Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota

Group meetings will be held each Thursday at 1:00pm in the reserved meeting room (unless otherwise announced). Note to speakers: please make sure your Title and any Supplementary Reading/Material have been posted prior to your scheduled talk. For further information, contact Hugh Heldenbrand.

Date Speaker Topic Time/Place
09/11 George Giambasu TBA 1:00/TBA
09/04 Nina Barnett TBA 1:00/TBA
08/28 Brian Skjerven TBA 1:00/TBA
08/21 Adam Moser TBA 1:00/TBA
08/14 Tai-Sung Lee TBA 1:00/TBA
08/07 Francesca Guerra TBA 1:00/Smith 221
07/31 Erich Kuechler TBA 1:00/Smith 221
07/24 Ming Huang TBA 1:00/Smith 221
07/17 Hugh Heldenbrand Hammerhead simulations/VMD 1:00/Lab
07/10 Tim Giese Solid Harmonics/SphericalHarmonicsMod 1:00/Smith 221
07/03 George Giambasu FEP Calculations 1:00/Yorklab
06/26 Nina Barnett TBA 1:00/Smith 221
06/19 Yun Liu Practice Thesis Defense 1:30/Smith 221
06/12 Yun Liu Practice Thesis Defense 1:00/Smith 221
06/05 Meeting Cancelled TBA 1:00/Smith 221
05/29 Informal Meeting Calculus of variations problems and intro to ES theory for first years lab
05/15 Adam Moser TBA
05/08 Tim Giese Development of a new tight-binding model. I. Atomic calculations
04/24 Ming Huang TBA
03/27 Francesca Guerra TBA
03/20 Yun Liu TBA
03/13 Xiaoying Lu TBA
03/06 Brian Skjerven Multigrid method for solving COSMO
02/21 Tai-Sung Lee TBA
02/14 George Giambasu TBA
01/31 Adam Moser Group Introduction
01/24 Tim Giese Electrostatics
2007
12/13 Francesca Guerra TBA
12/06 Yun Liu Hydrolysis of Tri-Phosphate Methyl Ester in Aqueous Solution and the Role of Magnesium
11/15 Carlos Silva Lopez TBA
10/18 Olalla Nieto Faza Ewald sums II. Document in LaTeX/Manuscripts/ewald_sums
10/11 Adam Moser TBA
10/04 Hyunju Lee TBA
09/27 Xiaoying Lu Thio effect in Hammerhead Ribozyme
09/06 George Giambasu Ligase
08/30 Tai-Sung Lee Role of Mg2+ in hammerhead ribozyme catalysis from molecular simulation
04/18 George Giambasu TBA
04/11 Elena Formoso Estensoro TBA
04/05 Adam Moser Dr. Wolfenden's Solvation Idea - his paper
03/22 Yun Liu Theoretical Studies on Hydrolysis of Tri-Phosphate Methyl Ester in Gas Phase and Aqueous Solution
03/15 George Giambasu Practice Oral Exam
03/01 Tai-Sung Lee Hammerhead Solvation
02/22 Tai-Sung Lee How to use up SUs
02/15 Francesca Guerra Phosphate transistion state search
01/25 Tim Giese Introduction to Gaussian functions and integral evaluation
2006
01/18 George Giambasu HDV Ribozyme Dynamics
11/16 Adam Moser Substituted cytosine; See Dannenberg_JAmChemSoc_2000_v122_p2062
11/9 Yun Liu Free energy barrier and KIE of Ras-catalyzed GTP hydrolysis
10/26 Kin-Yiu Wong Introduction to Quantum Transition State Theory, Feynman Path Integrals, and Variational Perturbation Theory
10/19 Tai-Sung Lee New results providing insight into the role of Mg2+ in Hammerhead rybozyme.
10/12 Francesca Guerra PMF profiles of methylphosphate and meta-nitro-benzylphosphate
10/05 Tim Giese Numerical quadrature, Part II: 3D, multicenter
09/28 Tim Giese HTML Q&A / How-to: Editing the group webpage
09/07 George Giambasu TBA
08/17 Carlos Silva Lopez TBA
08/10 Olalla Nieto Faza QM/MM biasing potentials with mndo and smooth cosmo
08/03 Adam Moser Proton Affinity and Gas Phase Basicity of DNA/RNA Bases
07/27 Yun Liu Kinetic isotope effects in Ras-catalyzed GTP hydrolysis: structure of transition state
07/20 Tai-Sung Lee Possible roles of the Mg2+ ion in Hammerhead RNA inferred from molecular dynamics simulations


A list of previous group meeting talks can be found here:
2003-2004 academic year