August 17, Friday
13:00-20:00 Registration (Baolong Hotel)
18:00-21:00 Dinner (Baolong Hotel, 1st floor)
 
August 18, Saturday
Morning Session, Chair: Lai-Sheng Wang
08:30-09:10 Daniel Neumark  (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Spectroscopy of Metal and Metal Oxide Clusters Using Slow Electron Velocity-Map Imaging of Cryogenically Cooled Anions
09:10-9:50 Stuart R. Mackenzie  (University of Oxford, U.K)
Spectroscopic Studies of Gas-Phase Metal Clusters and Metal-Ligand Complexes
9:50-10:20 Coffee Break & take photos
10:20-11:00 Curt Wentrup  (The University of Queensland, Australia)
New Insight into Nitrenes, Carbenes and Diradicals
11:00-11:30 Xiaoqing Zeng  (Soochow University, China)
Acylnitrenes in Different Spin States
11:30-12:00 Ling Jiang   (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China)
Dalian Coherent Light Source-Based Infrared Spectroscopy of Neutral Clusters
12:00-14:00 Lunch
Afteroon Session, Chair: Jun Li
14:00-14:40 Jesus M. Ugalde  (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea and Donostia International Physics Center, Spain)
Structure, Stability and Optical Properties of Bimetallic Subnano-Clusters
14:40-15:20 W. H. E. Schwarz   (University of Siegen, Germany)
UCU in I h-C80 Fullerene, Stabilizing Each Other
15:20-16:00 Ping Yang   (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
Structure and Stability of Thorium Dioxide Nanoclusters (ThnO2n with n=1-8): A First-Principle Study
16:00-16:40 Coffee Break & Poster
16:40-17:20 Viktoria H. Gessner  (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany)
Ylide-Functionalization: From Reactive Main Group Species to Efficient Ligands in Catalysis
17:20-17:50 Si-Dian Li   (Shanxi University, China)
Boron Double Chains (BDCs) and Fluxional Bonds (FBs) in Chemistry: From Planar Borophenes, Cage-Like Borospherenes, Boron Nanotubes, to Metal-Doped Heteronanostructures
18:10-20:00 Dinner
 
August 19, Sunday
Morning Session, Chair: Xiaoqing Zeng
08:30-09:10 László Kürti   (Rice University, USA)
Practical Heteroatom-Transfer Reagents and Reactions
09:10-9:50 Cameron Jones   (Monash University, Australia)
Magnesium (I) Dimers 10 Years on: Universal Reductants for the Synthetic Chemist?
9:50-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-10:50 Zhipan Liu  (Fudan University, China)
Nanocatalyst dynamic evolution from first principles global optimization
10:50-11:20 Zhixun Luo  (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Furthering the Structure Chemistry and Reactivity of Metal Clusters
11:20-11:50 Yanxia Zhao  (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Activation and Transformation of Methane by Clusters
12:00-14:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session, Chair: Gernot Frenking
14:00-14:40 Peter Schwerdtfeger  (Massey University Auckland, New Zealand)
When Gold Meets Relativity
14:40-15:20 Sebastian Riedel  (Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany)
From Tamed Lewis-Acidic Systems and Very Potent Br?nsted Acids
15:20-16:00 Coffee Break & Poster
16:00-16:40 Jun Li  (Tsinghua University, China)
The General Trend of Oxidation States in Heavy-Element
16:40-17:10 Zhongming Sun  (Nankai University, China)
Stepwise Synthesis of a Family of Rhodium Polystannide Clusters [Rh@Sn10]3-, [Rh@Sn12]3-, [Rh2@Sn17]6- and the Largest Tri-Fused Stannide, [Rh3@Sn24]5-
17:10-17:40 Lili Zhao  (Nanjing Tech University, China)
Bonding in Binuclear M2(CO)9 (M = Fe, Ru, Os) and Heterobimetallic [LAu-Fe(CO)5][SbF6]
18:00-21:00 Dinner
 
August 20, Monday
Morning Session, Chair: Mingfei Zhou
8:30-9:10 Gernot Frenking  (Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany)
Travelling in Valence Space
9:10-9:50 Shigeyoshi Inoue  Technische Universit?t München, Germany)
Multiple-Bonded Aluminium Compounds
9:50-10:30 Coffee Break & Poster
10:30-11:00 Xuenian Chen (Henan Normal University, China)
The Formation Mechanism and Syntheses of Boron Clusters
11:00-11:40 Lai-Sheng Wang  (Brown University, USA)
Recent Progress in the Investigation of Size-Selected Boron Clusters: From Borophenes to Metallo-Borophenes
11:40-12:00 Poster Award Presentation, Closing
12:00- Lunch, Adjourn