Physical Chemistry/Chemical Physics Colloquium 2007/2008

Time: 4:00 PM; Jila Auditorium

 

 

Fall, 2007

Monday,
August 27

FALL CLASSES BEGIN

Friday,
August 31

PROFESSOR Veronica Vaida

University of Colorado at Boulder

"Sunlight initiated photochemical processing of atmospheric aerosols"
Host: Prof.
Niels Damrauer

Friday,
September 7

Dr. Mary Gilles

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories

"Exploring the “Blackness” of Black Carbons and Biomass Burn Particulates"
Host: Prof. Veronica Bierbaum

Friday,
September 14

PROFESSOR Stephen Leone

University of California At Berkeley

"Time for Molecular Dynamics"
Host: Prof. Veronica Bierbaum

Friday,
September 21

PROFESSOR Steven George

University of Colorado at Boulder

"The Potato Chip Bag Problem: Gas Diffusion Barriers on Polymers"
Host: Prof. Niels Damrauer


Friday,
September 28

PROFESSOR Luis Echegoyen Canceled

Clemson University

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Host: Prof. Veronica Bierbaum

Friday,
October 5

PROFESSOR Haobin Wang

New Mexico State University

"Theoretical Study of Ultrafast Electron Transfer Reactions."
Host: Prof. Rex Skodje

Friday,
October 12

PROFESSOR Michael Duncan

University of Georgia

"IR photodissociation spectroscopy of cluster ions: Cation solvation, metal-ligand interactions, and carbocations"
Host: Prof. David Nesbitt

Friday,
October 19

PROFESSOR John Papanikolas

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Ultrafast Dynamics in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes"
Host: Prof. David Jonas

Friday,
October 26

PROFESSOR Bruce Parkinson

Colorado State University

"A Combinatorial and Distributed Approach to Solving the Problem of Splitting Water with Sunlight or The Search for the Holy Grail"
Host: Prof. Niels Damrauer

Friday,
November 2

PROFESSOR Prashant Kamat

University of Notre Dame

"Quantum Dot Solar Cells"
Host: Prof. Niels Damrauer

Friday,
November 9

PROFESSOR Rex Skodje

University of Colorado at Boulder

"Methods for Theoretical Reaction
Dynamics: What Can We Do As Our Systems Become Unmanageably Large?"
Host: Prof. Niels Damrauer

Friday,
November 16

PROFESSOR Cristopher M. Cheatum

University of Iowa

"Watching the protein mambo: Spectroscopic probes of enzyme dynamics"
Host: Prof. Casey Hynes

Friday,
November 23

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Friday,
November 30

PROFESSOR Matthew Lang

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Probing the Molecular Mechanism for the Kinesin Power Stroke and General Advances for Measuring Molecular Machinery"
Host: Prof. Ralph Jimenez

Friday,
December 7

PROFESSOR Simon North

Texas A&M University

"Photolytic Launching of Selective Reactive Pathways: Isomeric Specific Studies of Biogenic Hydrocarbon Oxidation"
Host: Prof. Dr. G. Barney Ellison

Friday,
December 14

Last Day of Classes

PROFESSOR Marina Guenza

University of Oregon

"Bridging time scales in the dynamics of synthetic and biological macromolecules"
Host: Niels Damrauer