Physical Chemistry Seminars – 2011

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
January 26 Professor Daniel Zuckerman University of Pittsburgh Department of Computational and Systems Biology Five short talks on non-equilibrium biophysical chemistry & simulation
February 9* Professor David Coker Boston University Department of Chemistry TBA
February 16* Professor Ulrich Hansmann Michigan Tech University Department of Physics TBA
February 23 Frank Huo Boston University Department of Chemistry, Coker Group Coherent Exciton Transfer in Light Harvesting Systems
March 2 Artem Mamonov Boston University Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vajda Group Variable-resolution models using library-based Monte Carlo
March 9 Professor Lawrence Ziegler Boston University Department of Chemistry Ultrafast H2 and D2 rotational Raman responses in near critical CO2: A novel probe of anisotropic solvation dynamics near a critical point
March 23 Professor William Noid Penn State University Department of Chemistry Bridging the gap between physics-based and knowledge-based protein models: Directly determining physical potentials from a model protein databank
March 30 Dr. Wonmi Ahn Boston University Department of Chemistry, Reinhard Group Sensitive polarization dependence of nested gold nanoparticle arrays
April 6* Professor Eric Bittner University of Houston Department of Chemistry TBA
April 13 Dr. Jing Wang Boston University Department of Chemistry, Reinhard Group Spectroscopic Ultra-Trace Detection of Nitroaromatic Gas Vapor on Rationally Designed Two-Dimensional Nanoparticle Cluster Arrays
April 20* Eric Pinnick Boston University Department of Physics, Wang Group Determining the Melting Point of Water from First Principles
POSTPONED  April 27 Dr. David Anick Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry TBA
May 4* Professor Jean Luc Bredas Georgia Tech Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry TBA
Fall
September 28 Dr. Svetlana Boriskina Boston University Department of Chemistry, Reinhard Group Spying on molecules through optoplasmonic superlenses
October 5 Professor David Anick Harvard Medical School Solvation shell inertia: Can water inhibit a proton transfer reaction?
October 12 Dr. Gungar Ozer Boston University Department of Chemistry, Keyes Group Adaptive steered molecular dynamics: Unfolding of Neuropeptide Y and decaalanine stretching
November 2 Professor Mary Jane Schultz Tufts University Department of Chemistry Hydrogen Bonding and Aqueous Interfaces sum frequency, polarization, and matrix isolation spectroscopy
November 9 Professor Yasha Yi City University of New York Integrated Nanophotonics Laboratory Integrated Nanophotonics for Next Generation Renewable Energy Applications
November 16 Dr. Jeremy Moix MIT Department of Chemistry, Cao Group Energy-loss rainbows in heavy atom scattering from surfaces
November 30 Professor Richard Robinson Cornell University Department of Materials Science and Engineering Nanoparticle Developments Toward Energy Devices