1:00Monday, December 6, 2021
| MORNING PROGRAM | |
| 8:30 A.M. | WELCOME REMARKS Reginald DesRoches, Provost (Incoming President), Rice University |
| 8:45 A.M. | WELCOME REMARKS Thomas C. Killian, Dean of the Wiess School of Natural Sciences |
| 9:00 A.M. | Adam Willard Massachusetts Institute of Technology Exploring the Role of Molecular Disorder on Exciton Dynamics |
| 9:30 A.M. | Eric Bittner University of Houston Exciton and biexciton processes in organic and two-dimensional metal-halide perovskites |
| 10:00 A.M. | Sandro da Rocha Virginia Commonwealth University What pulmonary (nano)biopharmaceutics has to do with Peter? |
| 10:30 A.M. | BREAK |
| 11:00 A.M. | B. Montgomery Pettitt University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Theory Versus Experiement: Electrostatic Potentials of Proteins in Solution |
| 11:30 A.M. | Damien Laage École Normale Supérieure, Paris Water, hydrophobes, and hydrogen-bonds |
| 12:00 P.M. |
Keith Johnston |
| 12:30 P.M. | LUNCH (FOR ALL ATTENDEES) |
| AFTERNOON PROGRAM | |
| 2:00 P.M. | Michael Klein Temple University Old Problems Never Die… |
| 2:30 P.M. | Ronald Levy Temple University Exploring Free Energy and Evolutionary Landscapes of Proteins Using Physics Based and Machine Learning Approaches |
| 3:00 P.M. | Thomas Mallouk University of Pennsylvania Managing Proton Gradients and Water Dissociation in Solar Water Splitting, CO2 Electrolysis, and Redox Flow Batteries |
| 3:30 P.M. | BREAK |
| 4:00 P.M. | Richard Friesner Columbia University High Precision Free Energy Perturbation Methods for Structure Based Drug Discovery |
| 4:30 P.M. | Oleg V. Prezhdo University of Southern California Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Charge Carriers in Metal Halide Perovskites |
| 5:15 P.M. | RECEPTION (FOR ALL ATTENDEES) |
| 6:00 P.M. | DINNER (BY INVITATION ONLY) |
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
| MORNING PROGRAM | |
| 9:00 A.M. | Benjamin Schwartz University of California, Los Angeles When does Photodissociation become Photoisomerization? When Solvents Become Part of Solute Chemical Identity |
| 9:30 A.M. | Dave Thirumalai University of Texas at Austin From Jamming to Super Diffusion in an Evolving Tumor |
| 10:00 A.M. | Daniel Borgis École Normale Supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne Université Molecular density functional theory of hydration: from hydrophobicity to hydrophilicity |
| 10:30 A.M. | BREAK |
| 11:00 A.M. | Valeri Barsegov University of Massachusetts Lowell Computational modeling of large biological systems: virus shells and eukaryotic cells |
| 11:30 A.M. | Peter Wolynes Rice University The Theory of Glasses (the last twenty years mostly!) |
| 12:00 P.M. | Pablo Debenedetti Princeton University The Phase Behavior of Supercooled Water: Recent Computational Results |
| 12:30 P.M. | LUNCH (FOR ALL ATTENDEES) |
See Social Program for details regarding breakfast, lunch, reception and dinner.