Program – day 1

QM and multiscale methods:  
Excited state properties and dynamics of photosynthetic systems – PART I

8th of November 2021 (all times are CET time zone, UTC +1)

14:00
Opening of ComPhot2021 by the organizers

14:10
Chair of the session: Gabriela Schlau-Cohen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)
Opening experimental lecture from the Chair

14:30
Keynote lecture: Benedetta Mennucci (University of Pisa, IT)
“The atomistic modeling of light-harvesting complexes”

Break (5 mins)

15:10
Alexandra Olaya-Castro (University College London, UK) (Invited)
TBD

15:35
Carles Curutchet (Universitat de Barcelona, ES) (Invited)
“Determination of the energy ladder in cryptophyte antenna complexes from multiscale simulations”

16:00
Thomas Renger (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, AT) (Invited)
“Theory of excitonic couplings in photosynthetic antennae: A quantitative check and a simple and accurate method”

16:25
Christopher Duffy (Queen Mary University of London, UK) (Invited)
“Trivial Excitation Energy Transfer to Carotenoids is an Unlikely Mechanism for Non-Photochemical Quenching in LHCII”

Break (10 mins)

17:00
Susannah Bourne-Worster (University of Bristol, UK) (Contributed)
“Unravelling the mechanism of concentration quenching”

17:20
Elliot Taffet (Stanford University, US) (Contributed)
“Singlet-exciton fission caused by two-carotenoid correlated nuclear reorganization and photo protection in peridinin–chlorophyll–protein”

17:40
Zohreh Hashemi (University of Bayreuth, DE) (Contributed)
“Optoelectronic Properties of (Bacterio)chlorophyll Complexes with Green’s Function-Based Many-Body Perturbation Theory”

Break (10 mins)

18:10-19:10
Poster session