2011-12

Professor Lyudmila Slipchenko, Purdue University, February 6, 2012

Professor Francesco Paesani, University of California, San Diego, March 5, 2012

Professor Joel Eaves, University of Colorado-Boulder, May 7, 2012

Professor Shoji Takada, Kyoto University, August 15, 2011

Professor Rakwoo Chang, Kwangwoon University, September 26, 2011

Professor William Miller, University of California-Berkeley, October 10, 2011

Professor Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Stony Brook State University, November 7, 2011

2009 - 2010

• Prof. Phillippe C. Hiberty, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Universite Paris-Sud XI

  New concepts in chemical bonding:  Charge shift bonding and its manifestations in chemistry
  
  Sept. 21, 2009

• Prof. Vassiliy Lubchenko, Department of Chemistry, University of Houston

  Intrinsic connection between the structure and electronic anomalies of vitreous matter
  
  Oct. 2 (Friday!) 2009

• Dr. David Luckhaus, University of British Columbia

  Hydrogen exchange tunneling:  large curvature reaction path dynamics
  
  Oct. 5, 2009

• Professor Feng Wang, Boston University

  TBA
  
  Jan. 25, 2010

• Prof. William G. Noid, Penn State

  TBA
  
  Apr. 12, 2010    

• Prof. Dmitri Babikov, Marquette University

  TBA
  
  Apr. 19, 2010

2008 - 2009

• Prof. Yiqin Gao, Department of Chemistry, Texas A & M

  Understanding Air/Water Interface Structure & Dynamics using novel enhanced sampling techniques
  
  Nov. 6 (Thursday!) 2008

• Prof. Shijie Chen, Department of Physics, University of Missouri

  RNA folding Dynamics and structural predictions
  
  Nov. 10 2008

• Prof. John Stanton, Department of Chemistry, UT-Austin

  NO3
  
  Nov. 13 (Thursday!) 2008

• Prof. Wei Yang, Department of Chemistry, Florida State

  Enhanced Sampling Techniques
  
  Dec. 1 2008

• Prof. Tom Miller, Department of Chemistry, Cal-Tech

  Dynamics of Complex Systems
  
  Mar. 30 2009

• Prof. David Hsu, Department of Neurology, UW-Madison

  Zwanzig-Mori Projection Operators and EEG Dynamics:  Deriving A Simple Equation of Motion
  
  Apr. 17 2009

• Prof. XiaoSong Li, Department of Chemistry, Univ. Washington Seattle

  Ab initio Dynamics and Theories
  
  Apr. 27 2009

• Prof. P. C. Hiberty, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Univ. de Paris-Sud, France

  TBA
  
  Sept. 21 2009

2007 - 2008

• Prof. Chris Ochsenfeld, Institut fuer Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
  
• Prof. Wonpil Im, Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Molecular Sciences, The University of Kansas
• Prof. Steve Corcelli, Department of Chemistry, University of Notre-Dame
• Prof. John Herbert, Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University

   

2006 - 2007

• Prof. Yiqin Gao, Department of Chemistry, Texas A & M

  Nov. 7

• Prof. Thomas Truskett, Department of Chemical Engineering, Univ. Texas - Austin

  Feb. 12 2007

• Prof. Jean M. Standard, Department of Chemistry, Illinois State

  Feb. 26 2007

• Prof. Daniela Kohen, Department of Chemistry, Carleton College.

  Mar. 12 2007

• Prof. Barry Dunietz, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan

  Apr. 19 2007

• Prof. Srinivasan S. Iyengar, Department of Chemistry, Indiana Univ.

  Apr. 30 2007

   

2005 - 2006

• Prof. Claudio-Margulis, Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Iowa

  Nov. 7

• Prof. Jin Wang, Department of Chemistry, SUNY-Stony Brook

  Dec. 12

• Prof. Anatoly Kolomeisky, Department of Chemistry, Rice Univ.

  Mar. 6 2006

• Prof. Michael Feig, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Michigan State Univ.

  Mar. 27 2006

• Prof. Aaron Dinner, Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Chicago

  Apr. 3 2006

• Prof. Adrian Elcock, Department of Biochemistry, Univ. of Iowa

  May. 8 2006

   

Spring 2005

• Prof. G. Balint-Burti, Department of Chemistry, Bristol, Feb. 10. 2005

  Ab initio design of laser pulses to control quantum states of molecules

• Prof. T. Keiderling, Department of Chemistry, UIC, Feb. 21, 2005

  Theoretical and experimental studies of peptide conformational dynamics using IR spectroscopy

• Prof. I. Andricio, Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Michigan , Apr. 18, 2005

  New theoretical methods for the sampling of complex systems

• Prof. P. Piecuch, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State, May, 9, 2005

  Recent developments in coupled cluster theory

   

Fall 2004

• Prof. S. Sun, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins , Sept. 16(THUR!) 2004

  Theoretical model of muscle functions

• Prof. E. Geva, Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Michigan, Oct. 11 2004

  Simulation of quantum molecular dynamics in the condensed phase: Approximations based on linearizing the path-integral forward-backward action

• Dr. E. Tajkhorshid, Department of Chemistry and the Beckeman Institute , UIUC , Nov. 15 2004

  Molecular simulations of water transport in aqua-porin

• Prof. D. York, Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Minnesota, Dec. 13 2004

  Multi-scale methods for studying phosphate chemistry in solution and RNA

   

Spring, 2003

• Prof. Shi Jin , Dec. 18 2002 , Dept. of Mathematics., Univ. of Wisc., Madison

  Computational Issues for Schrodinger Equations in the Semiclassical Regime

• Prof. S. Gray , Feb 2003 , Argonne National Lab

  Theoretical studies of reaction in Carbon Nanotubes and design of wave guides

• Prof. J. Daniel Gezelter , March 2003 , Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Notre Dame

  Theoretical studies of nano-particle dynamics

• Prof. Carlos Simmerling , Apr. 2003 , Department of Chemistry, SUNY, Stony Brook

  Simulations of protein structure and folding: what can we learn?

   

Fall, 2002

• Prof. Tsun-Mei Chang , May 6 2002 , Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Parkside

  Computer simulations of molecular transport across water interfaces

• Prof. Sabre Kais , May 20 2002 , Department of Chemistry, Purdue University

  Quantum phase transitions and stability of atomic and molecular systems

• Prof. Abraham Kofman , May 30 2002 , Quantum Optics Group, Weizmann Institute

  Relaxation of a two-level system strongly coupled to a reservoir: Anomalously slow decoherence

• Prof. J. H. Jensen , Sept. 30 2002 , Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Iowa

  The prediction of pKa's and NMR chemical shifts in proteins

• Prof. D. A. Mazziotti , Oct. 21 2002 , Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Chicago

  Contracted Schrodinger equation: A new paradigm for the computation of molecular states and processes

• Prof. Xueyu Song , Nov. 20 2002 , Department of Chemistry, Iowa State Univ.

  The role of anisotropic interactions in protein crystallization

   

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