September 15, 2005
| 9.00 | Dr. Pēteris Trapencieris (President of the Latvian Chemical Society, Riga, Latvia): Welcoming remarks |
| 9.10 | Professor Ivars Kalviņš (Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis; Riga, Latvia) “Novel Sulfonamide Derivatives as Inhibitors of Histone Deacetylase” |
| 10.00 | Dr. Arthur Gomtsyan (Abbott Laboratories Inc., Abbott Park, USA) “Vanilloid receptor antagonists for pain: Chirality matters” |
| 10.50 | Coffee break |
| 11.20 | Professor Eriks Rozners (Northeastern University, Boston, USA) “Non-ionic RNA Analogues: Stereoselective Synthesis, Biophysical Properties, and Biological Relevance” |
| 12.10 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Professor Luigi Vaccaro (University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy) “Catalysis in Unconventional Media. Toward a Green Synthesis of Target Molecules” |
| 14.50 | Coffee break |
| 15.10 | Professor Matthias Beller (Leibnitz Institute of Organic Catalysis, Rostock, Germany) “Homogeneous Catalysis: From mechanistic concepts to industrial applications” |
| 16.00 | Tour to the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis facilities |
| 16.30 | Visit to the monuments of Professor Wilhelm Ostwald and Professor Paul Walden |
September 16, 2005
| 9.00 | Professor Edvīns Vedējs (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) “Heteroatom directed hydroboration” |
| 9.50 | Coffee break & Poster session |
| 11.30 | Professor Peter Somfai (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) “From Divergent to Focused Approaches to Amino Alcohols and Amino Diols: Applications to the Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural Products” |
| 12.20 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Professor Uno Mäeorg (Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia) “New aspects in synthesis of substituted hydrazines” |
| 15.10 | Coffee break |
| 15.10 | Professor Vladimir Gevorgyan (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA) “Novel Transition Metal-Catalyzed Protocols Toward Heterocycles” |
| 16.00 | Closing remarks |
| 16.10 | Tour to “Grindeks” or “Olainfarm” |