Date |
Speaker |
Caterer |
Title |
31 Dec | New Year's Eve |
24 Dec | Christmas Eve |
17 Dec | Ben | Werner | Stereocontrol of acrylates via Lewis acid complexation |
10 Dec | Werner | Jinasena | Quantum fortune telling - How to predict where things happen before they do |
04 Dec | RSC Director Presentations |
26 Nov | Jinasena | Peter | Metal-Metal interactions in transition metal halogeno complexes |
19 Nov | Cancelled |
12 Nov | Junming | Peter | Origami and Chemistry |
05 Nov | Peter | Caleb | Charged spheres |
29 Oct | Student talks | Isa | Caleb (Honours practice), Richard (ASC) and Malcolm (ASC) |
22 Oct | Isa | Rabin | Reshuffling mechanism of dithiocarbonate dimers for self-healing of polymers |
15 Oct | Rabin | David | Fe-Porphyrin derivatives as electrocatalysts in polymer electrolyte fuel cells |
08 Oct | Family and Community Day |
01 Oct | Labour Day |
24 Sep | (Tues) David | Tamara | Calculating chemical shifts through fragmentation |
18 Sep | Tamara | None | Mid-term review |
10 Sep | Molecular Electronic Structure (Troy, Turkey) |
03 Sep | Departmental seminar (Christchurch, NZ) |
27 Aug | Jonathan | Junming | Electronic excited states of dipeptides |
20 Aug | ACS National Meeting (Philadelphia, USA) |
14 Aug | Tiffany | Rika | Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics: a tool for sampling of biomolecules |
06 Aug | Leesa | Leesa | Pulsed laser polymerization |
30 July | Yihan | Titou | Excited states of firefly luciferin through the Q-Chem/Charmm interface |
23 July | Titou | Peng | Correlation functional for 1D systems |
16 July | Peng | Andrew | Quantum mechanical tunnelling in enzyme catalysis |
09 July | Andrew | Terry | Remote control with IQmol |
02 July | Terry | Laura | ACCSA vs QCT |
25 Jun | Laura | None | Mid-term review |
18 Jun | Josh | Ben | The pairwise additivity of dispersion |
12 Jun | Ben | Michelle | Radical polymerization |
04 Jun | Michelle | Junming | There is more to computational chemistry than calculating helium to 20 places |
28 May | Junming | Werner | Mechanistic studies of some unusual organic reactions |
22 May | Werner | Raja | Propagation without equations of motion |
14 May | Raja | Peter | Is TD-DFT a system-dependent theory? |
07 May | Peter | Titou | Mixed basis sets |
30 Apr | Titou | Leaf | DMC: my very own recipe (à la française!) |
23 Apr | Leaf | Tamara | What you might not know about Diels-Alder reactions |
16 Apr | Caleb & Tamara | Josh | Honours talk & Computational studies of enzyme kinetics |
09 Apr | Easter |
02 Apr | Isa | Anya | Stereoregulation in free-radical polymerization of bulky methacrylates |
27 Mar | Josh | Isa | Chemistry lessons from intracules |
20 Mar | Anya | Andrew | Incredible nitroxides: from theory to applications |
12 Mar | Canberra Day |
05 Mar | Angus & Andrew | Michelle | ASC talk & From witches to geckos |
27 Feb | Amir Karton | Peter | The golden age of computational thermochemistry: Theory and applications |
20 Feb | Peter | Terry | The importance of the underlying LDA in DFT calculations |
14 Feb | Terry | Laura | Translational symmetry in the gas-surface PES |
07 Feb | Laura | Peter | Gaussian expansions of orbitals |
31 Jan | Kaew | Werner | Parallel RO Fockbuild in X10 |
23 Jan | Holiday |
16 Jan | Q-Chem workshop (Pittsburgh, USA) |
09 Jan | Werner | Titou | Random Thoughts about Quantum Systems |
02 Jan | New Year |