Speakers and Programme

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The following have accepted invitations to speak at the SCM2009

Radical Pair Chemistry and Physics

Miguel Garcia-Garibay (Los Angeles, USA)
Detection and Reactivity of Radical Pairs Generated by Photodecarbonylation of Nanocrystalline Ketones

Elena Bagranskaya (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)
Radicals and Radical Pairs in Nanocapsules

Malcolm Forbes (Chapel Hill, USA)
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions: The Radicals Behind the Ru(bpy)₃

Hisao Murai (Shizuoka, Japan)
Magnetophotoselection in the Spin-Polarized Radical-Ion Pair Formed in the Photo-Induced Solvent-Mediated Electron Transfer Reaction

Jim Norris (Chicago USA)
Spin Chemistry of Photoexcited Melanin

Victor Bagryansky (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Spin oscillations as a tool to study recombining radical ion pairs
Cryptochromes and Bird Navigation

Peter Hore (Oxford, UK)
Radical pair magnetoreception in birds: disorder and motion

Steve Reppert (Amherst, USA)
Genetic Model for the Study of Animal Magnetosensitivity

Stefan Weber (Freiburg, Germany)
From Bird Navigation to Plant Phototropism: Spin Dynamics Studied by Time-Resolved EPR

Chris Timmel (Oxford, UK)
As the crow flies: trying to negotiate our way from questions to answers on magnetoreception phenomena

Ilia Solov'yov (Frankfurt, Germany)
Magnetoreception through Cryptochrome may involve Superoxide
Dynamic Nuclear Spin Polarization

Thomas Prisner (Frankfurt, Germany)
Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Liquid Solutions at 9.4 T

Hans-Martin Vieth (Berlin, Germany)
Dynamic Polarization and T₁ Relaxation Dispersion Studied by Field Cycling NMR with High Resolution

Alexandra Yurkovskaya (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)
Structural and Dynamic Studies of Proteins by Time-resolved CIDNP

Jörg Matysik (Leiden, The Netherlands)
The Solid-state Photo-CIDNP Effect: Origin and Application
Para-hydrogen induced nuclear polarization

Simon Duckett (York, UK)
Parahydrogen: A Spin Reservoir for the General Sensitization of NMR and MRI

Dan Weitekamp (Pasendena, USA)
Scalar Spin Order as a Resource and a Reservoir

Konstantin Ivanov (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)
Para-Hydrogen Induced Polarization in Multi-spin Systems Studied at Variable Magnetic Field
Chemical effects of Electron and Nuclear Spins

Ulrich Steiner (Konstanz, Germany)
Triplet mechanism involving a higher excited triplet

Vsevolod Borovkov (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Spin-lattice relaxation in organic radical ions due to spin-pseudorotational interaction
Magnetic Field Effects

Jonny Woodward (Yokohama, Japan)
Magnetic Field Effects on Enzyme Reactions

Günter Grampp (Graz, Autstria)
Magnetic Field Effects in Exciplex Forming Systems Revisited

Samita Basu (Kolkata, India)
The Structural Behaviour of Chemical Species Probed by Magnetic Fields

Ivan Yakunin (Orenburg, Russia)
Spin-dependent Chemical Zeno effect
Spin Effects in Materials

Osamu Sato (Fukuoka, Japan)
Control of Magnetic Properties Through External Stimuli

Andrea Dei (Florence, Italy)
Cobalt-dioxolene redox isomers as spintronic devices

Markus Wohlgenannt (Iowa City, USA)
Magnetoresistance and Spin-diffusion in Organic Semiconductor Thin Film Devices

Dave Shultz (Raleigh, USA)
Electronic Structure and Metal Complexes of Donor-Acceptor Biradicals

Jan Behrends (Berlin, Germany)
Polaron Pair Recombination at Room Temperature in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells studied by Pulsed Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance

Roman Morgunov (Moscow, Russia) Magneto-plasticity and magnetic memory controlled by spin-dependent interaction of structural defects in diamagnetic crystals

Reginald Little (Elizabeth City, USA) The Multi-Spin Chemistry and Magnetism of Carbon for Diamond, Graphene and Carbon Nanotube Formations
Spin Quantum Effects

Kev Salikhov, (Kazan, Russian Federation)
Quantum Computing with Spins

Mike Wasielewski (Evanston, USA)
Spin Teleportation in Photogenerated Triradicals

Fedor Jelezko (Stuttgart, Germany)
Manipulating single spins in diamond: quantum computing and atomic magnetometry

Gerd Kothe (Freiburg, Germany)
Exploring Quantum Oscillations in Photoexcited Triplet States
Electron Spin Polarization in Photosynthesis

Oleg Poluektov (Argonne, USA)
Spin dynamics of spin-correlated radical pairs in Photosystem I. Pulsed time-resolved EPR at high magnetic field

Klaus Möbius (Berlin, Germany)
High Spin-Polarized Radical-Pair States in Photosynthesis as Probed by High-Field PELDOR

Jens Niklas (Muehlheim, Germany)
EPR and ENDOR on Chlorophyll and Carotenoid Triplet States in Photosynthesis

Yuri Kandrashkin (Kazan, Russia)
Numerical Simulation of Quantum Teleportation in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers

Nikolay Polyakov (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Electron transfer and free radical processes in supramolecular complexes of carotenoids
Electron Spin Polarization in High-Spin States

Valery Tarasov (Moscow, Russian Federation)
Time-Resolved EPR Studies on Spin Dynamics of Electronically Excited Triplet/Doublet Molecular Complexes

Yoshio Teki (Osaka, Japan)
Photoexcited High-Spin States and Spin Dynamics of Functionality π-Radicals

Motoko Asano (Tokyo, Japan)
Time-Resolved EPR Study on the Excited State of Copper(I) Diimine Complexes in the Solid State

Sergei Dzuba (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)
Photoexcited Fullerenes as a Sensitive Tool to Study Molecular Dynamics in Disordered Media

Seigo Yamauchi (Sendai, Japan)
W-band EPR Studies on the Excited Triplet States of Metal Complexes

Haim Levanon (Jerusalem, Israel)
Electron Spin Dynamics in Photoexcited Rotaxanes and Corroles

The final programme will be available as a pdf file shortly before the meeting