The 4th Akira Suzuki Awards Ceremony & 8th ICReDD International Symposium + Rising Star Program
-Toward Interdisciplinary Research Guided by Theory and Calculation –
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*Updates:
Day 2 (Oct 23rd), Session 4, Prof. Aiichiro Nagaki’s presantation has changed its format to Online. (updated on Oct 10th)
Oct. 22 (Tue), 2024
The 4th Akira Suzuki Awards Ceremony
| PROGRAM | SPEAKER | JST | US-PDT (Oct. 21) | CEST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-site Registration | 8:30-9:00 | – | – | |
| Award Ceremony | Chairs: Masaya Sawamura Tetsuya Taketsugu (WPI-ICReDD, HU) | 9:00-9:35 | 17:00-17:35 | 2:00-2:35 |
| Photo Session | 9:35-9:40 | – | – | |
| Short Break | 9:40-9:50 | |||
| Award Lectures | ||||
| Introduction | Masaya Sawamura | 9:50-9:55 | 17:50-17:55 | 2:50-2:55 |
| Lecture 1 | Gregory C. Fu (Caltech) “Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to SN1 and SN2 Reactions“ | 9:55-10:45 | 17:55-18:45 | 2:55-3:45 |
| Introduction | Tetsuya Taketsugu | 10:45-10:50 | 18:45-18:50 | 3:45-3:50 |
| Lecture 2 | Alán Aspuru-Guzik (Univ. of Toronto) “The Suzuki reaction: A gift that keeps on giving” | 10:50-11:40 | 18:50-19:40 | 3:50-4:40 |
| Lunch | 11:40-13:30 |
The 8th ICReDD International Symposium
| PROGRAM | SPEAKER | JST | US-PDT (Oct. 21) | CEST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening Remarks | Akira Ukawa (Program Director, WPI) Satoshi Maeda (Director, WPI-ICReDD, HU) | 13:30-13:40 | 21:30-21:40 | 6:30-6:40 |
| Session 1 | Chair: Tamiki Komatsuzaki (WPI-ICReDD, HU) | |||
| Lecture 1 | Keisuke Takahashi (WPI-ICReDD, HU) “Digitalization of Materials and Catalysts Design” | 13:40-14:25 | 21:40-22:25 | 6:40-7:25 |
| Lecture 2 | Ichigaku Takigawa** (Kyoto Univ./ WPI-ICReDD, HU) “Chemistry problems from a machine learning perspective” | 14:25-15:10 | 22:25-23:10 | 7:25-8:10 |
| Short Break | 15:10-15:30 | 23:10-23:30 | 8:10-8:30 | |
| Session 2 | Chair: Yuuya Nagata (WPI-ICReDD, HU) | |||
| Lecture 3 | Panče Naumov (New York Univ. Abu Dhabi) “DYNAMIC CRYSTALS – A NEW CLASS OF SMART ENGINEERING MATERIALS” | 15:30-16:15 | 23:30-24:15 | 8:30-9:15 |
| Lecture 4 | Leroy Cronin** (Univ. of Glasgow) “AFIR Exploring Chemical Space with Assembly Theory & Chemputation” | 16:15-17:00 | 24:15-25:00 | 9:15-10:00 |
** Presentation Online
Oct. 23 (Wed), 2024
The 8th ICReDD International Symposium
| PROGRAM | SPEAKER | JST | US-PDT (Oct. 22) | CEST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-site Registration | 8:30-9:00 | – | – | |
| Session 3 | Chair: Tsuyoshi Mita (WPI-ICReDD, HU) | |||
| Lecture 5 | Mary P. Watson (Univ. of Delaware) “DEAMINATIVE CROSS COUPLINGS” | 9:00-9:45 | 17:00-17:45 | 2:00-2:45 |
| Lecture 6 | Corinna Schindler (Univ. of British Columbia) “Azetidines, Azetines, and Oxetanes: New Cycloadditions of Imines and Carbonyls” | 9:45-10:30 | 17:45-18:30 | 2:45-3:30 |
| Lecture 7 | Varinder K. Aggarwal (Univ. of Bristol) “Assembly Line Synthesis” | 10:30-11:15 | 18:30-19:15 | 3:30-4:15 |
| Lunch | 11:15-13:00 | |||
| Poster Session | [On-site only] | 13:00-15:00 | – | – |
| Session 4 | Chair: Jian Ping Gong (WPI-ICReDD, HU) | |||
| Lecture 8 | Aiichiro Nagaki ** (Hokkaido Univ.) “Flash Synthetic Chemistry Guided by Flow Microreactor Research” | 15:00-15:45 | 23:00-23:45 | 8:00-8:45 |
| Lecture 9 | Toshifumi Satoh (WPI-ICReDD, HU) “One-step Synthesis of Multiblock Copolyester by Self-switchable Polymerization using Alkali Metal Carboxylate Catalyst” | 15:45-16:30 | 23:45-24:30 | 8:45-9:30 |
| Lecture 10 | Hideyuki Otsuka (Institute of Science Tokyo) “Macromolecular Design of Radical-type Mechanofunctional Polymers” | 16:30-17:15 | 24:30-25:15 | 9:30-10:15 |
| Closing Remarks | Hajime Ito (WPI-ICReDD, HU) | 17:15-17:20 | 25:15-25:20 | 10:15-10:20 |
| Banquet | 18:00-20:00 | – | – |
** Presentation Online
Oct. 24 (Thur), 2024
The Rising Star Program
| PROGRAM | SPEAKER | JST | US-PDT (Oct. 23) | CEST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-site Registration | 8:30-8:55 | – | – | |
| Opening Remarks | Min Gao (WPI-ICReDD, HU) | 8:55-9:00 | 16:55-17:00 | 1:55-2:00 |
| Plenary Talk | Chair: Min Gao | |||
| Plenary Talk 1 | Donald A. Watson** (Univ. of Delaware) “Preparation of Axially Chiral Biaryl Mono- and Bis-Phosphines Via Asymmetric Reductive Coupling” | 9:00-9:50 | 17:00-17:50 | 2:00-2:50 |
| Short Break | 9:50-10:05 | 17:50-18:05 | 2:50-3:05 | |
| Session 1 | Chair: Dennis Chung-Yang Huang, Min Gao | |||
| Lecture 1 | Derek T. Ahneman (IBM Research) “From Papers to Products: Scaling Scientific AI” | 10:05-10:50 | 18:05-18:50 | 3:05-3:50 |
| Lecture 2 | Miho Hatanaka (Keio Univ.) “Understanding and Designing Lanthanide Photofunctional Materials” | 10:50-11:35 | 18:50-19:35 | 3:50-4:35 |
| Lunch | 11:35-13:00 | |||
| Session 2 | Chair: Min Gao | |||
| Lecture 3 | Ryo Tamura (NIMS) “Software to support autonomous automated materials exploration: NIMO” | 13:00-13:45 | 21:00-21:45 | 5:00-5:45 |
| Lecture 4 | Tasuku Nakajima (WPI-ICReDD, HU) “Force-Regulated Chemical Reactions in Gels” | 13:45-14:30 | 21:45-22:30 | 5:45-6:30 |
| Short Break | 14:30-14:45 | 22:30-22:45 | 6:30-7:45 | |
| Session 3 | Chair: Dennis Chung-Yang Huang, Mingoo Jin | |||
| Lecture 5 | David A. Nagib (The Ohio State Univ.) “Harnessing Radical and Carbene Polarity” | 14:45-15:30 | 22:45-23:30 | 7:45-8:30 |
| Lecture 6 | Jeehyun Yang (Caltech) “Cross-Disciplinary Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres: Observation, Theory, and Experiment” | 15:30-16:15 | 23:30-24:15 | 8:30-9:15 |
| Poster Award Ceremony | Chair: Min Gao | 16:15-16:45 | 24:15-24:45 | 9:15-9:45 |
| Closing Remarks | Min Gao (WPI-ICReDD, HU) | 16:45-16:50 | 24:45-24:50 | 9:45-10:50 |
**Presentation Online