Theoretical Chemistry Institute Seminar Series

Regular Time: Some Monday(s) of each month at 3 p.m.
Regular Place: 8335 Chemistry Building

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2012-13

• Sept. 24, 2012: Professor Pengyu Ren, University of Texas-Austin
• Oct. 29, 2012: Professor Gregory Beran, University of California-Riverside
• Nov. 5, 2012: Professor Nimrod Moiseyev, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
• Jan. 28, 2013: Professor Jianhua Xing, Virginia Tech
• Feb. 11, 2013: Professor Thomas Markland, Stanford University
• March 11, 2013: Professor Ryan Steele, The University of Utah
• April 8, 2013: Professor Spiridoula Matsika, Temple University
• May 6, 2013: Professor Joseph Subotnik, University of Pennsylvania

2011-12

• Aug. 15, 2011: Professor Shoji Takada, Kyoto University
• Sept. 26, 2011: Professor Rakwoo Chang, Kwangwoon University
• Oct. 10, 2011: Professor William Miller, University of California-Berkeley
• Nov. 7, 2011: Professor Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Stony Brook State University
• Feb. 6, 2012: Professor Lyudmila Slipchenko, Purdue University
• March 5, 2012: Professor Francesco Paesani, University of California, San Diego
• May 7, 2012: Professor Joel Eaves, University of Colorado-Boulder

2009-10

• Sept. 21, 2009: 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"

• Oct. 2, 2009: Prof. Vassiliy Lubchenko, Department of Chemistry, University of Houston
  "Intrinsic connection between the structure and electronic anomalies of vitreous matter"

• Oct. 5, 2009: Dr. David Luckhaus, University of British Columbia
  "Hydrogen exchange tunneling: large curvature reaction path dynamics"

• Jan. 25, 2010: Professor Feng Wang, Boston University
• Apr. 12, 2010: Prof. William G. Noid, Penn State
• Apr. 19, 2010: Prof. Dmitri Babikov, Marquette University

2008-09

• Nov. 6, 2008: Prof. Yiqin Gao, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M
  "Understanding Air/Water Interface Structure & Dynamics using novel enhanced sampling techniques"
• Nov. 10 2008, Prof. Shijie Chen, Department of Physics, University of Missouri
  "RNA folding Dynamics and structural predictions"
• Nov. 13, 2008: Prof. John Stanton, Department of Chemistry, UT-Austin
• Dec. 1 2008: Prof. Wei Yang, Department of Chemistry, Florida State University
  "Enhanced Sampling Techniques"
• Mar. 30 2009: Prof. Tom Miller, Department of Chemistry, Cal-Tech
  "Dynamics of Complex Systems"

• Apr. 17 2009: Prof. David Hsu, Department of Neurology, UW-Madison
  "Zwanzig-Mori Projection Operators and EEG Dynamics: Deriving A Simple Equation of Motion"

• Apr. 27 2009: Prof. XiaoSong Li, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington Seattle
  "Ab initio Dynamics and Theories"
• Sept. 21 2009: Prof. P. C. Hiberty, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Univ. de Paris-Sud, France

2007-08

• 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

2006-07

• Nov. 7, 2006: Prof. Yiqin Gao, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M
• Feb. 12, 2007: Prof. Thomas Truskett, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
• Feb. 26, 2007: Prof. Jean M. Standard, Department of Chemistry, Illinois State
• March 12, 2007: Prof. Daniela Kohen, Department of Chemistry, Carleton College
• April 19, 2007: Prof. Barry Dunietz, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
• Apr. 30 2007: Prof. Srinivasan S. Iyengar, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University

2005-06

• Nov. 7, 2005: Prof. Claudio-Margulis, Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa
• Dec. 12, 2005: Prof. Jin Wang, Department of Chemistry, SUNY-Stony Brook
• March 6, 2006: Prof. Anatoly Kolomeisky, Department of Chemistry, Rice University
• March 27, 2006: Prof. Michael Feig, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Michigan State University
• April 3, 2006: Prof. Aaron Dinner, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
• May 8, 2006: Prof. Adrian Elcock, Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa

2005

• Feb. 10. 2005: Prof. G. Balint-Burti, Department of Chemistry, Bristol
  "Ab initio design of laser pulses to control quantum states of molecules"
• Feb. 21, 2005: Prof. T. Keiderling, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago
  "Theoretical and experimental studies of peptide conformational dynamics using IR spectroscopy"
• April 18, 2005: Prof. I. Andricio, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
  "New theoretical methods for the sampling of complex systems"
• May 9, 2005: Prof. P. Piecuch, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University
  "Recent developments in coupled cluster theory"

2004

• Sept. 16, 2004: Prof. S. Sun, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins
  "Theoretical model of muscle functions"
• Oct. 11, 2004: Prof. E. Geva, Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Michigan
  "Simulation of quantum molecular dynamics in the condensed phase: Approximations based on linearizing the path-integral forward-backward action"
• Nov. 15, 2004: Dr. E. Tajkhorshid, Department of Chemistry and the Beckeman Institute , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Molecular simulations of water transport in aqua-porin"
• Dec. 13, 2004: Prof. D. York, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
  "Multi-scale methods for studying phosphate chemistry in solution and RNA"

2003

• Dec. 18, 2002: Prof. Shi Jin, Dept. of Mathematics., University of Wisconsin-Madison
  "Computational Issues for Schrodinger Equations in the Semiclassical Regime"
• Feb. 2003: Prof. S. Gray, Argonne National Laoratory
  "Theoretical studies of reaction in Carbon Nanotubes and design of wave guides"
• March 2003: Prof. J. Daniel Gezelter, Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame
  "Theoretical studies of nano-particle dynamics"
• April 2003: Prof. Carlos Simmerling, Department of Chemistry, SUNY, Stony Brook
  "Simulations of protein structure and folding: what can we learn?"

2002

• May 6, 2002: Prof. Tsun-Mei Chang, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Parkside
  "Computer simulations of molecular transport across water interfaces"
• May 20, 2002: Prof. Sabre Kais, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University
  "Quantum phase transitions and stability of atomic and molecular systems"
• May 30, 2002: Prof. Abraham Kofman, Quantum Optics Group, Weizmann Institute
  "Relaxation of a two-level system strongly coupled to a reservoir: Anomalously slow decoherence"
• Sept. 30 2002: Prof. J. H. Jensen, Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa
  "The prediction of pKa's and NMR chemical shifts in proteins"
• Oct. 21 2002: Prof. D.A. Mazziotti, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
  "Contracted Schrodinger equation: A new paradigm for the computation of molecular states and processes"
• Nov. 20 2002: Prof. Xueyu Song, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
  "The role of anisotropic interactions in protein crystallization"