Chemical Physics Seminar

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

Nanophotonics: The Art of Managing Photons at the Nanoscale
Mark L. Brongersma, Associate Professor , Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

Dynamics of Liquids and Interfaces Studied with Ultrafast 2D IR Vibrational Echo Spectroscopy
Michael D. Fayer, David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

Surprises in ionic driven assembly of membranes
Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Lawyer Professor of Materials Science, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Materials Science, Northwestern University
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

The Discovery of the Fullerenes
David E. Manolopoulos, Professor, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

Systematic identification of reaction coordinates with (and now also without) transition path sampling
Baron Peters, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Thursday, March 22, 2012
10:30 am
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Special Chemical Physics Seminar

Computational electrochemistry of transition metal oxide water interfaces
Michiel Sprik, Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

Predicting molecular crystal properties with quantum chemistry
Gregory Beran, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside
Thursday, April 26, 2012
2:00 pm
153 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Special Chemical Physics Seminar

Reactions of OH Radicals, H Atoms, and Solvated Electrons in Pressurized High Temperature Water
David M. Bartels, Professor, Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

Ab initio Modeling of CO2 Reduction and CO2 Capture
Laura Gagliardi, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

Promoting Chemistry With External Force: Covalent Mechanochemistry with First Principles Molecular Dynamics on Graphical Processing Units
Todd J. Martinez, Professor of Chemistry and Professor of S.L.A.C. Photon Science, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

The Ugly, the Soft, and the Elastic: Short Stories on Particle Self-Assembly
Angelo Cacciuto, Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

A Molecule to Detect and Perturb the Confinement of Charge Carriers in Colloidal Quantum Dots
Emily A. Weiss, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
3:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

Time-resolved Molecular Imaging with a Femtosecond Hard X-ray Laser
John C.H. Spence, Regents' Professor, Department of Physics, Arizona State University
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Joint Biochemistry / Chemical Physics Seminar

Small-molecule Interrogation of Kinase Signaling and Membrane Protein Biogenesis
Jack Taunton, Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

Real-time Imaging of Nanoscale Dynamics on Atomic Glass Surfaces
Martin Gruebele, James R. Eiszner Prof. of Chemistry, Prof. of Physics, Prof. of Biophysics and Computational Biology, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

Subtle but profound consequences of nanoscale fluctuations in biophysics and materials science: From side chain packing in proteins to nanocrystal self-assembly
Phillip Geissler, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

Photoactivated Dissociation of Specific Bonds in Whole Proteins: Methods and Applications
Ryan Julian, Associate professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
4:00 pm
147 Noyes, J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall

Chemical Physics Seminar

Nonlinear Vibrational Imaging
Eric Olaf Potma, Associate Professor of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine