Tuesday, 2 December 2014 Conference Registration / Mounting of Posters/ Welcome Coffee 9:30 - 9:45 Welcome Address K.K. Phua, NTU Jianshu Cao, MIT 9:50 - 10:40 Session 1 9:45 - 9:50 Opening 8:00 - 09:30 Opening Address by President, Bertil Andersson, NTU Single Molecule Intermittent Fluorescence Studies, Quantum Dots, Charge Injection into Surfaces, Electron Transfers and Diffusion Rudy Marcus (Keynote) California Institute of Technology Tea / Coffee Break 11:10 - 11:50 Vibrational and electronic motion in biological systems Martin Plenio Universität Ulm 11:50 - 12:10 Quantum delocalization directs antenna absorption to photosynthetic reaction centres Felipe Caycedo-Soler University of Ulm 12:10 - 12:30 Session 2 10:40 - 11:10 Highly Efficient Energy Transfer in FMO: optimization, non-trivial quantum effects and kinetic clusters Jianlan Wu Zhejiang University The Rise and Decay of Quantum Coherence in Photosynthesis Elisabet Romero VU University 12:50 - 1:00 Group Photo 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break 2:00 - 2:40 The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis Rienk van Grondelle VU University 2:40 - 3:20 Session 3 12:30 - 12:50 Theory of Light-Harvesting in Photosynthesis: From Structure to Function Thomas Renger Johannes Kepler University Linz Session 3 3:20-4:00 Photoinduced dynamics in Protein Crystals: Photosynthesis and Photoreception Jasper van Thor Imperial College London 4:00 - 4:30 Tea / Coffee Break 4:30 - 5:30 Rapid fire Session (Poster 1 ~ Poster 18) 5:30 - 6:30 Welcome Reception 6:40 Bus leaves for Hotel Wednesday, 3 December 2014 Arrival of guests and speakers to venue 10:10 - 10:30 Probing the Conformations of Single Molecule via Photon Counting Statistics Yujun Zheng Shandong University 10:30 - 10:50 Session 4 9:30 - 10:10 Nonlinear Spectroscopy with Quantum Light Shaul Mukamel University of California Numerically exact calculations of the absorption and emission spectra and multichromophoric energy transfer rates in LH2 Jeremy Moix MIT 10:50 - 11:10 Tea / Coffee Break 11:10 - 11:40 Accurate modeling of environmental interactions and reliable simulation of dissipative energy transport and charge separation in photosynthetic light harvesting David Coker Boston University Session 5 11:40 - 12:20 12:20 - 12:40 Theoretical study of different types of quantum coherence in photosynthetic complexes from ultrafast pump-probe polarization anisotropy Qiang Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences Exciton-phonon correlations and the emergence of noncanonical equilibrium states in molecular energy transfer Ahsan Nazir The University of Manchester Sessio 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break 2:00 - 2:40 Spectroscopy of Natural and Synthetic Molecular Aggregates: Signatures of Electronic Quantum Coherence? Jasper Knoester University of Groningen 2:40 - 3:20 Session 6 12:40 -1:00 Non-Markovian Dynamical Analysis and Propagation: Transfer Tensor Method Javier Cerrillo Technische Univsersität Berlin Time-Resolved Spectra and Underlying Quantum Dynamics: An Uneasy Relationship Tomas Mancal Charles University in Prague 3:20 - 4:00 Enhancing Two-photon Absorption Light Harvesting Capability of Chromophores by Energy Transfer and Plasmon Resonance Xu Qing-Hua National University of Singapore 4:00 - 4:30 Tea / Coffee Break 4:30- 6:30 Public Lecture Creativity, Discovery and Risk - Nobel Prizes Past and Future Alan Heeger UCSB 6:30 Bus leaves for Hotel Thursday, 4 December 2014 Arrival of guests and speakers to venue Ultrafast electron transfer over 10-20 nm in 50 fs: A New Phenomenon Alan Heeger (Keynote) UCSB 10:20 - 10:45 Understanding the role of the environment in photosynthetic light harvesting from combined MD and polarizable QM/MM calculations C. Curutchet Universitat de Barcelona 10:45 - 11:10 11:10 - 11:40 Session 7 9:30 - 10:20 Importance of excitation and trapping conditions in photosynthetic energy transport Ivan Kassal University of Queensland Tea / Coffee Break 12:20 - 1:00 Session 8 11:40 - 12:20 Quantum biology and quantum noise Yoshitaka Tanimura Kyoto University Time-dependent simulation of open systems GuanHua Chen The University of Hong Kong Lunch Break 2:00 - 2:40 Bacterial Light-Harvesting Complexes: Insights gained from time-resolved and single-molecule spectroscopy Jürgen Köhler University of Bayreuth 2:40 - 3:20 Session 9 1:00 - 2:00 Exploration of the dynamics of single photosynthetic complexes Gabriela Schlau-Cohen MIT 3:20 - 4:00 Ultrafast 2D & 3D electronic spectroscopy and its applications to the study of LHCII Tan Howe Siang Nanyang Technological University 4:30- 6:30 Tea / Coffee Break Rapid fire Session (Poster 19 ~ Poster 37) Welcome Reception Bus leaves for Hotel Friday, 5 December 2014 Arrival of guests and speakers to venue 10:10 - 10:30 Time-resolved 2D frequency maps Javier Prior VU University 10:30 - 10:50 10:50 - 11:10 Session 10 9:30 - 10:10 Speakable and unspeakable in Quantum Biology Francesco Petruccione University of KwaZulu-Natal New improvements to the HEOM and their application to the numerically exact dynamics of enormous photosynthetic open quantum systems Nike Dattani Oxford University Coherent ultrafast light-harvesting: a joint theoretical and experimental investigation Carlo Andrea Rozzi Istituto Nanoscienze–Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Tea / Coffee Break 11:10 - 11:40 12:20 - 1:00 Session 11 11:40 - 12:20 An easily reversible structural change underlies the protection mechanism enabling a desert crust cyanobacterium to survive desiccation Nir Keren The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Exploiting coupled nanostructures for bio-inspired quantum technologies Brendon W Lovett University of St Andrews Awards + Closing Remarks 1:00 - 2:00 2:00 Lunch Break Bus leaves for Hotel 2:00 - 2:40 Dismantling of Posters