Emory Chemistry Department Physical Chemistry Seminar List: Fall 2003, All regular seminars will be on Monday at 3:00 pm at room 316 unless noted otherwise. * indicates special seminars(different time, date, room). Date Note 9/1/03 9/8/03 9/15/03 Speaker Title Host Room/time Mihaly Mezei, Mt. Sinai Monte Carlo Simulations of Complex Systems Nanoscale Optoelectronics Implicit solvent models for protein dynamics, folding, and aggregation. Hydrophobic Polyelectrolytes Simulations of charge transfer processes in confined polar solvents Single Molecule Electronics Kindt 316/3:00 Lian 316/3:00 Kindt 316/3:00 Kindt/Dickson 316/8:00 P.M. Bowman 316 2:00 P.M. * Note special time Lian 316/3:00 Eric Weeks, Emory University Studying the glass transition by poking colloidal suspensions Kindt 316/3:00 Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Tech Quantum Size Effects on the Stability and Growth of Metal Thin Films Lin Physics? 4:00 Labor day (ACS meeting) 9/22/03 Rob Dickson, Georgia Tech 9/29/03 Karl Freed, U. Chicago *10/10/03 Friday Michael Rubinstein, UNC Chapel Hill Ward Thompson, U. Kansas 10/13/03 (fall break) Stuart Lindsay, Arizona State *10/17/03 Johnston symposium 10/6/03 #AACP 10/20/03 10/27/03 10/31/03 Joint with physics 11/3/03 11/10/03 11/17/03 #AACP 11/18/03 tentative 12/15/03 2/2/03 3/22/03 316/8:00 PM Jim McCusker, Michigan State Steven Lewis, U. Georgia Robert Froese, Dow Chemicals Joe Francisco, Purdue 11/24/03 12/1/03 12/8/03 Roberto Car, Princeton #AACP Mark Stockman, Georgia State Marshall Newton, Brookhaven National Laboratory AACP Lian 316/4:15 Ceramic nanocrystals: A Kindt Crossroads on the Path from Molecules to Solids New insights into olefin Morokuma polymerization Structure and Reactivity Lin of Open-Shell Complexes: A New Frontier in Atmospheric Chemistry Dickson/Kindt 316/3:00 Mechanistic analysis of electron transfer: insights from theory and computation 316/3:00 P.M. Morokuma Bill Gelbart, UCLA Kindt/Dickson Preston MacDougall, Middle Tennessee State University Kindt tba 316/3:00 PM Ga.Tech, 8:00 PM