Saturday – November 8th, 2025
9:15 AM Arrival, poster set-up and coffee (Duke Energy Hall)
9:50 AM Welcoming remarks – Elena Jakubikova – NC State University (1st Floor Auditorium)
Talks – Session 1 Chair: Jay Foley – UNC Charlotte (1st Floor Auditorium)
10:00 AM Milena Jovanovic – Department of Chemistry – NC State University “Metastable materials with flat bands – photochemical reactions in K2X2 (X = S, Se, Te)”
10:20 AM Pin Lyu – Department of Chemistry – University of North Carolina at Asheville “Turning Semi-Metal into Metallic Plasmonic Nanoparticle Photocatalysts by Alloying Strategy”
10:40 AM Rachel Bangle – Department of Chemistry – North Carolina A&T “Photochemistry in Nanoscale Plasmonic Cavities”
11:00 AM Poster presentations – 75 minutes for posters (Duke Energy Hall)
12:15 PM Lunch – Provided on site for attendees (Duke Energy Hall)
Talks – Session 2 Chair: Milena Jovanovic – NC State University (1st Floor Auditorium)
1:00 PM Raja Ghosh – Department of Chemistry – NC State University “Vibronic Quantum Algorithms for Spectroscopy and Dynamics”
1:20 PM Renato Sampaio – Department of Chemistry – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Mapping Interfacial Energetics at Semiconductor-Electrolyte Interfaces with Cyclic Voltammetry and Surface Photovoltage”
1:40 PM Elisa Pieri – Department of Chemistry – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Untangling Proton-Coupled Photodynamics in Biliverdin through Multiscale Simulation”
2:00 PM Poster presentations and coffee – 75 minutes for posters (Duke Energy Hall)
Talks – Session 3 Chair: Michael G. Walter – UNC Charlotte (1st Floor Auditorium)
3:15 PM Paul Wagenknecht – Department of Chemistry – Furman University “Chasing ruthenium: A titanocene photosensitizer with a microsecond emission lifetime”
3:35 PM Sabre Kais – Electrical and Computer Engineering – NC State University “Simulation of Chemical Reactions on a Quantum Computer”
3:55 PM Pranamita Chakraborti – UNC Charlotte
4:05 PM Azka Arshad – NC State University
4:15 PM Jinwoo Han – UNC Chapel Hill
4:25 PM Closing remarks and poster awards
4:45 PM Business meeting