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Year 2000 and Prior Waves and Beams Seminars


Date Speaker Title Group
November 4, 1999 Patton Fast
fastx001@gold.tc.umn.edu
Multilevel Techniques for Calculating Electronic Energies Truhlar
November 11, 1999 Denise Fiacco
fiac0001@tc.umn.edu
Work in Progress: Microwave Spectra of Sulfuric
Acid-Water (H2O-H2SO4)
K. Leopold
January 20, 2000 Mike Hack
hack@t1.chem.umn.edu
Semiclassical Trajectory Calculations Truhlar
January 27, 2000 Dr. Anguang Hu
ahu@chem.umn.edu
Density-functional Electronic Structure Calculations York
February 3, 2000 Ahren Jasper
jasper@t1.chem.umn.edu
Novel Semiclassical Trajectory Algorithms Truhlar
February 17, 2000 Bill Johnson
wtgj@sp.msi.umn.edu
Didehydrophenols: Predicted Geometries and Energetics Cramer
February 24, 2000 Jill Johnson
jjohnson@chem.umn.edu
QM/MM Methods to Study Enzyme Catalysis York
March 2, 2000 Tiqing Liu
liu-t@t1.chem.umn.edu
A Tight Binding Model for the Energetics of Hydrocarbon Fragments on Metal Surfaces Truhlar
March 9, 2000 Bing Luo
luox0026@tc.umn.edu
Amido, Azido and Hydrazido Gallanes: Potential Precursors to Gallium Nitride Gladfelter
March 16, 2000 Ben Lynch
lynch@chem.umn.edu
MPW1K: A New Hybrid-DFT Method for Kinetics Truhlar
April 6, 2000 Shawn McGrane
mcgra023@tc.umn.edu
Trapped Electrons in Nonpolar Glasses Lipsky
April 13, 2000 Dr. Yirong Mo
ymo@chem.umn.edu
BLW-ED: An Energy Decomposition Scheme to Explore the Nature of Intermolecular Interaction Gao
April 20, 2000 Maria Nagan
nagan@pollux.chem.umn.edu
Molecular Dynamics Studies of RNA Recognition Cramer
May 11, 2000 Hanfu Wang
wang0321@tc.umn.edu
Photo-induced Electron Transfer to Molecular Quantum Structures on Metal Surfaces Zhu
September 14, 2000 Dr. Jeff Potoff
potoff@chem.umn.edu
Histogram-reweighting Monte Carlo Simulation of Thin Film Phase Behavior Siepmann
September 21, 2000 Ramkumar Rajamani
rajam005@tc.umn.edu
Opsin shift in Bateriorhodopsin: A MD/CI approach Gao
September 28, 2000 Kevin Range
range006@tc.umn.edu
Recent Developments Towards a New Generation DFT-based Many-body Molecular Simulation Force Field York
 October 5, 2000 John Stubbs
stubbs@chem.umn.edu
 Monte Carlo Simulations of 1-hexanol in n-hexane: The formation of hydrogen-bonded clusters in n-hexane rich solution Siepmann
 October 12, 2000 Collin Wick
wick@chem.umn.edu
 Monte Carlo Simulations of Chromatographic Systems Siepmann
 October 19, 2000 Paul Winget
winget@pollux.chem.umn.edu
 Modeling everything under the sun: Environmental Computational Chemistry Cramer
 October 26, 2000 Dr. James Xidos
xidos@chem.umn.edu
 The SM5.42 Universal Quantum Mechanical Continuum Solvation Model Cramer /Truhlar
 November 2, 2000 Ling Zhang
zhan0234@tc.umn.edu
 Monte Carlo simulation on hydrocarbon and fluorocarbon solutions Siepmann
November 9, 2000 Dr. Titus Albu
albu@comp.chem.umn.edu
Multi-Configuration Molecular Mechanics: An affordable method for potential energy surfaces and rate constants Truhlar
November 16, 2000 Dr. Cristobal Alhambra
alhambra@chem.umn.edu
Molecular Dynamics of Hydride Transfer in the Active Site of an Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gao
December 7, 2000 Bin Chen
binchen@chem.umn.edu
Monte Carlo Studies of Octanol-Water Partitioning Siepmann








 
Spring 2001 - Waves and Beams Schedule
Date Speaker Title Group
 Jan. 25 Tim Giese
giese025@tc.umn.edu
 An Introduction to the Chemical Potential Equalization method
 for many-body effects in molecular simulations
York
Feb. 1 Dr. Kelly Higgins
higgins@chem.umn.edu
 Using helium to probe weak interactions: Computation and experiment Roberts
Feb. 15 Dr. Anguang Hu
ahu@chem.umn.edu
 Numerical solution of the Kohn-Sham equations of density-functional theory and application to response properties York
Feb. 22 Prof. Mark Hoffmann Difluorodioxirane and related high energy density molecules Special Visiting 
Faculty, UND
Mar. 1 Bill Johnson
wtgj@sp.msi.umn.edu
 Theoretical Insight into Spin-Orbit Coupling in Phenylnitrenes Cramer
Mar. 15 Ahren Jasper
jasper@t1.chem.umn.edu
 Photodissociation of LiFH and NaFH van der Waals complexes Truhlar
Mar. 22 Devi Kesavan
kesavan@chem.umn.edu
Catalytic Mechanism of Haloalkane Dehalogenase: A Combined QM/MM Study of the Initial Reaction Step Gao
Apr. 19 Jana Khandogin
khand003@tc.umn.edu
Electronic Response Properties of Solvated Nucleic Acids Derived from Linear-scaling Quantum Calculations York
Apr. 26 Ben Lynch
lynch@chem.umn.edu
 Obtaining the Right Orbitals is the Key to Calculating Accurate Binding Energies for Cu+ Ion Truhlar
  May 3 Hisao Nakamura
nakamura@comp.chem.umn.edu
 Direct calculation of ab initio diabatic states: A challenge to theory Truhlar
 
Fall 2001/Spring 2002 - Waves and Beams Schedule
Date Speaker Title Group
       
Oct. 4, 2001 Prof. Xabier Lopez
lopez@chem.umn.edu
Theoretical studies of transition state analogs in the design of catalytic antibodies York
Oct. 11, 2001 Jingzhi Pu
pu@comp.chem.umn.edu
A Parameterized Direct Dynamics Study of the Reaction of H with CH4: Rate Constants from 250 to 2400 K Truhlar
Oct. 18, 2001 Kevin Range
range006@tc.umn.edu
Density-functional calculations of molecular response properties York
Oct. 25, 2001 Ed Sherer
sherer@castor.chem.umn.edu
 Modeling Nucleic Acids Cramer
Nov. 15, 2001 Kevin Naidoo
naidoo@chem.umn.edu
Carbohydrate Solutions from Computer Simulations Gao
Dec. 6, 2001 Jason Thompson
thompson@pollux.chem.umn.edu
Current interests in the Cramer/Truhlar solvation group Cramer / Truhlar
Dec. 13, 2001 Collin Wick
wick@chem.umn.edu
Monte Carlo Simulations of Chromatographic Systems Siepmann
       
Jan. 24, 2002 Ling Zhang
zhan0234@tc.umn.edu
Simulation studies for reversed-phase liquid chromatography Siepmann
Jan 31, 2002 Nikolaj D. Zhuravlev
zhura001@umn.edu
 Surface Coverages of Bonded-Phase Ligands on Chromatographic Silica Siepmann
Feb. 7, 2002 Dr. Titus Albu
albu@comp.chem.umn.edu
Multiconfiguration Molecular Mechanics Truhlar
Feb. 14, 2002 Vanessa Audette
audette@t1.chem.umn.edu
Accurate Calculation of Rotational-Vibrational Partition Functions Using Path Integral Methods Truhlar
Feb. 21, 2002 Arindam Chakraborty
chakra@t1.chem.umn.edu
Calculation of bound state vibrational energies using VSCF method Truhlar
Feb., 28, 2002 Mireia Garcia
garcia@chem.umn.edu
Theoretical study of the reaction catalyzed by Dihydrofolate Reductase Gao
Mar. 7, 2002 Tim Giese
giese025@tc.umn.edu
 A multi-level method for calculation of van der Waals dispersion interactions York
 Apr. 4, 2002 Brent Gregersen
gregerse@chem.umn.edu
 Computational methods to study phosphate hydrolysis reactions in ribozymes York
  Apr. 18, 2002 Dr. Kelly Higgins
higgins@chem.umn.edu
Surface chemistry of size-selected nano-aerosol particles  Roberts
    Apr. 25, 2002 Ahren Jasper
jasper@t1.chem.umn.edu
Fewest-switches with time uncertainty:  An improved semiclassical trajectory method for non-Born-Oppenheimer dynamics Truhlar
  May 2, 2002  Chris Kinsinger
kinsinge@castor.chem.umn.edu
 The Potential Energy Surface of Tyrosinase Oxygenation Cramer