Physical Chemistry Seminars

These talks begin at 2 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 * and highlighted are part of the Greater Boston Area (GBA) Theoretical Chemistry Lecture Series sponsored by Boston University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). These joint seminars are held at MIT in Building 4, Room 231 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-Harvard-MIT theory seminars (including lecture notes) please see the GBA Theoretical Chemistry Lecture Series.

Spring 2012 Speakers

February 15 Professor Flavio Maran University of Padova Department of Chemistry Superefficient Electron Transfer through 310-Helical Peptides

February 22 Professor Judith Herzfeld Brandeis University Department of Chemistry Cheap Electrons for Reactive Molecular Dynamics

February 29 Professor Hans Wyss Einhoven University of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering Microfluidics as a tool to study soft and biological materials

March 28 Professor Udayan Mohanty Boston College Department of Chemistry Ion Atmosphere Around Nucleic Acid

April 11 Jaeyoung Sung Chung-Ang University (visiting MIT) Department of Chemistry Novel Chemical Kinetics for Description of Chemical Noise in Dynamically Heterogeneous Biological Reaction Systems

Fri April 27 Alan van Giessen Hobart and William Smith Colleges Department of Chemistry Thermodynamics of small peptide oligomer formation

May 2 Professor Radha Narayanan University of Rhode Island Department of Chemistry Designer Metal  Nanoparticles for Sensing and Catalysis Applications