Physical Chemistry Seminars

These talks begin at 3 pm on Wednesday afternoons in Room SCI 512 in the Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering (590 Commonwealth, Boston, MA 02215). There are refreshments provided at the lecture.

Seminars labeled with * are part of the Greater Boston Area (GBA) Theoretical Chemistry Lecture Series sponsored by Boston University, Boston College, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). These joint seminars are held at MIT in Building 24, Room 121 and start at 4:00 pm and run until 6:00 pm.

These "theory afternoons" offer an exciting new seminar medium where in-depth presentations of broadly applicable methods and new approaches are presented.

For more information on these joint BU-BC-Harvard-MIT theory seminars (including lecture notes) please see the GBA Theoretical Chemistry Lecture Series.

Fall 2007 Schedule

September 19* GBA Theory Seminar	Jan Martin Wiezmann Institute of Science "Computational Thermochemistry and Thermochemical Kinetics: Density Functional and High Accuracy Ab Initio Approaches"

September 26* GBA Theory Seminar	Sotiris Xantheas Department of Energy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories "(1) Cooperative Effects in Water: Insights From Electronic Structure Calculations, and (2) Development of a new Interaction Potential for Water from First Principles: Structural and Thermodynamic Properties of Water Clusters, Clathrate Hydrates, Liquid Water and Ice."

October 3	Ethan Baxter Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University "Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology, and the Reconstruction of Very Slow Metamorphic Reactions" To download a pdf of: "Field Measurement of Slow Metamorphic Reaction Rates at Temperatures of 500 to 600C," by Ethan F. Baxter and Donald J. DePaolo, SCIENCE, vol 288, 26 May 2000, please click here.

October 10* GBA Theory Seminar	Neepa Maitra City University of New York "TBA"

October 17	Victor Batista Department of Chemistry, Yale University ""Water Splitting: Computational Insights on Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis""

October 24* GBA Theory Seminar	Greg Voth Department of Chemistry, University of Utah "TBA"

October 31	Shuanghong Huo Department of Chemistry, Clark University "Mapping the Early Steps of Amyloid Formation with Computational Approaches"

November 7	Karl Freed Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago "Protein Folding: Interrelation Between Secondary and Tertiary Structure Determination"

Nobember 14	Ioan Andricioaei Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan "Conformational Kinetics of Nucleic Acids Under External Forces"

Nobember 28* GBA Theory Seminar	Sabre Kais Department of Chemistry, Perdue University "TBA"

December 5* GBA Theory Seminar	Charles Brooks The Scripps Research Institute "TBA"

December 12 CANCELLED	The last Physical Chemistry seminar originally planned for December 12 has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for February 2008. Valeri Barsegov Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Lowell "Probing Protein-Protein Interactions by Ordered Forced Unfolding Times: Theory and Applications"