TODAI WEEK AT TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY

May 19-21, 2008

Symposium on Frontier Chemistry

(The WeiLun Building, meeting room 143)

May 20, 2008

8:50-9:00     Opening Ceremony

Remarks by Professor Gaoquan Shi (Vice-Chairman of Department, TsinghuaUniversity)

Chairman: Professor Teruyuki Hayashi

9:00-9:30            Global COE Program "Chemistry Innovation through Cooperation of Science and Engineering"

Eiichi Nakamura (Professor, Project Leader, The University of Tokyo)

9:30-10:00          Introduction of Chemistry and Materials Science in the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University

Gaoquan Shi (Professor, Vice-Chairman of Department, Tsinghua University)

10:00-10:30        Programmed Assembly for Nanostructured electronic Materials

Takuzo Aida (Professor, Deputy Project Leader, The University of Tokyo)

10:30-11:00        Functional Supramolecular Systems: Self-assembly and Nanotechnology

Xi Zhang (Professor, Tsinghua University)

11:00-11:30 Tailoring of Electronic Properties for Oxide-Based Transparent Materials

Tetsuya Hasegawa (Professor, The University of Tokyo)

11:30-12:00        Green Chemistry: Atom-Economic Reactions for Functionalized Molecules

Ruimao Hua (Professor, Tsinghua University)

12:00-13:30 Lunch (in Hetian Building)

13:30-14:30 Poster Session (Total 30 posters in Hetian Building)

Chairman: Professor Gaoquan Shi

14:30-14:45 Campus Life at Tsinghua 1  Jia Niu

14:45-15:00 Campus Life at Todai 1             Manabu Ohtomo

15:00-15:15 Campus Life at Tsinghua 2  Hua Bai

15:15-15:30 Campus Life at Todai 3             Takahiro Ichikawa

15:30-15:45 Campus Life at Tsinghua 3  Yunqiu Chen

15:45-16:00 Tea and Coffee Break

16:00-16:30 Functional Liquid-Crystalline Assemblies: Self-Organized Soft Materials

Takashi Kato (Professor, Chairman of GCOE International Liaison Committee, The University of Tokyo)

16:30-17:00        Assembly, reactivity and properties of nanosized molecules

              Huizhong Kou (Professor, Tsinghua University)

17:00-17:30        Rational Design of Supramolecular Metallo-Architectures for Nanoscopic Array, Space, and Motion

Mitsuhiko Shionoya (Professor, The University of Tokyo)

17:30-18:00 Degradation of Aβ aggregates by Small Multifunction Molecules

Yanmei Li (Professor, Tsinghua University)

18:00-18:15 Closing Remark

Professors Tetsuya Hasegawa & Xi Zhang

18:30-           Banquet (hosted by Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University)