|
Spring 2008
Location: 775B Tan Hall
Time: 2:00-4:00 Fridays
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| January 25 |
Brian Gin, Geissler Group |
"Folding pathways of a model protein" |
| February 1 |
Amish Patel |
"Dynamic Studies of a Block Copolymer Melt" |
| February 8 |
Brian Gin, Geissler Group |
"Folding pathways of a model protein" Part
2 |
| February 15 * |
David Kelsey |
"Monte Carlo-ing Catalysis" |
| February 22 |
Jocelyn Rodgers, University of Maryland |
"Influence of Short and Long-Ranged Forces
on the Simulated Properties of Water" |
| March 7 + |
Lester Hedges |
"Simulating model supercooled liquids" |
| March 14 + |
Rob Jack |
"Mobility and immobility in glassy systems" |
| March 21 + |
Yael Elmatad |
"Dynamic Transitions in Softened Kinetically Constrained
Models" |
| April 11 |
David Huang, Universite Claude Bernard - Lyon & UC
Davis |
"Surface-driven transport in hydrophobic and superhydrophobic
channels" |
| April 18 |
Wei Zhuang |
"Numerical Propagation Algorithm for Calculating
the Lineshape of the 2DIR Spectroscopy" |
| May 2 |
Xinliang Xu, University of Chicago |
"Theoretical Studies on Colloid
Suspensions in Confined Geometry" |
| May 9 |
Adam Willard |
"Up against the wall: How water sees a patchy
surface" |
| May 23 + |
James MacFayden |
"Pathways of water evaporation" |
| June 13 |
Sina Yeganeh, Northwestern University |
"Electron Transport Beyond the Landauer Regime" |
Fall 2007
Location: 775B Tan Hall
Time: 2:00-4:00 Fridays
Date
|
Speaker |
Title |
| August 31 |
David Chandler |
"State of the Group" |
| September 7 |
Lester Hedges, University of Nottingham
|
"Demonstration of a glass
transition in space-time for a continuous force system." |
| September 14 |
Berend Smit |
"Peptides Interacting in Membranes." |
| September 21 |
Adam Willard |
"Simulating and analyzing electric field
fluctuations at a wet electrode surface." |
| September 28 |
Rob Jack |
"Jamming, propensity and self-assembly: is
there a unified picture?" |
| October 5 |
Molecular Foundry Workshop |
|
| October 12 |
Douglas Ashton, University of Nottingham |
"Structure and function in
complex networks and glasses." |
| October 19 |
Dr. Jeffrey Neaton |
"Electrical conductance of single-molecule junctions" |
| October 26 |
Robin Bruinsma |
"Thermodynamic Restrictions on Evolutionary Optimization
of Transcription Factor Proteins" |
| November 2 |
Paul Madden, University of Edinburgh |
"Theoretical issues for
molecular electrochemistry." |
| November 9 |
Dr. Jessica M.J. Swanson, University of Utah |
"Biological energy transduction in cytochrome c
oxidase: Simulations en route to a complete mechanism" |
| November 16 |
James MacFadyen |
"Final story on the melittin collapse." |
| November 30 |
Yael Elmatad |
"Space-time order-disorder in simple
models, the hard and soft of it." |
| December 7 |
Tommy Miller |
"Model(s) for Simulating Non-adiabatic
Electronic Dynamics." |
Spring 2007
Location: 775B Tan Hall
Time: 2:00-4:00 Fridays
Date
|
Speaker |
Title |
|
|
Lester Hedges, University of Nottingham |
"Linking structure and dynamics in a glassy system" |
January 26
|
Wei Zhuang,UC Irvine |
"SPECTRON: A QM/MM protocol for simulating the Coherent
2D Spectroscopy of Biomolecules" |
February
2
|
Jhih-Wei Chu, UCB |
"Coarse-grain modeling of biological systems: force-matching,
fluctuation-matching, and the elastic-network model" |
February 9
|
L. Mahadevan, Harvard |
"In Vitro Model for Sickle Cell Occlusion (aka Jamming)" |
February 16
|
Douglas Abraham, Oxford |
"Fluctuations and long ranged interactions in and
in between interfaces." |
|
|
Robert Jack, UCB |
"Correlation-response relations in self-assembling
systems" |
|
|
Adam Willard, UCB
|
"Modeling ionic solutions near metallic surfaces" |
|
|
James MacFadyen and Yael Elmatad, UCB
|
"Pathways to hydrophobic collapse of a hydrated
protein |
|
|
Ania Maciolek, Max Planck Institute
|
"Critical Casimir Effect" |
|
|
Matthieu Wyart, Harvard |
"Soft Modes and Rigidity of Amorphous Solids" |
April
6
|
Ed Feng, UCB |
"Nucleation in binary liquids" |
April
13
|
Mark Ediger, University of Wisconsin |
"Hiking down the energy landscape: How vapor deposition
and surface mobility produce exceptionally stable glasses" |
|
|
Hyung-June Woo, University of Nevada Reno |
"Processive and non-processive motors: simple theory
and molecular simulations" |
April 27
|
Piotr Zarzycki, UCB |
"TBA" |
May
4
|
Tommy Miller, UCB |
"Non-Adiabatic Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics:
The Opening Salvo" |
|
|
Juan Garrahan, University of Nottingham |
"Lecture Series: Aspects of Glassy Physics" |
May 5
|
Param Dhillon, Harvard |
"Slow Dynamics and Aging in Metastable Systems" |
*Seminar held in 433 Latimer
**Seminar held in 410 Hearst Mining Building
†
Lectures 12:00-2:00pm in 775 Tan. The May 9 lecture will be
held in 433 Latimer. The May 11 lecture is from 2:00-4:00pm
Fall 2006
Location: 775B Tan Hall
Time: 2:00-4:00 Fridays
Date
|
Speaker |
Title |
|
|
Ruth Lynden-Bell (Cambridge)
|
"Why is water a poor solvent for hydrophobes? Studies
of modified water models" |
September 15
|
David Chandler |
"State of the Group" |
September 29
|
Robert Jack (UCB) |
"Space-time thermodynamics" |
October 6
|
Stephen Whitelam (UCB) |
"There and (slowly) back again: Entropy-driven hysteresis
in a model of DNA overstretching" |
|
|
Edith Beerdsen |
"Pinball Machines and Sliding-Block Puzzles --
How do molecules move in confinement?" |
October 27
|
Tommy Miller (UCB) |
"Sampling rare events on long timescales" |
| November 3 |
Piotr Zarzycki (UCB) |
TBA |
| November 10 |
Norman Hoffmann (Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf,
Germany) |
"Superparamagnetic Colloids in Two Dimensions" |
| November 17 |
Grzegorz Szamel (Colorado State) |
"Dynamics of interacting Brownian particles" |
| December 1 |
Gavin Crooks (LBNL) |
"The shape of work: non-equilibrium Bayesian estimates
of free energies" |
December 8
*Location today:
425 Latimer Hall
|
Ed Feng (UCB) |
"Nucleation in Polymer Blends" |
Spring 2006
Location: 775B Tan Hall
Time: 2:00-4:00 Fridays
Date
|
Speaker |
Title |
|
|
Michael Hagan |
"Dynamic pathways in viral capsid assembly" |
January 20
|
Robert Jack |
"Dynamic criticality and spacetime thermodynamics in
the FA model" |
January 27
|
Phillip Geissler (UCB) |
"Small displacements, dramatic fluctuations: Statistical
mechanics of the actin cytoskeleton" |
February 3
|
Andrew Spakowitz (UCB) |
"The Physics of DNA Manipulation" |
February 10
|
Jay Groves |
"Apparant long-ranged attractive forces between like-charged
particles in water" |
|
|
Marek Wojcik (Jagiellonian University, Poland) |
"Theoretical modeling of vibrational spectra and multidimensional
proton tunneling in hydrogen-bonded systems" |
|
|
Sander Pronk (UCB)
|
"Fluctuations in Semi-flexible Polymer Networks" |
March 3
|
Daniel Fisher (Harvard)
|
"Is evolution understood? Quantitative questions from
a statistical mechanic" |
|
|
Vijay Pande (Stanford)
|
"New methods for simulation of long-time scale dynamics" |
|
|
David Kelsey |
"Non-linear response in glassy systems" |
March 24
|
Adam Willard |
"Solvent Fluctuations. What are they like, what are
they good for" |
March 31
|
Spring Break |
|
|
|
Hans Andersen (Stanford) |
"Extracting long-time Markov models from short-time
simulations" |
April 14
|
Sun Kim |
"Trajectory statistics in glassy systems" |
April 21
|
Dan Goldman (UCB) |
"Controlling Mesoscale Substrate Properties to Study
Modes of Animal Locomotion" |
April 28
|
Tommy Miller |
"To coarse grain or not to coarse grain, what can be
done and learned" |
May 5
|
James MacFadyen |
"TBA" |
** to be held at 3pm in 775B Tan Hall
# To be held in the Pitzer Center
* March 10 and March 17 seminars are to be held in Room 205 Gilman
Hall
## Talk on April 7, by Hans Andersen, will start at 3pm.
Fall 2005
Location: 775B Tan Hall
Time: 2:00-4:00 Fridays
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
September 2 |
Thomas Miller |
"Quantum Effects in Molecular Dynamics" |
September 9 |
No meeting |
|
September 16 |
No Meeting - |
Group attending Prof deGennes' talk in 375 Le Conte |
|
Dennis Wylie (UCB) |
"A Graphical Approach to Specificity in Feedback Pathways" |
September 30 |
Robert Jack (Oxford)
|
"A generalised caging effect in simple spin models
with glassy dynamics" |
|
Lutz Maibaum
|
"Density fluctuations in simple fluids" |
October 14 |
Dan Goldman (UCB)
|
"Glass phenomena in a fluidized bed of hard spheres" |
October
21 |
Edward Feng
|
"Markov Jump Processes and Computer Simulations" |
October 28 |
Eric Vanden-Eijnden (NYU) |
"Transition pathways in complex systems: Application
of the finite-temperature string method to the alanine
dipeptide" |
November 4 |
Adam Willard |
"Density Fluctuations of "Water" Between
Hydrophobic Solute Particles" |
November 11 |
"Rememberance Day" |
|
|
Berend Smit (CECAM) |
"Mesoscopic simulations of biological membranes" |
November 25 |
"Thanksgiving Holiday" |
|
December 2 |
Sun Kim |
"Probing Properties of Glassy Dynamics in Trajectory
Space" |
December 9 |
David Kelsey |
"Driven motion in supercooled liquids: a study of
lattice models" |
* Talk on 9/23 to be held in Room 205 Gilman Hall.
* Talk on 10/07 to be held in Room 205 Gilman Hall.
* Talk on 11/17 to be held from 10 am to 12 pm - in 775B Tan Hall
Special Notice: Prof. Hans Andersen of Stanford University will
give a seminar for the Chandler Research Group on March 17,
2006.
Spring 2005
Location: 775B Tan Hall
Time: 2:00-4:00 Fridays
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
January 10 |
Sir Prof John Rowlinson |
"The Forces within Matter" |
|
Robert Jack (Oxford) |
"Glassy dynamics in interacting spin systems with
effective mobility fields" |
February 11 |
Steve Whitelam (UCB) |
"Real-space RG approach to one-dimensional kinetically
constrained models" |
February 18 |
Phill Geissler (UCB) |
"On the Water Front: Can we learn anything new from
nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy?" |
|
Gavin Crooks (UCB)
|
"Protein Structure: Entropy, Correlations and Prediction" |
|
Marc Mezard (CNRS, Universite de Paris Sud)
|
"Statistical Physics of structural glasses" |
|
Albert Pan
|
"Strong glasses, random walks and lattice gases" |
|
Hao Li (UCSF)
|
"TBA" |
March 25 |
Spring Break |
|
April 1 |
Lutz Maibaum |
"Density fluctuations and solvation in simple liquids" |
April 8 |
Shervin Fatehi |
"Density fluctuations of water near a sticky interface" |
|
Adam Willard |
"Density fluctuations of water around hydrophobic
dice" |
April 22 |
Sun Kim |
"Glassiness'ness" |
April 29 |
Jian Liu (UCB) |
"Statistical mechanics of cell membranes" |
May 6 |
David Kelsey |
"Investigating glass dynamics with a triangular lattice
gas model" |
May 20 |
Alan Hammond (UCB) |
"Marcoscopic behavior of a model of diffusion and
coagulation" |
* Talk on 2/25 to be held in 180 Tan Hall
* Talk on 3/4 will be held in room 56 Hildebrand
* Talk on 3/11 will be held in room 205 Gilman Hall
* Talk on 3/18 will be held in 180 Tan Hall
* Talk on 4/15 will start at 2.30 pm in 775 B Tan Hall
Fall 2004
Location: 775B Tan Hall
Time: 2:00-4:00 Fridays
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
September 17 |
David Chandler |
"State of the group, plus ideas about glassy dynamics and self-assembly" |
|
Tony Dutoi (UCB) |
"An orbital based definition of radical and multiradical character" |
October 8 |
Jayajit Das (UCB) |
"Conformational statistics of dendronized polymer" |
October 15 |
Neil Shenvi (UCB) |
"Ground State Energies via the 2-particle Reduced
Density Matrix" |
October 22 |
YounJoon Jung |
"Decoupling phenomenon in supercooled liquids from the viewpoint of statistics of exchange events" |
|
David Weitz (Harvard) |
"Colloidal Glasses and Gels" |
October 29 |
Albert Pan |
"Scaling, universality and coarse-grained dynamics in a model glassformer" |
November 5 |
Félix Ritort |
"Intermittent heat fluctuations in non-equilibrium small systems" |
November 12 |
Dirk Zahn (MPI, Dresden) |
"Application of the Transition Path Sampling Method
for the Mechanistic Investigation of Reactions and Phase
Transitions" |
November 19 |
Will Noid (Cornell) |
"A Classical Picture of the Vibrational Echo." |
November 26 |
Thanksgiving holiday |
|
December 3 |
Mike Hagan |
"How to design a viral capsid" |
December 10 |
Lutz Maibaum |
"Solvation at small and large length scales" |
1 Seminar will meet in the central common area of the Pitzer Center at 1pm
.
2 Seminar will meet in 775B Tan hall at 10:00 AM.
Spring 2004
Location: 775B Tan Hall
Time: 2:00-4:00 Fridays
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
January 23 |
Michael Shirts (Stanford) |
"Extremely Precise Free Energy Computations in Biomolecular
Simulations" |
January 30 |
Subhadip Raychaudhuri (Chakraborty Group) |
"How T Cells Find Antigen" |
February 6 |
Neil Shenvi (Whaley Group) |
"A Stochastic Model of Electron Spin Decoherence in
a Nuclear Lattice" |
|
Phill Geissler (UCB) |
"Evolution through the looking glass" |
February 20 |
Eran Rabani (Tel Aviv) |
"Feasible Nanometric Magnetoresistance Devices" |
|
Naida Lacevic (Chakraborty Group) |
"Dynamical heterogeneity in simulated glass-forming
liquid studied via a
four-point spatiotemporal density correlation function" |
|
Douglas Abraham (Oxford) |
"Spreading it about-the dynamics of complete wetting" |
|
Mike Hagan |
"Modeling the dynamics of capsid assembly" |
|
Steve Whitelam (Oxford) |
"A field theory approach to glass-forming liquids" |
March 26 |
SPRING BREAK |
|
|
Matt Francis (UCB) |
"Synthetically Modified Structural Proteins: Building
Blocks for Nanoscale Materials" |
April 2 |
Paul Madden (Oxford) |
"Ionic liquids at interfaces -- some surprising effects" |
April 9 |
Bill Reinhardt (Washington) |
"Co-ordinate shifting, a new approach to
simulation of free energies of macromolecular folding and unfolding" |
April 16 |
Christopher J. Mundy (LLNL) |
"CPMD/CP2K at Livermore" |
April 23 |
YounJoon Jung |
"Dynamic heterogeneity and transport properites in
supercooled liquids" |
May 7 |
Albert Chun Pan |
"The Origin of Slow Dynamics in a Model Glassformer:
Relating Particles and
Mobility fields" |
May 21
|
Hans C. Andersen (Stanford) |
"Kinetic Theory of Fluctuations in a Lattice Gas" |
|
|
Mauro Merolle |
"Understanding glasses through a thermodynamics of
trajectories" |
| June 11 |
Lutz Maibaum |
"Spreading of mobility in a supercooled liquid" |
| June 18 |
Lawrence R. Pratt (LANL) |
"Quasi-chemical theory and the hydration of ions in aqueous
solutions" |
1 Seminar is a joint Chakraborty/Chandler seminar and will
meet 3:30-5pm.
2 Seminar will meet on Thursday rather than Friday.
3 Seminar will meet on
Thursday rather than Friday at 2-4pm in 403
Latimer.
4 Seminar
will meet on Thursday rather than Friday at
10-12pm in 775A .
5 Seminar
will meet on Thursday rather than Friday at
2-4pm in 775A .
Fall 2003
Location: 775B Tan Hall
Time: 2:00-4:00 Fridays
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| August 29 |
|
The State of the Group |
| September 12 |
Vijay Pande (Stanford) |
"Atomistic simulation of protein folding dynamics
in implicit and explicit solvation models" |
| September 19 |
Nitash Balsara |
"Nucleation in polymer blends" |
| September 26 |
Gavin Crooks |
"Protein Secondary Structure: Entropy, correlations,
and prediction" |
| October 3* |
Wei Cai (LLNL) |
"Adaptive importance sampling of rare transition events" |
| October 10 |
Oleg Igoshin |
"Collective behavior of Myxobacteria: patterns arising
from local
interactions" |
| October 24 |
Felix Ritort |
"Stimulated and spontaneous relaxation in glassy systems" |
| October 31 |
Andrej Sali (UCSF) |
"Modeling three-dimensional structures of proteins
and macromolecular assemblies" |
| November 5** (Wed.) |
Juan Garrahan (Nottingham) |
"Dynamic criticality in glass-forming liquids" |
| November 14*** |
Mauro Merolle |
"Entropy of Trajectories: Part II" |
| November 21**** |
Albert Chun Pan |
"Coarse graining to find the physics of glassformers
in a simple lattice model" |
| November 28 |
Thanksgiving Day Holiday |
|
| December 5 |
Younjoon Jung |
"Excitation lines and the breakdown of Stokes-Einstein
relations in
supercooled liquids" |
| December 12 |
Lutz Maibaum |
"Slow dynamics in supercooled liquids" |
| December 17***** |
Sander Pronk (Amolf) |
"Disorder in Entropic Solids: Entropy vs. Entropy" |
* 10/3/03 - seminar will meet
2-4pm in 433 Latimer.
**11/5/03 -
the date, time and location of this seminar has been changed.
....This seminar will meet 3-5pm, Wed.
rather than Fri., in 775A Tan Hall.
***11/14/03 - seminar will meet
2-4pm in 403 Latimer.
****11/21/03 -
seminar will meet 2-4pm in 435 Latimer.
*****12/17/03
- the date and
location of this seminar has been changed.
....This seminar will meet 3-5pm, Wed.
rather than Fri., in B60 Hildebrand.
Spring 2003
Location: 775B Tan Hall
Time: 2:00-4:00 Fridays
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| February 7 |
Felix Ritort (Bustamante Lab) |
"A two-state kinetic model for the unfolding of single
molecules by mechanical force" |
| Febraury 14 |
Susann Hahn |
"Free energy surface of a hydrophobic tube in water" |
| February 21** |
Arup Chakraborty |
"Information Transfer Between Antigens and T Cells in the
Immune System" |
| Febraury 28* |
Michael Klein (University of Pennsylvania) |
"Water on the Move: Recent ab initio molecular dynamics
studies of water and ionic solutions." |
| March 7* |
Madhav Ranganathan (Stanford) |
"Kinetic theory of density fluctuations in monatomic fluids
at equilibrium: a short time approximation for the memory
function" |
| March 14* |
Mike Hagan (Chakraborty Group) |
"Base-pair binding and unbinding in a solvated DNA sequence" |
| March 21* |
Aaron Dinner |
"TBD" |
| April 4 |
Hao Li (UCSF) |
"Dissceting the transcription networks of a cell using
computation genomics" |
| April 9** |
Pieter Rein ten Wolde |
"Greens' Function Brownian Dynamics: A new Approach to
Simulate Biochemical Networks" |
| April 11 |
Lutz Maibaum |
"New results on slow dynamics in a complex system" |
| April 18 |
Albert Pan |
"Coarse graining to find the physics of glass formers" |
| April 25 |
YounJoon Jung |
"TBD" |
| May 2 |
Mauro Merolle |
"Entropy of trajectory space: Is there such a thing?" |
| May 9 |
Jorge Kurchan (ESPCI - CNRS) |
"Topological methods for finding barriers and reaction
paths" |
* Seminar will meet 2-4pm in B 56 Hildebrand.
** Seminar will meet 3-5pm in the Pitzer Center for Theoretical
Chemistry
Fall 2002
Location: 775B Tan Hall
Time: 2:00-4:00 Fridays
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| September 6** |
David Chandler |
"Arrows, tetrahedra and other objects" |
| September 13 |
YounJoon Jung |
"Stochastic Theory of Single Molecule Spectroscopy" |
| September 20* |
TBA |
"TBA" |
| September 27* |
Gavin Crooks |
"On Correlated Amino Acid Substitutions and Sequence Alignment" |
| October 4** |
Tom McCormick |
"Analyzing transition states in a simple reaction" |
| October 11* |
Sean Sun |
"Inner workings of a proton turbine" |
| October 18 |
Susanne Hahn |
"TBA" |
| October 25 |
Ed Feng (Andersen Group at Stanford) |
"Kinetic Theories for Stochastic Lattice Models of Liquids" |
| November 1** |
Aaron Dinner |
"Lattice Model of T Cell Activation" |
| November 8 |
Mauro Merolle |
"Computational Studies of Configurational Entropy" |
| November 15*** |
Heidi Bond |
"Dynamic of Kob-Andersen Model" |
| November 22 |
Professor Hans C. Andersen (Stanford) |
"The East Model - Diagrammatic theory, mode coupling approximations,
and renormalization group analysis" |
| November 29* |
NO GROUP MEETING |
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY |
| December 6** |
Lutz Maibaum |
"How a Protein Folds?" |
| December 13 |
TBA |
"TBA" |
*DC out of town.
** Seminar will meet 1-3pm in 775A Tan Hall
*** Seminar to meet in 115 Lewis (time remains the same)
Spring 2002
Location: 775A Tan Hall
Time: 1:00-3:00 Fridays
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| January 25 |
Professor H. E. Stanley (Boston University ) |
"Puzzling Static and Dynamic Behavior of Water" |
| Febraury 1 |
Lutz Maibaum |
"Simple model of a fluid in a finite tube " |
| Febraury 8 |
Professor Mehran Kardar (MIT) |
"Stable vortices in some biological patterns" |
| Febraury 15 |
Professor Mehran Kardar (MIT) |
"Stable vortices in some biological patterns, Part II" |
| Febraury 22 |
Professor Teresa Head-Gordon |
"Cool walking in ergodic Monte Carlo" |
| March 1* |
Dr. Aaron Dinner |
"Simple model of reaction networks" |
| March 8* |
Mauro Merolle |
"Roles of molecular lengths and saturation on dielectrics" |
| March 15* |
Professor Benoit Roux (Cornell Medical School) |
"Connecting atomic and mean field models of biomolecular
systems" |
| March 22 |
Albert Pan |
"Transition path sampling of nucleation" |
| April 12 |
Dr. Thomas Truskett (UCSF) |
"Hydrogen-bond constraints and fluctuations: Molecular
thermodynamic approaches for water"" |
| April 19 |
Dr. Iris Antes |
"Results from a molecular dynamics study of a molecular
motor" |
| April 26 |
Dr. Susanne Hahn |
"Molecular dynamics of a fluid in a finite tube" |
| May 3 |
Heidi Bond |
"Structure and dynamics in models of glasses" |
| May 10 |
Tom McCormick |
"Lattice Gas Studies of Thin Films at a Janus Interface" |
| May 17 |
Julia Melton |
"TBA" |
*This seminar will start at 1:30pm.
Fall 2001
Location: 775A Tan Hall
Time: 1:00-3:00 Fridays
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| September 7 |
Dr. Aaron Dinner |
"Uracil-DNA glycosylase acts by substrate autocatalysis" |
| September 21 |
Professor David Chandler |
"Estimating the entropy and free energy of dynamical pathways" |
| September 28 |
Dr. Juan Pedro Garrahan (University of Oxford) |
"Glassy behaviour and dynamical restraints" |
| October 5 |
Dr. Susanne Hahn |
"Dynamics and spectroscopy of ultrafast nonadiabatic photoprocesses " |
| October 12 |
Dr. Iris Antes |
"Small length scale dynamics in the world's smallest motor" |
| October 19 |
Tom McCormick |
"Studying the mechanism of alanine dipeptide rearrangement" |
| October 26 |
Professor David Reichman (Harvard) |
"Simulating Dynamics in Quantum Liquids: Some New Approaches" |
| November 2 |
David Huang |
"Nonlinear spectroscopic measurement of water autoionization" |
| November 9* |
Mauro Merolle |
"Detection of Chiral Fluctuations in Atomic Clusters" |
| November 16** |
CANCELLED Heidi Bond CANCELLED |
"Correlation patterns of arrested dynamics" |
| November 30 |
Heidi Bond |
"Correlation patterns of arrested dynamics" |
| December 7* |
Julia Melton |
"Nonequilibirum statistics of dipoles in water" |
*This seminar will be held in 403 Latimer Hall. **
This seminar will be held in B36 Hildebrand Hall
Spring 2001
Location: 775A Tan Hall
Time: 1:00-3:00 Fridays
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| January 12 |
Dr. Peter Bolhuis (Cambridge University) |
"Coarse-graining of polymers in colloid-polymer mixtures" |
| January 19 |
Tom McCormick |
"Obtaining simple mechanistic information about complex
processes" |
| January 26* |
Mauro Merolle |
"A theoretical study of the dielectric properties of water" |
| February 2* |
Javier Rodriguez |
"Dynamics of isomerization and melting of (H2O)8
cluster" |
| February 9* |
Dr. Sean X. Sun |
"TBA" |
| February 16* |
Dr. Pieter Rein tenWolde |
"A statistical theory of fluids at small and large length
scales" |
| February 23* |
Dr. Iris Antes |
"Transition path sampling with metastable intermediates" |
| March 2* ** |
David Huang |
"Dynamics of transitions in micellar solutions" |
| March 9* ** |
TBA |
"TBA" |
| March 16** |
Professor Sanat Kumar, Pennsylvania State University |
"Monte Carlo simulations of associating polymer gels" |
| March 23*** |
Professor John D. Weeks, University of Maryland (IPST) |
"Density-Functional Theory and the Gibbs inequality" |
| March 30 |
Cancelled due to Bill Miller's 60th Birthday Symposium |
Cancelled due to Bill Miller's 60th Birthday Symposium |
April 6* |
TBA |
"TBA" |
April 13 |
Professor Hao Li, UCSF |
"Building Dictionaries for Genomes: Computational Analysis of Regulatory
Sequences and Transcriptional Regulation" |
| April 20 |
Heidi Bond |
"A glassy hodge-podge" |
| April 27* |
TBA |
"TBA" |
| May 4* |
TBA |
"TBA" |
| May 11 |
Professor Steven Brenner, University of California, Berkeley |
"Computational Approaches to Structural and Functional Genomics" |
| May 18 |
Albert Pan |
"Transition path sampling of homogeneous nucleation in an Ising Model" |
| June 1 |
Julia Melton |
"Non-equilibrium dipoles in water" |
* Indicates days that DC will be away
** Seminar will not be held in 775A Tan Hall, but instead will
be in 403 Latimer.
*** This seminar is jointly sponsored by the Chakraborty Group
Fall 2000
Location: 775A Tan Hall
Time: 1:00-3:00 Fridays
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Sept. 8 |
Dr. Iris Antes |
"Molecular dynamics simulations of photactive yellow protein
(PYP) in three states of its photocycle" |
| Sept. 15 |
Mauro Merolle |
"Solvation free energies of charged solutes: the big and
little of it" |
| Sept. 22 |
Dr. Sean Sun |
"Capillary wave fluctuations in confined geometries" |
Oct. 6 |
Professor Adam Arkin (UC Berkeley) |
"Signaling in Cellular Systems" |
| Oct. 27 |
Dr. Pieter Rein ten Wolde |
"Hydrophobic collapse of a polymer: where does the water go? " |
| Nov. 3 |
David Huang |
"Contribution to surface tension: a delicate interplay" |
| Nov. 10 |
Aaron Golumbfskie (Chakraborty Group) |
"Biomimetic Recognition Between Polymers and Surfaces" |
| Nov. 17 |
Professor Sandra Greer (Univ. of Maryland) |
"The Polymerization of Actin" |
| Dec. 1 |
Dr. Paul Rejto |
"Computational challenges in modern drug discovery" |
Dec. 8 |
Professor Hans C. Andersen (Stanford University) |
Giving a tutorial entitled: "Functional and graphical methods for classical
statistical dynamics" |
Dec. 15 |
Dr. Phill Geissler |
"Shall we be optimistic? Thermodynamics of trajectories" |
| Dec. 22 |
Tom McCormick |
"Analyzing transition mechanisms for high dimensional systems" |
Spring 2000
Location: 775 Tan Hall
Time: 3:00-5:00 Fridays
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Jan. 21 |
David Chandler |
"State of the Group" |
| Jan. 28 |
Rava da Silveria (MIT) |
"Rippling Instability of a Collapsing Bubble" |
| Feb. 11 |
Alexander Berezhkovski (NIH) |
"Surprises in multidimensional Kramers theory of reactions
in sluggish solvents" |
| Feb. 18 |
Mauro Merolle |
"Fuzzy dielectric surfaces" |
| Feb. 25 |
Sean Sun |
"To dry or not to dry" |
| Mar. 3 |
Tom McCormick |
"Quantum rare corrections" |
| Mar. 10 |
Lutz Maibaum |
"Dynamics of spheres confined by elastic surfaces" |
| Mar. 24 |
David Huang |
"Wet or dry: what are the consequences" |
| Apr. 7 |
Phill Geissler |
"Recently explored transition pathways" |
| Apr. 21 |
Pieter Rein ten Wolde |
"Drying and clustering" |
| Apr. 28 |
C. Brian Roland |
"Large length scale structure of interfaces" |
Fall 1999
Location: 775 Tan Hall
Time: 3:00-5:00 Fridays
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Sept. 10 |
David Chandler |
"State of the Group" |
| Sept 17 |
Lutz Maibaum |
"The Sausage Catastrophe in the Packing of Hardspheres" |
| Sept 24 |
Sean Sun |
"Real Time Quantum Coherence" |
| Oct. 8 |
Gavin Crooks |
"Paths to Evaporation" |
| Oct.15 |
Phill Geissler |
"Ab Initio Autodissociation Paths in Liquid Water" |
| Oct. 29 |
Professor Michele Parrinello, from the Max Plank Institute
in Stuttgart |
"Role and perspectives of ab-initio molecular dynamics
in chemistry. |
| Nov. 5 |
Tom McCormick |
"Charging the Windmill of Quantum Rate Theory" |
| Nov. 12 |
David Huang |
"Pushing and Pulling Dry Surfaces" |
| Nov. 26 |
Thanksgiving Break |
No Group Meeting |
| Dec. 17 |
Pieter Rein tenWolde |
"Simulating Surface Induced Drying" |
Spring 1999
Location: 775 Tan Hall
Time: 3:00-5:00 Fridays
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Jan. 22 |
Daniel Laria, University of Argentina |
"Solvation dynamics in polar mixtures" |
| Jan. 29 |
David Huang |
"Hydrophobicity and information theory " |
| Feb. 5 |
Tom McCormick |
"Moving along, hopping now and then" |
| Feb. 12 |
Jianhua Xing |
"Potential Distributiom Theory and its Applications" |
| Feb. 19 |
Christoph Dellago |
"Biased Path Sampling" |
| Feb. 26 |
Sean Sun |
"Classical nuclear motion in nonadiabatic problems" |
| Mar. 5 |
Glenn Martyna, Indiana University |
"Conformational equilibrium in small proteins and polypeptides" |
| Mar. 12 |
Pieter Rein ten Wolde |
"From crystal nucleation to folding" |
| Mar. 19 |
Phill Geissler |
"Dynamics of a Gaussian Field with constraints" |
| Apr. 2 |
Christoph Dellago |
"TBA" |
| Apr. 9 |
Grzegorz Szamel, Colorado State University |
"Structure and dynamics of ring polymers" |
| Apr. 21 |
Gavin Crooks |
"Statistical Dynamics of Driven Systems Far From Equilibrium" |
| Apr. 30 |
David Chandler |
" Thoughts on statistical field theory of drying and related
phenonmena" |
| Apr. 30 |
David Huang |
" The Hydrophobic Effect & Non-Gaussian Statistics
of the Lennard-Jones Fluid" |
Fall 1998
Location: 725 Tan Hall
Time: 3:00-5:00 Fridays
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Sept. 4 |
David Chandler |
"State of the group" |
| Sept. 11 |
Prof. John Weeks |
"An unbalanced inhomogeneous world" |
| Sept. 18 |
Phillip Geissler |
"Transition paths of dissociation in water" |
| Sept. 25 |
Dr. John Curro |
"Equilibrium theory of polymer melts and blends" |
| Oct. 2 |
Peter Bolhuis |
"Tough transition path sampling problems" |
| Oct. 9 |
Gavin Crooks |
"Excursions in Path Sampling." |
| Oct. 16 |
Nick Putnam |
"Structural characterization of the transition state ensemble
for protein folding"
|
| Oct. 23 |
Jin Yong Lee |
"Pathway to Rearrangement of Cage Water Hexamer" |
| Oct. 30 |
Christoph Dellago |
"Chemical dynamics of the protonated water trimer." |
| Nov. 13 |
Vijay Pande |
"Unfolding pathway of a beta-hairpin."
|
| Nov. 20 |
Roland Kjellander |
"Charge renormalization and screening in electrolyte systems." |
| Dec. 11 |
Ben Leimkuhler |
"Geometric Integration Methods in Molecular Simulation" |
Spring 1998
Location: 425 Latimer Hall
Time: 3:00-5:00 Fridays
| Date |
Title |
Speaker |
| January 23 |
Many Electrons in (or out of ?) a liquid |
David Chandler |
| January 30 |
Quantum Computing |
Daniel Lidar (Miller Group) |
| February 6 |
Solvation Dynamics: to be or not to be--linear |
Phillip Geissler |
| February 13 |
Polyelectrolytes |
Chris Grayce (UC Irvine) |
| February 20 |
Semiclassical mechanics in molecular dynamics;
do we still need quantum mechanics? |
Sean Sun (Miller Group) |
| Febraury 27 |
Two faces of water |
Ka Lum |
| March 6 |
Stability of Domains in Phase-Separating Binary Fluids
under Shear Flow |
Amalie Frischknecht
(UC Santa Barbara) |
| March 13 |
Giant Molecules |
A. Yu. Grosberg |
| March 20 |
Effective interactions between electric double-layers |
J-P Hansen |
| April 3 |
Dielectric response of disordered systems |
Xueyu Song |
| April 10 |
Transition path sampling of... |
Christoph Dellago |
| April 17 |
Transition Path Sampling in Water Cluster |
Jin Yong Lee |
| May 1 |
Transition path sampling for. |
Peter Bolhuis |
| May 8 |
Dynamically induced self assembly |
Gavin Crooks |
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