| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Registration |
| 8:30 - 8:45 | Alan Heeger, UCSB Welcoming Remarks |
| 8:45 - 9:10 | Andreas Hirsch, University of Erlangen Functionalization of Synthetic Carbon Allotropes |
| 9:10 - 9:35 | Jean-Luc Bredas, Georgia Institute of Technology Electronic Structure of Pi-Conjugated Materials: From Conducting Polymers to Organic Semiconductor Crystals |
| 9:35 - 10:00 | Kendall Houk, UCLA Functionalization of Carbon Materials by 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Break |
| 10:20 - 10:45 | Tim Swager, MIT Following Fred's Footsteps: Adventures in the Design of Conjugated Polymers |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | Robin Hicks, University of Victoria Indigo: new tricks for a very, very, very, old dog |
| 11:10 - 11:35 | Dmitrii Perepichka, McGill University Thiophene-based materials. Teaching an Old Dog the New Tricks |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Maurizio Prato, University of Trieste Carbon Nanotubes in Materials Science and Nanomedicine |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Patrick Batail, University of Angers Balancing chemical activity and electrostatics in the molecular solid state |
| 12:25 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 1:55 | Serdar Sarciftci, Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells (LIOS) Organic Electronic Materials: Quo Vadis? |
| 1:55 - 2:20 | Yang Yang, UCLA High performance polymer solar cell based on PCBM as the acceptor |
| 2:20 - 2:45 | Kees Hummelen, University of Groningen The Story of PCBM and about Symmetry in OPV |
| 2:45 - 3:10 | Anthony Cheetham, University of Cambridge Recent Advances in Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs) |
| 3:10 - 3:35 | Rene Janssen, Eindhoven University of Technology Designing materials and tandem architectures for polymer solar cells |
| 3:35 - 3:55 | Break |
| 3:55 - 4:20 | Jaume Veciana, Institute Materials Science, Barcelona Switchable and Bistable Self-Assembled Monolayers of Electroactive Organic Radicals. A Journey to Molecular Memories |
| 4:20 - 4:45 | Miguel Garcia-Garibay, UCLA Amplification with a Gain by Quantum-Chain Reactions in Crystalline Solids |
| 4:45 - 5:10 | Richard Kaner, UCLA Conducting Polymer Nanofibers: Synthesis and Applications |
| 5:10 - 5:35 | Robert Haddon, UC Riverside Advances in Graphene Chemistry |
| 5:35 - 6:00 | Quichun Zhang, Nanyang Technological University Novel Heterocyclic Compounds for n-type FET |
| 6:00 | Adjourn |
| 6:15 | Buses leave to Banquet |
| 6:30 - 9:00 | Banquet |
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 8:30 - 8:45 | Alan Heeger, UCSB Welcoming Remarks |
| 8:35 - 9:00 | Toshiyasu Suzuki, National Institutes of Natural Sciences |
| 9:00 - 9:25 | Dirk Guldi, University of Erlangen Charge Transfer in Multifunctional Molecular Materials |
| 9:25 - 9:50 | James Moore, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Soluble PolyAramide Analogs: Intersections on the Research Highway |
| 9:50 - 10:15 | Heather Maynard, UCLA Surface Patterns of Peptides, Proteins and Neurotransmitters for Diagnostics, Enzymes Cascades, and Cell Adhesion |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | Break |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | Michael Bendikov, Weizmann Institute Long Oligofurans - Synthesis, Reactivity and Devices |
| 11:00 - 11:25 | Ryan Chiechi, University of Groningen Tools For Contacting Molecules |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | Abhimanyu Patil, ExxonMobil Polymers for Petrochemical Industry |
| 11:50 - | Closing Remarks |
| Noon | Adjourn |
| 12:15 | Lunch |