Wednesday 1 May 2024
09:30
Registration and refreshments
10:20
Welcome and introductions
Anouk Rijs, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Michael Rowan, Royal Society of Chemistry
Electrochemistry and materials
Session chair: Andrea Russel, University of Southampton, UK and PCCP associate editor
10:30
Controlling Water Oxidation Pathways on Boron Doped Diamond Electrodes Through Control of Surface Chemistry
Julie MacPherson, University of Warwick, UK
11:05
Towards Understanding Catalysis at the Level of Single Particles, Molecules, and Atoms: Seeing is Believing?
Bert Weckhuysen, Utrecht University, Netherlands
11:40
From Energy to Sustainability: Studying Reactions at the Single Particle Scale
Christopher Batchelor-McAuley, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
12:15 Lunch
Theory, computation and simulation
Session chair: Chantal Daniel, Institute of Chemistry, University of Strasbourg, France and PCCP associate editor
13:30
Modeling pump-probe spectroscopies from excited state dynamics
Spiridoula Matsika, Temple University, USA
14:05
Cracking the Code: A Computational Expedition into Neurodegenerative Proteins and Innovative Therapies
Ioana M. Ilie, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
14:40
Paradigm Shifts in Chemical Theory
Matthias Bickelhaupt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
15:15
Refreshments
Biophysical processes and dynamics
Session chair: Anouk Rijs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands and PCCP Chair
15:45
Dynamics of protein phase transitions
Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge, UK
16:20
Single Molecule Manipulation and Imaging of complex DNA-protein interactions
Gijs Wuijte, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
16:55
Flash poster presentations (by invitation of the scientific committee)
Signatures of paracrystallinity in amorphous silicon
Louise A.M. Rosset University of Oxford, UK
Unravelling the dynamics of the aggregation process of the Ac-PHF6-NH2 tau segment
Iuliia Stroganova Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
17:30
Poster session and wine reception
Thursday 2 May 2024
08:30
Refreshments
Chemical physics, lasers, and spectroscopy
Session chair: Keith Gordon University of Otago, New Zealand and PCCP associate editor
09:00
Laser Spectroscopy in the Service of Technology: From Ultrafast Single Particle Nanoplasmonics to Ultrasensitive Health Diagnostics
David Nesbitt, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
09:35
Gas Phase Clusters as Model Systems for Solid “Single Site” Catalysts
Knut Asmis, University of Leipzig, Germany
10:10
Towards a hydrogen molecular ion clock
Max Beyer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
10:45
Refreshments
Machine learning: methods and discovery
Session chair: Alex Brown, University of Alberta, Canada and PCCP Ownership Board Chair
11:15
Generating equilibrium structures for molecules: molecular dynamics, coarse-graining and deep learning
Frank Noe, Microsoft Research AI4Science, Germany
11:50
Data-driven interatomic potentials for materials chemistry
Volker Deringer, University of Oxford, UK
12:25
Lunch
Nanotechnology and nanomaterials
Session chair: Prabal Maiti Indian Institute of Science, India and PCCP associate editor
13:30
Highly processable graphene-based hybrid nanocomposites: unlocking the potential for enhanced photoconversion and sensing applications
Maria Lucia Curri, University of Bari, CNR, Italy
14:05
Optical modification of graphene
Mika Petterson, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
14:40
Poster prize announcement
Closing remarks