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Physical Chemistry Seminars
Fall, 2009


Wednesday, 3:30pm, 6092 Malott (unless specified)

Date Presenter / Topic
August 26 Professor Brian Laird, Chemistry Department, University of Kansas
"Determination of the solid-liquid interfacial free energy along a coexistence line"
September 2 Dr. Chris Elles, Chemistry Department, University of Kansas
"Exploring chemistry with lasers: Photoswitches, molecular interactions, and Malott's new playground for reaction dynamics"
September 9 Being Ka, Chemistry Department, University of Kansas, (Thompson group)
"Nonadiabatic proton transfer in a nanoconfined solvent"
September 16 No Seminar
September 23 Division meeting
No Seminar
September 30 Pablo Palafox-Hernandez, Chemistry Department, University of Kansas, (Laird group)
"Prefreezing and Heterogeneous Nucleation at the Cu/Pb Solid-Liquid Interface: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study"
October 7 Please attend the Friday Departmental Seminar Oct. 9 Dr. Steve Corcelli, University of Notre Dame
"Vibrational Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics"
October 14 Dr. Douglas S. English, Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University
"Formation, functionalization and characterization of 'catanionic' surfactant vesicles"
October 21 Open
October 28 Drew Vartia, Chemistry Department, University of Kansas, (Thompson group)
"Progress Toward Understanding Solvation Dynamics in Nanoconfined Systems: Molecular Dynamics Simulations Using Realistic Models"
November 4 Please attend Arthur William Davidson Lecture by Geraldine Richmond, University of Oregon, Nov. 6, 1001 Malott
November 11 Paul Smith, Chemistry Department, Kansas State University
"Preferential interactions in Chemistry and Biochemistry"
November 18 Dr. Vencislav Parvanov, Physics Department, University of Kansas
Modeling of ammonia borane to explain NMR and Neutron scattering findings of rotational dynamics in low temperature crystal phase
December 4 Please attend Friday Departmental Seminar, Dec. 4, 2009 at 3:30p.m. in Room1001 Malott featuring Patrick Carbonneau, Duke University
"How rare is cryastal nucleation? Insights from beyond 3D"
December 9 Gregory Smith, Chemistry Department, University of Kansas, (Berrie group)
"Forming and Characterizing Copper Nanostructures"
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