All MIT Lectures will take place in Room 6-120 at 4:30 PM, and Refreshments will be served at 4:00 PM in the Amdur Room (6-233) unless otherwise stated. All Harvard/MIT Lectures will begin at 5:00 PM. If at Harvard, they will be held in Pfizer Hall, 12 Oxford St.

September 15
Joint Harvard/MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar at 5 PM
James Hynes, University of Colorado
Hydrogen Bond Dynamics in Aqueous Systems
(this seminar will be held at 5:00 PM at Harvard, Pfizer Hall, 12 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA)

September 20
Physical Chemistry Seminar Series
Jacob Schaefer, Washington University, St. Louis
Carbon partitioning in leaves using ¹¹C and ¹³C labeling: the combination of direct positron imaging and solid-state NMR

September 27
Physical Chemistry Seminar Series
Adam Cohen, Harvard University
Controlling molecules with electromagnetic fields: from superchiral light to neural imaging

October 2011

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October 4
Physical Chemistry Seminar Series
Eugene Shakhnovich, Harvard University
Hiking on fitness landscape: theoretical peaks and experimental valleys

October 18
Physical Chemistry Seminar Series
Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University
The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches.

October 25
Physical Chemistry Seminar Series
Kallie Willets, University of Texas at Austin
Super-resolution imaging of plasmonic nanoparticle hot spots

February 9
Joint Harvard/MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar Series AT HARVARD
Professor William Miller, University of California, Berkeley
Semiclassical Description of Electronically Non-Adiabatic Processes

February 16
Joint Harvard/MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar Series AT HARVARD
Professor Steve Leone, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Time for Chemical Dynamics: From X-rays to Attoseconds

March 1
Joint Harvard/MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar Series AT HARVARD
Professor Louis Brus, Columbia University
Graphene: electron correlation and failure of the Born-Oppenheimer separation

March 13
Physical Chemistry Seminar Series
Professor David A. Vanden Bout, University of Texas at Austin
Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymer Aggregates: Building up Thin Films from Single Polymer Chains

March 22
Joint Harvard/MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar Series AT MIT
Professor Gerhard Hummer, National Institute of Health (Chemical Physics Lab)
Topic TBA

April 5
Joint Harvard/MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar Series AT HARVARD
Kitiakowsky Lecture: Professor Paul Alivisatos, University of California, Berkeley
Topic TBA

April 10
Physical Chemistry Seminar Series
Prof. Kelly Gaffney, Stanford University
Resolving the Mechanism of H-bond Switching and Ligand Exchange in Aqueous Ionic Solution

April 19
Joint Harvard/MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar Series AT MIT
Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Pennsylvania State University
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion
This seminar will be held in Room 4-270

April 24
Physical Chemistry Seminar Series
Professor David Ginger, University of Washington
Recombination Losses, Morphology, and Performance Limits in Organic and Hybrid Solar Cells