Pre-registration: 21 July 2013 (Sunday) 04:00 pm - 08:00 pm Pre-registration at Seminar Room 1, Level 2, Nanyang Executive Centre Day 1 : 22 July 2013 (Monday) 08:00 am - 08:50 am Registration 09:00 am Welcome address by Kok Khoo PHUA (Director, IAS) 09:05 am Opening address by Bertil ANDERSSON (President, NTU) Morning Session Perspectives in Energy Conversion Chair: Subodh Gautam MHAISALKAR (ERIAN, NTU) 09:15 am - 10:00 am Nathan LEWIS (CALTECH) Sunlight-driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-supported Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting 10:00 am - 10:45 am Michael GRAETZEL (Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Dynamics of heterogeneous electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic solar energy conversion systems 10:45 am - 11:15 am Group Photo & Coffee Break Chair: Wolfgang KNOLL (AIT, Vienna) 11:15 am - 12:00 pm Mark RATNER (Northwestern University) Marcus Theory in Molecular Junction Transport 12:15 pm - 01:00 pm Louis BRUS(Columbia University) Carbon Nanoscience and Electronic Structure 01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch Break 1
Day 1 : 22 July 2013 (Monday) Afternoon Session New Developments in Biological Physical Chemistry at the Molecular Level Chair: Sheng Huang LIN (Academia Sinica Taiwan) 02:00 pm - 02:45 pm Gregory SCHOLES (University of Toronto) Ultrafast Electronic Energy Transfer in Light Harvesting Systems 02:45 pm - 03:30 pm Shaul MUKAMEL (University of California Irvine) Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy of Excitons in Biological Complexes; from NMR to X rays 03:30 pm - 04:00 pm Coffee Break Chair: Anders HAGFELDT (Uppsala University) 04:00 pm - 04:45 pm Harry GRAY (CALTECH) Electron Flow through Metalloproteins 04:45 pm - 05:30 pm Dongping ZHONG (Ohio State University, Columbus) Electron Transfer in DNA Repair 06:30 pm Depart to President s Lodge for Dinner (By Invitation Only) Assemble at NEC Guest Wing Lobby 09:00 pm Return to NEC Guest Wing Lobby **Two-way transportation to President s Lodge will be provided. Please assemble at the NEC Guest Wing Lobby (Level 1) at 6.20pm. The bus will depart at 6.30pm sharp. 2
Day 2 : 23 July 2013 (Tuesday) Morning Session New Developments in Biological Physical Chemistry at the Molecular Level Chair: Daniela RHODES (SBS & Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU) 09:00 am - 09:45 am Peter DERVAN (CALTECH) Py-Im Polyamides from DNA Recognition to In Vivo Experiments 09:45 am - 10:30 am Anh Tuan PHAN (Nanyang Technological University) Structure and Recognition of DNA and RNA Quadruplexes 10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break Chair: Qihua XIONG (SPMS, NTU) 11:00 am - 11:45 am Jacqueline BARTON (CALTECH) DNA-Mediated Signaling 11:45 am - 12:30 pm Long CAI (CALTECH) Single Cell Systems by Super-Resolution Microscopy 12:30 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch Break Afternoon Session New Developments in Biological Physical Chemistry at the Molecular Level Chair: Dieter OHL (SPMS, NTU) 02:00 pm - 02:45 pm Alexei STUCHEBRUKHOV (University of California Davis) Redox Driven Proton Pumps and Biological Energy Transduction 02:45 pm - 03:30 pm Yi Qin GAO (Peking University) A Simple Theory for the Hofmeister Series 03:30 pm - 04:00 pm Coffee Break 3
Day 2 : 23 July 2013 (Tuesday) Chair: Gerhard GRUBER (SBS, NTU) 04:00 pm - 04:45 pm David CHANDLER (University of California Berkeley) Water at Hard and Soft Interfaces 04:45 pm - 05:30 pm Wolfgang Junge (University of Osnabrueck) Proton-Driven, Rotary ATPsynthase 07:00 pm 09:30 pm Dinner Banquet at Tanglin Club (By Invitation Only) Stevens Road, Singapore 257814 **Two-way transportation to Tanglin Club will be provided. Please assemble at the NEC Guest Wing Lobby (Level 1) at 6.00 pm. The bus will depart at 6.10pm sharp. **Dress code at Tanglin Club: Smart Casual. Please note that jeans, shirts without collars, singlet, shorts slippers and sandals are not allowed in the club premises. 4
Day 3 : 24 July 2013 (Wednesday) Morning Session Recent Developments in Theory Chair: Haibin SU (MSE, NTU) 09:00 am - 09:45 am Arieh WARSHEL (University of Southern California) Using Coarse-Grained and Multiscale Models in Realistic Elucidations of Vectorial Processes Motors and other Complex Biological Systems 09:45 am - 10:30 am Thomas MILLER (CALTECH) Quantum Dynamics from Classical Trajectories: New Approaches to Simulating Biological and Molecular Catalyst 10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break Chair: Notker ROESCH (IHPC, A*STAR & Technical University of Munich) 11:00 am - 11:45 am William MILLER (University of California Berkeley) Using Semiclassical Theory to Add Quantum Effects to Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Complex Molecular Systems 11:45 am - 12:30 pm Yuan Tseh Lee (Academia Sinica Taiwan) Elementary Processes Involved in Matrix Assisted Laser Dasorption Ionization of Biological molecules 12:30 pm - 01:30 pm Lunch Break 02:00 pm to 09:00 pm Half Day City Tour Please assemble at the NEC Guest Wing Lobby (Level 1) at 1.50pm for the city tour. The bus will depart at 2.00pm sharp. 5