Fondation Francqui-Stichting
Fondation d’Utilité Publique -  Stichting van Openbaar Nut



Conjugated Polymers, Oligomers, and Dendrimers:

From Polyacetylene to DNA

(Fondation Universitaire, October 21-23, 1998)

Programme

Wednesday, October 21

08h30-09h00 : Welcome address

Baron Jacques Groothaert, President Francqui Foundation
Professor Luc Eyckmans, Executive Director Francqui Foundation
Professor Jean Luc Brédas

09h00-10h00 : Lecture of Professor Alan J. Heeger, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA - Semiconducting and Metallic Polymers: Progress and Opportunities

10h00-10h30 : Coffee break        

10h30-11h30 : Lecture of Professor Robert Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA - Excitons in Conjugated Polymers and Aggregates
11h30-12h30 : Lecture of Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA - Effect of Traces of Ionic Species on the Properties of Polymer Light-Emitting Devices

12h30-14h00 : Lunch

14h00-15h00 : Lecture of Professor Jeffrey S. Moore, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA - Cooperative Conformational Transitions in Aromatic Oligomers: Molecular Design Principles
15h00-16h00 : Lecture of Professor Arthur J. Epstein, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA - Organic-Based Magnets: A New Frontier

16h00-16h30 : Coffee Break

16h30-17h30 : Lecture of Professor J.K. Barton, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA - Charge Transport through the DNA Double Helix
17h30-18h30 : Lecture of Professor Vincenzo Balzani, Universitŕ di Bologna, Italy - Photochemical, Photophysical, and Electrochemical Properties of Appropriately Designed Dendrimers"

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Thursday, October 22

08h30-09h30 : Lecture of Professor Jean-Marie André, Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium - Nonlinear Optical Hyperpolarizabilities : From Oligomers to Polymers. Calculation of Electronic, Correlation and Vibrational contributions
09h30-10h30 : Lecture of Professor S.R. Marder, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA - Design, Synthesis, and Applications of Two-Photon Absorbing Chromophores

10h30-11h00 : Coffee break

11h00-12h00 : Lecture of Professor André Persoons, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium - Symmetries in Second-order Nonlinear Optics
12h00-13h00 : Lecture of Professor Hiroyuki Sasabe, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako, Japan - Conjugated Molecular Systems for Nonlinear Optics: Conjugation Length and Dimensionality

13h00-14h30 : Lunch

14h30-15h30 : Lecture of Professor Klaus Müllen, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz, Germany - p-Conjugation in 1-, 2- and 3-Dimensional Systems

15h30-16h30 : Lecture of Professor Frans De Schryver, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium - Space Resolved Photochemistry from Ensembles to Single Molecules

16h30-17h00 : Coffee break

17h00-18h00 : Lecture of Professor Moungi Bawendi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA - Semiconductor Nanocrystallites: Artificial Atoms, Novel Chromophores, and Building Blocks for Quantum Dot Heterostructures

18h00-19h00 : Lecture of Professor Jürgen P. Rabe, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany - Self-Assembly at Interfaces as a Prerequisite to Contact Conjugated Molecules in Nanogaps

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Friday, October 23

08h30-09h30 : Lecture of Professor Sir Richard Friend, FRS, FREng, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom - Opto-Electronic Properties of Conjugated Polymer Semiconductor Devices
09h30-10h30 : Lecture of Professor William R. Salaneck, Linköping University, Sweden - The Electronic Structure of Conjugated Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces

10h30-11h00 : Coffee break

11h00-12h00 : Lecture of Professor Allen J. Bard, University of Texas, Austin, USA - Optoelectronic Processes in Organic Single Crystal Thin Films
12h00-13h00 : Lecture of Professor Carlo Taliani, Instituto di Spettroscopia Molecolare, CNR, Bologna, Italy - Electronic Excited States in Model Conjugated Solids: Excitons and Aggregates

13h00-14h30 : Lunch

14h30-15h30 : Lecture of Professor E.W. Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - Reversible Supramolecular Polymers Based on Multiple Hydrogen Bonding

15h30-16h00 : Final address of Viscount Etienne Davignon, President, Société Générale de Belgique, Former Vice-President, European Commission - Is the European International Research Program adequate ?

16h00-16h30 : Concluding remarks

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