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Programme | |
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| ***The symposium begins late Wednesday afternoon and finishes late Saturday night*** | ||||||
| ***Programme last updated June 3rd and shouldn't change much now, if at all*** | ||||||
| All lectures will be in Lecture Theatre T250 in the School of Chemistry (Joseph Black Building) | ||||||
| Breaks, lunches and poster sessions will be in the same building | ||||||
| Wednesday June 6th | ||
Session Chair - Dave Leigh (Edinburgh, UK) | ||
15:00 |
Welcome - Dave Leigh (Edinburgh, UK) | |
15:05 |
Makoto Fujita (Tokyo, Japan) | |
Title to be confirmed | ||
15:55 |
Omar Yaghi (UCLA, USA) | |
Reticular chemistry | ||
16:45 |
Tea/Coffee break | |
Session Chair - Stuart Cantrill (Nature Nanotechnology, UK) | ||
17:10 |
Douglas Philp (St Andrews, UK) | |
In through the Out door - Directing synthetic replication networks | ||
17:30 |
Stuart Rowan (Case Western, USA) | |
Supramolecular polymerization: An approach to nanostructured surfaces | ||
17:50 |
Craig Hawker (Santa Barbara, USA) | |
Well-defined polymers: Applications from cardiovascular disease to microelectronics | ||
18:40 |
Poster session 1 with buffet dinner and drinks | |
To present a poster, please email
Amanda Ewing with your name and the tentative poster title. | ||
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| Thursday June 7th | ||
Session Chair - Peter Tasker (Edinburgh, UK) | ||
09:00 |
Takuzo Aida (Tokyo, Japan) | |
Designer graphite: Molecular design and optoelectronic functions | ||
09:50 |
Howard Colquhoun (Reading, UK) | |
Extracting polymer sequence-information with molecular tweezers | ||
10:10 |
David Amabilino (CSIC, Barcelona, Spain) | |
Noncovalent control for bottom-up assembly of functional supramolecular wires | ||
10:30 |
Tea/Coffee break | |
Session Chair - Masumi Asakawa (Tsukuba, Japan) | ||
11:00 |
Steve Langford (Monash, Australia) | |
On the chemistry of naphthalenediimides | ||
11:20 |
Sheng-Hsien Chiu (NTU, Taiwan) | |
'Threading-followed-by-swelling': A new protocol for rotaxane synthesis | ||
11:40 |
Alberto Credi (Bologna, Italy) | |
Photoinduced functions in multicomponent molecular systems | ||
12:30 |
Conference photo, outside the main entrance of the Chemistry Department | |
12:40 |
Lunch | |
Session Chair - Anthony Pease (Former Birmingham/UCLA graduate student) | ||
14:00 |
Miguel Garcia-Garibay (UCLA, USA) | |
Amphidynamic materials and molecular machines - a new frontier in molecular and crystal engineering | ||
14:50 |
Amar Flood (Indiana, USA) | |
Exploiting click triazoles for coordination, stability and structure | ||
15:10 |
Bruce Turnbull (Leeds, UK) | |
Stereochemistry of carbohydrates: A novel sugar in the Mycobacterial cell wall | ||
15:30 |
Yi Liu (Berkeley, USA) | |
Supramolecular action in the molecular foundry | ||
15:50 |
Tea/Coffee break | |
Session Chair - Paula Mendes (Birmingham, UK) | ||
16:20 |
Harry Anderson (Oxford, UK) | |
Porphyrin-based molecular wires | ||
17:10 |
Jon Preece (Birmingham, UK) | |
Nanostructuring surfaces with electrons and light | ||
17:30 |
Jim Heath (Caltech, USA) | |
Systems approach to molecular electronics | ||
18:20 |
Poster session 2 and drinks mixer | |
To present a poster, please email
Amanda Ewing with your name and the tentative poster title. | ||
19:30 |
Speakers' dinner (Edinburgh Castle) | |
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| Friday June 8th | ||
Session Chair - Diane Smith (Angewandte Chemie, Germany) | ||
08:30 |
Karen Wooley (St Louis, USA) | |
Amphiphilic, nanoscopically resolved crosslinked networks: Unusual surface anti-fouling character, sub-surface host behavior, and bulk modulus property | ||
09:20 |
Takashi Kato (Tokyo, Japan) | |
Molecules in order for function: supramolecular liquid-crystalline assemblies | ||
10:10 |
Tea/Coffee break | |
Session Chair - Geoff Beresford (Auckland, New Zealand) | ||
10:30 |
Chris Hunter (Sheffield, UK) | |
Fundamentals of molecular recognition | ||
11:20 |
Chad Mirkin (Northwestern, USA) | |
The antisense nanoparticle | ||
12:20 |
Close | |
Afternoon: Optional visit to Glengoyne, 'Scotland's Most Beautiful Whisky Distillery', located close to Loch Lomond. Packed lunches will be supplied for everyone going. Coaches leave from the School of Chemistry at 12:30, return to hotels and the School of Chemistry at 5.30. | ||
19:30 |
Conference dinner (Playfair Library, Old College) and poster prizes | |
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| Saturday June 9th | ||
Session Chair - N Jayaraman (Bangalore, India) | ||
09:00 |
Neil Branda (Simon Fraser, Canada) | |
Molecular photoswitches and their use in materials science | ||
09:50 |
Al Nelson (IBM Almaden, USA) | |
Nanoparticle-polymer composites via molecular recognition | ||
10:10 |
Geert-Jan Boons (Georgia, USA) | |
Towards a fully synthetic three-component cancer vaccine | ||
11:00 |
Tea/Coffee break | |
Session Chair - Scott Vignon (UCLA, USA) | ||
11:30 |
Jan Jeppesen (SDU, Denmark) | |
Can an optical sensor for TNT related explosives be made? | ||
11:50 |
Tim Swager (MIT, USA) | |
Rotaxanes and electronic polymers | ||
12:40 |
Lunch | |
Session Chair - Jason Belitsky (Ohio, USA) | ||
13:40 |
Alex Star (Pittsburgh, USA) | |
Carbon nanotube transistors: Tools for the study of molecular recognition | ||
14:00 |
Thorri Gunnlaugsson (Dublin, Ireland) | |
Functional lanthanide luminescent self-assemblies | ||
14:20 |
Steve Loeb (Windsor, Canada) | |
Rotaxanes as ligands: From molecules to materials | ||
15:10 |
Tea/Coffee break | |
Session Chair - Giuseppe Gattuso (Messina, Italy) | ||
15:30 |
Franz Kohnke (Messina, Italy) | |
Pyrrole-containing macrocyclic receptors for anions in action | ||
15:50 |
Dirk Guldi (Erlangen, Germany) | |
Nanotubes see the light | ||
16:40 |
Birthday tea | |
Session Chair - Dave Leigh (Edinburgh, UK) | ||
17:00 |
Sir J Fraser Stoddart (UCLA, USA) | |
Walking in the footsteps of Young-ish Giants | ||
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| Sunday June 10th | ||
Departures | ||
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