Physical Chemistry Seminar Series
Department of Chemistry, UNC Chapel Hill
Spring 2021
In Spring 2021, the seminars of physical chemistry at UNC-CH will be held virtually via Zoom.
Unless noted otherwise, seminars take place on Wednesdays at 11:15 a.m. eastern time.
Click here for the Zoom link of the seminars.
If you have difficulties accessing the Zoom link, please contact chemadmin@unc.edu, or Zhiyue Lu.
The Spring 2021 seminars are organized by Prof. Zhiyue Lu. To request virtual meetings with speakers, please reserve your time slots by clicking "[click for speaker's schedule]" next to each speaker's entry. These scheduling pages are protected by passcodes. Please ask Prof. Lu [zhiyuelu (at) unc (dot) edu] for the passcode.
Physical Chemistry Seminar Schedule
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January 20
January 27
Eric Potma, University of California, Irvine [click for speaker's schedule]
"Nanospectroscopy through force"
February 3
February 12 Friday at 1:00 pm (special time and day)
Sebastian Deffner, University of Maryland, Baltimore County [click for speaker's schedule]
"Thermodynamics of quantum information"
February 17
Charles Sykes, Tufts University [click for speaker's schedule]
"Single molecule rotors, motors and coupled molecular machines"
February 24
March 3
Peter Wolynes, Rice University [click for speaker's schedule]
"Energy landscape theory: from folding proteins to folding chromosomes"
March 10
Andrei Tokmakoff, University of Chicago [click for speaker's schedule]
"The ultrafast structural dynamics of protons in liquid water"
March 17
Christopher Jarzynski, University of Maryland at College Park [click for speaker's schedule]
"Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics"
March 24
Ken Dill, Stony Brook University [click for speaker's schedule]
"Biophysical models of cellular adaptive forces"
March 31
Ninghao Zhou, Moran's Lab, UNC-Chapel Hill
"Elucidation of carrier transport in layered perovskites by nonlinear action spectroscopies"
April 7
Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania [click for speaker's schedule]
"How materials can learn how to function"
April 14
Joan-Emma Shea, UC Santa Barbara [click for speaker's schedule]
"Fibrillization and liquid-liquid phase separation of the Tau Peptide"
April 21
David Wales, University of Cambridge [click for speaker's schedule]
"Energy landscapes: from molecules and nanodevices to machine learning"
April 28
David Beratan, Duke University [click for speaker's schedule]
"Nature’s design principle for reversible electron bifurcation."
May 7 Friday at 1:00 pm (special time and day) [click for speaker's schedule]
Lulu Qian, California Institute of Technology
"Molecular pattern recognition in DNA-based artificial neural networks"