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Spring 2005 - Waves and Beams Schedule

Thursdays 12:00-1:00 in 117/119 Smith Hall
unless otherwise indicated

Date Speaker Title Group

Start of Spring 2005 Series!


Jan. 20
Sophia Zhao
Polymorphs of The Drug Ibuprofen
Siepmann
Jan. 27

Waves & Beams cancelled due to scheduling conflict

Feb. 3
Yan Zhao
Development and Assessment of Semi-empirical Hybrid Meta-Generalized Gradient Approximation Exchange-Correlation Functionals for Thermochemistry, Thermochemical Kinetics, and Nonbonded Interactions
Truhlar
Feb. 10
Dr. Chaoyuan Zhu
Decay of mixing with decoherent and coherent switching for non-Born-Oppenheimer trajectories
Truhlar
Feb. 17 Divesh Bhatt
Towards Solubility of Phenol in Water using Monte-Carlo Simulations
Siepmann
Feb. 24
Sudeep Bhattacharyay
A QM/MM Simulation of the Enzymatic Proton and Hydride Transfer Reactions in Medium Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenases: Modeling the Effect of Mutations on Catalysis
Stankovich
Mar. 3

Waves & Beams cancelled due to scheduling conflict

Mar. 10

Waves & Beams cancelled due to scheduling conflict

Mar. 17

* * * * * * Spring Break! * * * * * *

Mar. 24 Ben Gherman
Modeling Dioxygen Activation by Biomimetic Cu(I) Complexes using DFT and CASPT2 Methods
Cramer
Mar. 31
Arindam Chakraborty
Quantum mechanical reaction rate constants by vibrational configuration interaction: Application to the OH + H2 ---> H2O + H reaction
Truhlar
Apr. 7
Erin Dahlke
An Assessment of Density Functional Methods for Small Water Cluster
Truhlar
Apr. 14
Becky Eggimann
The Aqueous Vapor-Liquid Interface: A Simulation Perspective
Siepmann
Apr. 21 Ben Ellingson
Applications of Variational Transition State Theory
Truhlar
Apr. 28
Franz Fan
Studies on the enzymatic reaction of E coli malate dehydrogenase
Gao
May. 5
Adam Chamberlin
A proposed model to calculate free energies of solvation as a function of temperature
Truhlar
End of Spring Term
Waves & Beams will resume Fall term 2005