Ohio Photochemical Society Meeting
“PHOTONS FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD”
July 10th - July 12th, 2023
Agenda
Ohio Photochemical Society (OoPS) meeting 2023
Monday, July 10th
2:00 - 4:00 PM Registration and Check-in (Outside Eagle and Heron Meeting Rooms, 2nd Floor)
4:00 - 6:00 PM Poster session (PICNICS, Undergraduates, and Graduate Students)
6:00 – 7:00 PM Buffet Dinner (Eagle/Heron Rooms)
Session 1 Chair: Austin Sartori
7:00 - 7:10 PM Opening Remarks Malcolm D. E. Forbes and Jayaraman Sivaguru
Memorial Symposium for Douglas C. Neckers (Founding Director, Center for Photochemical Sciences)
7:10 - 7:30 PM Alex Mejiritski, Spectra Photopolymers, Inc., Remembering Douglas C. Neckers
7:30 - 8:00 PM Lisa Kelly, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Environmentally-Mediated Photochemistry of 4-Amino-1,8-Naphthalene Imides
8:00 - 8:30 PM Dr. Samer Gozem, Georgia State University, Spectroscopy in the Condensed Phase: Connecting Theory and Experiments
8:30 - 9:00 PM Dr. Rony Khnayzer, Lebanese American University, Tuning the properties of Ruthenium(II) Diimine complexes for using photoactivatable chemotherapy
9:00 – 10:00 PM Networking time
Tuesday, July 11th
8:00 – 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast (outside meeting room)
Session 2 Chair: Dipti Garg
9:00 - 9:30 AM James Cassidy, The University of Chicago, Synthesis of Colloidal III-V Nitride Quantum Dots for Light and Photocatalysis Application
9:30 - 10:00 AM Sarah Sobeck, College of Wooster, Impact of Energy Transfer Pairs on the “Pop” and Fading of Daylight Fluorescent Pigment
10:00 - 10:30 AM James McCusker, Michigan State University, Excited-state Dynamics of First-row Metal Complexes in the Marcus Inverted Region, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ligand-Field Theory
10:30 - 11:00 AM Coffee Break
Session 3 Chair: Siddhartha Thennakoon
11:00 - 11:30 AM Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame, Overcoming Challenges in Photocatalysis and Electrolysis. Why Seeing is Not Always Believing
11:30 - 12:00 PM Valentin Vullev, UC-Riverside, Managing Charge Transfer and its Effects on Molecular Photophysics
12:00 - 12:30 PM Corey Stephenson, University of Michigan, Redox Catalysis Strategies for Complex Molecules
12:30 - 1:30 PM Box Lunch and Panel Discussion
Session 4 Chair: Kavyasree Manal
1:30 - 2:00 PM Julie Peterson, UC Santa Barbara and BGSU, Designing Biocompatible Photoactive Dynamic Covalent Systems
2:00 - 2:30 PM Mikhail Zamkov, Bowling Green State University, Quantum Shells: An Emerging Class of 2D Colloidal Semiconductors
2:30 - 3:00 PM Natalia Lebedeva, Syngenta Corporation, When is Light Not Good for Plants?
3:00 - 3:30 PM Vanessa McCaffrey, Michigan State University, Assessing the Broader Learning Outcomes and Participation Patterns of Undergraduate Research at Michigan State University
3:30 - 6:00 PM Networking time
6:00-7:30 PM Dinner
Session 5 Session to honor the late R. Marshall Wilson (founder of OoPS)
Chair: Dedunu Senarathne
7:30 – 7:45 PM Malcolm D. E. Forbes, Bowling Green State University, Remembering R. Marshall Wilson
7:45 - 8:30 PM Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame, Mastering the Art of Scientific Publication (How to make your next paper scientifically effective)
8:30 – 8:45 PM Recognition of Sponsors and Poster Award Presentations
Wednesday, July 12th
8:45 – 10:00 PM Networking time
8:00 – 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast (outside meeting room)
Session 6 Session Chair: Dulanjan Harankahage
9:00 - 9:30 AM Dmitri Talipin, The University of Chicago, Can we revolutionize colloidal synthesis of semiconductor nanostructures using molten inorganic salts?
9:30 -10:00 AM Len MacGillivray, University of Iowa, Building Molecules in Crystals Using Light: Green Chemistry to Sustainable Materials
10:00 -10:30 AM Pravas Deria, Southern Illinois University, Excited state Dynamics in Porous Crystalline Assemblies
10:30 -11:00 AM COFFEE BREAK
Session 7 Session Chair: Lalita Shahu
11:00 -11:30 AM H. Peter Lu, Bowling Green State University, Single-Molecule Spectroscopy and Force Manipulation Studies of Protein Dynamics and Signaling
11:30 -11:45 AM Closing Remarks, Malcolm D. E. Forbes and Sivaguru Jayaraman
Updated: 07/10/2023 08:59AM