PROGRAMME HRSMC LUSTRUM SYMPOSIUM 2014
THURSDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 2014
08:30
Coffee/tea & registration
08:55
Opening by Prof. dr. Wybren Jan Buma, Scientific Director HRSMC,
and Prof. dr. Dymph van den Boom, Rector Magnificus UVA
09:15
Prof. dr. Jan Reedijk: The history of the HRSMC
Session 1: HRSMC theme 1: Synthesis, Characterization, Reactivity,
Properties of Molecules
Chair: Prof. dr. Henk Hiemstra (UvA)
09:30
Prof. dr. E.M. Carreira (ETH Zürich)
Recent Advances in Asymmetric Catalysis
10:15
Coffee/tea
10:45
PhD lecture: Julien Daubignard (UvA)
Substrate Orientation via Hydrogen Bonds to control the selectivity in the Rhodium Catalyzed Hydrogenation
11:05
PhD lecture: Bart Limburg (UL)
Enhanced photoinduced electron transfer at the surface of liposomes
Session 2: HRSMC theme 2: Photochemistry and (Laser) Spectroscopy
Chair: Prof. dr. Michel Orrit (UL)
11:25
Prof. dr. W.E. Moerner (Stanford University)
Single Molecules as Nanoscale Light Sources for Super-Resolution Microscopy and for
Sensing Dynamics of Individual Biomolecules
12:10
PhD lecture: Gleb Fedoseev (UL)
Atom Addition Reactions in Interstellar Ices: new pathways towards molecular complexity
in space
12:30
Lunch & Postersession 1
PhD lecture: Miriam Moester (VU)
13:30
Biomedical Imaging with Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy
Session 3: HRSMC theme 3: Theoretical Chemistry
Chair: Prof. dr. Matthias Bickelhaupt (VU)
13:50
Prof. dr. R. Hoffmann (Cornell University) - Sponsored by Mercachem
The chemical imagination at work in very tight places
14:35
PhD lecture: Ariane Torres Knoop (UvA)
Separating Xylene Isomers by Commensurate Stacking of p-Xylene within Channels of
MAF-X8
14:55
Coffee/tea & Postersession 2
Session 4: Prof. dr. A. Warshel and Dick Stufkens Prize
Chair: Prof. dr. Wybren Jan Buma (UvA)
16:00
Prof. dr. A. Warshel (USC)
Multiscale Modeling of the Function of Biological Systems
16:45
Introduction winner of the Dick Stufkens Prize
16.50
Lecture winner Dick Stufkens Prize: TjØstil Vlaar (VU)
Efficient Access to Diverse Privileged Scaffolds by Palladium-Catalyzed
Imidoylative Cross-Coupling Reactions
Closure
17:20
17:30
18:15
Closure by Prof. dr. ir. Karen Maex, Dean Faculty of Science, UvA
Reception
Departure for Staff dinner
FRIDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2014
08:45
Coffee/tea & registration
Session 5: HRSMC theme 1/2
Chair: Prof. dr. Kees Elsevier (UvA)
09:00
Staff lecture, theme 1: Dr. J. van Maarseveen
C-terminal peptide activation: learning lessons from Nature
09:30
PhD lecture, theme 1: Leon van der Boom (VU)
Configurationally Stable Pentaorganosilicates
09:50
Staff lecture, theme 2: Dr. L.B.F. Juurlink (UL)
HxOy at Pt surfaces
10:20
Coffee/tea & Poster Prize Award
Session 6: HRSMC theme 2/3
Chair: Prof. dr. Marc Koper (UL)
11:15
PhD lecture, theme 2: Tatu Kumpulainen (UvA)
Shuttling in Photoswitchable Hydrogen-Bonded Rotaxanes:
The Effect of Thread and End Station
11:35
Staff lecture, theme 3: Dr. C. Fonseca Guerra (VU)
Resonance-Assisted Hydrogen and Halogen Bonds in Guanina Quadruplexes
12:05
PhD lecture, theme 3: Brijith Thomas (UL)
Expanding the NMR Palette: Insights on Artificial Charge Separators
Closure & Lunch
12:25
13:45
Annual Staff meeting &
Departure for social activity of PhDs/Postdocs