Name: Jacek Waluk, Department IX, Team 29 Destination: Bordeaux

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Name: Jacek Waluk, Department IX, Team 29
Destination: Bordeaux, France
Duration: July 13- 28, 2014
REPORT OF FOREIGN TRAVEL
Participation at the International Conference:
XXVth IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry
In the period of July 13-28, 2014, I attended the XXVth IUPAC Symposium on
Photochemistry, held in Bordeaux, France. The IUPAC meeting, held every two years,
alternates with International Conference on Photochemistry series, both being the annual most
important event for scientists working not only in the field of photochemistry, but also in
photophysics, spectroscopy, and, recently, also in materials science, photobiology, and
photomedicine. This year, the conference gathered over 600 participants from all over the
world.
The scientific program consisted of plenary, invited, and award lectures, oral
contributions, organized in three parallel sessions, and poster sessions (two, 360 posters in
total). The subjects included photoinduced charge transfer, photochromism and other forms
of light-induced transformations. One can note the bias towards applications, such as artificial
photosynthesis, phototodiagnosis and photodynamic therapy, design of building materials for
nonlinear optics, photovoltaic cells, etc.
My contribution to the conference was threefold: oral contribution entitled:
Competition between different ultrafast channels in the excited state deactivation in anils
and boranils; this was a collaborative effort of four research groups (Strasbourg – Geneva –
Warsaw), including thirteen coauthors: Jacek Dobkowski, Paweł Wnuk, Joanna Buczyńska,
Maria Pszona, Grażyna Orzanowska, Denis Frath, Gilles Ulrich, Sandra Mosquera-Vazquez,
Eric Vauthey, Czesław Radzewicz, Raymond Ziessel, and Jacek Waluk. It has to be stressed
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
address: M. Kasprzaka 44/52, PL-01-224 Warsaw, Poland
website: http://ichf.edu.pl phone: 48 22 3433109 fax: 48 22 3433333
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that cooperation with Geneva started as a result of NOBLESSE by a visit to Geneva by dr
Jacek Dobkowski.
I was also a contributing author of two posters: (i) Cellular uptake of porphycenes in
different carrier media (with Natalia Masiera, Hubert Piwoński, Agnieszka Bojarska, and
Iwona
Gawryszewska);
(ii)
Photophysics
of
gold-silica
core-shell
nanoparticles
functionalized with twisted intermolecular charge transfer molecules (with Anna Kelm,
Jakub Ostapko, Ana Sánchez-Iglesias, and Luis M. Liz-Marzán).
During the conference, some possible future collaborations were discussed with the
group of Prof. Santi Nonell, University of Barcelona.
Summarizing, I believe the conference provided a good opportunity to learn about
new trends in photochemistry and spectroscopy. Attending this meeting was useful and
instructive, also for my younger colleagues, Natalia Masiera and Anna Kelm, who start their
PhD work in the area of photochemistry and photobiology.
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
address: M. Kasprzaka 44/52, PL-01-224 Warsaw, Poland
website: http://ichf.edu.pl phone: 48 22 3433109 fax: 48 22 3433333