Physical Chemistry Student Lecture Series PCSLS

Physical Chemistry Student Lecture Series
Ohio State University Chemistry Department

PCSLS is a series of informal lectures given by graduate students on subjects related to physical chemistry. The series is open to all undergraduates students, graduate students, postdocs and faculty, including other divisions or departments. It is brought to you by your student activity fees.

Unless otherwise noted, the lectures occur on every other Tuesday at 6:00 pm in Newman-Wolfrom 2136. If you would like to present a lecture, be added to the PCSLS mailing list or anything else, please email either Andrew Petit (apetit@chemistry.osu.edu) or Lindsay Sanzenbacher (lsanzenb@chemistry.ohio-state.edu).

Spring 2009
March 31		The Ohio State University Department of Physics will be presenting the 47th Annual Smith Lecture on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 7:30 pm in room 131 Hitchcock Hall, located at 2070 Neil Ave. University of California at Santa Barbara physicist David J. Gross will present "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics."
April 21	Paul Rimmer	Cosmic Rays and the Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium
Monday May 4	The Elsevier Seminar more information	Jeff McMahon, Northwestern University Computational Nanophotonics: Applications of Classical Electrodynamics to Nanoscience
May 12	Lynetta Mier	Ultrafast Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Photovoltaic Materials
May 26	Kimm de La Harpe	Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of GC-Containing Oligonucleotides
Monday June 1	New Faculty Seminar more information	Lillian Chong, University of Pittsburgh TBA

Winter 2009
January 13	Adrian Lange	Charge-transfer Excited States in Aqueous B-DNA Present at Energies Just Above Excitonic Bright States
Jan 20	Cheng Tang	An Interfacial Investigation of Ionic Binding of Metal Ions to Fatty Acid Monolayers Using Broad Bandwidth Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy
February 3	Brian Alberding	Photophysics of Paddlewheel Complexes Involving Metal-Metal Quadruple Bonds Between Molybdenum and Tungsten
Mon. Feb 16	The Coherent Seminar more information	Chris Tabor, Georgia Tech Some Radiative and Non-Radiative Properties of Plasmonic Nanoparticles: From Plasmon Driven Motion to Plasmonic Coupling for Advanced Plasmonic Rulers
March 3	Stephen Rieth	Investigating the Encapsulation of Acetonitrile in a Copper-Bound Molecular Basket

Autumn 2008
September 30	Nicole Trease	Determination of Structural Distributions in Densified Silica using O-17 Dynamic Angle Spinning NMR
October 14	Sara Ray	Determining the Role of Vibrational Excitation on the Dynamics of the Hydrogen-Transfer Reaction of F(²P) + HCl --> FH + Cl(²P)
October 28	Yunlong Zhang	Ultrafast Time-Resolved UV-Vis and Infrared Spectroscopic Studies on Phenyldiazirine
November 18	Dr. Mary Rohrdanz	Balanced Description of Ground-State Properties, Valence Excitations, and Charge-Transfer Excitations with Long-Range Corrected Density Functionals
December 2	Tanping Li	Solvation Dynamics: Non-Equilibrium Process VS Linear Response Theory

Information about previous years' seminars can be found on the archive page.

We gratefully acknowledge our sponsors for their contributions.

The Ohio State University Department of Chemistry, Physical Division & CAS

Physical Chemistry Student Lecture Series is brought to you by your Student Activity Fee.