Past Speakers:

Name Affiliation Date
Marshall D. Newton Professor of Chemsitry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, "Modeling Electronic Transport Rates: Energetics, Dynamics, and Electronic Structure 5/6/2011
Jing Kong

CEO & Chief Scientist at Q-Chem, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA, “Algorithms for Efficient Conventional and Nondynamical DFT Calculations.”

 5/2/2011
Antonios Gonis Senior Scientist, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA. "The Quantum Mechanics of Ensembles of Fermions and Energy Convexity." 3/11/11
Emil Wierzbinski & Xing Yin

Both speakers in Waldeck Group, University of Pittsburgh: Emil Wierzbinski, Research Associate "Charge Transfer through Peptide Nucleic Acid Oligonucletides." and Xing Yin, Graduate Student, "A Three-Step Model for Charge Transfer through PNA."

 2/9/11
Peng Zhang Research Associate, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Harvard University. "Molecular Processes at Low Temperatures and Nonequilibrium Conditions." 1/31/11
Ron Naaman The Aryeh and Mintzi Katzman Professor of Chemical Physics DeptWeizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel"Molecules as Quantum Devices." 12/10/10
Andrew Maynard Chief Scientist in Infectious Diseases, GlaxoSmithKline, "One drug, two drug, no drug: ecomputational chemistry--guided fishing expeditions in drug discovery." 10/22/10
M. Lisa Manning Postdoctoral Fellow Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton, NJ. "Identifying Structural Defects in Glassy Solids." 9/20/10
Wenjian Liu Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing. "Spin-adapted open-shell RPA and TD-DFT" 8/17/10
David Foster PhD Student in the Complexity Science Group in Dept. of Physics, University of Calgary. "Sources, sinks and bow-ties: the structure of large directed networks." 8/6/2010
Jeffrey G. Saven

Associate Professor of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania
“Engineering Structure and Function with Theoretical Protein Design”

 6/15/2010
Jianwei Sun

Dept. of Physics and Engineering Physics, Tulane University "Revisiting and Revising Rungs of Jacob's Ladder of Density Functional Theory"

 6/4/2010
Adrienn
Ruzsinsky		 Professor of Physics and Quantum Theory Group, Tulane University
"Fully Nonlocal Correction of RPA"		 5/12/2010
Grzegorz Szamel Professor of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
"Heterogeneous Dynamics of Glassy Colloidal Fluids."		 5/3/2010
Jun Li Professor of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
 4/15/2010
Paul Ayers Research Chair in Theoretical Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Ontario 3/17/10
Carol K. Hall

Professor of Chemistry and Biomolecular Engineering, NC State Univ.,

 2/25/2010
Neil Shenvi
RA Chemistry Department, Yale
2/1/2010
Xiang-Qun "Sean" Xie Professor Pharmaceutical Sciences,
PhD and MBA, University of Pittsburgh
 10/26/09
Angel Martin Pendas Professor of Quantum Chemistry, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
 6/8/09
Shuhua Li Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University

 3/4/09
Bernhardt L. Trout Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT 3/30/09
Cyrus J. Umrigar Professor of Physics, Cornell University
 2/11/09
Tony Gonis Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 1/25/08
Nancy Makri University of Illinois 2/21/08
Weinan E Princeton University 3/24/08
Anne Lazarides Duke University 4/10/08
Darrin York University of Minnesota 6/17/08