Agenda

4th and 5th December 2009
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg
Wolfgang-Pauli Strasse 10
Location HCI J3

Friday, 4th December 2009

12.30 - 18:00 Scientific Part of the Symposium

12.30 - 12.35 Opening by Viola Vogel, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich

12.35 - 13.10 Jean Marie Lehn
Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (France)
"Perspectives towards Adaptive Chemistry"

13.10 - 13.35 Wolfgang Knoll
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Wien (Austria)
"Multilayer Assemblies with Unusual Building Blocks on Unusual Substrates"

13.35 - 14.00 Michel Orrit
Universiteit Leiden, Leiden (The Netherlands)
"The birth of single molecule spectroscopy and future challenges"

14.00 - 14.20 Dieter Vollhardt
Max Planck Institute, Potsdam/Golm (Germany)
"Interfacial Molecular Recognition and Chirality in Amphiphilic Monolayers"

14.20 - 14.40 Lifeng Chi
WWU Münster, Münster (Germany)
"Langmuir-Blodgett patterning/Lithography"

14.40 - 15.05 Horst Vogel
EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland)
"Supported membranes for investigating biochemical reactions at a nanometer scale"

15.05 - 15.25 Coffee Break

15.25 - 15.50 Hermann E. Gaub
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (Germany)
"Force and Funtion: Single Molecule Biophysics of the Titin Kinase"

15.50 - 16.15 Masamichi Fujihira, Professor Emeritus
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo (Japan)
"Organic photovoltaic devices based on the natural photosynthetic reaction center"

16.15 - 16.35 Steven De Feyter
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee (Belgium)
"Nanostructuring surfaces with molecules at liquid-solid interface: from design to function"

16.35 - 16.55 Katsuhiko Ariga
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Ibaraki (Japan)
"Hand-Operating Nanotechnology: Novel Surface Science Trick"

16.55 - 17.15 Helmut Ringsdorf, Professor Emeritus
Universität Mainz, Mainz (Germany)
"Hans Kuhn und die Wissenschaft - ernst und heiter"

17.15 - 17.35 Viola Vogel
ETH Zurich, (Switzerland)
"Supramolecular Assemblies: Deciphering the secret language of mechanical communication"

17.35 - 17.55 Dietmar Möbius
Max-Planck-Institut, Göttingen (Germany)
Retroperspective

17.55 - 18.00 Closing Ceremony with a Surprise

19.00 – 23.00 Dinner at Stapferstube da Rizzo (Please register)

Saturday, 5th December 2009

10.00 – 12.30 Brunch at Haus Hiltl (Please register)

13.30 – 17.15 Excursion across Lake Zurich (Please register)

17.30 Good-bye