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Monday arrival day

Arrival from 14:00 — no talks today

14:00
Arrival & check-in to accommodation
15:30
Informal drinks — local pub (Byres Road)
The Aragon Bar · Tennent's · Brel on Ashton Lane

Tuesday 8 talks

Breakfast from 09:00 · Whisky tasting & science talk 18:00

09:00
Breakfast
09:30
Opening remarks & welcome
15 min
Session 1 — Topology & Ring Currents in Altans · 09:45–10:45
09:45
Talk 1
Fat Goblets and Whether Patches Really Matter
Timothy Dickens
10:15
Talk 2
Patterns of Ring Current in Altans
Patrick Fowler
10:45
Roundtable discussion
15 min
11:00
Morning coffee
20 min
Session 2 — Möbius Systems & Antiaromaticity · 11:20–12:50
11:20
Talk 3
A Molecule with Half-Möbius Topology
Igor Rončević
11:50
Talk 4
Transmission As a Diagnostic of Orbital Topology
Alexander Barnett
12:20
Talk 5
Defying Antiaromaticity — The Curious Case of Pentalenopentalenes
Amrita Gogoi
12:50
Roundtable discussion
15 min
13:05
Lunch
65 min
Session 3 — Computational Magnetic Response · 14:10–15:40
14:10
Talk 6
Recent Calculations of the Magnetic Response in Conjugated Molecules
Guglielmo Monaco
14:40
Talk 7
Investigating NMR Properties via Magnetically Induced Current Density
Francesco Ferdinando Summa
15:10
Talk 8
Chemical Reactivity in Magnetic Fields: Symmetry, Current-DFT, and Conceptual DFT
Bang C. Huynh
15:40
Afternoon coffee
20 min
16:00
Dinner break
Find dinner nearby before returning to venue — see map
18:00
Whisky tasting & science talk
Joseph Black Building

Wednesday 6 talks

Later start (09:30 breakfast) · Free afternoon · Conference dinner 18:45

09:30
Breakfast
Later start
10:00
Announcements
5 min
Session 4 — σ-Aromaticity · 10:05–11:35
10:05
Talk 9
Foundations of Electron Counting in σ-Aromatic Systems
Slavko Radenković
10:35
Talk 10
Beyond π Systems: σ-Aromaticity in Halogenated Cycloalkane Dications
Slađana Đorđević
11:05
Talk 11
Aromaticity & Metastability in the Open Shell
Cate S. Anstöter
11:35
Roundtable discussion
15 min
11:50
Morning coffee
20 min
Session 5 — Excited States, Photochemistry & Switchable Aromaticity · 12:10–13:40
12:10
Talk 12
H3+ and the impact of aromaticity and antiaromaticity at the smallest scale
Henrik Ottosson
12:40
Talk 13
Spin-Selective Aromaticity in the n,π* Excited States of Heteroaromatic Molecules
Miquel Solà
13:10
Talk 14
Ground-State Zimmermann–Möbius Aromaticity
Alyssa-Jennifer Avestro
13:40
Lunch
14:40
Group photo
5 min
14:45
Free afternoon — explore Glasgow
Suggestions for things to do and places to visit will be provided
18:45
Conference dinner
The Bothy · 11 Ruthven Lane, Glasgow G12 9BG

Thursday 8 talks

Later start (09:30 breakfast) · Free evening

09:30
Breakfast
Later start
10:00
Announcements
5 min
Session 6 — Aromaticity Diagnostics · 10:05–11:35
10:05
Talk 15
Orbital Contributions to Magnetic Shielding of Cyclo[2n]carbons
Marija Baranac-Stojanović
10:35
Talk 16
Toy Models Reveal Intrinsic Biases in NICS
Emiel Vanden Berghe
11:05
Talk 17
A Challenge to the Buckingham–Stephens Model
Daniel Blasco
11:35
Roundtable discussion
15 min
11:50
Morning coffee
20 min
Session 7 — Inorganic & Transition Metal Aromaticity · 12:10–13:40
12:10
Talk 18
Fused 3D/2D Magnetically Aromatic System through BN/CC Isosterism
Jordi Poater
12:40
Talk 19
Exalted Diamagnetism in Transition Metal Complexes with Bi₃³⁻
Antun Habajec
13:10
Talk 20
Magnetic Properties of 2D-Ising Lattices from Transition Metal Complexes
Christian Pachl
13:40
Roundtable discussion
15 min
13:55
Lunch
60 min
Session 8 — Organometallic & Sandwich Compounds · 14:55–15:55
14:55
Talk 21
Ring Currents in Metallic Sandwich Compounds
Remco Havenith
15:25
Talk 22
Magnetically Induced Current Densities in Sandwich Compounds upon Cation Binding
Katarina Ćeranić
15:55
AGM
15 min — optional
16:10
Afternoon coffee
20 min
16:30
End of day
Free evening

Friday 5 talks

Workshop closes at 12:35

08:45
Breakfast
09:15
Announcements
5 min
Session 9 — Graph Theory & Related Topics · 09:20–10:20
09:20
Talk 23
Conjugated Circuit Models for Altans
Nino Bašić
09:50
Talk 24
About Analytic Continuation of Discrete Graph Spectra
Remi Chauvin
10:20
Roundtable discussion
15 min
10:35
Morning coffee
20 min
Session 10 — Macrocycles & Extended π-Systems · 10:55–12:25
10:55
Talk 25
Aromaticity Signatures in the UV-vis Absorption Spectra of (Sub)Phthalocyanines
Sílvia Escayola
11:25
Talk 26
Global Aromaticity in Paramagnetic Open-Shell Oxidation States of Porphyrin Nanorings
Lene Gödde
11:55
Talk 27
Exploring the Aromatic Limit of Cyclocarbons
Beren Dempsey
12:25
Closing remarks & discussion
10 min
12:35
Conference closes
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