We are looking forward to RERC29! Please find our Oral Program below. Please note this schedule is subject to change without notice prior to the start of the conference and should serve only as a rough guideline for travel planning.
29th Rare Earth Research Conference
Sunday June 26, 2022
5:15 PM Conference Registration – Science History Institute (SHI)
5:30 PM Reception – Science History Institute
7:30 PM Spedding Award Lecture – Science History Institute, Ullyot Room
Monday June 27, 2022
7:30 AM Registration Opens – Science History Institute Foyer
8:10 AM Opening Remarks – SHI, Ullyot Room
8:30 AM Plenary Lecture 1
Joseph Cotruvo
Lessons Learned from Lanmodulin in the Selective Recognition and Separation of f-Elements
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
William Evans Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Complexes of the Rare-Earth Metals in the +2 Oxidation State (Ullyot)
Zhe Lei Magnetic Separations of Rare Earth Ions (Franklin)
Jeffrey Thomspson Quantum Technologies with Rare Earth Ions (Haas)
10:15 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
David Mills Recent Adventures in Lanthanide and Actinide Silicon Chemistry (Ullyot)
Michael Servis Using the Theory of Critical Phenomena to Understand Structure and Phase Transitions in Separations of Rare Earths. (Franklin)
Zhentao Wang Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid Behavior and Spinon Confinement in YbAlO3 (Haas)
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Henry La Pierre: Bonding, Reactivity, and Magnetism of Tetravalent Lanthanide Ions in Molecules and Extended Solids (Ullyot)
Erin Bertelsen: Carbon Treated Diatomaceous Earth for Rare Earth Element Separations (Franklin)
Nirmal Ghimire: Magnetism and Anomalous Hall Efect in the Kagome-Net Magnets RMn6Sn6 (R = Y, Yb) (Haas)
11:30 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Scott Daly Quantified and Correlated Covalent Metal-Ligand Bonding and Reactivity differences in Isostructural Lanthanide and Uranium Phosphinodiboranates (Ullyot)
Cecilia Martinez-Gomez Lanthanide-dependent metabolism by methylotrophic bacteria opens novel avenues to improve technologies for recovery of energy-critical metals (Franklin)
Benjamin Ueland Magnetism, symmetry, and topology of EuM2Pn2 compounds (Haas)
12:00 PM LUNCH
1:30 PM Plenary Lecture 2
Rute Ferriera
Lanthanides for Smart Mobile Optical Sensing and the Internet of Things
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Jerome Robinson RE-Designing Catalysts to Overcome Challenges in Polymer Synthesis (Ullyot)
Stephen Hill Rare Earth Molecular Clock Qubits (Franklin)
Abigail Knight Bioinspired Polymers for Ion Separations (Haas)
2:45 PM
Megan Fieser Rare Earth Metal Catalysts for the One-Pot Block Copolymerization of Olefins and Cyclic Esters (Ullyot)
Annie Powell Toroidal Moments in Molecular Magnets (Franklin)
Valerie Pierre Inorganic Receptors for Phosphate for Medical and Environmental Applications (Haas)
3:15 PM Break
4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Christopher Cahill Assembly of [AnO2X4]2- Anions with Assorted Organic Cations: Routes to ‘yl’ Engagement, Non-covalent Interactions and Photoreactivity (Ullyot)
Lucie Norel Assembling Dysprosium Single-Molecule Magnets with Photochromic Dithienylethene Ligands : an Efficient Strategy for Magnetic Hysteresis Photomodulation? (Franklin)
Louise Natrajan A coordination chemistry approach to optical imaging of uranium biotransformations in model conditions (Haas)
4:30 PM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Suzanne Bart (Ullyot)
Joseph Zadrozny Rare-Earth Magnetic Control of Organic Reactions (Franklin)
Jean-Claude Bunzli (Haas)
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Poster Session 1
Tuesday June 28, 2022
7:30 AM Registration Opens – Science History Institute Foyer
8:20 AM Opening Remarks – SHI, Ullyot Room
8:30 AM Plenary Lecture 3
Matthew Allen
Tuning Divalent Europium for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Cory Windorff Pursuing Biorelevant Uranyl Complexes (Ullyot)
Jonathan Sessler Lanthanide Texaphyrins: An Update on Drug Development Efforts (Franklin)
Cristian Batista A Microscopic Kondo Lattice Model for the Heavy Fermion Antiferromagnet CeIn3 (Haas)
10:15 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Gregory Nocton Unusual Oxidation States and Reactivity in Heterometallic Compounds Combining Lanthanide and Transition Metal Ions (Ullyot)
David Tatum Macrocyclic 1,2-HOPO Bifunctional Chelators for Time-Resolved Europium(III) Luminescence and Radiopharmaceutical Applications (Franklin)
Sergey Bud’ko Evolution of Magnetic Ground State in Yb-based Heavy Fermion Compounds: Effects of Magnetic Field and Pressure (Haas)
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Steve Liddle Recent Advances in Actinide-Ligand Multiple Bonding (Ullyot)
Bruce Cohen Upconversion and Avalanching in Lanthanide-based Nanocrystals for Imaging (Franklin)
Martin Mourigal Novel Forms of Quantum Magnetism using Kramers/non-Kramers Rare-Earth Pairs (Haas)
11:30 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Karah Knope Tetravalent Metal Ion Cluster Chemistry (Ullyot)
Gael Ung Strong Circularly Polarized Luminescence at 1550 nm from Enantiopure Molecular Erbium Complexes (Franklin)
Wei Wei Xie Observation of Yb3+ with Spin-1/2 in YbxPt5P (Haas)
12:00 PM LUNCH
1:30 PM Plenary Lecture 4
Jenifer Shafer
Soft Donor versus Soft Matter: Controlling Transplutonium Chemistry
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Conrad Goodwin Transuranium Metallocene Complexes (Ullyot)
Michael Nippe Generating Magnetic Anistropy Through Exchange and Ligand Field (Franklin)
Susan Latturner Metal Flux Growth of Stuffed Rare Earth Borocarbides (Haas)
2:45 PM
Julie Niklas High-Valent Uranium and Neptunium Imidophosphorane Complexes (Ullyot)
Kevin Bernot Lanthanide Coordination Chemistry : A Key to Design Supramolecular Magnetic Edifices (Franklin)
Thomas Schleid On Rare-Earth Metal Halide Oxido-Arsenates and -Antimonates (Haas)
3:15 PM Break
4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Stefan Minasian Pinpointing Chemical Bonding in CeF62- with Spectroscopy, Magnetism, and Electronic Structure Theory (Ullyot)
Helene Bolvin The Versatility of the Magnetic Properties of the Actinyl Cations (Franklin)
Daniel Shoemaker Materials Growth and Discovery for Europium-based Quantum Information Storage (Haas)
4:30 PM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Nolwenn Mahieu Synthesis of Multi-metallic f-element Complexes with the Cyclononatetraenyl Ligand
Valerie Vallet Exploring Excited State Potential Energy Profile and Luminescence Properties of Uranyl-Based Complexes by TRLFS and Ab Initio Method
Ingo Hartenbach The Flowers Along the Way: Anticipated and Unprecedented Results on the Path to Rare-Earth Metal Molybdates and Tungstates with Luminescent Properties (Haas)
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Poster Session 2
Wednesday June 29, 2022
7:30 AM Registration Opens – Science History Institute Foyer
8:20 AM Opening Remarks – SHI, Ullyot Room
8:30 AM Plenary Lecture 5
Nicholas Chilton
Spin-Vibration Coupling in Magnetic Molecules
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Mohsen Mirzahkani A Bottom Up Approach toward Programmable Luminescent Lanthanidopolymers (Ullyot)
Nikolas Kaltsoyannis Computational Adventures in Molecular f element Chemistry – Two Short Stories (Franklin)
Mitchell Bordelon Magnetic frustration in Jeff = 1/2 Yb- and Ce-based triangular lattice antiferromagnets (Haas)
10:15 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Yuichi Harai Bright Triboluminescence of An Inefficient Photoluminescent Eu(III) Complex (Ullyot)
Lan Cheng Spinor-Based Relativistic Coupled-Cluster Study of Lanthanide Thermochemistry and Spectroscopy (Franklin)
Ajeesh Omanakuttan Narrow-gap Kondo insulating ground state of Ce3Bi4Pd3 revealed by applied pressure (Haas)
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Ines Taarit Molecular Light-Upconversion: When Excited State Absorption (ESA) Overcomes Energy Transfer Upconversion (ETU) In Cr(III)/Er(III) Complexes (Ullyot)
Remi Maurice Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Speciation of Protactinium (Franklin)
Ryan Baumbach Enhanced thermoelectric properties in YbT2Zn20 (T = Co, Rh, Ir) (Haas)
11:30 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin, Haas
Melissa Gish Illuminating the Photophysics of Oxygen Atom Transfer in Rare Earth Metal-Organic Complexes (Ullyot)
Pere Miro Speciation and Nucleation of An(IV) Species in Aqueous Media (Franklin)
Daniel Phelan Rare-Earth Mediated Cross-Over in Dimensionality of a Spin Density Wave in a Ruddlesden-Popper Nickelate (Haas)
Conference Banquet
Thursday June 30, 2022
7:30 AM Registration Opens – Science History Institute Foyer
8:20 AM Opening Remarks – SHI, Ullyot Room
8:30 AM Plenary Lecture 6
Aurora Clark
The “Soul Memory of a Million Dead Stars” – Revealing the Topology of Rare Earth Chemistry
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin
Selvan Demir Multifunctional Lanthanide Metallocenes: From High-Performance Single-Molecule Magnets to Small Molecule Activation (Ullyot)
Kirk Peterson Accurate relativistic quantum chemistry for lanthanide and actinide thermochemistry (Franklin)
10:15 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin
Jeffrey Rinehart (Ullyot)
Bess Vlaisavlejevich Electronic Structure of Uranium–Arenide Complexes (Franklin)
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin
Gerd Meyer Pitfalls and Blessings in Reduced Rare-Earth Metal Halide Chemistry (Ullyot)
David Cantu Predicting the Coordination Structures and Thermodynamic Properties of Lanthanides in Solution (Franklin)
11:30 AM Concurrent Sessions, Ullyot, Franklin
Soroush Naseri Preorganization of β-Diketonate Lanthanide Adducts with Rigid N-Donor Ligands: Thermodynamics and Photophysics (Ullyot)
Tyler Del Rose Accelerated Discovery of New Rare-earth Compounds by Machine Learning (Franklin)
12:00 PM Concluding remarks