College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Chemistry - Physical Chemistry Seminars

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Prof. Eric Neuscamman, University of California - Berkeley, "Electronic Structure Theory for Excited States"

2:00 pm 10/28/2020
- Seminar/Symposium
Prof. David Limmer, University of California Berkeley, "Charge separation in systems away from equilibrium"

2:00 pm 11/4/2020
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CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Jack Burke, UIUC, "Coherent Control of Nuclear Motion Driving Charge and Spin Ordering in Molecular and Extended Solids"

2:00 pm 11/11/2020
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CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Anupriya Edappalil Satheesan, UIUC, "Single nanoparticle photoelectrochemistry"

2:00 pm 11/11/2020
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Ryan Ash, UIUC, "Probing the Reaction Coordinate of Photoinduced Spin-Crossover with Femtosecond M-edge XANES" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*

1:30 pm 11/12/2020
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Sambarta Chatterjee, UIUC, "PATH INTEGRAL APPROACHES TOWARDS ACCURATE QUANTUM DISSIPATIVE DYNAMICS" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*

3:30 pm 11/13/2020
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CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Benjamin Gilbert, UIUC, "Toppling Mechanism of the S-component in Group II ECF Transporters: How Bacteria Get Their Vitamins"

2:00 pm 11/18/2020
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CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Daniel Gray, UIUC, "Modulating Protein Stability by Engineering the n→π* Interactions"

2:00 pm 11/18/2020
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CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Oliver Lin, UIUC, "Singlet Fission in Conjugated Oligomer Systems"

2:00 pm 11/18/2020
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Prof. Kelly Gaffney, Student Select Seminar, Stanford University, "Imaging Chemical Transformations with Ultrafast X-ray Lasers"

2:00 pm 12/2/2020
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WCC Postdoctoral Research Presentation

1:00 pm 12/15/2020
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Prof. Frank Huo, University of Rochester, "New Theoretical Approaches to Investigate Chemical Reactions Enabled by Quantum Mechanical Behavior"

2:00 pm 2/10/2021
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Prof. Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, MIT, "Action at the nanoscale: Single-molecule studies of protein motion"

2:00 pm 3/3/2021
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Kris Benke, UIUC, "Ultrafast Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Dithiolate Coordination Complexes" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*

2:00 pm 3/29/2021
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Prof. Kristie Koski, University of California - Davis, "Chemically Tunable 2D Materials"

2:00 pm 3/31/2021
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Prof. Sara Mason, University of Iowa, "Building Bridges between Computational Chemistry and Experiment at the Nanoscale: Materials for Energy and the Environment"

2:00 pm 4/21/2021
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Erin Nissen, UIUC, "An Investigation into the Chemistry of Liquid Nitromethane Under Tabletop Shock Compression" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*

10:00 am 5/6/2021
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Punit Jha, UIUC, "Finite-temperature many-body perturbation theory for electrons" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*

1:30 pm 6/3/2021
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Kori Sye, UIUC, "Development of Solution-Phase Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Photophysics of µ-Oxo-Bridged Fe(III)Porphyrins" *This exam will be executed remotely and by invitation only*

10:00 am 7/1/2021
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Prof. James Shepherd, University of Iowa, "Developing electronic structure methods for metals and electrons with finite temperature”

2:00 pm 9/29/2021
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Prof. Anastassia Alexandrova, University of California Los Angeles, " Dynamic catalytic interfaces: ensembles of multiple metastable states break the rules of catalysis"

2:00 pm 10/13/2021
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Prof. David Masiello, University of Washington, "Probing the Valence Responses in Plasmonic and Photonic Nanostructures  with Fast Electron Spectroscopy"

2:00 pm 10/20/2021
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Allan Sykes, Thesis Defense, "Development of a Dynamic Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope for the Study of Light-Induced Dynamics in Nanoscale Materials"

10:00 am 11/4/2021
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CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: David Durden, UIUC, "Shifting Dynamics of Polymer Thin Films"

2:00 pm 11/10/2021
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CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Cheyenne Mitchell, UIUC, “Laser Frequency Comb Use in Near-Infrared Doppler Spectroscopy"

2:00 pm 11/10/2021

CLSL B102
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Meredith Rickard, Final Defense, "FROM METABOLITES TO MACROMOLECULES: COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF THE E. coli AND H. sapiens CYTOPLASM"

3:00 pm 11/10/2021

353 Noyes Lab
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CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: David Friday, UIUC, "Understanding the Dissolution of Cellulose in Ionic Liquids via Molecular Dynamic Simulations"

2:00 pm 11/17/2021

CLSL B102
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Chem 545 Literature Seminar: Lakshmy Ajayakumar, UIUC, "Single photon emission and quantum photonics with silicon carbide"

2:00 pm 11/17/2021

CLSL B102
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Prof. Wei Xiong, University of California - San Diego, "Ultrafast Phenomena of coupled molecular systems: from molecular polaritons to self-assembled materials"

2:00 pm 12/1/2021
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Dr. Bing Fu, Cornell University, “Probing cell-environment interface at single-cell single-molecule level”

10:00 am 1/18/2022

CLSL B102
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Dr. Fabijan Pavosevic, Flat Iron Institute, "Quantum Chemistry Magic"

10:00 am 1/21/2022

CLSL B102
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Prof. Joel Yuen-Zhou, University of California San Diego, "Unusual light-molecule interactions: polariton condensates and other nonlinear phenomena."

2:00 pm 2/23/2022
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Chem 545 Physical Chemistry Literature Seminar: Wenqing Zhu, UIUC, "Dissecting the Function of Biological Machines Using Fleezers"

2:00 pm 3/2/2022

CLSL B102
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FINAL DEFENSE: David Bianchi, UIUC, "Multi-scale Simulation of Dynamic Biochemical Reaction Networks in Living Cells", Advisor: Zaida Luthey-Schulten

2:00 pm 4/6/2022
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Prof. Justin Caram, UCLA, "Exploring the extremes of excitonic photophysics"

2:00 pm 4/13/2022
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Prof. James McCusker, Michigan State University, "Tailoring the Photophysics of First-row Transition Metal-based Chromophores for Applications in Light-to-Chemical Energy Conversion: Challenges and Opportunities"

2:00 pm 4/20/2022

CLSL B102
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FINAL DEFENSE, Yusef Shari'ati, UIUC, "Ultrathin, Ultraviolet, Ultrafast: Cobalt Cubane at the M-Edge", Advisor: Joshua Vura-Weis

2:00 pm 4/25/2022
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Flygare Memorial Lecture, Prof. Naomi Halas, Rice University, "Nanomaterials and Light for Sustainability and Societal Impact"

4:00 pm 5/6/2022

CLSL B102
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Dr. Meredith Rickard, PChem Dissertation Award 2021, UIUC, "From Metabolites to Macromolecules: Computational Models of the E. coli and H. sapiens Cytoplasm"

2:00 pm 5/11/2022

CLSL B102
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FINAL DEFENSE, Reshmi Dani, UIUC, "Path integral simulations of coupled spin and exciton dynamics", Advisor: Professor Nancy Makri

11:00 am 8/30/2022

NL 353
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Physical Chemistry Dissertation Award Seminar, Mr. Sohang Kundu, UIUC, "Path Integral Studies of Excitation Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic and Bioinspired Molecular Aggregates"

2:00 pm 8/31/2022

CLSL B-102
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Professor Prineha Narang, UCLA, Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry Approaches to Nonequilibrium Interactions in Molecules and Materials

2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/7/2022

CLSL B-102
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FINAL DEFENSE, Xiuyi (Terry) Qin, UIUC, "Anharmonic vibrational many-body theory for molecules and extended systems", Advisor: Professor So Hirata

1:00 pm 10/4/2022

NL 353
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CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Matthew Cloyd, UIUC, "Utilizing Near-Infrared Light Quantum Effects to Measure the Fingerprint Mid-Infrared Region"

2:00 pm 11/9/2022

CLSL B102
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CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Romans Grant, UIUC, "Resolving the Structural Adaptation and Resulting Bioactivity Challenge of Cyclic Peptides by Multi-Scale Molecular Dynamics Methods"

2:00 pm 11/9/2022

CLSL B102
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Brown University Chemistry’s Graduate Ambassador Award Lecture: Mr. Stephen Kocheril (BS, '16, UIUC Chemistry), Brown University: “Photoelectron Imaging of Laser Vaporized Cryogenically-Cooled Atomic Cluster Anions"

2:00 pm 11/10/2022

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Alumnus Stephen Kocheril (BS, Chemistry, '16) is the recipient of Brown University Chemistry's Graduate Ambassador Award, which is given annually to graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in teaching, research, and service. Reception immediately following in Chem Annex 1025.
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CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Brandon Rasmussen, UIUC, "Supercharged!: Advances in Superabsorbance for the Development of Quantum Batteries"

2:00 pm 11/16/2022

CLSL B102
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CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Laura Smith, UIUC, "X-Ray Vision: Seeing Art in a New Light"

2:00 pm 11/16/2022

CLSL B102
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CHEM 545 Literature Seminar: Sreelekshmi Venu UIUC, "Super Resolution Microscopy for the Study of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes"

2:00 pm 11/16/2022

CLSL B102
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FINAL DEFENSE, Sean Carney, UIUC, "Single-molecule optical tweezers studies of the mechanism of DNA unwinding by a model helicase", Advisors: Martin Gruebele and Yann Chemla

11:00 am 12/9/2022

NL 353
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Dr. Hong-Zhou Ye, Columbia University, Quantitative Materials Science with Quantum Chemistry

8:30 am 12/16/2022
- Ceremony/Service
Distinguished Lecture in Physical Chemistry: Prof. Christy Landes, Rice University, "Towards predictive protein separations: Imaging protein dynamics at nanoscale interfaces"

2:00 pm 1/4/2023

CLSL B102
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Dr. Minjung Son, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Pathways of excitation energy flow in light-harvesting systems uncovered with ultrabroadband 2D electronic spectroscopy."

10:00 - 11:00 am 1/27/2023

CLSL B-102
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Professor Siewert-Jan Marrink, University of Groningen, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of an Entire Cell"

2:00 pm 2/15/2023

CLSL B-102
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Professor Matt Jones, Rice University, "Developing a Mechanistic Picture of the Synthesis and Assembly of Inorganic Nanomaterials"

2:00 pm 3/1/2023

CLSL B-102
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FINAL DEFENSE: Lawrence Salvati, UIUC, "How Explosive Grains Interact During Shock Ignition", Advisor: Dana Dlott

1:30 pm 3/6/2023

CLSL A133
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Professor Peter Rossky, Rice University, "Molecular Scenarios for Experimental Observations: Hunting with Theory and Simulation"

2:00 pm 3/8/2023

CLSL B-102
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Professor Abraham Nitzan, University of Pennsylvania, "Molecules in Optical Cavities: Electron Transfer and Transmission, Polaritons, Vibrational Strong Coupling and Collective Response"

2:00 pm 3/22/2023

CLSL B-102
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Professor Timothy Berkelbach, Columbia University, Electronic Excitations in Nanomaterials: New Theories and Methods

2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/12/2023

CLSL B-102
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2023 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor George C. Schatz, Northwestern University, "Plasmons, Molecules and Theory: Where Top-down Meets Bottom-up."

4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/28/2023

CLSL B-102
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FINAL DEFENSE, Sohang Kundu, UIUC, "Exciton-Vibration Dynamics using Real-Time Path Integral Methods", Advisor: Nancy Makri

1:30 pm 5/5/2023

NL 353
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FINAL DEFENSE, Gopika Gopan, UIUC, "Biomacromolecular Assemblies: From Quinary Interactions to Diffusion in Mammalian Cells", Advisor: Martin Gruebele

10:00 am 6/30/2023

NL 353
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FINAL DEFENSE, Alison Wallum, UIUC, "Exploring Structural and Electronic Heterogeneity in Nanoscale Systems Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy" Advisor: Martin Gruebele

3:00 pm 8/1/2023

Beckman 4269 4th Floor Tower Room
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Professor Kwabena Bediako, University of California-Berkeley, "Defects and Disorder in Superlattices: New Twists in 2D Materials"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/13/2023

CLSL B102
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Professor Prashant Jain, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "Holes in the LK-99 Story"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/20/2023

CLSL B-102
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Professor Lea Nienhaus, Florida State University, "Generating Spin-Triplets at the Perovskite/Organic Interface"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/27/2023

CLSL B102
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Professor Valeria Molinero, University of Utah, "The Most Potent Snow Makers"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/4/2023

CLSL B102
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Thomas Cowell, University of Illionis Urbana-Champaign, "Double Emulsion Droplet Microfluidics and High-Throughput Measurements of Single Viruses"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/18/2023

CLSL B-102
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Professor Pierre-Nicholas Roy, University of Waterloo, "Simulating Quantum Critical Molecular Assemblies: From Path Integrals to Matrix Product States"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/25/2023

CLSL B102
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FINAL DEFENSE, Thomas Cowell, "Double Emulsion Droplet Microfluidics and High-throughput Measurements of Single Viruses ", Advisor: Professor Hee Sun Han

3:00 pm 10/30/2023

CLSL B124
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Professor Shaul Mukamel, University of California-Irvine, "Monitoring Elementary Molecular Events and Conical Intersections by Ultrafast X-ray Pulses, Quantum Light, and Optical Cavities"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/1/2023

CLSL B-102
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FINAL DEFENSE, Zane Thornburg, "Simulating the Cell Cycle of the Minimal Cell in 4D", Advisor: Professor Zaida Luthey-Schulten

2:30 pm 11/3/2023

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PChem Literature Seminar: Pinhao Gu, "Electronic band gap from quantum Monte Carlo Methods"

2:00 - 2:30 pm 11/8/2023

CLSL B-102
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PChem Literature Seminar: Kevin Adams, "Beyond the Mean Field Approximation for Surface Catalysis"

2:00 - 2:30 pm 11/15/2023

CLSL B-102
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PChem Literature Seminar: Arnav Paul, "Characterization of structural dynamics in proteins using PELDOR and smFRET"

2:30 - 3:00 pm 11/15/2023

CLSL B-102
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PChem Literature Seminar: Shruti Iyer, "Predicting Antimicrobial Resistance from MALDI-TOF Mass Spectra with Machine Learning"

2:00 - 2:30 pm 11/29/2023

CLSL B-102
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PChem Literature Seminar: Omar Ghaleb, "'Mirrors' and Magnets: 'Interfering' with Ultracold Molecular Collisions"

2:30 - 3:00 pm 11/29/2023

CLSL B-102
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Professor Julia Mahamid, European Molecular Biology Laboratory – Heidelberg, “Enabling discovery by in-cell structural biology”

3:00 - 4:00 pm 2/16/2024

Beckman Lab 3269
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Professor Scott Sayres, Arizona State University, "Tuning the Ultrafast Energy Flow in Molecular Scale Materials"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/21/2024

CLSL B-102
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Professor Massimiliano Esposito, University of Luxembourg, “Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of chemical reaction networks and bioenergetics”

3:00 - 4:00 pm 2/26/2024

Beckman Lab 3269
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Professor Maxim Prigozhin, Harvard University, "Lanthanide Cathodophores for Multicolor Electron Microscopy"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/28/2024

CLSL B102
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Professor Markus Covert, Stanford University, "Whole-cell modeling of E. coli: from simulation to discovery"

3:00 pm 3/4/2024

Beckman 3269
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Professor Bin Zhang, MIT, "Multiscale Simulations of Biocondensates and Genome Organization"

3:00 - 4:00 pm 3/18/2024

Beckman 3269 3rd Floor Tower Room
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FINAL DEFENSE: Rachel Wallick "Shining Light on the Photoexcited States of First-Row Transition Metal Photocatalysts” Advisor: Proffessors Joshua Vura-Weis and Liviu Mirica

10:00 am 3/22/2024

223 Gregory Hall
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CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Jeffrey R. Long, University of California, Berkeley (Su) "Cooperative Adsorption and Gas Separations in Metal–Organic Frameworks"

2:00 pm 3/26/2024

116 Roger Adams Laboratory
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Professor Alex Smirnov, North Carolina State University, "Nanopore-confined Nanotubular Lipid Bilayers: A Versatile Biophysical Tool for Membrane Proteins"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 3/27/2024

CLSL B102
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Professor Matthew Sheldon, Texas A&M University, "Shining a Light on Nanophotonic Heat Engines"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/3/2024

CLSL B102
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FINAL DEFENSE: Troy Brier, "Shaping of the Bacterial Transcriptome: Persepectives From Kinetic Modeling". Advisor: Professor Zaida Luthey-Schulten

11:00 am 4/11/2024

Noyes Lab 353
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Professor Adam P. Willard, MIT University, "Modeling Exciton Dynamics in Heterogeneous Molecular Environments"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/17/2024

CLSL B-102
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2024 Geerdes Lecture: Benjamin Gilbert, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "Modeling Multi-fork Replication and Segregation of Bacterial Chromosomes"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/24/2024

CLSL B-102
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Professor Luke Chao, Harvard University, "Ultrastructural regulation of the mitochondrial inner-membrane"

3:00 pm 4/29/2024

Beckman 3269
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Professor Lisa Fredin, Lehigh University, "Untangling Photodriven Mechanisms using Computation"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 5/1/2024

CLSL B-102
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FINAL DEFENSE: Mahima Unnikrishnan, "Implications of Nanoparticle-Protein Interactions on Protein Assembly and Conformation". Advisors: Professor Martin Gruebele and Professor Catherine Murphy

2:30 pm 5/8/2024

RAL 171
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2024 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Theodore Goodson III, University of Michigan, "Nonlinear Optical and Time-Resolved Properties of Novel Organic Materials"

4:00 - 5:00 pm 5/8/2024

1024 Chem Annex
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Prof. Alex Mironenko, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "Reviving Huckel Theory: Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry Made Simple with the New Independent Atom Ansatz of Density Functional Theory"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/4/2024

CLSL B102
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Prof. Dana Dlott, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "Laser Pulses into Bullets: Tabletop Shock Experiments"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/11/2024

CLSL B-102
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Prof. Gregory Hartland, University of Notre Dame, "Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Single Plasmonic Nanostructures"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/18/2024

CLSL B102
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Prof. Seogjoo Jang, City University of New York, "Rate Theories and Computational Methods for Quantum Transitions and Dynamics of Molecular Excitons"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/2/2024

CLSL B102
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Prof. Emilie Ringe, University of Cambridge, "Magnesium Plasmonics"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/9/2024

CLSL B102
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Prof. Tobias Brixner, Universität Würzburg, "Space–Time-Resolved Sppectroscopy of Multi-Particle Interactions"

2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/28/2024

CLSL B-102
- Seminar/Symposium

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