9:00 Registration
Opening
Chair: H. Arakawa (NIMC, Japan)
10:00 "Opening Address" M. Kubota (NIMC, Japan)
10:10 "Introduction of COE Project at NIMC" M. Tachiya (NIMC, Japan)
Session 1: Photoreaction Mechanism
Chair: T. Nakanaga (NIMC, Japan)
10:30 "Electron Transfer Reactions Studied through the Transient Effect in Fluorescence Quenching" S. Murata (NIMC, Japan)
11:00 "Electron-Transfer Reactions in Proteins" J. Winkler (CALTEC, USA)
11: 45 Lunch
Chair: S. Murata (NIMC, Japan)
13:00 "Electron Transfer via a Midway Molecule: Sequential or Superexchange, or Unified?" H. Sumi (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan)
13:30 "Dynamical Aspects of Intermolecular Electron Transfer" K. Yoshihara (JAIST, Japan)
14:00 "Recent Advances in Quantum Control of Dynamics" M. Shapiro (Weizmann Inst. Sci., Israel)
14:45 Coffee Break
15:05 Poster Session with Short Oral Previews
Session 2: Light Energy Conversion
Chair: H. Sugihara (NIMC, Japan)
9:00 "Researches in Solar Light Energy Conversion at NIMC" H. Arakawa (NIMC, Japan)
9:30 "Molecular Photovoltaics and Artificial Photosynthesis"
M. Grätzel (Swiss Federal Inst. Tech., Switzerland)
Chair: K. Kasuga (NIMC, Japan)
10:15 "Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting on Some Novel Metal Oxides" K. Domen (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)
10:45 "Photonic Control of Electron Transport in Organic Molecular Switches and Wires" M. R. Wasielewski (Argonne Nat. Lab., USA)
11:30 Lunch
Session 3: Laser-induced Reaction
Chair: Y. Imai (NIMC, Japan)
12:30 "Syntheses of Advanced Materials by Excimer-laser-induced Chemical Processing" A. Yabe (NIMC, Japan)
13:00 "Laser-Induced Surface Instabilities and Ablation of Organic
Polymers" D. Bäuerle (J. Kepler Univ., Austria)
Chair: N. Koshizaki (NIMC, Japan)
13:45 "Laser-induced Expansion/Contraction, Decomposition, and Ablation Dynamics of Polymer Films by Nanosecond Interferometry" H. Masuhara (Osaka Univ., Japan)
14:15 "Photoluminescence from Gas-suspended Nanoparticles Synthesized by Laser Ablation: A Pathway to Optimized Nanomaterilas" D. B. Geohegan (Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., USA)
15:00 Coffee Break
Session 4: Photoreactive Materials
Chair: T. Kawanishi (NIMC, Japan)
15:20 "Photo-induced Structural Changes of Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Azobenzene" M. Matsumoto (NIMC, Japan)
15:50 "Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Photopolymerizable
Self-Assembled Monolayers" R. M. Crooks (Texas A&M Univ., USA)
16:35 "Optical Waveguide and Microscopy Investigations on LC Orientation Processes at Photochromic Surfaces" H. Knobloch (Carl Zeiss, Germany)
18:00 Banquet
Session 5: Photonic Materials
Chair: K. Yase (NIMC, Japan)
9:00 "Fullerene Thin Films as Novel Photoactive Materials" N. Minami (NIMC, Japan)
9:30 "Optically and Electrically Excited Luminescence in Conjugated Polymers" R. H. Friend (Univ. Cambridge, UK)
Chair: H. Matsuda (NIMC, Japan)
10:15 "Light Amplification and Optical Computation in Organic Multi-layered Photo-electronic System" M. Hiramoto (Osaka Univ., Japan)
10:45 "Research on Photonic Devices and Related Technologies at Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI)" N. Keil (HHI, Germany)
11:30 Lunch
Session 6: Photon-beam Analysis
Chair: M. Nomura (IMSS, Japan)
12:30 "Application of Soft X ray from Synchrotron Radiation to Material Sciences" H. Shimada (NIMC, JAPAN)
13:00 "Some Catalysis and Electrochemistry Applications at ESRF Using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy on the Frech Collaborative Research Group IF" J.-L. Hazemann (CNRS, France)
Chair: H. Shimada (NIMC, Japan)
13:45 "X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study of the Semi-conductor to Metal Transition in Fluid Selenium " Y. Soldo (CNRS, France)
14:30 "Closing Remarks" M. Tachiya (NIMC, Japan)