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Key Bridge Marriott Hotel , 1401 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA 22209
AGENDA Day 1 – Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Time
Title of Project
Speaker
7:00-8:25
Registration
8:25-8:30
Opening Remarks
Michael Berman, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
8:30-9:05
Cluster Dynamics: Laying the Foundation for Tailoring the Design of Cluster Assembled Nanoscale Materials
Will Castleman, Penn State University
9:05-9:40
Model Catalysts and Nanoparticles for Propulsion Applications
Scott Anderson, University of Utah
9:40-10:15
Neutral Cluster Heterogeneous Catalysis: New Systems, Supported Species, Mechanisms
Elliott Bernstein, Colorado State University
10:15-10:45
BREAK
10:45-11:20
Ultrafast High Harmonic, Soft X-Ray Laser Probing of Molecular Dynamics
Stephen Leone, University of California - Berkeley
11:20-11:55
Size Matters: Photophysical Properties of Nanoclusters
Ruth Pachter, AFRL
11:55-12:30
Computationally Guided Materials Design via Coarse-Graining
Greg Voth, University of Chicago
12:30-1:55
LUNCH
2:00-2:35
Using Vibrations to Probe and Control Photoisomerization in Liquids
Fleming Crim, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2:35-3:10
Nanoscale Dynamics and Spectroscopy in Extreme Environments
Kenneth Knappenberger, Florida State University
3:10-3:45
Nano-Scale Energetic Films by Superfluid Helium Droplet Assembly
C. Michael Lindsay, AFRL
3:45-4:15
4:15-5:00
Electrochemistry Discussion
5:00-7:00
ADJOURN FOR DINNER (NOT PROVIDED)
7:00-9:00
POSTER SESSION
Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, 1401 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA 22209
AGENDA Day 2 – Wednesday, May 23, 2012
7:30-8:30
Investigating Catalytic Processes using Mass Spectrometry
Richard Zare, Stanford University
Photoinduced Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions: Electron-Proton Nonadiabaticity and Ultrafast Dynamics
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Pennsylvania State University
How Changing the Number of Electrons Opens the Door to Routine, Multi-Reference Coupled-Cluster Applications
Rodney Bartlett,
University of Florida
Charge & Field Effects in Clusters: Nanocatalysis, Water Nanodrops, Electrocrystalliation and Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in DNA
Uzi Landman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Novel Catalytic Mechanisms for the Chemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Energy-Dense Liquids (MURI)
Emily Carter, Princeton University
Ultrafast and Diffusion-Limited Charge Extraction from PbS Quantum Dots Gated by the Native Ligand Shell
Emily Weiss, Northwestern University
12:30-2:00
Thermodynamics of Isolated Bi-Atomic Clusters
Garth Wilks, AFRL
Efficient Methods for Exploring Potential Energy Surfaces of Chemical Reactions and Discovery of Excited Roaming Pathways for NO3 Photodissociation
and
Chirality Control in the Growth on Carbon Nanotubes
Keiji Morokuma, Emory University
Structure-Property Relationships in Nanostructured Electrodes for Hybrid Photovoltaics and Batteries
Michael Durstock, AFRL
Program Status Update
5:00
ADJOURN FOR THE DAY
AGENDA Day 3 – Thursday, May 24, 2012
Extremes in Oxidizing Power, Acidity and Basicity
Josef Michl, University of Colorado
Novel Catalytic Synthetic Methods for Main Group Materials and Reagents for Organic Synthesis
John Arnold, University of California - Berkeley
Polynitrogen and High-Nitrogen Chemistry
Karl Christe, University of Southern California
Theoretical Studies of Gas-Surface and Gas-Phase Dynamical Processes
George Schatz, Northwestern University
Spectroscopy of Gas-Phase Ionic Liquids
Jamie Stearns, AFRL
Size and Composition Optimized Nanocatalysts for Propulsion Applications
Lisa Pfefferle, Yale University
CLOSING REMARKS/ADJORN/LUNCH
2:00-4:00
OPTIONAL OPEN DISCUSSIONS
New Research Directions
Hot Topics
New Processes
4:00
OPTIONAL DISCUSSIONS ADJOURNED