Day 1 - 17 February 2015

08:00-09:00	Registration and Welcome
09:00-09:30	Opening Ceremony
09:30-10:10	PLENARY 1 Michael Levitt Stanford University The Birth and Future of Multiscale Modeling of Macromolecules Chair: Ehud Keinan
10:10-10:40	Coffee break
10:40-13:00	Parallel Sessions
	Hall A	Hall B	Hall C	Hall D	Hall E
	Inorganic Chemistry & Catalysis Chair: Zeev Gross	Industrial Chemistry I Chair: Yuval Vidavsky	Organic & Organometallic Chemistry I Chair: Ilan Marek	Nanochemistry & Materials I Chair: Aharon Blank	Chemical Education I Chair: Orit Herscovitz Chair: Nitza Barnea
10:40-11:20 Keynote	Edward I. Solomon Stanford University Geometric and Electronic Structure Contributions to Cu/O₂ Reactivity	Shlomo Magdassi The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Nanomaterials for Functional and 3D Printing Innovation Award	Barry M. Trost Stanford University Self-Assembly of Main Group Complexes for Asymmetric Catalysis	Ron Naaman Weizmann Institute of Science Chirality and Spin - a Match for Spintronics and for Electron Transfer in Biology	Naum Naveh Rafael/Shenkar College of Engineering and Design From Iron Dome to Nano-Technology
11:20-11:45	Reshef Tenne Weizmann Institute of Science Inorganic Nanotubes and Fullerene-Like Nanoparticles at the Crossroad Between Materials Science and Nanotechnology and its Applications	Jacob Rendell Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Adventures in API Synthesis	Doron Pappo Ben Gurion University Thiol Mediated Multi-Component Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions	Lilac Amirav Technion The Art of Successful Photocatalysts Design	Sagit Frechter-Bratslavski Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Dorit Taitelbaum Israel Ministry of Education Expanding the Teaching Certification for Biology Teachers to Enable Them to Teach Chemistry
11:45-12:10	Ira Weinstock Ben Gurion University Polyoxometalate Complexes of Anatase-TiO2 Cores in Water	Elena Poverenov ARO - Volcani Center Development Of Safe Contact Active Antimicrobial Materials Using Covalent Linkage Of Quaternary Ammonium Salts	Roey Amir Tel Aviv University Design, Synthesis and Applications of Smart Polymeric Amphiphiles	Tatyana Bendikov Weizmann Institute of Science UPS vs XPS. What Can We Get?	Raphael Nudelman Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Chemical Toxicology in the Pharmaceutical Industry
12:10-12:35	Lior Elbaz Bar-Ilan University Nonprecious Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Based on First Row Transition Metal Brominated Corrole Complexes	Yossi Bonfil Qlight Nanotech Qlight Nanotech – Innovative Display Technologies Based On Semiconductor Nanocrystals	Gabriel Lemcoff Ben Gurion University Organometallic Nanoparticles	Micha Polak Ben Gurion University Nano-confined Nitrogen Hydrogenation on Ruthenium Surface: Prediction of Remarkable Entropic Shifts in the Reaction Equilibria
12:35-13:00	Israel Zilbermann Amir Mizrahi Negev Nuclear Research Center Mechanistic Studies on the Role of [Cu(CO₃)n]₂-2n as a Water Oxidation Catalyst	Gal Suez Adama Global (Makhteshim Agan) How a Complex Four-Steps Synthesis Got Into a Smooth One-Pot Reaction	Dmitri Gelman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem It's all about FA (Formic Acid) Young ICS Award	Daniel Nessim Bar Ilan University Synthesis of Carbon Nanostructures (CNTs, CNFs, Graphene): Science and Applications	Dorit Taitelbaum Israel Ministry of Education Strategies to Overcome the Lack of Chemistry Teachers in High Schools in Israel
13:00-14:40	Lunch Break
14:00-15:00	Poster Session 1
14:30-15:00	General Assembly of the ICS members
15:00-15:40	PLENARY 2 Ronny Neumann Weizmann Institute of Science Catalysis, Mechanisms and New Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry ICS Prize Laureate Chair: Mark Gandelman
15:40-16:10	ICS Awards Ceremony and Exposure of a New Israeli Stamp
16:10-16:40	Coffee Break
16:40-18:35	Parallel Sessions
	Hall A	Hall B	Hall C	Hall D	Hall E
	Biophysics Chair: Noam Adir	Industrial Chemistry II Chair: Gal Suez	Organic & Organometallic Chemistry II Chair: Ilan Marek	Nanochemistry & Materials II Chair: Aharon Blank	Chemical Education II Chair: Dorit Taitelbaum
16:40-17:20 Keynote	Steven G. Boxer Stanford University Vibrational Stark Spectroscopy Connects Electrostatics to Catalytic Rates at Enzyme Active Sites	Guy Samburski Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Improving Yield of Anelli's (TEMPO) Oxidation Reaction by Flow Chemistry in Industrial Scale	Robert M. Waymouth Stanford University Catalysis: Opportunities for Sustainable Polymer Chemistry	Efrat Lifshitz Technion	Rachel Eidelman Dvora Brot Yael Shwartz Weizmann Institute of Science Chemistry Online – a Different Experience
17:20-17:45	Sharon Ruthstein Bar Ilan University Exploring Cellular Metal Transfer Mechanisms by EPR Spectroscopy	Dana Mizrahi Israel Institute for Biological Research Thixotropic Decontamination Solutions	Rafal Klajn Weizmann Institute of Science Light-Controlled Self-Assembly of Non-Photoresponsive Nanoparticles	Hagay Shpaisman Bar Ilan University Formation of Colloids with Optical Traps	Orit Herscovitz Technion Nurit Decalo Weizmann Institute of Science Online Assignments in Chemistry
17:45-18:10	David Lukatsky Ben Gurion University Protein-DNA Binding in the Absence of Specific Base-Pair Recognition	Yuval Vidavsky Stratasys The Promise of Multi Materials 3D Printing	Moshe Kol Tel Aviv University The Importance of Being (Diastereomerically) Earnest - Mechanistic Insight into Ring-Opening Polymerization Catalysts	Elizabeth Amir Shenkar College Stimuli-Responsive Azulene-Based Conjugated Small Molecules and Polymers with Polyaniline-like Properties
18:10-18:35	Iris Grossman Weizmann Institute of Science Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Reveals How Conformational Ensembles Modulate an Enzymatic Electron Transfer Relay	Eyal Barnea IMI TAMI Selective Bromide Recycle from Waste Streams by Solvent Extraction	Moris Eisen Technion Catalytic Activation of Heterocumulenes by an Organo-f-Complex
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Day 1 - 17 February 2015