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Physical Chemistry Seminar
Upcoming Events
Date
Thursday, May 21, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall (STLC 114)
About the Seminar"New Experimental Platforms for Molecular Polaritonics"Polaritons are hybrid light-matter states that arise from strong interactions between the
Date
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall (STLC 114)
About the Seminar "Deciphering & controlling the mechanisms of energy flow across materials"Spectroscopy and microscopy have the potential to reveal the
Past Events
Date
Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall (STLC 114)
About the Seminar"Electronic structure theories for surface chemistry and catalysis"An accurate, first-principles description of chemical reactions on surfaces fa
Date
Thursday, April 30, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall (STLC 114)
About the Seminar "Real-time simulations of ultrafast electron relaxation dynamics"The Kretchmer group develops simulation methods at the intersection of ele
Date
Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall (STLC 114)
About the Seminar"Strong Correlations and Topological Transitions in Symmetry-Forbidden Chemical Reactions"Classifying energy level connectivity via topological i
Date
Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall (STLC 114)
About the Seminar "Electrochemical Control of Static and Ultrafast Electrode-Induction Effects: from electrochemical Stark effect to plasmon-driven mode-selective adsorbate ex
Date
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium (STLC 111)
About the Seminar"Quantum dots: From biology to quantum science"Understanding the chemical properties and the fundamental optoelectronic behavior of colloidal qua
Date
Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium (STLC 111)
About the Seminar"Quantum dots: From curiosity to technology"Colloidal quantum dots combine quantum effects, nanometer dimensions, and a chemical synthesis.
Date
Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall (STLC 114)
About the Seminar "Three Tales of Quantum Scrambling, Transition States, and Fishy Machine Learning"I will introduce three recent topics in my research going
Date
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall 114
About the Seminar"AI-Driven Quantum Mechanical Design of Soft Materials"While the properties of soft materials are ultimately dictated by their electronic structu
Date
Thursday, April 9, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall (STLC 114)
About the Seminar "Correlated Disorder by Design"All materials are disordered at finite temperature. Sometimes disorder is random; more frequently it’s not.
Date
Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Lecture Hall (STLC 114)
About the Seminar "Synergizing Quantum Chemistry and Machine Learning for Molecular Discoveries in the Condensed Phase"Machine learning (ML) and big data pla