| Monday, August 27 |
| Session chair (morning) Sun Kwok |
| 10:30 | Opening Introduction / Unexplained Spectral Phenomena in the ISM (Invited) | Sun Kwok |
| 11:00 | Unidentified Infrared Emission Features (Invited) | Christine Joblin |
| 11:30 | New Views on Diffuse Interstellar Band Carriers (Invited) | Nick Cox |
| 12:00 | PAHs and the Interstellar Extinction Curve (Invited) | Giacomo Mulas |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Session chair (afternoon) T. R. Geballe |
| 14:00 | Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Diffuse Galactic Emission (Invited) | Takashi Onaka |
| 14:30 | Photoluminescence by Interstellar Dust: Extended Red Emission (ERE) and Blue Luminescence (BL) (Invited) | Uma P. Vijh |
| 15:00 | Carbon Star Dust Features: The 21 and 30 Micron Features (Invited) | Kevin Volk |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session chair (afternoon 2) Christine Joblin |
| 16:00 | Infrared Diffuse Interstellar Bands in the Galactic Center | T. R. Geballe |
| 16:15 | The Deep 3.4 mm Interstellar Absorption Feature toward the IRAS 18511+0146 Cluster | Marie Godard |
| 16:30 | Dust Spectroscopy in the Early Universe (Invited) | Aigen Li |
| 17:00 | Studies of Diffuse Interstellar Bands in Cool Star Spectra | Rosine Lallement |
| 17:15 | Using Diffuse Interstellar Bands to Probe the Local Bubble | Mandy Bailey |
| 17:30 | Fullerenes in Circumstellar and Interstellar Environments (Invited) | Jan Cami |
| 18:00 | Detections of Diffuse Interstellar Bands in the SDSS Low-resolution Spectra | Hai-Bo Yuan |
| Tuesday, August 28 |
| Session chair (morning) Vito Mennella |
| 10:30 | Amorphous Hydrocarbon Dust Evolution in the ISM: Theory, Modelling and Observation (Invited) | Anthony Jones |
| 11:00 | Prebiotic Matter in Space: Recent Results from Observations, Laboratory Analyses and Space Experiments (Invited) | Pascale Ehrenfreund |
| 11:30 | Spectroscopic Properties of Carbonaceous Matter from the Laboratory (Invited) | Cornelia Jäger |
| 12:00 | Carbon Nanoparticles and Carbonaceous Solids (Invited) | Walt Duley |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Session chair (afternoon) Pascale Ehrenfreund |
| 14:00 | Nanodust in the Interstellar Medium: Comparison to Observations in the Solar System | Ingrid Mann |
| 14:15 | Diffuse Interstellar Bands versus Interstellar Extinction | Fuyuan Xiang |
| 14:30 | Laboratory Simulations of Chemical Processes under Interstellar Conditions (Invited) | Guillermo Manuel Muñoz Caro |
| 15:00 | Synthesis and Transformation of Carbonaceous Nanoparticles (Invited) | Vito Mennella |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session chair (afternoon 2) Walt Duley |
| 16:00 | Laboratory Analogues of the Carbonaceous Dust: Synthesis of Soot-like Materials and their Properties (Invited) | Thomas Pino |
| 16:30 | A Review on Amorphous Carbon and Carbon-rich Compounds in Space (Invited) | Franco Cataldo |
| 17:00 | The 6.9-micron and 15.8-micron Features in Magellanic Cloud Post-AGB Stars | Mikako Matsuura |
| 17:15 | Spectroscopic Characterization of Molecules in Space by Theoretical Chemistry: From Rovibrational Spectroscopic Constants to CO2/SO2 IR Line Lists | Xinchuan Huang |
| 17:30 | Mixed Chemistry Phenomenon in the Galactic Bulge Planetary Nebulae | Ryszard Szczerba |
