Second French-Norwegian Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry (FN-ICMC2)

Above left: Group photo from FN-ICMC1 in Dijon. Front row: Organizers Claude Gros (Université de Bourgogne 🇫🇷) and Abhik Ghosh (UiT 🇳🇴). Right: Wine tasting; UiT chemists Krister Johannessen (🇳🇴), Simon Larsen (🇳🇴) and Jørn Hansen (🇳🇴), who will serve as local organizers in Tromsø. Photo: Abhik Ghosh

The First Åsgard Horizon French-Norwegian Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry (FN-ICMC1) launched in Dijon in May 2024, following a grant from the Institut Français de Norvège under the Åsgard Horizon exchange programme. The aim was to create an annual forum for discussion on materials and coordination chemistry for junior and senior researchers from both countries with a view to facilitating existing and future collaborative projects and implementing them within the framework of bilateral programmes, including the Åsgard and Åsgard Research Plus programmes, the Hubert Curien Aurora exchange programme (PHC), and tinternational collaborative projects of the Research Council of Norway and the CNRS. FN-ICMC1 brought together nearly 50 participants at the Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie et du Vin, Le Village by CA, Dijon, France.

The Second Åsgard Horizon French-Norwegian Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry (FN-ICMC2) will be held at UiT June 19-20, 2025. As of March 20, 2025, the majority of invited speakers are in place, with several slots still open for contributed talks and posters. The following speakers and lectures are currently confirmed.

Tom Christian Holm ADAMSEN (University of Bergen 🇳🇴): Nuclear Imaging and Therapy with Metal Radionuclides

Abraham B. ALEMAYEHU (UiT 🇳🇴): The manifold interactions of corrole and rhenium

Mohamed AMEDJKOU (University of Oslo 🇳🇴): Symmetry breaking with intriguing intermediates in asymmetric amplification

Laurie ANDRE (Université de Bourgogne 🇫🇷): Corroles incorporation into porous structures for extended applications in gas sensing

Frédéric BOLZE (Université de Strasbourg 🇫🇷): Two-photon excited chromophores: from brain to logic gates

Penny BROTHERS (The Australian National University 🇦🇺 and, formerly, UiT 🇳🇴): The chemistry of boron with pyrrole ligands: tales from the world of porphyrins, corroles, phthalocyanines and BODIPY

Gabriel CANARD (Aix-Marseille Université 🇫🇷): Carbon Allotropes - Corrole Supramolecular Assemblies

Sachin Maruti CHAVAN (University of Stavanger 🇳🇴): Functional metal organic framework for critical metal separation

Jeanet CONRADIE (University of the Free State 🇿🇦 and UiT 🇳🇴): Energy Levels in Metallocorroles: Direct and Inverse Photoemission Spectroscopies, Electrochemistry, and DFT Calculations

Taye DEMISSIE (University of Bostwana 🇧🇼 and UiT 🇳🇴): Integrating Synthetic and Computational Approaches for the Design and Discovery of Cytotoxic Transition Metal Complexes

Nicolas DESBOIS (Université de Bourgogne 🇫🇷): Recent developments in corrole chemistry

Stéphanie DUROT (Université de Strasbourg 🇫🇷): Dynamic porphyrin cages: supramolecular catalysis, allosteric encapsulation of guests and controlled motion in [2]rotaxanes

Jørn H. Hansen (UiT 🇳🇴): Synthetic chemistry enabling bioactives and materials design

Denis JACQUEMIN (Nantes Université 🇫🇷): Simulating excited-state spectra and properties of organic and inorganic systems based on N-ligands

Christian M. Johansen (🇳🇴 🇺🇸): Catalytic Proton-Coupled Reductions of CN⁻ and N₂

Erwan LE ROUX (University of Bergen 🇳🇴): Activity, Selectivity and Mechanistic Investigations of Group 4 NHC Pincer Catalysts in the Synthesis of CO2-Based Polymers

Michel MEYER (Université de Bourgogne 🇫🇷): Uranium(VI) Chelation by Hydroxamic Chelators: from Solution Equilibrium Studies to an Operational Analytical Tool

Mali Husby ROSNES (University of Bergen 🇳🇴): To be added

Kenneth RUUD (UiT 🇳🇴): Modeling 2D nanoconjugates

Jean-Marc SIMON (Université Bourgogne 🇫🇷): Adsorption thermodynamic properties from image analysis

Olivier SIRI (Aix-Marseille Université 🇫🇷): Azacalixarene: An Ever-Growing Macrocycle