structure
Discussion Leader: Ranadeb Ball (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Casey Londergan (Haverford College, United States)
"Determining Protein Structural Ensembles from Vibrational Probe Lineshapes, Using Distributed Data from a Small Army of Undergraduate Students"
4:20 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
Spectroscopy for Biological Environments
Discussion Leader: Agathe Depraz Depland (Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Ben John (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany)
"Probing Lateral Heterogeneity in Molecular Systems using Phase-Resolved Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation Microscopy"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Jacob Wat (Purdue University, United States)
"Developing a Reverse Isotope Labeling Infrared Spectroscopy Technique to Probe Protein Secondary Structure in Cells"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Li Zhang (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Probing Water Structures at Nano-Scale Interfaces using Vibrational Sum Frequency Scattering"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Sashary Ramos (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, United States)
"Water Bend-libration as a Raman Probe of Biological Hydration: Applications to Amyloid Characterization in cellulo "
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Chemistry Across Interfaces
Discussion Leader: Mirela Encheva (University of Vienna, Austria)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Alexander Fellows (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany)
"Advancing Our Understanding of the Air-Water Interface: Insights from a Vibrational SFG/DFG Study"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Clara-Magdalena Saak (University of Vienna, Austria)
"Cooperativity of Amphiphilic Molecules on Model Aerosol Surfaces"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Monika Chaudhary (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
"Molecular Interactions Between Calcite and Stearic Acid Monolayers: a Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy Study"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Melissa Rey (University of Minnesota, United States)
"Vibrational Dynamics in a Homologous Set of Group IX Metal Carbonyls"
10:50 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
Energy, Catalysis and Reactions
Discussion Leader: Cynthia Pyles (Naval Research Laboratory, United States)
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Pauline Lynch (University of Minnesota, United States)
"Tracking Nuclear Contributions to Exciton Transport Using Spatially-Offset Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy"
1:45 pm - 1:50 pm
Discussion
1:50 pm - 2:05 pm
Tadneem Tabassum (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
"Probing the Gold/Water Interface with Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy"
2:05 pm - 2:10 pm
Discussion
2:10 pm - 2:25 pm
Ryan McDonnell (University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States)
"Coherent Hyper-Raman Spectroscopy of Metal Halide Perovskites"
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