Workshop

I-APS

The workshop will take place before the meeting on Monday May 16 and in the morning of May 17.

The program involves:
1) Energy and Electron Transfer in Natural and Artificial Systems;
2) Experimental and Theoretical Methodologies;
3) Novel Materials.
See details below.

Participation at the workshop is free of charge. If you wish to assist, please send a mail to: Ana Moore amoore@asu.edu


May 16

8:30-9:05

Luis Baraldo

Spectroscopy of cyanide bridged polynuclear complexes.

9:05-9:40

Ksenija Glusac

Flavins as natural and artificial electron transfer catalysts.

9:40-10:15

Ernesto Mariño-Ochoa

Towards the synthesis of phthalocyanine sensitizer dyes for efficient hydrogen photoproduction.

10:15-10:50

Gabriela Lagorio

Spectroscopy, photochemistry and chemical imaging of natural photosynthetic systems.

10:50-11:10

Coffee Break

11:10-11:45

Maurício da Silva Batista

Understanding the efficiency and the mechanism of cell death: effect of amphiphilicity of the photosensitizer, type I versus type II reactions inside eukariotic cells, and mechanism of cyt c release.

11:45-12:20

María Eugenia Farías

TBA

12:20-12:55

Andrés Thomas

Electron-transfer processes induced by the triplet states of pterins and lumazines.

12:55-14:40

Lunch

14:40-15:15

Marcia Levitus

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: what we can learn from the measurement of fluctuations in fluorescence intensity.

15:15-15:50

Rodrigo Palacios

Fluorescence microscopy techniques to study charge transfer processes at interfaces.

15:50-16:25

Su Lin

Ultrafast laser spectroscopy: tracking energy and electron flow in photosynthetic reaction center proteins.

16:25-16:45

Coffee Break

16:45-17:20

James McCusker

The application of femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopic methods to study the photophysics of transition metal complexes.

17:25-17:55

Nancy Levinger

Ultrafast energy migration pathways in self-assembled phospholipids interacting with confined water.

17:55-18:30

Alan Aspuru-Guzik

The role of quantum coherence in photosynthetic energy transfer.

18:30-19:05

Sebastián Fernandez-Alberti

Nonadiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics modeling energy transfer in light-harvesting dendrimers.

19:30-

Dinner

May 17

8:30-9:05

Carolina Aliaga-Vidal

Building fluorescent nanoparticles.

9:05-9:40

Mike Hambourger

Towards gas separation via a molecular redox pump.

9:40-10:15

Qyuen Nguyen

Plastic solar cells: current progress and challenge.

10:15-10:50

Gary Moore

Bioinspired approaches to solar fuels.

10:50-11:10

Coffee Break

11:10-12:30

Silvia Braslavsky,
Thomas Moore,
Pedro Armendía
and Teresa Atvars

Round Table

12:30-16:00

Lunch