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Mon 17	09:30 - 12:30	Supervisory Board Meeting*
	12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
	13:30 - 16:00	Supervisory Board Meeting*
	16:30 - 16:35	Opening Conference
	16:35 - 17:20	Shirin Faraji "Insights into light-driven DNA repair by photolyases" (Abstract)
	17:20 - 17:45	Neus Aguilera-Porta "In silico modelling insight into assessing NSAIDS excited states deactivation mechanisms" (Abstract)
	17:45 - 18:10	Martina De Vetta "Photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy: from photophysics to assisted delivery" (Abstract)
	18:10	Welcome reception
Tue 18	09:00	Opening Session 2
	09:00 - 09:45	Stijn De Baerdemacker "When two is better than one: new wavefunctions from the seniority scheme" (Abstract)
	09:45 - 10:10	Giovanna D'Angelo "Knockout driven reactions in porphyrin molecules and butadiene clusters" (Abstract)
	10:10 - 10:35	Meilani Wibowo "Electronic coupling calculations for a potential singlet fission chromophore" (Abstract)
	10:35 - 11:05	Coffee break
	11:05 - 11:30	Dmytro Ivashchenko "Improvement of methods for the structural characterisation of drug metabolites based on collisional cross sections" (Abstract)
	11:30 - 11:55	Enrico Skoruppa "DNA elasticity from coarse-grained simulations: the effect of groove asymmetry" (Abstract)
	11:55 - 12:20	Tommaso Francese "Magnetic fingerprint of planar bistable molecule-based magnets" (Abstract)
	12:20 - 14:00	Lunch
	14:00	Opening Session 3
	14:00 - 14:45	Martin Paterson "Development and Applications of Monte Carlo Configuration Interaction" (Abstract)
	14:45 - 15:10	Andi Cuko "Structure predictions of technologically and environmentally relevant oxide nanoparticles" (Abstract)
	15:10 - 15:35	Carles Martí "Ab initio modelling the chemical storage of renewable energy" (Abstract)
	15:35 - 16:00	Coffee break
	16:00 - 18:00	ESR and experts meeting + TCCM discussion*
Wed 19	09:00	Opening Session 4
	09:00 - 09:45	Celine Chizallet "Insight from ab initio calculations into the structure and reactivity of complex catalysts: the case of platinum-based subnanometric particles supported on alumina" (Abstract)
	09:45 - 10:10	Ewa Szlapa "Kinetics and selectivity in hydroformylation of propene" (Abstract)
	10:10 - 10:35	Francesco Talotta "A theoretical investigation of the trans-[RuC(NO)(Py)4]2+ photochemistry" (Abstract)
	10:35 - 11:05	Coffee break
	11:05 - 11:30	Stefano Battaglia "Electronic structure properties of [n]Cyclacenes: semi-empirical and wave function approaches" (Abstract)
	11:30 - 11:55	Eliot Boulanger "Improved Lennard-Jones Parameters for Accurate Molecular Dynamics Simulations" (Abstract)
	11:55 - 12:20	Maria Izquierdo "Charge transfer in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells" (Abstract)
	12:20 - 15:30	Lunch + poster session
	15:30	Opening Session 5
	15:30 - 15:40	Intro
	15:40 - 16:25	Tohru Sato "Vibronic coupling density and its applications" (Abstract)
	16:25 - 16:40	Daryna Smyrnova "An exciting life of fluorescent proteins" (Abstract)
	16:40 - 16:55	Athanasios Arvanitidis "Valence bonds in elongated boron clusters" (Abstract)
	16:55 - 17:40	Patrick Fowler "Some current work on currents" (Abstract)
	17:40 - 18:10	Arnout Ceulemans "Symmetry: unquestioned answers - unanswered questions"
	19:00	Conference Dinner
Thu 20	09:00	Opening session 6
	09:00 - 09:45	Julien Michel "Molecular simulation methods for ensemble-based drug design" (Abstract)
	09:45 - 10:10	Gabriele Dalla Torre "Computational approach to aluminum biochemistry" (Abstract)
	10:10 - 10:35	Maximilian F.S.J. Menger "Excited state gradients in polarizable QM/MM models: an induced dipole formulation" (Abstract)
	10:35 - 11:05	Coffee break
	11:05 - 11:50	Robert Deeth "Computational Coordination Chemistry: Harnessing Quantum Chemistry to Build Better Force Fields" (Abstract)
	11:50 - 12:15	Jelle Vekeman "Adsorption of methane on graphene" (Abstract)
	12:15 - 12:20	Closing Conference
	12:20	Lunch and end public sessions
	14:00	Project Management Course* - for ESRs only
Fri 21	09:00 - 12:20	Project Management Course (continue workshop)* - for ESRs only
	12:20	Lunch and end workshop*

* The events marked with the star are not public.