Past Speakers
*Duplications of a speaker's name indicate multiple visits.
| Speaker* | Institution | Date | Faculty Host | Seminar Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbondanzieri, Elio | Harvard University | Feb 2, 2010 | Mitchio Okumura | Molecular Gymnastics: The Dynamic Binding Orientations of HIV Reverse Transcriptase | Special Chemical Physics Seminar |
| Abel, Bernd | University of Leipzig | April 16, 2013 | Long Cai | Hybrid systems of interaction with radiation: New avenues to study reactive transients in chemistry and to design novel functional materials | |
| Aiello, Clarice | UCLA | Nov 1, 2022 | Scott Cushing | From nanotech to living sensors: unraveling the spin physics of biosensing at the nanoscale | |
| Alexander, Millard | U. Maryland, College Park | Jan 21, 2003 | Aron Kuppermann | The Effect of Electronic Asymmetry in Clusters and Reactions | |
| Alivisatos, Paul | UC Berkeley | Apr 27, 2004 | Pat Collier | Nanocrystals as a Class of Macromolecule | |
| Allamandola, Lou | NASA Ames Research Center | Dec 9, 2003 | Geoff Blake | Spectroscopy and Astrophysics of Aromatic Compounds | |
| Allen, Heather | Ohio State University | Feb 25, 2014 | Jack Beauchamp | Organization at the Air-Aqueous Interface: Ions, Lipids, Water, Electric Fields, Lung Lining and Atmospheric Aerosols | |
| Althorpe, Stuart C. | U. Cambridge | Dec 1, 2009 | Thomas F. Miller | Quantum Dynamics at Conical Intersections | |
| Anderson, James G. | Harvard | Oct 8, 2002 | Mitchio Okumura | The Chemical Bond in Transition: Calculation of Radical-Molecule Barrier Heights | |
| Andrews, Lester | U. of Virginia | Oct 14, 2003 | Jack Beauchamp | Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of Matrix Isolated Species in Solid Hydrogen: Neutral and Ionic Hydrides and their Clusters | |
| Anfinrud, Phil | NIH | Mar 12, 1999 | Ahmed Zewail | From Femtosecond IR Spectroscopy to Picosecond X-ray Crystallography: Watching Proteins Function | Special Chemical Physics Seminar |
| Ardo, Shane | Mar 11, 2025 | Scott Cushing | Lessons learned from (trying to) convert water into an effective protonic solar cell | ||
| Armentrout, Peter | U of Utah | May 25, 1999 | Jack Beauchamp | Threshold Collision-Induced Dissociation: From Dynamics to DNA Bases | |
| Armentrout, Peter | U. Utah | Nov 2, 2004 | Jack Beauchamp | Dynamics and energetics of CH4 and NH3 activation at size-selected transition metal clusters | |
| Aspuru-Guzik, Alan | Harvard University | Oct 11, 2011 | Tom Miller | The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches | |
| Augustine, Matt | UC Davis | Nov 18, 2003 | Dan Weitekamp | Nonlinear Problems in Magnetic Resonance | |
| Austin, Robert | Princeton University | Mar 18, 2003 | Pat Collier | Nanochannels, Nanofluidics and Single Molecules | |
| Baer, Michael | Soreq Nuclear Research Center; Yavne, Israel | May 21, 2002 | Aron Kuppermann | A Theoretical Approach for Electronic Non-Adiabatic Coupling Terms in Poly-Atomic\ Molecules: Recent Developments and Numerical Studies | |
| Baer, Roi | Hebrew U. | May 30, 2006 | Aron Kupperman | Towards Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Near-Field - Electron Dynamics | |
| Baer, Tomas | UNC Chapel Hill | May 11, 2004 | Jack Beauchamp | Threshold Photoelectron Photoion Coincidence Studies with Velocity Focusing Optics: The Path to Accurate Thermochemistry of Organic and Organometallic Systems | |
| Baiz, Carlos | University of Chicago | Feb 04, 2015 | Thomas Miller | Mapping protein conformational ensembles and folding pathways with temperature-jump two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy | Special CPS (Wednesday) |
| Balandin, Alexander | UC Riverside | Nov 16, 2010 | Jim Heath | Graphene: Unique properties and practical applications | |
| Baltimore, David | California Institute of Technology | Nov 8, 2011 | Ahmed Zewail | Post-transcriptional control of inflammatory genes | Pauling Lecture |
| Banares, Luis | Universidad Complutense de Madrid | Nov 8, 2024 | Scott Cushing | "Ubiquity of conical intersections in ultrafast photochemistry" | |
| Bard, Allen | University of Texas, Austin | Feb 1, 2011 | Rudy Marcus | Stochastic electrochemistry: Single molecules and particles | |
| Barker, John | University of Michigan | Nov 27, 2007 | Mitchio Okumura | The Effects of Slow IVR on Some Important Atmospheric Reactions | |
| Barker, John | University of Michigan | Apr 28, 2015 | Mitchio Okumura | On Some Master Equation Models Involving Pre-Reactive Complexes | |
| Bartels, David M. | Notre Dame | April 26, 2012 | Tom Miller | Reactions of OH radicals, H atoms, and solvated electrons in high temperature (supercritical) water | |
| Bawendi, Moungi | MIT | Apr 20, 2004 | Dan Weitekamp | Semiconductor nanocrystals: Science and applications. | |
| Bayley, Hagan | Texas A&M University | Nov 25, 2003 | Pat Collier | Single Molecule Chemistry Inside a Protein Nanoreactor | |
| Bediako, Kwabena | UC Berkeley | October 17, 2023 | Scott Cushing | 2D superlattices for electrochemistry and magnetism | |
| Ben-Shaul, Avinoam | Hebrew U. & Institute for Theoretical Physics UCSB | Oct 6, 1998 | Zhen-Gang Wang | Theory of Lipid-DNA Complexes | |
| Beran, Greg | UC Riverside | April 3, 2012 | Bill Goddard | Predicting molecular crystal properties with quantum chemistry | |
| Berkelbach, Timothy C. | Columbia University | Jan 21, 2014 | Thomas Miller | Excitons in Organic Semiconductors: Elucidating the Mechanism of Singlet Fission | Special CPS |
| Berkelbach, Timothy | Princeton University | Dec 16, 2014 | Thomas Miller | Many-body effects in quasi-2D transition metal dichalcogenides | Special CPS |
| Berkelbach, Timothy | Columbia University | Apr 30, 2019 | Zhen-Gang Wang | Electronic Excitations in Nanomaterials | |
| Berkelbach, Timothy | Columbia University | Jun 03, 2025 | Garnet Chan | Ab initio surface chemistry and reaction dynamics | |
| Bhargava, Rohit | UIUC | Mar 4, 2025 | Lu Wei | Infrared spectroscopic imaging: Developing a chemistry workhorse into technology for cancer pathology | |
| Boering, Kristie | UC Berkeley | May 3, 2005 | Mitchio Okumura | Carbon Dioxide and Unusual Isotope Effects: From Single Collisions to Global Climate Change | |
| Bowen, Kit | Johns Hopkins | Jan 15, 2002 | Jack Beauchamp | Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Cluster Anions | |
| Bowers, Clifford | U. Florida | Oct 13, 2009 | Dan Weitekamp | Exploring molecular wheel nanotubes inside and out: a xenon atom's view | |
| Bowers, Michael | UC Santa Barbara | Dec 3, 2013 | Jack Beauchamp | Peptide Aggregation: Structures and Mechanisms | |
| Bowers, Mike | UC Santa Barbara | Apr 6, 1999 | Jack Beauchamp | Conformations of Macromolecules in the Gas Phase | |
| Bowers, Mike | UC Santa Barbara | Nov 16, 2004 | Jack Beauchamp | Conformations and Aggregation States of Biologically Important Systems: Oligonucleotides, G-Quadraplexes, Peptides, and Proteins. | |
| Bowman, Joel | Emory U | Mar 7, 2006 | Aron Kupperman | New Insights from Dynamics Calculations Using Ab Initio Potential Energy Surfaces That Are Permutationally Invariant: Photodissociation in H2CO and Internal Isomerization in CH5+ | |
| Boxer, Steve | Stanford University | Nov 19, 2024 | Lu Wei | Evolving understanding of electric fields and enzyme catalysis | |
| Boxer, Steven | Stanford | May 5, 1998 | Dan Weitekamp | Fluid Supported Bilayers: Interesting Chemical Physics and Biology | |
| Bradforth, Steven | USC | Nov 28, 2000 | Mitchio Okumura | The Ultrafast Dynamics of Photodetachment and Photoionization in Aqueous Solution | |
| Brongersma, Mark | Stanford University | Jan 17, 2012 | Jim Heath | Nanophotonics: The art of managing photons at the nanoscale | |
| Brumer, Paul | University of Toronto | Jun 8, 2010 | Rudy Marcus | Open and closed system quantum control: Interferences in the classical limit | |
| Buehler, Markus | MIT | April 30, 2013 | Bill Goddard | Structure and mechanics of silk and silk-inspired materials | |
| Bunker, Philip | Steacie Inst. Mol. Sci. | Apr 10, 2007 | Geoff Blake | The Structure, Dynamics, Symmetry and Spectrum of the Benzene Dimer | |
| Buratto, Steve | UC Santa Barbara | Mar 2, 1999 | Dan Weitekamp | Optical Studies on the Nanoscale: Near-Field Microscopy and Single Molecule Spectroscopy of Organic Thin Films and Semiconductor Quantum Dots. | |
| Burke, Kieron | Rutgers | Mar 13, 2001 | Jack Beauchamp | Density Functional Theory: Where Does It Come From, Why Does It Work? | |
| Burke, Kieron | UC Irvine | Mar 1, 2011 | Bill Goddard | The ionization potential of very large atoms and why density functional theory works | |
| Burshtein, A.I. | Weizmann Inst. | Apr 24, 2001 | Rudy Marcus | Free Energy and Viscosity Dependence of Forward and Backward Electronic Transfer | |
| Cacciuto, Angelo | Columbia | May 29, 2012 | Tom Miller | The ugly, the soft, and the elastic: Short stories on particle self-assembly | |
| Cai, Long | California Institute of Technology | Mar 01, 2016 | James Heath | Non-commutative biology: single cell in situ analysis by sequential FISH | Special Chemistry Seminar, 153 Noyes, 4:00 pm |
| Car, Roberto | Princeton University | Oct 7, 2003 | Bill Goddard | Electron Transport with Dissipation in Molecular Wires | |
| Caram, Justin | UCLA | Sep 27, 2022 | Scott Cushing | Exploring the extremes of excitonic photophysics | |
| Caraven, Rebecca | Argonne National Laboratory | May 14, 2024 | Mitchio Okumura | ||
| Carbone, Fabrizio | EPFL | Jun 05, 2017 | Thomas Miller | First-row seats for “the photonic control of single atoms, charges and spins in nanostructures”. Courtesy of femtosecond electron microscopy | MONDAY, 2:00pm, 153 Noyes |
| Carter, Emily | UCLA | Jan 8, 2002 | William A. Goddard III | Overthrowing Conventional Wisdom: From Gas Phase Dynamics to Heterogeneous Interfacial Adhesion | |
| Carter, Emily | Princeton University | Mar 11, 2008 | William A. Goddard III | Ab Initio Treatment of Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: From Spintronics to Corrosion. | |
| Casavecchia, Piero | Perugia, Italy | Apr 6, 2004 | Mitchio Okumura | Crossed Molecular Beam Reactive Scattering: Towards the ‘Universal’ Product Detection by ‘Soft’ Electron-Impact Ionization | |
| Castelman, A.W. Jr. | Penn State University | May 7, 2002 | Jack Beauchamp | Dynamics of Nanoscale Matters | |
| Ceriotti, Michele | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne | Feb 07, 2022 | Garnet Chan | Machine learning at the atomic scale: from structural representations to chemical insight | |
| Ceriotti, Michele | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne | Feb 07, 2022 | Garnet Chan | Machine learning at the atomic scale: from structural representations to chemical insight | |
| Ceriotti, Michele | EPFL | Oct 11, 2023 | Zhen-Gang Wang | More than physics, more than data: Integrated machine-learning models for chemistry | |
| Chan, Garnet | Cornell U. | Nov 25, 2008 | Thomas F. Miller | Strongly Interacting Electrons in Chemistry | |
| Chandler, David | UC Berkeley | May 18, 2004 | Rudy Marcus | Hydrophobicity at Small and Large Length Scales: Two Phases of Water | |
| Chandler, David | UC Berkeley | Apr 07, 2015 | Zhen-Gang Wang | TBA | Canceled |
| Charbonneau, Patrick | Duke University | Oct 1, 2013 | John Brady | High-dimensional Surprises Near the Glass and the Jamming Transitions | |
| Chen, Peng | Cornell University | Feb 26, 2018 | Garnet Chan | Single-molecule catalysis: nanoparticles and polymers | |
| Chen, Peng | Cornell University | Feb 27, 2018 | Garnet Chan | Single-molecule chemistry: from transcription regulation to solar energy conversion | 11 AM, 151 Crellin |
| Chen, Qian | UC Berkeley | Feb 4, 2014 | Thomas Miller | Watching Dynamics: From Patchy Colloids to Nanoscale Biomolecules | (2pm) Special CPS/ Inorganic Chem Seminar |
| Chidsey, Chris | Stanford U | May 29, 2007 | James Heath | Clicking' Molecular Species to Surfaces: A Versatile, Robust and Field-Programmable Coupling Strategy on Gold, Glass and Carbon Substrates | |
| Chopra, Gaurav | Purdue University | Mar 02, 2021 | Tom Miller | Engineering Immunology using Chemistry and Data Science | |
| Chris, Cramer | U. Minnesota; Twin Cities | Nov 23, 2004 | Bill Goddard | Continuum Solvent Models: Development and Application to Environmental Chemistry Problems. | |
| Chu, Jhih-Wei | UC Berkeley | May 17, 2011 | Tom Miller | Multiscale simulation for biomolecular engineering: Protein allostery and deconstruction of cellulose microfibril | |
| Chu, Steven | Stanford | Apr 24, 2014 | Long Cai | A Quiet Revolution in Optical Microscopy | (Thursday) |
| Cina, Jeff | U of Oregon | Feb 1, 2000 | Rudy Marcus | Boons and Banes of Molecular Coherence in Ultrashort-Pulse Optical Processes | |
| Cohen, Adam E. | Harvard University | May 30, 2017 | Rustem Ismagilov | Bringing Bioelectricity to Light | Chemical Research Conference, 153 Noyes |
| Cohen, Adam | Harvard | Nov 22, 2011 | Long Cai | Imaging voltage: From E. coli to neurons | |
| Cohen, Ron | UC Berkeley | Feb 3, 2004 | Bill Goddard | Breathing Easier? Lessons from Observations of NO2, Organic Nitrates, HNO3 and Ozone | |
| Continetti, Robert | UCSD | May 14, 2002 | Mitchi Okumura | Probing the HOCO Potential Energy Surface by Photodetachment of HOCO | |
| Continetti, Robert | University of California, San Diego | Nov 27, 2018 | Mitchio Okumura | Ethylenedione and the Oxyallyl Radical: Exotic Molecules and the Chemistry of Transient Anions | |
| Corcelli, Steve | Notre Dame | Dec 7, 2010 | Tom Miller | Dynamical signature of abasic DNA damage: A computational study of coumarin 102 in DNA | |
| Corkum, Paul | NRC, Canada | Nov 4, 2004 | Ahmed Zewail | Attosecond Science | |
| Corkum, Paul | NRC, Canada | May 24, 2011 | Jeff Blake | Laser induced molecular imaging | |
| Corminboeuf, Clemence | EPFL | Sep 12, 2022 | Garnet Chan | NaviCat: Digital Tools for Navigating Molecular Catalyst Landscapes | Special CPS seminar |
| Crim, Fleming | U. Wisconsin, Madison | Mar 4, 2003 | Ahmed Zewail | Watching Vibrational Energy Flow in Gases and Liquids | |
| Cruz, Monica Olvera de la | Northwestern University | Jan 31, 2012 | Zhen-Gang Wang | Surprises in ionic driven assembly of membranes | |
| Cruz, Monica Olvera de la | Northwestern University | Mar 09, 2021 | Zhen-Gang Wang | Control of Soft Matter with Magnetic Fields | |
| Cui, Bianxiao | Stanford University | May 27, 2014 | James Heath | Exploring the Bio-Nano Interface: Integrating Live Cells with Nanosensors | |
| Cui, Bianxiao | Stanford University | May 16, 2023 | Lu Wei | ||
| Cui, Yi | Stanford | Oct 20, 2009 | Jim Heath | Designing Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage | |
| Cuk, Tanja | UC Berkeley | Mar 17, 2015 | Mitchio Okumura | Charge dynamics and molecular intermediates of photo-catalytic interfaces | |
| Cushing, Scott | University of California, Berkeley | Feb 06, 2018 | Mitchio Okumura | The Electronic-Structural Barrier to Higher Photoconversion Efficiency in Semiconductors | Special Chemistry Seminar |
| Dagdigian, Paul | Johns Hopkins U. | Mar 2, 2004 | Ahmed Zewail | Laser Spectroscopic Studies of Free Radical Interactions | |
| Dai, Hongjie | Stanford | Nov 20, 2007 | James Heath | Chemistry, Physics and Biological Aspects of Carbon Nanomaterials | |
| Dantus, Marcos | Michigan State U. | May 23, 2000 | Ahmed Zewail | Ultrafast Observation and Control of Molecular Dynamics: Beyond the Pump-Probe Method | |
| Davison, Alan | MIT | Nov 16, 1999 | Technitium: Chemistry and Medicine | Swift Lecture (Non-CPS Chemistry Department Seminar) | |
| Dawlaty, Jahan | University of Southern California | May 02, 2017 | Thomas Miller | Light, Electrons, Protons: Lessons from Model Systems and Potentials for Photocatalysis | |
| Dawlaty, Jahan | University of Southern California | May 30, 2023 | Scott Cushing | Revealing Complexities of the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface Using Vibrational Spectroscopy | |
| DeSimone, Joseph M. | U. North Carolina | Oct 19, 2004 | Jim Heath | Fluoropolymers for Use in Next Generation Photolithography, Soft Lithography, Microfluidic and Proton Exchange Membranes. | |
| Dichtel, William R. | Cornell University | Oct 23, 2013 | James Heath | Bottom-up Synthesis of Structurally Precise Organic Materials and Interfaces | (Wednesday) Joint OCS/CPS |
| Dinner, Aaron | University of Chicago | May 21, 2013 | Rustem Ismagilov | Elucidating correlations in intracellular dynamics | |
| Dobson, Christopher | Cambridge University | Nov 4, 2008 | LINUS PAULING LECTURE | ||
| Doudna, Jennifer | UC Berkeley | Jan 31, 2023 | Peter Dervan Lecture | ||
| DuBay, Kateri Hayashi | University of Virginia | Mar 08, 2022 | Thomas Miller | On the Collective Behaviors of Oliogomers: Implications for Self-Assembled Monolayers and Copolymer Sequences | |
| DuBay, Kateri Hayashi | University of Virginia | Mar 08, 2022 | Thomas Miller | On the Collective Behaviors of Oliogomers: Implications for Self-Assembled Monolayers and Copolymer Sequences | |
| Eaves, Joel | University of Colorado, Boulder | Nov 29, 2016 | Thomas Miller | Aqueous Flow Through Two-Dimensional Crystals | |
| Efros, Al | Naval Research Laboratories | Oct 12, 1999 | Dan Weitekamp | Optical Properties of Nanocrystal Quantum Dots | |
| El-Sayed, Mostafa | Georgia Tech | May 19, 2009 | Jim Heath | The Properties and Potential Applications of Gold Nanoparticles | |
| Ellison, Barney | U. Colorado, Boulder | Jun 10, 2003 | Jack Beauchamp | Organic Aerosols, Free Radicals, and the Fate of the Earth | |
| Engel, Greg | University of Chicago | Jan 28, 2014 | Geoff Blake | Quantum Effects and Coherent Dynamics in Biological and Biomimetic Systems | |
| England, Jeremy | MIT | Nov 18, 2014 | Jim Heath | Boltzmann's Dog and Darwin's Finch: The statistical thermodynamics of self-replication and evolution | |
| Evangelista, Francesco | Emory University | Apr 03, 2018 | Garnet Chan | TBA | |
| Evans, David A. | Harvard | Apr 22, 1998 | Enantioselective C-C Bond Forming Reactions with Chiral Metal Complexes | 1998 Beckman Lecture | |
| Fayer, Michael | Stanford University | Jan 28, 2003 | Ahmed Zewail | Dynamics and Interactions in Molecular Systems Probed with Multidimensional Ultrafast Infrared Vibrational Spectroscpy | |
| Fayer, Michael | Stanford University | Jan 24, 2012 | Geoff Blake | Dynamics of liquids and interfaces studied with ultrafast 2D IR vibrational echo spectroscopy | |
| Felker, Peter | UCLA | Mar 3, 1998 | Ahmed Zewail | Raman Spectroscopy of Intermolecular Vibrations in Clusters | |
| Ferber, Rob and Maepa, Linda | ElectronVault, Inc. | Feb 26, 2013 | Rudy Marcus | Electrochemistry versus battery system engineering: Deconstructing the recent spate of batter failues | |
| Fiebig, Torsten | Boston College | May 22, 2008 | Ahmed Zewail | Photonics with Ultrafast Laser Pulses - From Basic Research to Medical Applications | |
| Field, Bob | MIT | Jun 4, 2002 | Ahmed Zewail | Inter-System Crossing in Acetylene: Mechanism Uncovered by a 'Herzberg's Demon' | |
| Finlayson-Pitts, Barbara | UC Irvine | May 20, 2003 | Mitchio Okumura | The Chemistry of Sea Salt and its Role in Polluted and Remote Atmospheres | |
| Flannigan, David | University of Minnesota | Feb 01, 2022 | Scott Cushing | "Probing Dynamics at Individual Defects with Ultrafast Electron Microscopy" | |
| Flannigan, David | University of Minnesota | Feb 01, 2022 | Scott Cushing | "Probing Dynamics at Individual Defects with Ultrafast Electron Microscopy" | |
| Fleming, Graham R. | UC Berkeley | Nov 12, 2002 | Rudy Marcus | The Chemical Physics of Light Harvesting | |
| Fleming, Graham | University of California, Berkeley | May 16, 2017 | Geoffrey Blake | Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy of Molecular, Biological, and Materials Dynamics | |
| Foltynowicz, Aleksandra | Umea University | Feb 23, 2021 | Mitchio Okumura | High-Resolution Optical Frequency Comb Fourier Transform Spectroscopy | |
| Fortunelli, Alessandro | CNR Pisa, Italy | Jul 12, 2022 | William Goddard | Functionalized Amorphous Carbonaceous Materials from Stochastic Simulations | Special CPS seminar |
| Franco, Ignacio | Rochester University | Oct 15, 2024 | Scott Cushing | "Mapping Decoherence Pathways in Molecules" | |
| Frasier, Scott | Caltech | Feb 5, 2002 | William A. Goddard III | Using Laser and MRI Microscopy to Image Neural Development | |
| Fredin, Lisa | Lehigh University | Dec 12, 2023 | Bill Goddard | ||
| Frontiera, Renee | University of Minnesota | Apr 15, 2025 | Scott Cushing | Mapping and controlling excited state potential energy surfaces with ultrafast Raman Spectroscopies | |
| Frydman, Lucio | U. of Illinois at Chicago | Nov 23, 1999 | Daniel Weitekamp | Spin-1/2 and Beyond: Some Recent Developments and Applications of Multidimensional/Multinuclear Solids NMR | |
| Gagliardi, Laura | University of Minnesota | May 15, 2012 | Rudy Marcus | Ab initio modeling of CO2 reduction and CO2 capture | |
| Gagliardi, Laura | University of Chicago | Mar 16, 2021 | Garnet Chan | Electronic Structure Challenges for Strongly Correlated Systems | |
| Galli, Giulia | University of Chicago | Dec 08, 2020 | Garnet Chan | Light-activated matter: from sustainability to quantum information science | |
| Galli, Jiulia | University of Chicago | May 31, 2016 | TBA | ||
| Gao, Jiali | University of Minnesota | Feb 19, 2013 | Zhen-Gang Wang | Connecting protein dynamics with catalytic function from QM/MM simuations | |
| Gao, Yi-Qin | Texas A&M | Mar 27, 2007 | Rudy Marcus | Simulations of the Multi-Scale Motions of Proteins | |
| Gao, Yi-Qin | Texas A&M | Nov 11, 2008 | Thomas F. Miller | Integrated Tempering, Sampling and Understanding of Water/Air Inferface Structure | |
| Gates, Bruce | UC Davis | Feb 9, 2010 | Richard C. Flagan | Molecular Organometallic Catalysis on Surfaces | 2010 William N. Lacey Lecture in Chemical Engineering |
| Gates, Bruce | UC Davis | Feb 11, 2010 | Richard C. Flagan | Spurring Chemistry: Catalysis and Chemical Technology | 2010 William N. Lacey Lecture in Chemical Engineering |
| Geissler, Phillip | U. C. Berkeley | Apr 4, 2006 | Zhen-Gang Wang | Small Displacements, Intriguing Fluctuations: Statistical Mechanics of the Actin Cytoskeleton | |
| Geissler, Phillip | UC Berkeley | Nov 20, 2012 | Tom Miller | Subtle but profound consequences of nanoscale fluctuations in biophysics and materials science: From side chain packing in proteins to nanocrystal self-assembly | |
| Gerber, Benny | UC Irvine & Hebrew U. | Oct 13, 1998 | Aron Kuppermann | Quantum-Mechanical Simulations of the Dynamics of Large Clusters and Macromolecules | |
| Gerlich, Dieter | Institut fuer Physik, Technische Universitaet, Chemnitz, Germany | Feb 22, 2005 | Jack Beauchamp | Trapped nanoparticles: New ways to study interstellar dust. | |
| Giapis, Konstantinos | Caltech | May 5, 2009 | Mitchio Okumura | Gas-Surface Chemical Reactions and Molecule Survival at High Collision Energies | |
| Gillis, Pat | UCLA | Apr 28, 1998 | Bill Goddard | Low energy electron-enhanced etching of semiconductors | |
| Ginsberg, Naomi | UC Berkeley | May 12, 2015 | Long Cai | Navigating Space-Time with Ultrafast Exciton Photolithography or Scintillating Near-fields to Follow Dynamic Processes in Molecular Materials | |
| Ginsberg, Naomi | UC Berkeley | Oct 13, 2020 | Scott Cushing | How do complex materials form, transform, and transport energy at the nanoscale? | |
| Goldsmith, Randall | University of Wisconsin | Feb 07, 2017 | Harry Gray | Single-Molecule Spectroscopy with Catalysts, Conductive Polymers, and Optical Microresonators | |
| Gomez-Bombarelli, Rafael | MIT | Oct 03, 2023 | Garnet Chan | Fusing machine learning and simulations for molecular design | |
| Goodson, Ted | University of Michigan | Nov 19, 2019 | Scott Cushing | Nonlinear Spectroscopy with Quantum Light | |
| Graslund, Astrid | Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University | Mar 13, 2007 | Harry Gray | The Chlamydia Ribonucleotide Reductase: A Free Radical Enzyme without a Free Radical (IES Seminar) | |
| Groves, Jay T. | UC Berkeley | Feb 24, 2004 | Ahmed Zewail | Molecular Pattern Formation in Cell Membranes: Watching Molecules Come to Life | |
| Gruebele, Martin | U Illinois Urbana Champaign | May 29, 2001 | Ahmed Zewail | The Uphills and Downhills of Protein Folding: Measuring Structural Evolution, Reaction Coordinate(s), Transition State(s) and the Free Energy Surface | |
| Gruebele, Martin | UI Urbana-Champaign | Nov 13, 2012 | Mitchio Okumura | Real-time imaging of nanoscale dynamics on atomic glass surfaces | |
| Ha, Taekjip | U Illinois Urbana Champaign | Nov 6, 2007 | Pat Collier | Playing Extreme Sports with Single Biological Molecules | |
| Hall, Lisa | The Ohio State University | Nov 30, 2021 | Zhen-Gang Wang | "Coarse-Grained Modeling of Ion Transport in Solid Polymer Electrolytes" | |
| Hall, Lisa | The Ohio State University | Nov 30, 2021 | Zhen-Gang Wang | "Coarse-Grained Modeling of Ion Transport in Solid Polymer Electrolytes" | |
| Hamm, Peter | University of Zurich | Aug 23, 2019 | Echoes in 2D-Raman-THz Spectroscopy | ||
| Hammes-Schiffer, Sharon | Pennsylvania State U | Nov 28, 2006 | Aron Kupperman | Hydrogen Tunneling and Protein Motion in Enzyme Reactions | |
| Hammes-Schiffer, Sharon | Yale University | Oct 27, 2020 | Tom Miller | Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion | |
| Han, Hee-Sun | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Jun 04, 2024 | Lu Wei | ||
| Hansma, Paul | UCSB | Nov 6, 2001 | Daniel Weitekamp | The Next Generation of Atomic Force Microscopes. | |
| Harel, Elad | Northwestern University | May 26, 2017 | Geoff Blake | A Multi-dimensional Approach to Track Molecular Dynamics at Extreme Scales | FRIDAY, 2:00pm, 153 Noyes |
| Hargittai, Istvan | Budapest Techinical University and Hungarian Academy of Sciences | May 21, 1999 | Ahmed Zewail | Candid Science: Conversations with 99 Famous Scientists | Distinguished LMS Lectureship |
| Harris, Charles B. | UC Berkeley | May 21, 1999 | The Dynamics and Mechanism of Chemical Bond Formation on Ultrafast Timescales | Special Chemistry Club Seminar | |
| Hase, William | Texas Tech | Apr 8, 2014 | Rudy Marcus | Direct Dynamics and Intrinsic Non-RRKM Dynamics: Applications to SN2 Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions | |
| Head-Gorden, Martin | UC Berkeley | Oct 31, 2006 | William Goddard III | Electronic Structure Methods for Strong Correlations: How Diradicaloid Can a Stable Singlet Diradical Be? | |
| Head-Gorden, Theresa | Lawrence Berkeley National Labs | Mar 9, 2004 | Bill Goddard | The Role of Hydration in Protein Structure, Folding and Function | |
| Heath, Jim | Caltech | Jan 8, 2013 | Physical approaches towards understanding cancer | ||
| Heller, Eric J. | Harvard University | Jan 15, 2008 | William A. Goddard III | Tunneling... When you Least Expect It. | |
| Hemminger, John | UC Irvine | Nov 3, 2009 | Mitchio Okumura | The Liquid Vapor Interface of Aqueous Solutions: Composition, Chemistry, and Acid/Base Properties | |
| Henkelman, Graeme | University of Texas, Austin | Oct 19, 2010 | Zhen-Gang Wang | Accelerating molecular dynamics of rare events | |
| Herman, Zdenek | JH Institute Czech Academy of Sciences and JILA | Jun 5, 2001 | Aron Kuppermann | Dynamics of Chemical Reactions of Molecular di-Cations | |
| Hermans, Ive | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Nov 30, 2023 | Gozde Demirer and Bill Goddard | CPS Joint seminar with CHE | |
| Herr, Amy | UC Berkeley | Apr 26, 2011 | Jim Heath | Towards high-throughput protein analysis via microfluidic integration | |
| Ho, Wilson | Cornell U. | Mar 14, 2000 | Bill Goddard | Single molecule structure, femtosecond spectroscopy, and dynamics of isolated molecules on surfaces | |
| Hochstrasser, Robin | University of Pennsylvania | Jan 29, 2002 | Rudy Marcus | Dynamics of molecular structures by multiple pulse two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy: Exploring the IR analogs of NMR | |
| Honerkamp-Smith, Aurelia R. | University of Cambridge | Feb 02, 2015 | Thomas Miller | Membrane fluid mechanics: phase separation discloses flow in lipid bilayers | Special CPS (Monday) |
| Hore, Peter | University of Oxford | Oct 26, 2021 | Ryan Hadt | "Avian magnetoreception-a radical sense of direction" | Virtual seminar |
| Hore, Peter | University of Oxford | Oct 26, 2021 | Ryan Hadt | "Avian magnetoreception-a radical sense of direction" | Virtual seminar |
| Huang, Kerwyn Casey (KC) | Stanford University | Mar 14, 2017 | Long Cai | Comparative Systems Physiology: How Living Organisms Respond to Environmental Fluctuations | |
| Hummer, Gerhard | NIDDK, NIH | Jan 25, 2011 | Tom Miller | Molecules under tension: Theory of single-molecule force spectropy | |
| Huo, Pengfei Frank | University of Rochester | Apr 27, 2021 | Tom Miller | New Theoretical Approaches to Investigate Light-Matter Interactions | |
| Hush, Noel S. | University of Sydney, Australia | Oct 26, 2007 | Rudy Marcus | What is Delcalization? The Creutz-Taube Ion as Delphic Oracle | |
| Ismagilov, Rustem | U. Chicago | Feb 8, 2005 | Pat Collier | Controlling and Understanding Complex Biochemical Reaction Networks in Space and Time Using Microfluidics. | |
| Iyengar, Srinivasan S. | Indiana University | Apr 22, 2008 | Bill Goddard | Quantum Wavepacket Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics: Applications to Hydrogen Tunneling in Biological Enzymes and Vibrational Properties in Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters | |
| Jaeger, Luc | UCSB | May 15, 2007 | Erik Winfree | Understanding Folding, Assembly and Design Principles of RNA for Biomaterials Nano-construction | |
| Jain, Prashant | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Feb 16, 2016 | Jim Heath | TBA | 12:00 PM |
| Janda, Ken | UC Irvine | May 19, 1998 | Mitchio Okumura | Charge Transfer Dynamics in Liquid Helium Droplets | |
| Jarzynski, Christopher | University of Maryland | Jun 6, 2023 | Daniel Weitekamp | Scaling Down the Laws of Thermodynamics | McConnell Lecture |
| Johnson, Mark | Yale | Oct 3, 2000 | Mitchio Okumura | A Cluster Based Tour of the Primary Steps in Anion Solvation | |
| Jortner, Joshua | Tel Aviv University | Dec 10, 2002 | Aron Kuppermann | Coulomb Instability of Multicharge Clusters and Nuclear Fusion | |
| Julian, Ryan | UC Riverside | Dec 4, 2012 | Jack Beauchamp | Photoactivated dissociation of specific bonds in whole proteins: Methods and applications | |
| Jun, Young-Wook | University of California-San Francisco | Nov 08, 2016 | Long Cai | Nanotechnology Meets Mechanobiology | |
| Karlin, Kenneth | Johns Hopkins University | May 4, 2010 | IES Seminar | ||
| Kelley, Shana O. | University of Toronto | Oct 05, 2017 | Mitchio Okumura | Profiling Cells Inside and Out Using Nanostructured Materials | Thursday, 4:00 pm |
| Kellman, Michael | U of Oregon | Jan 18, 2000 | Laurent Wiesenfeld | Ultrafast molecular dynamics from frequency domain spectra | Joint Chemical Physics / Control & Dynamical Systems Seminar |
| Kempa, Thomas | Johns Hopkins University | Feb 15, 2022 | Thomas Miller | ||
| Kempa, Thomas | Johns Hopkins University | Feb 15, 2022 | Thomas Miller | ||
| Kim, Philip | Columbia | Dec 14, 2010 | Jim Heath | Electron transport in nanometer scale carbon materials | |
| King, Sarah | Fitz Haber Institute of Max Plank Society | Jan 25, 2018 | Geoff Blake | Tracing the dynamics of interfacial electronic excited states from femtoseconds to seconds | Special Chemistry Seminar |
| King, Sarah | University of Chicago | May 07, 2024 | Geoff Blake | TBA | |
| Kisley, Lydia | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Feb 05, 2018 | Jack Beauchamp | Proteins in nanoporous hydrogels: adsorption, diffusion, and folding | Special Chemistry Seminar |
| Klimov, Victor | Los Alamos Nat'l Lab | Jan 27, 2009 | Rudy Marcus | Multiexcitons Squeezed in 'Subexcitonic' Volumes: Recombination and Photogeneration Pathways | |
| Klippenstein, Stephen | Sandia National Labs | Nov 21, 2000 | Rudy Marcus | Transition States in Barrierless Reactions | |
| Knappenberger, Ken | Penn State | Apr 09, 2019 | Scott Cushing | Coherent Electron Dynamics in Inter-dimensional Metals: From Atomically Precise Clusters to Plasmonic Transducer | |
| Knizia, Gerald | The Pennsylvania State University | May 14, 2019 | Garnet Chan | Revealing the chemistry in quantum chemistry: from diatomics to proton coupled electron transfer in enzymes | |
| Koel, Bruce | U of Southern California | Feb 15, 2000 | Bill Goddard | Nanoparticle Manipulation by Mechanical Pushing: Underlying Phenomena and Real-Time Monitoring | |
| Krylov, Anna | USC | Jan 13, 2004 | Rudy Marcus | Bonding Patterns in Open-Shells: Structural, Spectroscopic, and Chemical Points of View | |
| Kukura, Philipp | University of Oxford | Jan 17, 2023 | Lu Wei | ||
| Kukura, Philipp | University of Oxford | Feb 22, 2024 | Towards quantitative and universal single molecule biophysics with mass photometry | ||
| Kulik, Heather J. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | May 17, 2022 | Tom Miller | ||
| Kulik, Heather J. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | May 17, 2022 | Tom Miller | ||
| Lander, Eric | MIT | Dec 15, 2009 | Ahmed Zewail | 2009 Linus Pauling Lectureship | |
| Landes, Christy | University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign | May 21, 2024 | Lu Wei | ||
| Leggett, Sir Anthony J. | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Feb 20, 2008 | Rudy Marcus | Testing the Limits of Quantum Mechanics: Motivation, State of Play, Prospects. | |
| Leone, Stephen | UC Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Labs | Dec 2, 2003 | Mitchio Okumura | Ultrafast Wave Packet Dynamics and Soft X-Ray Probing | |
| Leone, Stephen | UC Berkeley | Oct 27, 2009 | Mitchio Okumura | X-ray probing of atomic and molecular dynamics in the attosecond limit | |
| Lester, Marsha | U. Pennsylvania | Mar 5, 2003 | Mitchio Okumura | Significant Hydroxyl Radical Reactions in the Lower Atmosphere: Role of Hydrogen Bonded Complexes and Reactive Intermediates | |
| Levin, Raphael | UCLA/Hebrew University | Jun 3, 2003 | Aron Kuppermann | Collision-Inducced Light Emission as a Thermometer for Electronic Deformation | |
| Levine, Herbert | Rice University | Oct 24, 2017 | Jim Heath | Models of phenotypic plasticity and its role in the transition to metastasis | |
| Levine, Raphael | Hebrew U of Jerusalem | Dec 7, 1999 | Aron Kuppermann | Architecture with Designer Atoms: Classical Electrons, Coulomb Blockades and Other Theoretical Considerations | |
| Lewandowski, Heather | University of Colorado, Boulder | Feb 11, 2025 | Mitchio Okumura | Probing the Frontiers of Interstellar Chemistry Through Cold and Controlled Ion Experiments | |
| Li, Xiaosong | University of Washington | Apr 13, 2010 | Tom Miller | I. Ferromagnetism by design: Understanding boud magnetic polaron in diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum dots II. TDDFT electronic dynamics: Lifetimes of excited states on surfaces | |
| Li, Xiaosong | University of Washington | Mar 12, 2019 | Garnet Chan | Manifestation of Spin-Couplings in Computational Molecular Spectroscopies | |
| Lieber, Charles | Harvard | May 9, 2000 | Jack Beauchamp | Spectroscopic Studies of Transition Metal Molecules in the Gas Phase | |
| Lifshitz, Ron | Tel Aviv University | Apr 3, 2007 | Aron Kuppermann | Quasicrystals - Some of Nature's Most Intriguing Forms of Matter | |
| Light, John C. | U of Chicago | Sep 29, 1998 | Aron Kuppermann | Reaction Rates via the Quantum Transition State Method | |
| Limmer, David | University of California, Berkeley | Apr 20, 2021 | Tom Miller | Ionic transport in nanoscale fluids far from equilibrium | |
| Lineberger, Carl | UC Boulder | Apr 10, 2001 | Mitchio Okumura | Organic Radicals, Reactive Intermediates and Transition States: Spectroscopy on the Reaction Coordinate | |
| Liu, Yi | Shanghai University | Feb 11, 2024 | Computational catalyst design accelerated by machine learning with “Center-Environment” features: from spinel to perovskite oxides | ||
| Luo, Zhengtang | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Oct 30, 2024 | Bill Goddard | "Designing Energy Conversion and Storage Structures Using Two-Dimensional Materials" | |
| Lutkenhaus, Jodie | Texas A&M University | May 09, 2023 | Zhen-Gang Wang | ||
| Madix, Robert | Stanford U | Feb 8, 2000 | William A. Goddard III | From Adsorption to Reaction on Surfaces: a Molecular and Atomic View | |
| Maier, John P. | University of Basel, Switzerland | Mar 5, 2002 | Mitchio Okumura | Electronic Spectra of Carbon Chains and Their Relevance to Astrophysics | |
| Makarov, Dmitrii E. | University of Texas, Austin | Nov 18, 2008 | Thomas F. Miller | Pushing, Pulling, and Squeezing Proteins: Theory and Computer Simulations of Protein Translocation | |
| Makri, Nancy | U. C. Illinois | Feb 21, 2006 | Rudy Marcus | Forward-backward Semiclassical Dynamics: Simulation of Quantum Fluids | |
| Manby, Fred | University of Bristol | Nov 19, 2013 | Thomas Miller | Wavefunction Antisymmetry and Molecular Dissociation: Fixing Coupled Cluster Theory | |
| Mandelshtam, V. | UC Irvine | Jan 26, 1999 | Aron Kuppermann | Getting the Most out of Time Signals: From NMR to Quantum Dynamics Calculations | |
| Manolopoulos, David | Oxford | March 6, 2012 | Tom Miller | The discovery of the fullerenes | |
| Markland, Thomas E. | Stanford University | Apr 11, 2017 | Thomas Miller | Quantum fluctuations in hydrogen bond networks: From proton transport to enzyme catalysis | |
| Markland, Tom | Stanford University | October 24, 2023 | Scott Cushing | ||
| Martinez, Todd | U. Illinois Urbana Champain | Feb 20, 2001 | William A. Goddard III | First Principles Reaction Dynamics on Ground and Excited Electronic States | |
| Martinez, Todd | U. C. Illinois | May 9, 2006 | William A. Goddard III | Uncovering Design Rules for Light-Driven Molecular Devices from First Principles Dynamics | |
| Martinez, Todd | Stanford | May 22, 2012 | Tom Miller | Promoting chemistry with external force: Covalent mechanochemistry with first-principles molecular dynamics on graphical processing units | |
| Martinez, Todd | Stanford University | Oct 04, 2016 | Bill Goddard | Discovering Chemistry From First Principles: The Ab Initio Nanoreactor | |
| Mathies, Richard | UC Berkeley | Mar 10, 1998 | Ahmed Zewail | A Coherent Picture of Visual Photochemistry | |
| Mathies, Richard | UC Berkeley | Jan 30, 2007 | Geoffery Blake | Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy | |
| Maurer, Peter | Stanford University | Jan 22, 2018 | Garnet Chan | Quantum Sensing in a New Single-molecule Regime | Special Chemistry Seminar |
| Mazziotti, David | University of Chicago | Oct 10, 2023 | Garnet Chan | Pursuit of Strongly Correlated Electrons and their Applications on Quantum and Classical Devices | |
| McCall, Benjamin | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Apr 27, 2010 | Mitchio Okumura | Astrochemistry: From H3+ to C60 | |
| McCammon, J. Andrew | UC San Diego | Nov 10, 1999 | William A. Goddard III | Dynamics of Molecular Recognition | |
| McCammon, J. Andrew | UC San Diego | Nov 13, 2007 | William A. Goddard III | Integrated Computational Biology: From the Molecule to the Cell | |
| McCarthy, Mike | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) | May 10, 2022 | Mitchio Okumura | ||
| McCarthy, Mike | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) | May 10, 2022 | Mitchio Okumura | ||
| McCoy, Anne | Ohio State U. | May 2, 2000 | Mitchio Okumura | Studies of the structure, spectroscopy and dynamics of weakly bound complexes | |
| McCoy, Anne | Ohio State U. | May 26, 2009 | Mitchio Okumura | Puzzling Protons: Signatures of Large Amplitude Motions in Protonated and Hydrogen-Bonded Systems | |
| McLuckey, Scott | Purdue University | Nov 17, 2009 | Jack Beauchamp | Gas-phase Ion/Ion Reactions: Proton Transfer, Electron Transfer, and Bio-conjugation | |
| Meersmann, Thomas | U. Colorado, Fort Collins | May 19, 2005 | Dan Weitekamp | Hyperpolarized Xenon and Krypton in NMR Spectroscopy and MR Imaging | |
| Meijer, Gerard | U. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands | Jan 14, 2005 | Mitchio Okumura | Manipulation of Polar Molecules with Electric Fields | |
| Melosh, Nicholas | Stanford University | Jan 8, 2008 | Jim Heath | Diamondoids and Plasmonic Analysis of Molecular Junctions. | |
| Metiu, Horia | UC Santa Barbara | Mar 7, 2000 | Bill Goddard | Early stages of epitaxial growth: island motion, evaporation and coarsening on normal and stressed surfaces | |
| Micha, David | U of Florida | Apr 18, 2000 | Aron Kuppermann | Quantum dynamics of electronic energy and charge transfer in ion collisions | |
| Michelson, Hope | University of Colorado Boulder | Jan 24, 2023 | Mitchio Okumura | Finding the smoking gun: Solving the Mystery of Soot Formation | |
| Miller, Terry | OSU | Jan 30, 2001 | Mitchio Okumura | The Jahn-Teller Effect and Conical Intersections in Isolated Molecules: an Old Problem with New Results and Relevance | |
| Miller, Thomas | UC Berkeley | Jan 16, 2007 | Ahmed Zewail | Understanding the Dynamics of Hydrophobic Assembly | |
| Miller, Tom | Caltech | Feb 5, 2013 | Quantum dynamics from classical trajectories: New approaches to simulating biological and molecular catalysts | ||
| Miller, W.H. | UC Berkeley | Apr 17, 2001 | Ahmed Zewail | Adding Quantum Effects to Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations via the Semiclassical Initial Value Representation | |
| Milstein, David | Weizmann Institute | Nov 15, 2011 | Harry Gray | Discovery of metal-catalyzed reactions for sustainable chemistry | Swift Lecture |
| Min, Wei | Columbia University | Mar 11, 2014 | Long Cai | Seeing the Invisible: Bioorthogonal Chemical Imaging for Biomedicine | |
| Mishra, Himanshu | KAUST | Oct 08, 2019 | William Goddard | Exploring Fast Chemistries “On-Water”: Emulsions, Electrosprays, and the Air-Water Interface | |
| Moerner, W.E. | UC San Diego | Nov 3, 1998 | Sunney Chan | Optical Spectroscopy of Individual Molecules in Solids and Biological Environments | |
| Moerner, William E. | Stanford University | Apr 24, 2018 | Tom Miller | TBA | Harden McConnell Lecture: 4:00 pm in 153 Noyes |
| Moffat, Keith | University of Chicago | Oct 9, 2001 | Ahmed Zewail | Time-Resolved Macromolecular Crystallography: Molecular Movies? | |
| Monti, Oliver L.A. | U. Arizona | Jan 19, 2010 | Thomas F. Miller | Interfacial Structure and Dynamics: Fundamental Insights for Interfacial Charge Transfer | |
| Morokuma, Keiji | Emory U. | Nov 10, 1998 | Bill Goddard | The development and application of the integrated MO+MM method, ONIOM. | |
| Morse, Michael | U of Utah | May 16, 2000 | Jack Beauchamp | Spectroscopic Studies of Transition Metal Molecules in the Gas Phase | |
| Mrksich, Milan | U. Chicago | Jan 11, 2005 | Jim Heath | From Three Dimensions to Two: Biology and Chemistry at Interfaces. | |
| Mueller, Karl | Penn State U. | Oct 27, 1998 | Dan Weitekamp | Structure Determination of Chemical Systems Using Solid State NMR | |
| Mukamel, Shaul | UC Irvine | May 31, 2005 | Ahmed Zewail | Multidimensional Coherence Vibrational Spectroscopy of Peptides: Femtosecond Snapshots of Structure and Dynamics | |
| Mukamel, Shaul | University of California, Irvine | Mar 13, 2018 | Geoffrey Blake | TBA | |
| Mullin, Amy | University of Maryland | Oct 14, 2014 | Mitchio Okumura | Dynamics of super-rotor molecules in an optical centrifuge | |
| Murray, Christopher | IBM / T.J. Watson Research Center | Feb 22, 2000 | Dan Weitekamp | Preparation and Properties of Monodisperse Nanocrystals and the Assembly of Nanocrystal Superlattices | |
| Muthukumar, Murugappan | UMass Amherst | Apr 15, 2014 | Zhen-Gang Wang | Macromolecular Translocation Through Nanopores | |
| Nahon, Laurent | SOLEIL Synchrotron | Nov 12, 2019 | Mitchio Okumura | What can be learnt on gas phase chiral systems by Photoelectron Circular Dichroism | |
| Narang, Prineha | UCLA | Oct 25, 2022 | Garnet Chan | ||
| Nelson, Keith | MIT | May 15, 2001 | Ahmed Zewail | Spatiotemporal Wavepacket Imaging, Spatiotemporal Femtosecond Pulse Shaping, and Spatiotemporal Coherent Control | |
| Nelson, Keith | MIT | June 3, 2014 | Geoff Blake | Nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy and THz coherent control | |
| Nesbitt, David | University of Colorado Boulder | Jan 16, 2001 | Daniel Weitekamp | From Single Collisions to Single Molecules | |
| Nesbitt, David | U Colorado Boulder, JILA | Feb 13, 2007 | Geoffrey Blake | Spectroscopy of Molecules Without Structures: A High Resolution Viewpoint | |
| Nesbitt, David | CU Boulder/JILA | Mar 14, 2023 | Michio Okumura | ||
| Neumark, D. | UC Berkeley | Dec 1, 1998 | Ahmed Zewail | Time resolved studies of Anion Cluster Dynamics | |
| Neumark, Daniel | University of California, Berkeley | Mar 09, 2017 | Mitchio Okumura | TBA | |
| Neumark, Daniel | Univeristy of California, Berkeley | Oct 16, 2018 | Mitchio Okumura | TBD | |
| Neuscamman, Eric | UC Berkeley | Jan 14, 2014 | Thomas Miller | Exploiting Energetic and Spatial Structure in Quantum Chemistry: Foundations for a New Paradigm | Special CPS |
| Ng, Cheuk-Yiu | UC Davis | Apr 24, 2007 | Mitchio Okumura | Structures, Energetics and Reaction Dynamics of Neutrals and Ions by High-Resolution Photoionization and Photoelectron Methods | |
| Nie, Shuming | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | Mar 19, 2019 | Lu Wei | Nanobiophotonics: from Single-Molecule Raman Spectroscopy to Image-Guided Precision Surgery | |
| Nienhaus, Lea | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Feb 09, 2018 | Rudy Marcus | From Imaging Excitons at the Nanoscale to Emerging Device Applications | Special Chemistry Seminar |
| Nienhaus, Lea | Florida State University | Apr 25, 2023 | Scott Cushing | Generating Spin-Triplets at the Perovskite/Organic Interface | |
| Odom, Teri W. | Northwestern U | Oct 4, 2006 | James Heath | Manipulating Light in Arrays of Nanoscale Holes and Pyramids | |
| Odom, Teri W. | Northwestern University | Sep 19, 2017 | Garnet Chan | Nanoscale Lasing: a Conundrum? | Seminar at 2:00 p.m. |
| Oka, Takeshi | U. of Chicago | Apr 2, 2003 | Geoffrey Blake | H3+ and Other Protonated Ions, Strong Acid in the Cosmos | |
| Okuda, Jun | Institut fur Anorganische Chemie, RWTH | Feb 16, 2010 | Homogeneous Polymerization Catalysts Based on (Very) Early Transition Metal Complexes | IES Seminar | |
| Orlando, Thomas | Georgia Tech | Oct 24, 2006 | Mitchio Okumura | Low-Energy Electron Induced Damage of Hydrated DNA: The Role of Negative Ion Resonances and Diffraction | |
| Orr, Brian | Macquarie University, Sydney | Feb 6, 2001 | Geoff Blake | Optical Cavities at Work: Novel Applications to Spectroscopic Sensing | |
| Osborn, David | Sandia National Labs | Mar 2, 2010 | Mitchio Okumura | Imaging Reaction Sequences with Isomeric Selectivity | |
| Overney, Rene | Univ. of Washington | Nov 2, 1999 | Jack Beauchamp | Confinement of Liquid-like Material at Solid Interfaces | |
| Pablo, Juan de | University of Chicago | Oct 25, 2016 | Thomas Miller | Directed Assembly in Liquid Crystalline Environments | |
| Paesani, Francesco | UC San Diego | Nov 5, 2013 | Thomas Miller | Molecular Modeling of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Breathing, Proton Conduction, and Spin Crossover | |
| Pandis, Invited Lecturers: Mark Barteau, James Collins, Glenn Fredrickson, Spyros | Feb 28, 2017 | Lacey Lecture - one day symposium | |||
| Park, Hongkung | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Feb 5, 1999 | Ahmed Zewail | Electron Transport through Nanocrystals | Special Chemical Physics Seminar |
| Park, Hongkung | Harvard University | Oct 30, 2007 | James Heath | Electronics, Optoelectronics, and Plasmonics Based on Individual Nanostructures | |
| Parson, Robert | JILA/CU | May 22, 2001 | Mitchio Okumura | Charge Flow and Solvent Dynamics in the Photodissociation of Molecular Cluster Ions | |
| Pascal, Tod | University of California, San Diego | Mar 21, 2023 | William Goddard | Probing chemical structure and (thermo-)dynamics using X-rays | |
| Pate, Brooks | University of Virginia | Apr 12, 2011 | Mitchio Okumura | Broadband rotational spectroscopy for reaction dynamics in interstellar chemistry | |
| Patel, Amish | University of Pennsylvania | May 23, 2023 | Zhen-Gang Wang | ||
| Pechukas, Phil | Columbia | Feb 10, 1998 | Aron Kuppermann | Kinetics with Fluctuating Barriers - Quantum Dynamics of Open Systems. | |
| Peters, Baron | UC Santa Barbara | March 20, 2012 | Tom Miller | Systematic identification of reaction coordinates with (and now also without) transition path sampling | |
| Petrucci, Giuseppe | University of Vermont | Apr 19, 2016 | John Seinfeld | Atmospheric Secondary Organic Aerosols Viewed Through Analytical Chemistry | |
| Pines, Alexander | UC Berkeley | Feb 16, 2000 | Lighting Up' NMR and MRI | JOHN D. ROBERTS LECTURE | |
| Plaxco, Kevin | UCSB | Jun 1, 2004 | Pat Collier | My Protein Folds Faster Than Yours: An Experimentalist’s View of Protein Folding Theory | |
| Pollak, Eli | Weizmann Institute of Science | Oct 21, 1998 | Aron Kuppermann | Quantum Thermodynamic Rate Theory | Special Chemical Physics Seminar |
| Potma, Eric | UC Irvine | Dec 11, 2012 | Long Cai | Nonlinear vibrational imaging | |
| Prakash, Verena A. Neufeld and Prabhat | Postdoc, Garnet Chan Group; Postdoc, Goddard Group | Nov 28, 2023 | |||
| Prather, Kimberly | UC Riverside | Oct 20, 1998 | Mitchio Okumura | Real Time Analysis of Atmospheric Aerosols | |
| Prezhdo, Oleg V. | University of Southern California | May 26, 2015 | Bill Goddard | Quantum Dots - Artificial Atoms, Large Molecules or Small Pieces of Bulk? Insights from Time-Domain Ab Initio Studies | |
| Prichard, David E. | MIT | Jan 18, 2005 | Jack Beauchamp | Testing E=mc2 and Weighing Chemical Bonds | |
| Qian, Hong | U. Washington | Mar 8, 2005 | Pat Collier | Stochastic Chemistry: Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Living Systems and Cellular Signal Transduction. | |
| Quake, Steven | Caltech | Nov 14, 2000 | Jack Beauchamp | Fabrication and Forces with Chemical Materials | |
| Rabani, Eran | Tel Aviv University | Feb 22, 2011 | Tom Miller | Theory of multiexciton generation at the nanometer scale | |
| Rabani, Eran | University of California, Berkeley | Oct 17, 2017 | Garnet Chan | Is the steady-state of quantum transport junctions unique? | |
| Rabitz, Herschel A. | Princeton | Jan 5, 1999 | Aron Kuppermann | Teaching Lasers to Control Molecular Dynamics | |
| Ramaswamy, Ramakrishna | Nehru Research Center, New Dehli | Mar 1, 2005 | Rudy Marcus | Spatiotemporal Correlations in Liquid Water: 1/f Noise as a Probe | |
| Rappe, Andrew M. | U. Penn. | Oct 26, 1999 | Bill Goddard | First Principles Study of Multicomponent Systems: Vibrational Decay and Phase Transitions | |
| Ratner, Mark | Northwestern U. | Jan 11, 2000 | Aron Kuppermann | Charge Transfer in Molecular Structures: Wires, Bridges and Stepping Stones | |
| Ratner, Mark | Northwester University | Dec 06, 2016 | Bill Goddard | Molecular Transport Interference and its Cousins | |
| Ravishankara, A.R. | University of Colorado | Nov 27, 2001 | Mitchio Okumura | Weakly Bound Complexes in OH Reactions and their Impact on the Atmosphere. | |
| Ravishankara, A.R. | NOAA | Feb 24, 2009 | Mitchio Okumura | Physical Chemistry of Aerosols: A Way to Understand the Role of Aerosols in Climate | |
| Reichman, David R. | Columbia U. | May 16, 2006 | Rudy Marcus | Far-From-Equilibrium Assembly of Soft Materials | |
| Reichman, David | Columbia University | April 23, 2013 | Tom Miller | Exotic Excitonics: From organic crystals to two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides | |
| Reis, David | Stanford University | Oct 30, 2018 | Scott Cushing | Ultrafast and Nonequilibrium Lattice Dynamics | |
| Reisler, Hanna | USC | Feb 12, 2002 | Mitchio Okumura | Hot Radicals in Cold Environments: Ion Imaging Studies | |
| Richmond, Geraldine | U. Oregon, Eugene | Feb 3, 2009 | Mitchio Okumura | The Fascinating Behavior of Water at Hydrophobic Surfaces | |
| Rieker, Greg | University of Colorado Boulder | Jan 05, 2021 | Mitchio Okumura | Free Range Frequency Combs: mobilizing frequency comb laser technology from hypersonic research to atmospheric sensing | |
| Robertes, Jeffrey | U of Minnesota | Mitchio Okumura | Chemistry at the Surfaces of Laboratory Surrogates for Tropospheric and Stratospheric Cloud Particles | ||
| Robinson, G. Wilse | Texas Tech | Jun 12, 1998 | Bill Goddard | Decisive Role of Outer Bonding in the Molecular-Level Understanding of Liquid Water | |
| Romsted, Larry | Rutgers U | Nov 2, 2006 | Zhen-Gang Wang | If there is Magic on the Planet, It is Contained in Water*: A New View on the Balance of Forces Controlling Micellar Morphologies of Ionic Surfactants (*Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey, 1957) | |
| Rossky, Peter J | University of Texas at Austin | May 6, 2014 | Thomas Miller | Excitonic Dynamics in Conjugated Molecular Materials | |
| Rothemund, Paul W.K. | California Institute of Technology | Jan 23, 2018 | Garnet Chan | Two challenges for DNA nanotechnology: building interfaces with silicon and cells | |
| Rowland, Sherwood | UC Irvine | May 4, 2004 | Mitchio Okumura | Hydrocarbons in the Atmosphere | |
| Rubenstein, Brenda | Brown University | Dec 05, 2023 | Garnet Chan | ||
| Rubio, Angel | Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter | May 17, 2016 | Thomas Miller | Group IV two-dimensional materials: Novel electronic and structural properties | |
| Rubio, Angel | Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter | May 18, 2016 | Marco Bernardi | A Quantum of Light for Materials Science: merging QED and TDDFT | Materials Research Lecture, Spalding Laboratory 106, 4:00 PM |
| Rugar, Dan | IBM Almaden | Mar 6, 2001 | Dan Weitekamp | Single spin magnetic resonance force microscopy: Progress made and lessons learned | |
| Sathyamurthy, N. | Indian Institute of Technology | Jan 10, 2001 | Aron Kuppermann | Chemical Dynamics: A Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanical View | |
| Saykally, Richard | UC Berkeley | Apr 7, 2009 | Geoff Blake | pH of the Liquid Water Surface: Selective Adsorption of Hydroxide and Hydronium | |
| Schaeffer, Henry | U GA | Feb 13, 2001 | William A. Goddard III | Molecular Anions: A Wealth of Important, Uncharacterized Systems | |
| Schatz, George | Northwestern | Feb 24, 1998 | Aron Kuppermann | Reaction Dynamics and Surface Hopping in Simple Insertion Reactions | |
| Schatz, George | Northwestern U. | Nov 15, 2005 | Bill Goddard | Nanoparticle Optical Properties and Biomolecule Detection: New Challenges for Theory | |
| Schlag, E.W. | Inst for Phys & Chem, Munich | May 19, 1999 | Rudy Marcus | Charge transport and reactivity in polypeptides--why does charge flow so efficiently in protein structures? | Joint CRC/CPS Lecture |
| Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela | MIT | Apr 29, 2025 | Lu Wei | Why don't plants get Sunburn | |
| Schmidt, JR | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Sep 30, 2014 | Thomas Miller | Physically-motivated force fields from symmetry-adapted perturbation theory | |
| Schmuttenmaer, Charles | Yale U. | Dec 6, 2005 | Geoffrey Blake | Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy: From Molecular Monolayers to Magnetic Thin Films | |
| Scholes, Greg | Princeton University | Apr 01, 2025 | Ryan Hadt | Wavepackets that Probe Electron transfer and Quantum-Like States | |
| Schoop, Leslie | Princeton University | Dec 12, 2022 | IOS/CPS seminar | ||
| Schwartz, Benjamin | UCLA | Feb 27, 2001 | Ahmed Zewail | En route to plastic lasers: controlling interchain interactions and energy flow in conjugated polymers | |
| Scuseria, Gustavo E. | Rice University | Jan 27, 2015 | Thomas Miller | The strong correlation problem: A quantum chemistry perspective | |
| Sharada, Shaama | University of Southern California | Jun 15, 2021 | Thomas Miller | The Pursuit of Free Energies and Free Energy Relationships | |
| Sharma, Sandeep | University of Colorado Boulder | Mar 28, 2023 | Garnet Chan | Density function theory (DFT) and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for gas phase chemistry and magnetic materials | |
| Sharma, Sandeep | University of Colorado Boulder | Nov 16, 2023 | William Goddard | Towards solution of the many-electron problem for transition states and transition metal containing systems | |
| Shea, Joan-Emma | UC Santa Barbara | Oct 4, 2011 | Bill Goddard | Simulations of protein aggregation in the cellular milieu | |
| Shen, Y. Ron | UC Berkeley | Nov 8, ,2005 | Geoffrey Blake | Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy as a Novel Probe for Molecular Chirality | |
| Sidles, John | U. Washington | Apr 13, 2004 | Dan Weitekamp | Efficient Quantum Algorithms for End-to End MRFM Analysis | |
| Siegbahn, Per | Stolkholm University) | Sep 22, 2004 | Bill Goddard | Quantum Chemical Studies of Redox-Active Enzymes | |
| Signorell, Ruth | ETH Zurich | Jan 12, 2021 | Mitchio Okumura | Nucleation enhancement in new particle formation from the vapor phase and water transport through gas-liquid interfaces in organic aerosols | |
| Simon, J.D. | Duke | Apr 14, 1998 | Ahmed Zewail | The Photoreactivity of Epidermal Chromophores, Drug Molecules, and Drug-Chromophore Complexes | |
| Sinha, Amit | UC San Diego | Nov 11, 2003 | Mitchio Okumura | State-Selected Photochemistry of Atmospheric Molecules | |
| Skinner, James | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Nov 04, 2014 | Zhen-Gang Wang | The mystery of water and its condensed phases | |
| Skodje, Rex | U. Colorado/JILA | Feb 19, 2002 | Aron Kuppermann | The Search for Resonance Signatures in Simple Chemical Reactions | |
| Smith, D. Eric | Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico | Jan 29, 2008 | Geoff Blake | A Plausible Origin of Life Through Metabolism | |
| Smith, Geoffrey | University of Georgia | Apr 29, 2014 | Jack Beauchamp | What Color are Atmospheric Aerosols? Development of a Novel UV-Vis Aerosol Absorption Spectrophotometer | |
| Soh, Hyongsok | UC Santa Barbara | May 18, 2010 | Jim Heath | Microfluidic bioseparations and rapid directed evolution of molecules | |
| Solling, Theis | University of Copenhagen | May 31, 2019 | Mitchio Okumura | Structure, symmetry, and charge as drivers for non-statistical processes on the femtosecond timescale | 101 Schlinger, 2 PM |
| Somorjai, Gabor | UC Berkeley | Jan 20, 2004 | Rudy Marcus | The Transition of Molecular Surface Chemistry to Molecular Surface Biology | |
| Spakowitz, Andy | Stanford University | May 08, 2018 | Tom Miller | Modeling the Physical Processes Underlying Chromosomal Organization and Dynamics | |
| Spence, John | Arizona State University | Oct 16, 2012 | Long Cai | Time-resolved molecular imaging with a femtosecond hard x-ray laser | |
| Spiro, Thomas | Princeton | Feb 13, 1998 | Protein Dynamics in Hemoglobin from Resonance Raman Spectroscopy | ||
| Sprik, Michiel | Cambridge | March 22, 2012 | Tom Miller | Computational electrochemistry of transition metal oxide-water interfaces | |
| Srnec, Martin | J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry | May 21, 2019 | Ryan Hadt | On the role of synchronicity in C-H bond activations | |
| Stolow, Albert | Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences | Oct 10, 2000 | Ahmed Zewail | Progress in Femtosecond Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy | |
| Stuchebrukhov, Alexei | UC Davis | Feb 17, 1998 | Rudy Marcus | Understanding Electron Tunneling in Proteins | |
| Stuchebrukhov, Alexei | UC Davis | Jan 12, 2010 | Thomas F. Miller | Coupled Electron and Proton Transfer Reactions and Biological Energy Transduction | |
| Stwalley, William C. | U. of Connecticut | Mar 7, 2003 | Jack Beauchamp | Making Molecules at MicroKelvin | |
| Su, Julius | Caltech | May 11, 2010 | Bill Goddard | Simulations of matter at extreme and ambient conditions | |
| Subotnik, Joseph | University of Pennsylvania | Oct 22, 2019 | Tom Miller | Understanding coupled nuclear-electronic dynamics near a metal surface | |
| Sun, Xiang | New York University Shanghai | Mar 18, 2025 | Garnet Chan | Theoretical Approaches to Photoinduced Charge Transfer in the Condensed Phase | |
| Szabo, Attila | NIDDK, National Institutes of Health | Mar 4, 2014 | Rudy Marcus | Theory of Single-Molecule Fluorescence and Force Spectroscopy | |
| Szleifer, Igal | Northwestern University | Oct 24, 2013 | Zhen-Gang Wang | Structure and Translocation in Nuclear Pore Complexes | ChE Seminar (Thursday) |
| Takematsu, Kana | Boudin College | Apr 30, 2024 | Mitchio Okumura | Moving Protons with Photoacids to Harness Light Energy | |
| Tannor, D.J. | Weizmann Inst. | Feb 9, 1999 | Aron Kuppermann | New Paradigms for Coherent Control: Laser Cooling of Molecules, and Manipulating Dynamics in the Condensed Phase | |
| Tannor, David | Weizmann Inst. (Israel) | Apr 28, 2009 | Aron Kupperman | Bohmian Mechanics with Complex Action: An Exact Formulation of Quantum Mechanics with Complex Trajectories | |
| Taunton, Jack | HHMI, UC San Francisco | Oct 30, 2012 | Tom Miller and Bil Clemons | Small-molecule interrogation of kinase signaling and membrane protein biogenesis | |
| Taylor, Howard | USC | Apr 29, 2003 | Aron Kuppermann | Improving NMR Sensitivity: How to perform many experiments 64 times faster | Joint Chemical-Physics/Organic Chemistry Seminar |
| Tempelaar, Roel | Northwestern University | Apr 08, 2025 | Scott Cushing | Steering spin-valley polarizations through phonons and photons | |
| Texcan, F. Akif | University of California, San Diego | Feb 16, 2016 | TBA | Swift Lecture, 22 Gates Annex, 4:00 PM | |
| Theis, Thomas | North Carolina State University | Nov 15, 2022 | Mikhail Shapiro | Scalable Quantum Technology for Dynamic Molecular Imaging | |
| Thiemens, Mark | UC San Diego | Oct 28, 2003 | Geoffrey Blake | Applications of Mass Independent Isotope Effects: The Origin of the Solar System, Mars, Paleoclimates and the Evolution of Life | |
| Thomas, Sir John Meurig | Univ. of Cambridge | Mar 30, 1999 | Ahmed Zewail | Design, Synthesis and in situ Characterization of New Solid Catalysts | LINUS PAULING LECTURE |
| Tian, Bozhi | University of Chicago | Jun 06, 2017 | Jim Heath | Exploring the interfaces between silicon and soft materials | |
| Tieleman, Peter | University of Calgary | Oct 18, 2016 | Thomas Miller | Lateral Lipid Organization in Model Membranes | |
| Ting, Alice | MIT | Oct 29, 2010 | Long Cai | Molecular engineering of reporters of protein trafficking and interactions and application to the study of molecular mechanisms of synapse development | |
| Tiwary, Pratyush | University of Maryland | Aug 15, 2022 | Garnet Chan | From Atoms to Mechanisms: Artificial Intelligence Augmented Chemistry for Molecular Simulations and Beyond | Special CPS seminar |
| Tobias, Douglas J. | UC Irvine | Apr 15, 2003 | Jack Beauchamp | The Saltwater/Air Interface: It’s Saltier Than You Might Think and It Influences the Air You Breathe | |
| Toettcher, Jared | Princeton University | Feb 21, 2017 | James Heath | Cellular Optogenetics: Precision Tools to Probe How Signaling Pathways Control Cell Fate | at 12pm |
| Tokmakoff, Andrei | MIT | Nov 19, 2002 | Ahmed Zewail | Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy: Revealing Molecular Dynamics in Solution | |
| Tokmakoff, Andrei | University of Chicago | May 10, 2016 | Long Cai | Developing experiments to visualize the dynamics of biomolecular recognition and binding | |
| Tolbert, Margaret | University of Colorado, Boulder | May 10, 2011 | Jack Beauchamp | Aerosols on the ancient Earth: Lessons from Saturn's moon Titan | |
| Trentelman, Karen | The Getty Conservation Institute | Nov 29, 2011 | Frances Arnold | Working at the interface of science and art: Collections research at the Getty | |
| Truhlar, Don | University of Minnesota | Apr 15, 2008 | Rudy Marcus | New Density Functionals with Broad Applicability in Chemistry | |
| Truhlar, Donald | University of Minnesota | Nov 01, 2016 | William Goddard | Current Progress in Density Functional Theories | |
| Trzaskowski, Bartosz | University of Warsaw, Poland | Nov 23, 2021 | William Goddard | "Amido imidazoline-2-imine ligand stabilizing double B=O bond and five-membered cyclic triel (I) carbenoides" | |
| Trzaskowski, Bartosz | University of Warsaw, Poland | Nov 23, 2021 | William Goddard | "Amido imidazoline-2-imine ligand stabilizing double B=O bond and five-membered cyclic triel (I) carbenoides" | |
| Tuckerman, Mark E. | New York University | Nov 12, 2013 | Thomas Miller | Exploring the Free Energy Landscapes of Complex Molecules and Crystal Polymorphs Using Enhanced Sampling and Machine Learning Techniques | |
| Turecek, Frantisek | U. Washington, Seattle | Dec 3, 2002 | Jack Beauchamp | Transient Intermediates of Chemical Reactions: From Femtoseconds to Microseconds | |
| Vaida, Veronica | U. Colorado, Boulder | Dec 7, 2004 | Mitchio Okumura | Atmospheric Organic Aerosols in Earth’s Chemistry and Climate | |
| Vaidehi, Nagarajan | City of Hope, Duarte, CA | Jan 18, 2011 | Bill Goddard | Conformational flexibility leading to activations of G-protein coupled receptors: Its revelance to drug design for pancreatic cancer | |
| Vaikuntanathan, Suri | University of Chicago | Jun 04, 2019 | Tom Miller | TBA | |
| Vanden-Eijnden, Eric | Courant Institute, NYU | Nov 10, 2020 | Tom Miller | Machine learning and partial differential equations (PDEs) | |
| Veen, Renske Van Der | Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin | Nov 7, 2023 | Scott Cushing | Fast Electrons and Hard X-rays for Unraveling Atomic-Scale Dynamics in Light-Energy Conversion | |
| Vilesov, Andrey | USC/UC Los Angeles | May 27, 2003 | Mitchio Okumura | Helium nanodroplets, a unique laboratory for physics and chemistry. | |
| Vinson, John | National Institute of Standards and Technology | Dec 03, 2019 | Scott Cushing | Computational X-ray Spectroscopy: Matching Peaks and Missing Features | |
| Vlcek, Vojtech | UCSB | May 27, 2025 | Scott Cushing | Towards ab initio simulations of driven and non-equilibrium systems through novel theoretical and numerical approaches | |
| Voorhis, Troy Van | MIT | Oct 6, 2009 | Thomas F. Miller | Exploring Electron Transfer: From Photochemistry to Energy Conversion | |
| Voorhis, Troy Van | MIT | Nov 13, 2018 | Tom Miller | Electron Dynamics in Complex Environments: From Electron Transfer to Singlet Fission | |
| Voth, G.A. | U of Utah | Feb 16, 1999 | Rudy Marcus | The Theory of Quantum Dynamics in Condensed Phases: The Case of the Excess Proton in Water and Related Systems | |
| Voth, Greg | U. Utah, Salt Lake City | Jan 27, 2004 | Bill Goddard | Biological Systems Span Many Length and Time Scales: How Can Theory and Computer Simulation Address this Challenge | |
| Voth, Greg | U of Utah | Feb 20, 2007 | Rudy Marcus | The Multiscale Challenge for Biomolecular Systems: A Systematic Approach. | |
| Vries, Mattanjah de | UC Santa Barabara | Oct 18, 2005 | Aron Kupperman | Shedding Light on the Building Blocks of Life, One by One | |
| Vura-Weis, Josh | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | May 13, 2019 | Harry Gray | What did the metal know, and when did she know it? Ultrafast XUV spectroscopy reveals short lived states in transitional metal complexes and ogranohalide perovskites | |
| Wang, Dunwei | Boston College | Dec 20, 2011 | Jim Heath | Synthesizing materials at the nanoscale for advanced energy applications | |
| Wang, Lai-Sheng | WSU | Sep 26, 2000 | Ahmed Zewail | Probing Solution Phase Chemistry in Gas Phase: Photodetachment of Multiply Charged Anions Using Electrospray | |
| Wang, Lee-Ping | Stanford University | Jan 08, 2015 | Thomas Miller | Ab initio discovery of energy conversion pathways - theory and applications | Special CPS (Thursday) |
| Warren, Warren S. | Princeton | Apr 2, 2001 | Daniel Weitekamp | Femtosecond Laser Pulse Shaping and its Applications | |
| Warren, Warren S. | Princeton | Apr 3, 2001 | Daniel Weitekamp | Understanding Intermolecular Coherences in Solution NMR: How Everything Organic Chemists Understand is Wrong | |
| Warren, Warren S. | Duke University | Jan 7, 2025 | Lu Wei | Revisiting Decades-Old Chemistry and Physics to Improve Modern Molecular Imaging | |
| Warren, Warren S. | Duke University | Jun 10, 2025 | Lu Wei | Revisiting Decades-Old Chemistry and Physics to Improve Modern Molecular Imaging | |
| Warshel, Arieh | USC | Apr 6, 2010 | Tom Miller | Multiscale modeling of complex biological systems: exploring problematic dynamical proposals and quantifying enzyme catalysis | |
| Wasserman, Adam | Purdue | Jan 29, 2013 | Tom Miller | Recent advances in density functional theory | |
| Webb, Watt W. | Cornell University | Apr 8, 2003 | Pat Collier | Statistical Thermodynamics of Biomolecules: Anomalous Single Molecule Dynamics in vivo | |
| Weiss, Emily | Northwestern | Oct 9, 2012 | Jim Heath | A molecule to detect and perturb the confinement of charge carriers in colloidal quantum dots | |
| Weiss, Shimon | UCLA | May 12, 2009 | Sunney Chan | Single molecule probing of dynamic conformation, molecular interactions and dynamic localizations in-vitro, in live cells and in small organisms | |
| Wesolowski, Tomasz | University of Geneva | Nov 9, 2010 | Tom Miller | Orbital-free embedding theory and its applications in numerical simulations of the electronic structure in condensed phase | |
| Wheeler, Steven E. | Texas A&M | May 13, 2014 | Thomas Miller | Understanding Non-Covalent Interactions Involving Aromatic Rings | |
| White, Michael | Brookhaven NL/Berkeley ALS | May 26, 1998 | Mitchio Okumura | The Dynamics of Photoinduced Processes on Metal Surfaces | |
| Wiesenfeld, Laurent | U. Joseph Fourier (France) | Feb 17, 2009 | Aron Kupperman | Collisional Excitation of Interstellar Matter: Potential Energy Surfaces, Cross Sections, Rates | |
| Willard, Adam | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Feb 27, 2018 | Thomas Miller | The nonequilibrium dynamics of electrons and holes in disordered molecular semiconductors | |
| Williams, Evan | UC Berkeley | Nov 30, 1999 | Jack Beauchamp | Unimolecular Reactions in the High Pressure Limit without Collisions: The Chemistry of Large Biomolecule Ions | |
| Williams, Evan | UC Berkeley | Apr 29, 2008 | Jack Beauchamp | Gaseous Noncovalent Complexes and Clusters: A Bridge to Aqueous Solution | |
| Willitsch, Stefan | University of Basel | Nov 29, 2022 | Scott Cushing | Quantum technologies for trapped molecular ions | |
| Willner, Itamar | The Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jun 26, 2007 | Pat Collier | Tailored Biomolecular Nanostructures for Biosensing, Circuitry and Devices. | |
| Wittig, Curt | USC | Oct 12, 2004 | Mitchio Okumura | Photoexcitation of Molecules Imbedded in Helium | |
| Wodtke, Alec M. | UC Santa Barbara | Apr 4, 2000 | Jack Beauchamp | Chemistry with stretched molecules: vibrational promotion of electron transfer | |
| Wodtke, Alec M. | UC Santa Barbara | Nov 7, 2006 | Mitchio Okumura | Do We Have a Theory for Reactions at Metal Interfaces? The Unsolved Problem of Electronic Non-Adiabaticity | |
| Wodtke, Alec | Max Planck Institute | Feb 18, 2025 | Mitchio Okumura | Bridging the pressure gap in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Synergies arising from Experimental and Theoretical Kinetics | |
| Wolynes, Peter | UC San Diego | Feb 25, 2003 | Ahmed Zewail | The Theory of Glasses | |
| Wrachtrup, Jorg | University of Stuttgart | May 28, 2024 | Dan Weitekamp | Harden McConnell Lecture | |
| Wrachtrup, Jorg | University of Stuttgart, 3rd Institute of Physics and Max Planch Institute for Solid State Research, Germany | May 20, 2025 | Daniel Weitekamp | Magnetic resonance one spin at a time | McConnell Lecture |
| Wright, Peter | Scripps Research Institute | Dec 6, 2011 | Tom Miller | Exploring protein energy landscapes by NMR relaxation | |
| Wysocki, Vicki | University of Arizona | Oct 21, 2008 | Jack Beauchamp | Expanding the Role of Mass Spectrometry in Structural Biology: Infrared Photodissociation of Peptide Fragments and Surface-Induced Dissociation of Large Non-Covalent Protein Complexes | |
| Xantheas, Sotiris | PNNL, Hanford WA | May 13, 2003 | Bill Goddard | Collision-Induced Light Emission as a Thermometer for Electronic Deformation | |
| Xie, Sunney | Harvard University | May 21, 2002 | Zhen-gang Wang | Single Molecule Enzymatic and Conformational Dynamics | Special joint CPS/BPS Seminar |
| Xiong, Wei | University of California, San Diego | Feb 11, 2020 | Scott Cushing | Ultrafast Dynamics and Interactions of Molecular Vibrational Polariton | |
| Xu, Ke | University of California, Berkeley | Jun 27, 2017 | Mitchio Okumura | Physical Chemistry through a Microscope | |
| Yaghi, Omar | UCLA | Mar 9, 2010 | Bill Goddard | The Chemistry of Metal-Organic Frameworks Full of Nothing | |
| Yang, Haw | UC Berkeley | May 22, 2007 | Pat Collier | Single-Molecule Protein Dynamics and Spectroscopy of Individual Nanoparticles Freely Moving in 3D | |
| Yang, Peidong | UC Berkeley | May 10, 2005 | Dan Weitekamp | Inorganic Nanotubes and Nanofluidic Transistors | |
| Yang, Weitao | Duke University | Dec 2, 2008 | Bill Goddard | Free Energies and Mechanism of Chemical Reactions in Solution and inEnzymes with Ab Initio QM/MM | |
| Yang, Xueming | Institute for Atomic and Molecular Science | Nov 7, 2000 | Mitchio Okumura | State to State Chemistry for the O(1D)+H2 -> OH + H Reaction: Insertion vs. Abstraction | |
| Yarkony, David | Johns Hopkins University | Oct 23, 2001 | Aron Kuppermann | Conical Intersections and the Spin-Orbit Interaction: A New Dimension in Conical Intersections | |
| Ye, Jun | JILA, U. Colorado Boulder | Nov 29, 2005 | Mitchio Okumura | Femtosecond Frequency Comb and Real-Time Ultrasensitive Spectroscopy | |
| Ye, Jun | JILA, U. Colorado Boulder | Feb 15, 2011 | Jack Beauchamp | Molecules in the quantum regime | |
| Yethiraj, Arun | University of Wisconsin | Jun 1, 2010 | Tom Miller | Multiscale modeling of self-assembly in complex fluids | |
| Ying, Jackie Y. | IBN Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Signapore | May 15, 2017 | Jim Heath | TBA | MONDAY |
| Yuen-Zhou, Joel | MIT | Feb 11, 2014 | Thomas Miller | Coherent Excitons, Coherent Spectroscopies | Special CPS |
| Zanni, Martin | Wisconsin | Jan 15, 2013 | Geoff Blake | New technology for 2D IR spectroscopy and its application to protein aggregation and drug binding | |
| Zare, Richard | Stanford | Jan 13, 2009 | James Heath | Isotope Analysis: It is All Done with Smoke and Mirrors. | |
| Zare, Richard | Stanford | Jan 7, 2014 | Long Cai | Is the simplest chemical reaction really so simple? | |
| Zhang, Bin | MIT | Apr 05, 2022 | Thomas Miller | Genome Organization through Phase Separation: Random yet Precise | |
| Zhang, Bin | MIT | Apr 05, 2022 | Thomas Miller | Genome Organization through Phase Separation: Random yet Precise | |
| Zhang, John Z. H. | New York U. | Dec 2, 1999 | Aron Kuppermann | Ab Initio Quantum Polyatomic Dynamics | |
| Zharov, Ilya | University of Utah | May 13, 2008 | Pat Collier | Responsive Nanoporous Organic-Inorganic Colloidal Materials | |
| Zhong, Dongping | Ohio State U. | Apr 14, 2009 | Ahmed Zewail | Control of DNA Repair by Photolyase. | |
| Zhuang, Xiaowei | Harvard | Dec 8, 2009 | Jim Heath | Nanoscopic imaging of biomolecules and cells | |
| Zuerch, Michael | UC Berkeley | Apr 09, 2024 | Scott Cushing | Exploring and Manipulating Novel Matter Phases with Ultrafast Linear and Nonlinear X-Ray Techniques | |
| Zwier, Tim | Purdue University | Mar 19, 2002 | Mitchio Okumura | Laser Probes of the Potential Energy Landscapes and Dynamics of Small, Flexible Biomolecule | |
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