Scientific Programme

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Sunday 3 August
10h00 Departure of bus from Johannesburg International Airport
15h00 - 17h00 Arrival and early registration at Skukuza
17h30 - 18h30 Chris van der Linde
Ecological aspects and an introduction to wildlife in the Kruger park.
19h00 - 21h00 Meet and greet
Monday 4 August
06h00 - 08h00 Early morning game drive
08h00 - 08h45 Refreshments
08h45 - 10h45 Session chair Demi Levendis
08h45 - 09h15 Official Opening Address
Prof. C. Krueger, Chairman: IUCr Commission on Structural Chemistry.
09h15 - 10h00 Jan Boeyens
Introductory Survey: Intermolecular bonding.
10h00 - 10h45 Brian Sutcliffe
Molecular properties in different environments.
10h45 - 11h15 Tea
11h45 - 12h45 Session chair Ivan Bernal
11h45 - 12h15 Peter Comba
Intra- versus intermolecular interactions in coordination compounds.
12h15 - 12h45 Tom Cundari
Modeling intermolecular effects.
13h00 - 14h00 Lunch
14h00 - 18h00 Afternoon excursion
(Tea on bus)
18h00 - 19h00 Dinner
17h00 - 19h00 Night drive (optional)
19h15 - 21h15 Session chair Shaun Sommerer
19h15 - 19h45 Hideomi Koinuma
UV lasing from ZnO quantum dot films via exciton and exciton molecular interactions.
19h45 - 20h15 Mark Johnson
Probing inter- and intramolecular interactions with quantum proton dynamics.
20h15 - 20h45 Frank Leusen
Prediction of possible crystal polymorhs.
20h45 - 21h15 Enos Kiremire
Reflections on symmetry and patterns in nature
Tuesday 5 August
06h00 - 08h00 Early morning game drive
08h00 - 09h00 Refreshments
09h15 - 10h45 Session chair Brian Sutcliffe
09h15 - 10h00 Eiji Osawa
Optimizing crystal structures.
10h00 - 10h45 Dario Braga
Supramolecular organization in organometallic crystals.
10h45 - 11h15 Tea
11h15 - 12h45 Session chair Werner Gans
11h15 - 12h00 Anton Amann
Quantum fluctuations of interacting molecules.
12h00 - 12h45 Dennis Rouvray
Fuzzy logic in the molecular sphere.
13h00 - 14h00 Lunch
14h15 - 15h45 Session chair Frank Allen
14h15 - 15h00 Lee Brammer
Direct and indirect involvement of transition metal centers in hydrogen bonding.
15h00 - 15h45 Judith Howard
Intermolecular interactions at 10K - some early results.
15h45 - 16h00 Tea
16h00 - 18h00 Session chair Helder Marques
16h00 - 16h20 Ingeborg Csoregh
Balance of interaction modes in a carboxylic acid host-alcohol guest complexation system.
16h20 - 16h50 Petra Bombicz
Intermolecular interactions in spontaneous resolution and clathrate formation.
16h50 - 17h20 Leslie Glasser
Modelling pressure effects in the potassium titanyl phosphate system.
17h20 - 17h50 Marcus Neumann
The importance of intermolecular interactions - coupling between rotating methyl groups.
19h15 - 23h00 Traditional Dinner
Wednesday 6 August
8h00 - 11h15 Morning excursion
11h30 - 13h00 Session chair Carl Krueger
11h30 - 12h15 Guy Orpen
Apparent flexibility in the structures of metal complexes in crystals.
12h15 - 13h00 Frank Allen
The relationship between theory and experiment in the study of non-covalent interactions.
13h00 - 14h00 Lunch
13h00 - 16h00 Poster session and Demonstrations
16h00 - 18h00 Afternoon game drive
18h00 - 19h00 Dinner
17h00 - 19h00 Night drive (optional)
19h15 - 21h15 Session chair Gert Kruger
19h15 - 19h45 Leslie Leiserowitz
From nucleation to engineering of 2D and 3D crystals at the air-liquid interface.
19h45 - 20h15 Izhack Oref
From intermolecular potentials to energy transfer transition probabilities via quasi-classical trajectory calculations.
20h15 - 20h45 Fabrizia Grepioni
Organometallic crystal isomerism.
20h45 - 21h00 Marius de Jager
New developments in CCD technology.
21h00 - 21h15 Frank van Meurs
Nonius Kappa CCD, the better solution for single crystals
Thursday 7 August
06h00 - 08h00 Early morning game drive
08h00 - 09h00 Refreshments
09h15 - 10h45 Session chair Judith Howard
09h15 - 10h00 Carl Krueger
Reactivity in solid state and electron deformation density determinations.
10h00 - 10h45 Tibor Koritsanszky
Intermolecular interactions and the charge density.
10h45 - 11h15 Tea
11h15 - 12h45 Session chair Eiji Osawa
11h15 - 12h00 Ivan Bernal
Conglomerate crystallization.
12h00 - 12h45 John Ogilvie
Dynamic aspects of intermolecular interactions.
13h00 - 14h00 Lunch
14h15 - 15h45 Session chair Jan Boeyens
14h15 - 14h45 Brian Figgis
Intermolecular perturbation of covalent spin density in tris (acetylacetonato)ruthenium(III) studied by polarized neutron diffraction.
14h45 - 15h15 Demi Levendis
The influence of intermolecular interactions on diag - cis isomerization of (C5H4R)Re(CO)Br2L piano-stool compounds.
15h15 - 15h45 Shaun Sommerer
Closing Summary of Indaba II.
15h45 - 16h00 Tea
16h00 - 18h00 Afternoon game drive.
19h15 - 23h00 Farewell Braai
Friday 8 August
08h00 - 11h00 Morning excursion
11h00 Departure of bus from Malelane Gate
16h00 Arrival at Johannesburg International Airport