(14.00-17.00)   Registration (Sunset Hall, 1^st Floor)

(16.30-17.00)   Tea/Coffee (Venue: Ettukettu)

(17.00-18.00)   Inauguration (Venue: Ettukettu)

Technical Sessions (venue: Royal Gallery, 1^st Floor)

Session I  (18.00-19.30)

Coordinator – M. Padmanabhan

Chairman-       J. P. Mittal

IT: 1 (18.00-18.30)        Contribution of radiation chemistry to cluster science

                                   J. Belloni (France)

IT: 2 (18.30-19.00)        Contribution of radiation chemistry to nanofabrication and  anolithography 

S. Tagawa (Japan)

IT: 3 (19.00-19-30)        Coherent 2D vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of biomolecules

                                   Minhaeng Cho (S. Korea)

Dinner (Venue: Ettukettu)

Session I (9.00-11.00)

Coordinator- C. H. Suresh

Chairman  - T. Mukherjee

IT: 4  (9.00-9.30)              The Transfer And Trapping of Excitation Energy in Photosynthesis
                                        Rienk van Grondelle (The Netherlands)

IT: 5 (9.30-10.00)             Photochromic Reaction Dynamics of Diarylethene Derivatives in Solution

                                        Taiha Joo (South Korea)

IT: 6 (10.00-10.30)           Fencing of pet in Acridinedione dyes by molecular cavities and assemblies.

                                        P. Ramamurthy (India)

IT:7 (10.30-11.00)            Molecular and Metal Nanostructures: Nonlinear Optical Applications

                                       T. P. Radhakrishnan (India)

Tea/Coffee (Venue: Sunset Hall, 1^st Floor)

Session 2 (11.30-13.10)

Coordinator-  A.C. Bhasikuttan

Chairman-      Krzysztof Bobrowski                                 

IT: 8 (11.30-12.00)     Some aspects of radiolysis of polyelectrolytes in aqueous solutions

                                   P. Ulanski (Poland)

IT: 9 (12.00-12.25)     Modified Epoxy Resins and Its Application for Photo Solder Resist (PSR) in Printed Circuit Board (PCB)

                                 Tae Ho Kim (South Korea)

IT: 10 (12.25-12.45)    Photoelectrocatalytic properties of perylene/phthalocyanine bilayer responsive to a widespread visible light of <750 nm

                                 Keiji Nagai ⁽Japan)

IT 11: (12.45-13.05)    Structure and Dynamics of  Polyacrylamide Hydrogels With and   Without Probe Particles

                                 B.V.R. Tata (India)  

 (13.05-13.10)            PhotoRadChem- An introduction

                                C. T. Aravindakumar (India)

Lunch (Venue: Nalukettu) 

Session 3- Poster (14.00-16.00)

Coordinators: Mr. D. Sreekumar

                         Mr. M.S. Baburaj

                         Mr. K.P. Prasanthkumar

Tea/Coffee (Venue: Sunset Hall, 1^st Floor)

Session 4  16.00-18.20

Coordinator- A. S. Padmanabhan

Chairman-    Sergej Naumov     

IT:12 (16.00-16.30)        Ultrafast Pulse Radiolysis Using a Terawatt Laser Wakefield Accelerator

                                       Robert A. Crowell (USA)

IT: 13 (16.30-17.00)       Fast Kinetics Experiments at Elyse picosecond electron accelerator

                                      J. L. Marignier (France)

IT: 14 (17.00-17.30)       Laser control of Ultra fast Dynamics

                                       Ajay K. Singh (India)

IT: 15  (17.30-17.55)      Metal clusters and nanomaterials induced by radiolysis

                                       Hynd Remita  (France)

IT:16   (17.55-18.20)      Stabilized Mono and Bi-metallic Nanoparticles from Photoactivation

                                       Tarasankar Pal (India)

18.30---------

Cultural programmes & Vice-Chancellor’s Dinner (Venue: Ettukettu)

Session I (9.00-11.00)

Coordinator- R. Ramaraj

Chairman-     B.S. Madhava Rao           

IT:17 (9.00-9.30)          DNA damage and repair – how cells maintain their genomic stability

                                      F. Eckardt-Schupp (Germany)

IT:18 (9.30-10.00)        UVB and UVA radiation-induced DNA damage in cells and human

                                  skin: formation and repair

                                     Jean Cadet (France)

IT:19 (10.00-10.25)       Photo-Induced Radical Cation Chemistry in DNA

                                      J. Richard Wagner (Canada)

IT:20  (10.25-10.50)      Synthesis of Bifunctional Molecules and Study of Their Interactions with

                                   Nucleotides and  Nucleic Acids

                                          D. Ramaiah (India)

OP:1 (10.50-11.00)       Designing Safe Sweeteners : A  Photochemical Study of Sweet

                                               Proteins/Molecules 

                                     Sudha Srivastava (India)

Tea/Coffee (Venue: Sunset Hall, 1^st Floor)

Session 2 (11.30-13.00)

Coordinator- Hari Mohan

Chairman- Suresh Das     

IT: 21 (11.30-12.00)      Sonochemistry:  Fundamental and Applied Aspects

                                   M. Ashokkumar (Australia)

IT: 22 (12.00-12.30)      Sonochemical Transformation of Perfluorooctane Derivatives 

                                   PFOS and PFOA into Primary Inorganic Constituents

                                   Michael R. Hoffmann (USA)

IT:23 (12.30-13.00)       Photocatalytic surfaces: Antipollution and Antimicrobial effects

                                   M. Edge Allen (U.K)

Lunch (Venue: Nalukettu)  

Session 3 (14.00-15.50)

Coordinator- A. Kumbhar

Chairman-  Pommeret Stanislas          

  IT:24 (14.00-14.30)      Mechanistic Insight into the TiO2 Photocatalytic Reactions

                                   T. Majima (Japan)

IT: 25 (14.30-15.00)       Observation of Marcus Inversion Behavior for Intermolecular

                                    Electron Transfer Reactions in Micellar Media

                                    Haridas Pal (India)

IT:26 (15.00-15.30)        Exited state processes in room temperature ionic liquids

                                    Anunay Samanta (India)

IT: 29 (15.30-15.50)       Synthesis, self-assembly and photophysical properties of

                                    amphiphilc conjugated polymers

                                    Suresh Valiyaveettil (Singapore)  

Tea/Coffee (Venue: Sunset Hall, 1^st Floor)

(Boat trip at Vembanadu Lake)

Session I (9.00-10.45)

Coordinator- P. Ramamurthy

Chairman- Taiha Joo 

IT:28  (9.00-9.30)      Helicity Induction and Dynamic Inversion of Octahedral Labile Metal  Complexes: Circular  Dichroism and Luminescence Studies

                                  H. Miyake (Japan)

IT: 27 (9.30-9.50)     Primary photoprocesses in some photosensitive drugs studied using fast reaction kinetic techniques.

                                       S. Navaratnam  (UK)

IT: 30 (9.50-10.20)   Photophysical and Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopic Investigations of Phenyleneethynylenes,

                                   K. George Thomas (India)

OP:2 (10.20-10.30) Photodegradation of Plasticized Poly (para-substituted styrene) in Solution

                                  Khalid E. Al Ani    (Jordan)   

OP: 3 (10.30-10.40)   Dynamics of Excited State Intramolecular and Intermolecular Proton  Transfer in Solution Phase in Different Environment

                                  P. Chowdhury   (India)

 Tea/Coffee (Venue: Sunset Hall, 1^st Floor)

Session 2 (11.30-13.00) YI

Coordinator- Sabu Thomas

Chairman-  N. S. Allen           

YI: 1 (11.30-11.40)   Tuning the Size and Optical Properties in Molecular Nano/micro Crystals

                           A. Patra (India)

YI: 2(11.40-11.50)       Radiolysis at Oxide Surfaces, Production of Hydrogen with Titanium Grafted Silica

                                    M. S. Alam (France)

YI: 3  (11.50-12.00)    DNA Cleavage through Co-sensitization Mechanism: Synthesis, Photophysical and Photobiological Properties of Novel Viologen Linked Pyrene Conjugates

                                   M. Hariharan (India)

YI: 4 (12.00-12.10)     Ultrafast Charge Transfer Dynamics in 2-Aminopurine Modified Double Helical DNA: A Time Resolved Fluorescence Study

                                   P. Manoj (India)

YI:5(12.10-12.20)       The intermediates of kynurenine formed under UV irradiation – triplet state and radicals

                                    P. S. Sherin (Russia)

YI:6 (12.20-12.30)       Synthesis of Photopolymers Containing N-(Substituted) Maleimides and Its Application for Negative Photoresist

                                    Prashant S. Patil (South Korea)

YI:7 (12.30-12.40)        Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Donor–Acceptor-Substituted Butadiene Amphiphiles into Photoresponsive Vesicles and Gels

                              N. S. Saleesh Kumar(India)

YI:8 (12.40-12.50)      Tuning the Optical Properties of Gold nanorods

                                    P. Pramod (India)

YI: 9 (12.50-13.00)      One-electron oxidation reactions of selenomethionine in comparison with methionine: A pulse radiolysis study

                                     B. Mishra (India)

Session 3  (14.00-15.55)

Coordinator- Atanu Barik

Chairman-  S. K. Sarkar    

IT: 31 (14.00-14.30)   Radiation induced processes at solid-liquid interfaces

                                  Mats Jonsson (Sweden)

IT: 32 (14.30-15.00)   Growth Motif and Spectral Properties of X₂^·-.nH₂O Clusters (X=Cl,Br,I; n≤8)

                                  D. K. Maity (India)

IT: 33(15.00-15.30)    An improved photodynamic therapy to disinfect infected teeth

                                  Anil Kishen (Singapore)

IT: 34(15.30-15.55)   On the mechanism of Intramolecular Transformations of Cation Radicals in Inert Matrix.

                                 S. Naumov (Germany)

Session 4

Concluding Session

 The symposium is organized by School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam. Sponsorship is also expected from DST, CSIR, UGC, AICTE, DAE, DRDO, INSA, KSCSTE etc