Schedule – 2023

Saturday – October 7th, 2023

9:15 AM         Arrival, poster set-up and coffee

9:50 AM         Welcoming remarks

Talks – Session 1               Chair: Jay Foley (University of North Carolina Charlotte)

10:00 AM      Lea Nienhaus (Florida State University) Perovskite-Sensitized Photon Upconversion: Past, Present and Future

10:20 AM      Jier Huang (Boston College) Photophysical and Photocatalytic Properties of Covalent Organic Frameworks  

10:40 AM      Samer Gozem (Georgia State University) Electrostatic Tuning Maps and Average Protein Configurations: Tools to Aid in Studying Flavoproteins

11:00 AM      Poster presentations – 75 minutes for posters

12:15 PM       Lunch – Provided on site for attendees

Talks – Session 2               Chair:

1:00 PM         Michael Walter (University of North Carolina Charlotte) Photochemical and Sensing Applications of Organic Conjugated Materials

1:20 PM         Graham Collier (Kennesaw State University) Leveraging Simple Synthesis for Useful Conjugated Materials

1:40 PM         Dugan Hayes (University of Rhode Island) Reusable Molecular Platforms for On-Demand Photochemical Dihydrogen Production

2:00 PM         Poster presentations and coffee – 75 minutes for posters

Talks – Session 3               Chair: Shabnam Hematian (University of North Carolina Greensboro)

3:15 PM         Jillian Dempsey (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) TBD

3:35 PM         Gaël Ung (University of Connecticut) Improving Circularly Polarized Luminescence Metrics from Molecular Lanthanide Complexes using Axially Chiral Ligands

3:55 PM         Graduate Student Talk – TBD

4:05 PM         Graduate Student Talk – TBD

4:15 PM        Graduate Student Talk – TBD

4:25 PM         Closing remarks and poster awards

4:45 PM         Business meeting