Sunday Afternoon, Sep 6

• Registration 2:00 ~ pm

Sunday Evening, Sep 6

• Dinner 5:30 ~ pm
• Opening Addresses 6:30 - 7:00 pm

Opening Lectures 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Discussion Leader, Peter J. Stang (University of Utah)

• Makoto Fujita (Institute for Molecular Science) 7:00 - 7:45 pm - Self-Assembly of Functional Nanostructures Possessing Transition Metals in Their Backbones
• Jeffrey S. Moore (University of Illinois) 7:45 - 8:30 pm - Folding Nonbiological Oligomers in Solution
• Reception 8:30 - 9:30 pm

Monday Morning, Sep 7

• Breakfast 7 ~ am

Molecular Alignment Control and Functional New Materials 8:30 - 12:00 am
Discussion Leader, Anthony W. Coleman (CNRS)

• Fred Wudl (University of California, Los Angeles) 8:30 - 9:10 am - Environmentally Stable, Cyclic 4np-electron Heterocycles and their Unusual Optical Properties
• Samuel I. Stupp (University of Illinois) 9:10 - 9:50 am - Functional Materials through Supramolecular Design
• Break 9:50 - 10:15
• Toyoki Kunitake (Kyushu University) 10:15 - 10:55 am - Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Organic and Inorganic Ultrathin Films
• Gero Decher (University of Louis Pasteur) 10:55 - 11:35 am - Nanoconstruction of Layered Assemblies: The Interplay of Flexibility, Rigidity, and Topology
• Suresh Valiyaveettil (National Univ. of Singapore) 11:35-12:00 am - Multiphase Self-Assembly: A Unique Way to Understand the Intermolecular Interactions

Monday Afternoon, Sep 7

• Conference Photograph 12:00 ~ pm (Immediately after Morning Session)
• Lunch 12 ~ pm

Workshop on p-Conjugated/Supramolecular Materials (1) 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Discussion Leader, Jun Nishimura (Gunma University)

• Anthony W. Coleman (CNRS) - Calix-Arene Thin Films: Active Materials
• Takatoshi Kinoshita (Nagoya Institute of Technology) - Molecular Membranes of Peptide-Based Amphiphile at Interfaces - Molecular Orientation and Functions
• John Anthony (University of Kentucky) - An Iterative Approach to Soluble Oligoacenes
• Makoto Tadokoro (Osaka City University) - Cation Dependent Superstructures by One-Pot Self-Organization in Hydrogen Bonded Transition Metal Complexes
• Toshimi Shimizu (National Institute of Materials and Chemical Reserch) - Proton-Triggered Self-Assembly of Microtubes
• Bing Gong (University of Toledo) - A Robust Two-Dimensional Hydrogen-Bonded Network: The Sulfamide Moiety as A New Builing Block for the design of Molecular Solid

Monday Evening, Sep 7

• Dinner 6 ~ pm

Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers 7:00 - 9:40 pm
Discussion Leader, Fritz Voegtle (University of Bonn)

• Virgil Percec (Case Western Reserve University) 7:00 - 7:40 pm - Triggering Reversible and Irreversible Shape Changes in Libraries of Supramolecular and Macromolecular Dendritic Systems
• Takuzo Aida (University of Tokyo) 7:40 - 8:20 pm - Photosynthetic Dendrimers
• Break 8:20 - 8:35 pm
• George R. Newkome (University of South Florida) 8:35 - 9:15 pm - Tailer-Made Dendritic Assemblies
• Kenji Matsuda (Kyushu University) 9:15 - 9:40 pm - Toward Dendritic Two-Dimensional Polycarbenes: Syntheses of Dendritic Nona- and Dodecadiazo Compound and Magnetic Study of Their Photoproduct

Tuesday Morning, Sep 8

• Breakfast 7 ~ am

• Jerry L. Atwood (University of Missouri) 8:30 - 9:10 am - Very Large Spherical Assemblies
• Akira Harada (Osaka University) 9:10 - 9:50 am - A Switch from Cages to Channels on Complexation of Cyclodextrins
• Break 9:50 - 10:15 am
• Kimoon Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology) 10:15 -10:55 am - Self-Assembly of Interlocked Structures: Rotaxanes, Polyrotaxanes, and Molecular Necklaces
• Fritz Vögtle (University of Bonn) 10:55 - 11:35 am - Catenanes, Rotaxanes, and Pretzelanes: Template and Non-template
• Myunghyun P. Suh (Seoul National University) 11:35 - 12:00 - Functional Supramolecules Composed of Macrocyclic Complexes as Building Blocks: Molecular Bowls, Dumb-Bells, Brick-Walls, Honeycomb, and Floral Lace

Tuesday Afternoon, Sep 8

• Lunch 12:00 ~ pm
• Poster Session 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Tuesday Evening, Sep 8

• Dinner 6 ~ pm

Organic Magnets 7:00 - 9:40 pm
Discussion Leader, Dennis A. Dougherty (Califonia Institute of Technology)

• Kazuhito Hashimoto (University of Tokyo) 7:00 - 7:40 pm - Transparent and Colored Magnetic Thin Films Composed of Polycyanides Incorporated Three Types of Metal Ions
• Hiizu Iwamura (Kyushu University) 7:40 - 8:20 pm - How to Align Electron Spins in Polymer Complexes Made of Magnetic Metal Ions with Organic Free Radicals
• Break 8:20 - 8:35 pm
• Joel S. Miller (University of Utah) 8:35 - 9:15 pm - Structural Control of the Magnetic Ordering via Organic Chemistry - A Case Study
• Jatinder V. Yakhmi (Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bombay) 9:15 - 9:40 pm - Molecular Magnetic Sponges

Wednesday Morning, Sep 9

• Breakfast 7 ~ am

Fullerenes and Related New Materials 8:30 - 12:00 am
Discussion Leader, Fred Wudl (University of California, Los Angeles)

• Andreas Hirsch (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg) 8:30 - 9:10 am - Molecular Nanoarchitectures Based on Fullerenes as Structure Determining Building Blocks
• Eeiichi Nakamura (University of Tokyo) 9:10 - 9:50 am - Designing Functional Organofullerenes - Catalysis and Biochemical Probes
• Break 9:50 - 10:15
• Yves Rubin (University of California, Los Angeles) 10:15 - 10:55 am - Organic Approaches to Endohedral Metallofullerenes
• Koichi Komatsu (Kyoro University) 10:55 - 11:35 am - Structure, Properties, and Reactivities of Fullerene Dimer C₁₂₀
• Takeshi Akasaka (Niigata University) 11:35 - 12:00 - Endohedral Metallofullerenes: New Fullerene Molecules with Novel Properties

Wednesday Afternoon, Sep 9

• Lunch 12 ~ pm

Workshop on pi-Conjugated/Supramolecular Materials (2) 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Discussion Leader, Kazuhiro Nakasuji (Osaka University)

• Donald Bethell (University of Liverpool) - Self-Assembly of Nanostructures from Electroactive Organic Molecules and Gold Particles
• Jun Nishimura (Gunma University) - Photochemical Synthesis and Properties of Cyclophanes, Naphthalenophanes, and Phenanthrenophanes
• Neil R. Branda (University of Alberta) - Porphyrin Arrays
• Dennis K. P. Ng (Chinese University of Hong Kong) - Sandwich-Type Heteroleptic Phthalocyanato and Porphyrinato Matel Complexes
• Takanori Suzuki (Hokkaido University) - Dynamic Redox Systems: Reversible Structural and Optical Responses
• Keiichiro Ogawa (University of Tokyo) - Crystal Structure Change for the Thermochromy of N-Salicylideneanilines. The First Observation by X-ray Diffraction

Wednesday Evening, Sep 9

• Dinner 6 ~ pm

Supramolecules Relevant to Biological Sytstems 7:00 - 9:40 pm
Discussion Leader, George R. Newkome (University of South Florida)

• Mamoru Nango (Nagoya Institute of Technology) 7:00 - 7:40 - Molecular Assembly of Porphyrin Derivatives by Supramolecular Complex of Polypeptides
• Dong H. Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology) 7:40 - 8:20 pm - Organic Chemistry at the Active Site of Enzyme
• Break 8:20 - 8:35 pm
• Dennis A. Dougherty (California Institute of Technology) 8:35 - 9:15 pm - Physical Organic Chemistry on the Brain
• Yoshinori Naruta (Kyushu University) 9:15 - 9:40 pm - Metal Arrays for O₂ Capture/Activation

Thursday Morning, Sep 10

• Breakfast 7 ~ am

Nanostructure Control in Organic Crystals 8:30 - 12:00 am
Discussion Leader, Jerry L. Atwood (University of Missouri)

• Gautam R. Desiraju (University of Hyderabad) 8:30 - 9:10 am - From Molecular Symmetry to Crystal Symmetry
• Michael D. Ward (University of Minnesota) 9:10 - 9:50 am - Predictable Architectures in Open Hydrogen Bonded Frameworks
• Break 9:50 - 10:15 am
• Michael J. Zaworotko (University of Winnepeg) 10:15 - 10:55 am - Hydrogen Bonded Organic Clay Mimics
• James D. Wuest (University of Montreal) 10:55 - 11:35 am - Porous Ordered Materials Constructed by the Strategy of Molecular Techtonics
• Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University) 11:35 - 12:00 am - Functional Micropore Chemistry of Crystalline Coordination Polymers

Thursday Afternoon, Sep 10

• Lunch 12 ~ pm
• Poster Session 2:00 - 5:00 pm

Thursday Evening, Sep 10

Workshop on X-ray Diffractometry 17:00 - 17:50 pm
Discussion Leader, Kazuki Sada (Osaka University)

• Yuji Ohashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) - Recent development of X-ray Diffractometer for Rapid Data Collection
• Katsunari Sasaki (Rigaku Corporation) - R-AXIS Rapid - A New IP Diffractometer Using Weissenberg Geometry
• Conference Banquet 7 ~ pm

Friday Morning, Sep 11

• Breakfast 7 ~ pm