Archived here are seminar schedules from previous semesters, along with the actual presentations where available. The archive currently goes back to Fall 2007.

Spring 2009:



Date
Time/Place
Presenter
Topic
01/27/09
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Joel Eaves
[Reichman Group]
Life in the trenches: Glassy dynamics in liquids and beyond
02/10/09
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Masha Kamenetska
[Venkataraman group,
Applied Physics]

Molecular Electronics
02/17/09
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Maja Mihajlovic [Lazaridis group,
CCNY]
Membrane-Bound Structure and Energetics of alpha-Synuclein
02/24/09
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Haitao Liu
[Nuckolls/Brus Group]
Mass Transport Through Carbon Nanotubes
03/10/09
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Kalyanasis Sahu
[Eisenthal Group]
Excitation wavelength dependent solvation dynamics in organized assemblies
03/24/09
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Jingyi Fei
[Gonzalez Group]
Conformational Dynamics of the Ribosomal L1 Stalk During Translation Elongation
04/07/09
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM

Behnaz Bozorgui
[Cacciuto Group]

Entropy-Driven Phase Transition in DNA-linked Colloids

04/21/09
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Jianing Li
[Friesner Group]
Protein single sidechain prediction with MM and SGB models
05/05/09
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Stéphane Berciaud
[Heinz Group,
Physics]
Optical Spectroscopy of 2D and 1D Carbon Materials: Graphene Monolayers and Carbon Nanotubes



Fall 2008:

Date
Time/Place
Presenter
Topic
Slides
09/09/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Man Xu
[Eisenthal Group]
Nitrate Ions and Ion Pairing in Aqueous Solutions & at Air-Aqueous Interfaces
Powerpoint
09/23/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM

Brenda Rubenstein

[First-Year]

Protein Folding, Binding, and Self-Assembly Amid Entropy Sources
Powerpoint
10/07/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Joseph A. Morrone
[Berne Group]
Nuclear quantum effects in water
Powerpoint
10/27/08
(Monday)
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Yuhui Li
[University of Chicago]
Potential of mean force calculations of ion permeation in the gramicidin A channel
Powerpoint
11/03/08
(Monday)
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Sumit Sharma
[Kumar Group, Chem Eng.]
Conformational changes in Proteins upon non-specific adsorption on hydrophobic surfaces
Powerpoint
11/11/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM

Professor Jung-Chi Liao
Understanding energy transduction of molecular motors
Powerpoint
11/18/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Stephan Mackowiak
[Kaufman Group]
Investigation of Dynamics in Supercooled Liquids by Single Molecule Microscopy
Powerpoint
12/02/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Jon Bronson
[Wiggins/Reichman,
Applied Math]

Rates and States: A Bayesian Approach to Understanding FRET Data
Powerpoint


Spring 2008:


Date
Time/Place
Presenter
Topic
Slides
01/29/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM

Dr. Ansgar Siemer
[McDermott Group]

Solid-State NMR on an Antifreeze Protein in Frozen Solution
Powerpoint
02/19/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM

Evangelos G. G.
[Kaufman Group]

CARS Microscopy of Colloidal Gels
Powerpoint
03/04/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Josep Pamies
[Cacciuto Group]
How the Membrane Got Its Hump - Curvature and Domain Formation in Photosynthetic Membranes
Powerpoint
03/17/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Jian Wu
DNA Sequencing by Synthesis Using Nucleotide Reversible Terminators: Towards 1000$ Genome
Powerpoint
04/01/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Shu Li
[Brus Group]
Electrostatic Force Microscopy Study of Photoionization of Individual Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Powerpoint
04/15/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Dr. Steffen Jockusch
[Turro Group]
Time-resolved Spectroscopic Methods to Detect Intermediates in Organic Photochemistry
Powerpoint
04/29/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Prof. Louis Brus
Ag Nanocrystal Plasmons: Single Molecule Raman Scattering and Photovoltage
Powerpoint
05/13/08
Miller Room
(328 Hav.)
5:30 PM
Dr. Li Liu
[Flynn Group]
Graphene Oxidation: Thickness Dependent Etching and Strong Chemical Doping
Powerpoint


Fall 2007:

(Talks were Wednesday late evening in Havemeyer 209)

Date
Presenter
TopicSlides
12/19/07

Dr. Ronen Zangi
[Kaufman Group]

When Hydrophobes Meet Electrolytes: Insights from Computer ExperimentsPowerpoint
12/05/07
Daohua Song
[Heinz Group]
Probing Vibrational Dynamics of C-C Streching in NanotubesPowerpoint
11/07/07
Mahamud Subir
[Eisenthal Group]
Let there be Light, Let there be Colloids, Let the two InteractPowerpoint
10/24/07
Dr. Michael Shirts
[Friesner Group]
Quantitative Molecular Design: Theory and Application with Ligand BindingPowerpoint
10/03/07
Heidi Perry
[Reichmann Group]
Structural Signatures of Dynamical Heterogeneity in Supercooled LiquidsPowerpoint
09/12/07
Param Dhillon
[Reichmann Group]
Slow Dynamics in Aging Metastable SystemsPowerpoint

Spring 2007:

(Talks were Wednesday late evening in Havemeyer 209)

Date
Presenter
TopicSlides
04/04/07
Arteum Bochevarov
[Friesner Group]
The Density Predicted by Density Functional Theory (DFT)Powerpoint
03/21/07
Jinyao Tang
[Nuckolls Group]
Self-Aligned Lithography and In-Situ Assembly of Chemically Responsive
Single-Molecule Transistors
Powerpoint
03/07/07
Eric Knoll and Dahlia Goldfeld
[Friesner Group]
Localized Orbital Corrections for DFT Quantum CalculationsPowerpoint
02/20/07
Dr. Amir Goldbourt
[McDermott Group]
An Intact Virus Studied by Magic-Angle Spinning NMRPowerpoint
01/31/07

Simone Gieschler
[McDermott Group]

Paramagnetic Solid-State NMRPowerpoint