Wednesday, 22 July 1998

10.00 - registration opens - University Hall (Aula ),
18.00 - Welcoming Mixer - University Hall

Thursday, 23 July 1998

8.00-9.30 - breakfast

9.30 - opening (Department of Economics^* )
10.00 - opening lecture: Michael KASHA (USA): "From Jabłoński to Femtoseconds: the Evolution of Contemporary Molecular Excitation Concepts"

11.00 - coffee

11.30 - panel session: "Intramolecular, Cluster, Condensed Phase and Biophysical Dynamics on the Time scale of Nuclear Motion" - Joshua JORTNER (Israel) - chairman & keynote lecture

13.30 - lunch

15.00 - plenary lecture: Hiro-o HAMAGUCHI (Japan): "Recent Developments in Ultrafast Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Electronically Excited States"

16.00 - 19.00 - poster session I - authors of posters with odd numbers are asked to be in attendance

19.00-20.30 - supper

Friday, 24 July 1998

8.00-9.00 - breakfast

9.00 - plenary lecture: Jacek WALUK (Poland): "Light-induced Tautomerization in Porphyrin Isomers"
10.00 - plenary lecture: Otto S. WOLFBEIS & Ingo KLIMANT (Germany): "Fluorescent Biosensors"

11.00 - coffee

11.30 - panel session: "Emerging Topics in Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Multi-photon Excitation, Long Lifetime Anisotropy Probes and Optical Control of the Excited State" - Joseph R. LAKOWICZ (USA) - chairman & keynote lecture

13.30 - lunch

15.00 - plenary lecture: Graham FLEMING (USA): "Nonlinear Spectroscopic Studies of Chemical and Biological Dynamics"
16.00 - 19.00 - poster session II - authors of posters with even numbers are asked to be in attendance

19.00-20.30 - supper

Saturday, 25 July 1998

8.00-9.00 - breakfast

  9.00 - plenary lecture: Robert S. KNOX (USA): "Excited State Equilibration and the Fluorescence - Absorption Ratio"
10.00 - plenary lecture: Iwao YAMAZAKI (Japan): "Ultrafast and Coherent Transport of Excitons in Sequential Molecular Arrangements"

11.00 - coffee

11.30 - panel session: "Trends on the Physics of Inorganic Crystalline Lasers" - Georges BOULON (France) - chairman & keynote lecture

13.30 - lunch

17.00 - cocktails - Old Town Hall (Rynek Staromiejski in Old Town)
18.00 - Chamber Music Concert - Old Town Hall
19.30 - Conference Banquet - Artus' Court (Rynek Staromiejski in Old Town)
 

Sunday, 26 July 1998

9.00-10.00 - breakfast

11.00 - coffee

chairman: J.B. Alexander Ross

11.30 - Jabłoński Award Lecture

13.00 - lunch

14.30 - plenary lecture: Geerd H.F. DIERCKSEN (Germany): "Challenges in Studying Spectra by Computational Methods"
15.30 - plenary lecture: Francois PIUZZI (France): "Electron Transfer in Jet Cooled Molecular Complexes"

16.30 - guided sightseeing of Toruń - including the Copernicus House and City Diorama (meeting point - in front of Department of Economics)
18.45 - barbecue - conference buses will depart from near the Polski Express bus stop at Teatralny Sq., last bus at 19.30

Monday, 27 July 1998

8.00-9.00 - breakfast

9.00 - plenary lecture: Arto NURMIKKO (USA): "Physics of Stimulated Emission in Blue Semiconductor Lasers"
10.00 - plenary lecture: Shuji NAKAMURA (Japan): "Recent Developments in InGaN - based Blue LEDs and LDs"

11.00 - coffee

11.30 - plenary lecture: Claudio ZANNONI (Italy): "Fluorescence Depolarization and Energy Transfer in Liquid Crystals"
12.30 - plenary lecture: Andrzej Wojtowicz (Poland): "Some Aspects of Solid State Radioluminescence"

13.30 - closing remarks

14.00 - lunch

15.30 - trip to Astronomical Observatory in Piwnice (free, but registration with Conference Office is requested)
19.00-20.30 - supper

Tuesday, 28 July 1998

8.00-9.00 - breakfast
8.45 - optional trip to Malbork (see 3rd Announcement for details) - tickets (60 PLN = $18) available at Conference Office. Return to Toruń at about 19.30.   Special coaches to Warsaw will be provided at 7.00 and 9.00 - contact Conference Office for tickets and details of schedule.

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