Overview
Dates: Wednesday, July 22 – Thursday, July 23, 2026
Venue: 5F Auditorium, Chemistry Main Bldg. (The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus)
Invited Speakers
Korea
| Oh-Hoon Kwon | KAIST | Filming Electrons Surfing on the Sound Wave in 2D TMD Using Correlative Ultrafast Electron and Optical Microscopy |
| Ye-Jin Kim | Seoul National University | Zooming Polarons in Correlated Metal Oxides |
| Woojae Kim | Yonsei University | Controlling Spin Evolution in Intramolecular Singlet Fission of TIPS-Pentacene Dimers via External Heavy-Atom and Magnetic Field Effects |
| Yousoo Kim | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology | Excitonic Quantum States at Single-Molecule Interfaces: Foundations for Operando Science |
| JunWoo Kim | Chungbuk National University | Coherent Vibrational Spectroscopy beyond Semi-Classical Ultrafast Photoinitiated Processes |
| Taeyeon Kim | Sungkyunkwan University | Unraveling the Mechanisms of Dearomative Photocycloaddition in Quinoline |
| Seung Kyu Min | UNIST | Optical Control of Molecular Motion Using Excited-State Molecular Dynamics |
| Jae Woo Park | Chungbuk National University | Multireference quantum chemistry for exploring potential energy surfaces |
| JaeHong Park | Ewha Womans University | Excited electron and protron transfer dynamics in organic semiconducting materials |
| Woon Yong Sohn | Chungbuk National University | Probing Photoexcited Charge Carrier Dynamics in PEC Water-Splitting Photoelectrodes via in Situ Near-Field Heterodyne Transient Grating Spectroscopy |
| Young Min Rhee | KAIST | Quantum phase estimation for molecules in NISQ era: dead or alive? |
Japan
| Ryuji Itakura | Kansai Institute for Photon Science | Soft x-ray high harmonic generation by intense infrared laser pulses and measurement of x-ray absorption near edge structure |
| Hiromi Nakai | Waseda University | Theoretical Study on Molecular Structures at the S0/S1 Minimum Energy Conical Intersection |
| Tomoko Shimizu | Keio University | Surface Structure and the Water-Gas Shift Reaction on Magnetite Surfaces: From Ultrahigh Vacuum Toward Operando Spectroscopy |
| Ryo Toyoshima | The University of Tokyo | In situ/operando spectroscopic view for 2D and thin-film gas sensor materials |
| Yasuo Nakayama | Tokyo University of Science | Photo-electronic Characterization of Semiconducting Molecular Crystals |
| Taketoshi Minato | Institute for Molecular Science | Electrode/Electrolyte Interface Reactions in Anion-Shuttling Systems Revealed by Scanning Probe Microscopy |
| Takanori Harashima | Institute for Molecular Science | Toward artificial DNA molecular motors rivaling motor proteins |
| Jun Ohnuki | Institute for Molecular Science | Activating AlphaFold for conformational sampling of proteins |
| Jana Lustikova | Institute for Molecular Science | Transport Studies of Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Superconductors with Magnetic and Spin Control |
| Jun Nishida | Institute for Molecular Science | Coherent and incoherent transport processes in low-dimensional materials probed by ultrafast infrared nano-imaging |
| Masanari Nagasaka | Institute for Molecular Science | Operando Soft X-ray Spectroscopy for Observing Chemical Processes in Solutions |
Organized by Institute for Molecular Science
Organizer: Fumihiko MATSUI (IMS), Takashi KUMAGAI (IMS)
Contact: ims-japan_korea2026@ims.ac.jp