Current Speakers:

Name Affiliation Date
Manikanthan Bhavaraju Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, "The Role of Oximes as Reactivators and Hydrolyzing Agents"

Monday
6/3/13

2:00-3:30

Rm 3232
French FSC
Shoresh Shafei

Graduate Research Assistant, Nonlinear Optics Group, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Washington State University.“Geometry- and topology-driven nonlinear optical response of quantum graphs”

 Friday, 5/31/13

1:30-3:00

Rm 3225 French FSC
Paul Ayers Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Dept of Chemistry, McMaster University. "A Mean Field Method for Electron Pairs: A New Twist on an Old Approach to Strong Correlation."

Friday, 4/26/13

3:40-5:00

Rm 3232 French FSC

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Yuriko Aoki

Feng Long Gu

Dr. Aoki, Prof Material Sciences, Engineering, Kyushu Univ; CREST Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama."Highly Accurate and Efficient Quantum Chemical Method for Nano-Bio Functional Designs."
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Dr. Gu, Prof So China Normal Univ.; Dir. Key Lab of Theoretical Chemistry of Environment, Sch. of Chemistry & Environment; Research Associate Prof Kyushu Univ., Japan. "New Progress of the Elongation Method."

Two talks

3/18/13

1:00-3:00

Rm 3232
French FSC
Viktor
Staroverov		 Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada."Molecular properties from model Kohn-Sham potentials." 2/15/13
10:30-11:55
Rm 5316
French FSC
Jianfeng Lu Asst. Professor of Mathematics, Duke University, "Fast Algorithms for Density Functional Theory for Metallic Systems."

10/22/12
2:30-3:45

Rm 3232
French FSC
Heather Kulik BWF_CASI fellow, Chemistry Dept. Stanford University, "Predictive enzyme catalysis and protein structure with quantum chemistry on the GPU." 10/11/12
2:45-3:55

Rm 3232
French FSC
Odile Eisenstein

Directrice de Recherche Classe Exceptionnelle-CNRS, Universite Montpeliier 2, "CH bond activation by transition metal complexes. Some Thermodynamics and Mechanistic Issues."

7/24/2012

11:00-12:15
Rm 3232
French FSC
Jing Kong CEO of Q-Chem, "The Cooperativity of Ligand Binding Affinity between a C00-Group and a Side Chain and Possible Role of Water: Different Viewpoints from Chemists and Theoreticians."

4/13/2012

10:30 rm 3232 French FSC
Xin Xu Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Fudan University, China, “Development of New Density Functionals for Accurate Descriptions of Nonbond Interactions, Thermochemistry, and Thermochemical Kinetics” 9/1/2011
David Do
Le Minh

Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL. "Nonequilibrium Driven Processes for Estimating Equilibrium Averages and Free Energies"

 7/18/2011

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