Gordon Research Conference on Magnetic Resonance, 2005

I copied topics and oral presentations of the conference as of 3/18/2005 below. Check the conference website for the most complete and updated information.




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Topics which are in our focus are:

SPIN PHYSICS
NEW EXPERIMENTAL CONCEPTS
TAYLOR-MADE SPIN - EVOLUTIONS
COMPLEX MATERIALS
BIO MOLECULES
NOVEL IMAGING APPLICATIONS

Program:

SUNDAY

From Physics to Medicine
Discussion Leader: Michael Mehring (Univ. of Stuttgart)

7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Opening and Welcome

7:45 pm - 8:30 pm Erwin L. Hahn (UC Berkeley)
"Static Polarization Induced by Rotations in Spin and Real Space"

8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Kamil Ugurbil (Univ. of Minnesota)
"Probing Brain Chemistry and Function with High Field MR Imaging and Spectroscopy"

MONDAY

Structural Investigations with Pulsed NMR and EPR
Discussion Leader: Kamil Ugurbil (Univ. of Minnesota)

9:00 am - 9:45 am Jack Freed (Cornell Univ)
"New Frontiers in ESR Technology: ESR Microscopy and Millimeter Wave Two-Dimensional ESR Spectroscopy"

9:45 am - 10:30 am Beat Meier (ETH Zürich)
"High-resolution solid-state NMR in crystalline and non crystalline samples"

10:30 am - 11:15 am Tatyana Polenova (University of Delaware)
"Structural Studies of Intact and Reassembled Thioredoxin by High-Resolution MAS NMR"

External and Remote Detection
Discussion Leader: Alex Pines (UC Berkeley)

7:30 pm - 8:10 pm Bernhard Blümich (RWTH Aachen)
"Unilateral NMR: MOUSE, Methods, and Materials"

8:10 pm - 8:50 pm Song I-Han (UC Santa Barbara)
"Remote Detection of NMR and MRI"

8:50 pm - 9.30 pm Yung-Ya Lin (UCLA)
"Avalanching Amplification of Sensitivity and Contrast in NMR and MRI by the Butterfly Effect"

TUESDAY

From Strongly Correlated Solids to Proteins
Discussion Leader: Robert G. Griffin (MIT)

9:00 am - 9:45 am Claude Berthier (GHMFL, Grenoble)
"NMR studies of Field Induced Phase Transition in Strongly Correlated Systems"

9:45 am - 10:30 am Jürgen Haase (IFW Dresden)
"NMR of Inhomogeneous Superconductors and Beyond 2 GHz"

11:00 am - 11:45 am Kurt Zilm (Yale Univ.)
"Physical Chemistry and Structure of Proteins as Studied by Solid State NMR Nanocrystallography"

11:45 am - 12:30 pm David Weliky (Michigan State University)
"NMR Studies of Viral Fusion Peptides and Proteins and High-Temperature Metal Selenophosphate Syntheses"

High Frequency and Complex Pulse Sequences for Structure Determination in Biological Systems
Discussion Leader: Beat Meier (ETH Zürich)

7:30 pm - 8:10 pm Edgar Groenen (Univ. Leiden)
"Pulsed ENDOR, up to 275 GHz, down to 57Fe"

8:10 pm - 8:50 pm Judith Herzfeld (Brandeis University)
"Solid State NMR Studies of the Ion-Motive Photocycle of Bacteriorhodopsin"

8:50 pm - 9:30 pm Steffen J. Glaser (Technical Univ. Munich)
"Exploring the physical limits of pulse sequence design

WEDNESDAY

Single Electron Spin Detection and Spin Manipulations in Semiconductors
Discussion Leader: Claude Berthier (GHMFL Grenoble)

9:00 am - 9:45 am Dan Rugar (IBM Almaden)
"Single electron spin detection by magnetic resonance force microscopy"

9:45 am - 10:30 am H.W. Jiang (UC Los Angeles)
"Electrical Detection of the Spin Resonance of a Single Electron in a Silicon Field-Effect Transistor"

11:00 am - 11:45 am Martino Poggio (UC Santa Barbara)
"Local manipulation of nuclear spins in semiconductor nanostructures"

Tales and Novel Concepts of NMR
Discussion Leader: Warren Warren (Princeton)

7:30 pm - 8:10 pm Malcolm Levitt (Univ. Southampton)
"Tales of two Spins"

8:10 pm - 8:50 pm Jonathan Jones (Oxford)
"NMR quantum computing with para-hydrogen"

8:50 pm - 9:30 pm Lucio Frydman (Weizmann Inst.)
"Progress in Ultrafast Multidimensional NMR Spectroscopy"

THURSDAY

From Microtesla NMR to EPR/NMR Structure-Function Investigations
Discussion Leader: Kurt Zilm (Yale)

9:00 am - 9:45 am John Clarke (UC Berkeley)
"Microtesla NMR and MRI with a SQUID"

9:45 am - 10:30 am Robert Tycko (NIH)
"Investigations of amyloid formation and protein folding by solid state NMR"

11:00 am - 11:45 am Tim Cross (NHMFL Tallahasse)
"Structure, Dynamics, and Function through Solid State NMR of Membrane Proteins"

11:45 am - 12:30 pm Yuri D. Tsvetkov (Russian Acad. Sci., Novosibirsk)
"Pulsed Double Electron-Electron Resonance-ESE Dipolar Spectroscopy. Possibilities and Applications in Chemistry and Biochemistry"

BOOMERANG and Structural Investigations
Discussion Leader: Shimon Vega (Weizmann Inst.)

7:30 pm - 8:10 pm Dan Weitekamp (Caltech)
"BOOMERANG, SPEAR, and Levitation: Scaling Force-Detected NMR From Millimeters to Nanometers"

8:10 pm - 8:50 pm Thomas Prisner (Univ. Frankfurt)
"Structural investigations of protein complexes by multifrequency pulsed EPR spectroscopy"

8:50 pm - 9:30 pm Lyndon Emsley (ENS Lyon)
"Crystallography by Proton NMR"