Program

Sunday, August 28

Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Ave., Evanston, IL 60201

	TOPIC: Tutorial Lectures
9am	Tutorial Opening Remarks Malcolm Forbes
9:15am	Basic Principles of Steady State EPR spectroscopy/Time-Resolved EPR and CIDEP Malcolm Forbes
10:15am	Coffee Break \| Hilton Garden Lobby
10:45am	Pulsed EPR Techniques and Applications in Materials Science and Biochemistry Alex and Tatiana Smirnov
11:45am	Lunch \| Lunch at leisure nearby
1pm	How to use EasySpin (with examples) Stefan Stoll co-presented by Claudia Tait and Matt Krzyaniak
2pm	EPR Capabilities at the National High Field Magnet Laboratory Hans van Tol
3pm	Wrap-up and Additional Questions Malcolm Forbes
4:30pm	Registration Opens Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Ave., Evanston, IL 60201
6-7:30pm	Welcome Mixer Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Ave., Evanston, IL 60201

Monday, August 29

Pancoe Auditorium, 2200 Campus Dr., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208


	TOPIC: Multispin Systems \| Session Chair: Oleg Puleuktov
8:40am	Welcome & Announcements Michael R. Wasielewski
8:50am	pi-Topology, Ultrafast Excited-State Dynamics, and FET performance of Remarkably Photochemically Stabilized Pentacene Derivatives with Radical Substituents Yoshio Teki
9:20am	Light-induced Pulsed Dipolar EPR Spectroscopy for distance and orientation analysis Marilena DiValentin
9:50am	Tuning the Optical and Magnetic Properties of Photogenerated Three-Spin Systems Sabine Richert
10:40am	Coffee Break
	TOPIC: Spins in Biology I \| Session Chair: Sabine Richert
11am	New Light-induced Pulsed ESR Dipolar Spectroscopy Methodologies for the Elucidation of Molecular Conformation Arnau Bertran
11:20am	Quantum Sensing of Light-Induced Electron Transfer in Natural Photosynthesis Oleg Poluektov
11:50am	Completing the Picture: A 13C-Hyperfine Mapping of Flavin Semiquinone Radicals by Photo-CIDNP NMR Stefan Weber
12:10pm	Triplet Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Bio-relevant Molecules Nobuhiro Yanai
12:40pm	Grab & Go Lunch, Pancoe Plaza, 2200 Campus Dr., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
	TOPIC: Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) \| Session Chair: Dave Waldeck
1:50pm	Photo-CIDNP for High Throughput Drug Screening Roland Riek
2:10pm	Optimal Illumination for Optical Overhauser DNP Chris Wedge
2:30pm	Recent Progress in Photo-CIDNP MAS NMR Jorg Matysik
2:50pm	Dynamic Nuclear Polarization using Sensitizer Radicals Songi Han
3:30pm	Coffee Break
	TOPIC: Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) \| Session Chair: Jorg Matysik
3:50pm	Chirality Induced Spin Effects in Molecular Electron Transport Tom Fay
4:10pm	The Role of the Electron’s Spin in Closed Shell Chiral Systems Ron Naaman
4:50pm	Investigations into Chirality and Spin-Selective Redox Chemistry David Waldeck
5:30pm	Break and Dinner on your own
8pm	Poster Session AHilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Ave, Evanston, IL 60201

Tuesday, August 30

Pancoe Auditorium, 2200 Campus Dr., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208


	TOPIC: Magnetic Field Effects I \| Session Chair: Raanan Carmieli
9am	Fluorescence Microscopy of Cyclic Radical Pair Based Photochemical Reactions Jonathan Woodward
9:20am	Spin-Selective Reactions in Three-Spin Systems in High-Energy Radiation Experiment Vsevolod I. Borovkov
9:40am	Magnetic Field Effect in Bulk Recombination of Radicals Nikita N. Lukzen
10am	Newly Developed Techniques for Measuring Magnetic Field Effects Kiminori Maeda
10:40am	Coffee Break
	TOPIC: Spins in Materials I \| Session Chair: Kiminori Maeda
11am	Probing Charging and Discharging of Organic Radical Batteries by EPR Jan Behrends
11:20am	EPR Study of Charge Transfer Co-crystals of DBTTF:F4TCNQ Raanan Carmieli
11:40am	Charge-Separated States in Fullerene- and Non-Fullerene-Based Organic Photovoltaics Probed by EPR Claudia Tait
12pm	Conformation Change of Exciton Pair: Spin-Entanglement Transport during Singlet Fission Studies by Time-Resolved EPR Yasuhiro Kobori
12:30pm	Spin-based Control of Excited-state Reactivity James McCusker
12:50pm	Lunch, Louis Room, Norris Center, 1999 Campus Dr., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
	TOPIC: Theory \| Session Chair: Art van der Est
2pm	Spin Dynamics Simulation Package for Fixed-Geometry Charge Separated Systems Ivan Zkukov
2:20pm	Comment on the Spin-Selective Recombination Term in the Kinetic Equation for the Radical Pair Density Matrix Kev M. Salikhov
2:40pm	The Influence of the Photoinduced Reversible Intramolecular Processes on the Electron Spin Polarization Yuri E. Kandrashkin
3pm	Quantum and Semiclassical Methods for Radical Pair Spin Dynamics Yuri E. Kandrashkin
3:30pm	Coffee Break
	TOPIC: Spins in Biology II \| Session Chair: David Manolopoulos
3:50pm	The Role of the Radical Pair Mechanism in Avian Magnetoreception Chris Timmel
4:30pm	Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance Studies of the Chl F Synthase Enzyme Art van der Est
4:50pm	Essential Elements of Photomagnetoreception in Drosophila Alex Jones
5:10pm	13C Solid state Photo-CIDNP on a Flavoprotein Embedded in a Glassy Sugar Matrix Patrick Kurle
5:30pm	Break and Dinner on your own
8pm	Poster Session BHilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Ave, Evanston, IL 60201

Wednesday, August 31

Pancoe Auditorium, 2200 Campus Dr., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208

	TOPIC: Spins in Materials II \| Session Chair: Sam Bayliss
9am	Carrier and Spin Dynamics in Organic Photovoltaic Thin Films Studied by Simultaneous Optical and Electrical Detection Tomoaki Miura
9:30am	Short-Living Charge-Transfer State Photovoltaic Composite (Poly-3-hexylthiophene/ Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes) Detected by Out-of-Phase Slectron Spin Echo Leonid Kulik
10am	Spin-Spin Interactions and Their Impact on Organic Light-Emitting Devices Vladimir Dyakonov
10:20am	Singlet, Doublet and Triplet Spin Control in Organic Semiconductors Emrys Evans
10:40am	Coffee Break
	TOPIC: Quantum Information Science I \| Session Chair: Emrys Evans
11am	Molecular Spin Qudits: A Promising Ingredient for Quantum Technologies Stefano Carretta
11:20am	Making Supramolecular Assemblies That Could Be Used in Quantum Information Processing Richard Winpenny
11:40am	Diamond Based Microwave Quantum Amplifier Aharon Blank
12pm	Generating and Enhancing Spin-Light Interfaces in Molecular Qubits Sam Bayliss
12:20pm	Lunch, Louis Room, Norris Center, 1999 Campus Dr., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
	TOPIC: International EPR/ESR Society Lecture
1:30pm	Understanding Electron Spin Decoherence Stefan Stoll
2:10pm	International EPR/ESR Society Annual General Meeting
3:15pm	Cultural Program / Architectural Boat Tour of Chicago
8pm	Conference Banquet, The Alcove, 1625 Maple Ave, Evanston, IL 60201

Thursday, September 1

Pancoe Auditorium, 2200 Campus Dr., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208

	TOPIC: Spins in Materials III \| Session Chair: Tomoyasu Mani
9am	Pumping and Pushing Around Electron Spins in Molecular Dyads and Triads Christoph Lambert
9:20am	High-Multiplicity States in Luminescent Organic Radicals Sebastian Gorgon
9:40am	Room Temperature Radical-Pair Spin Relaxation Dynamics at Low Magnetic Fields Studied by Spin-Dependent Charge Carrier Recombination Currents in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Christoph Boehme
10am	Structured (Non-Newtonian) Fluids Studied at the Molecular Level Using Steady–State and Time–Resolved EPR Methods Malcolm Forbes
10:20am	Porphyrin-Based Triad with Exceptionally High MFE on Phosphorescence Sergey Vinogradov
10:40am	Coffee Break
	TOPIC: Magnetic Field Effects II \| Session Chair: Malcolm Forbes
11am	Anisotropic Magnetic-Field Effects in OLEDs at Geomagnetic Field Strengths – A Model for Avian Magnetoreception? Tobias Grünbaum
11:30am	Weak-Field Magnetosensitivity Cursed and Blessed by the Electron-Electron Dipolar Coupling Daniel Kattnig
11:50am	MolSpin –Introducing a Versatile Softwarepackage for Spin Chemistry Luca Gerhards
12:10pm	Magnetic Control of Molecular Emission with Spin Qubit Pairs as the Basis of Quantum Sensing Tomoyasu Mani
12:30pm	Lunch, Louis Room, Norris Center, 1999 Campus Dr., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
	TOPIC: Quantum Information Science II Session Chair: Joseph Zadrozny
1:40pm	Chemical Synthesis for the Creation of Atomically Precise Qubits Danna Freedman
2:20pm	Paving the Way for Large-Scale Quantum Information Processing with more than 10 000 Multiqubit Entangled Nuclear Spin States in Hyperpolarized Molecular Solids Gerd Kothe
2:50pm	Magnetic Exchange Interactions in Both Ground- and Excited States: Evaluation of Electronic Coupling Parameters and Photoinduced Electron Spin Polarization David Shultz
3:20pm	Electronic Structure Contributions to Photoinduced Ground State Spin Polarization in Radical Elaborated Donor-Acceptor Molecules Marty Kirk
3:50pm	Coffee Break
	TOPIC: Quantum Information Science III \| Session Chair: David Schultz
4:10pm	Interaction of a Photogenerated Spin Qubit Pair with a Stable Radical in DNA Hairpins Emmaline Lorenzo
4:30pm	Molecular Lanthanide Complexes for Quantum Technologies Stergios Piligkos
4:50pm	Rare-Earth Magnetic Control of Photolysis Reactions Joseph Zadrozny
5:10pm	Closing of Conference