Previous Pleanary Speakers of ASMD

• Professor Steven Boxer
• Department of Chemistry
• Stanford University
• Electric Fields and Enzyme Catalysis

• Professor William Jorgensen
• Department of Chemistry
• Yale University
• Computer-aided Discovery of Anti-infective and Anti-proliferative Agents

• Professor Ken Houk
• Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Dynamics of Pericyclic Reactions and Relationships to Cremer and Kraka’s Unified Reaction Valley Approach

• Professor K. V. Lakshmi
• School of Science
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• High-resolution Pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Techniques for the Study of Charge Transfer Reactions in Complex Systems

• Professor Kenneth Leopold
• Department of Chemistry
• University of Minnesota
• Microwave Spectroscopy of Complexes: New Surprises and Old Challenges

• Professor Leo Radom
• Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Influence of Thermodynamic, Polar and Hydrogen Bonding Effects on the Stability and Reactivity of Radicals

• Professor Markus Reiher
• Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
• ETH Zürich
• Keynote: Quantum Computing for Chemistry

• Dr. Matthias Rupp
• Department of Materials Research and Technology
• Luxemburg Institute of Technology (LIST)
• Machine Learning for Molecules and Materials: Potential and Limitations of Data-Driven Chemistry

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• Professor Susan Dexheimer
• Department of Physics and Astronomy
• Washington State University
• Ultrafast Dynamics of Quasiparticle Formation in Structurally Tunable Materials

• Professor Neil Hunt
• Department of Physics
• University of Strathclyde, SUPA, Glasgow, UK
• Thermal Denaturation of DNA studied by Ultrafast 2D-IR Spectroscopy

• Professor Ralf Ludwig
• Physical Chemistry, Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis at the University of Rostock
• University of Rostock
• Peculiarities of Structure and Dynamics in Ionic Liquids and Their Mixtures Probed by IR, THz and NMR spectroscopy

• Professor Melanie Ohi
• Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Center for Structural Biology
• Vanderbilt University, Nashville
• Using Cryo-electron Microscopy to Study the Structure and Function of Dynamic Molecular Machines

• Professor Marius Schmidt
• Department of Physics
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Ultrafast Dynamics in Proteins Investigated by Time-Resolved Serial Femtosecond Crystallography

• Professor John Spence
• BioXFEL Science and Technology Center, Department of Physics
• Arizona State University
• Time-resolved Molecular Imaging using X-ray Lasers Small Water Clusters in Unusual Quantum States and Ensembles

• Professor Jürgen Gauss
• Institute of Physical Chemistry
• Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
• High-Accuracy Calculations for Rotational Spectroscopy: New Molecules, Hyperfine Interactions, and Radio Astronomy

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• Professor Isaac B. Bersuker
• Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
• University of Texas at Austin
• The Jahn-Teller and Pseudo Jahn-Teller Effects: Novel Findings and Applications

• Professor Luis Echegoyen
• Department of Chemistry
• University of Texas at El Paso
• Buckyball Maracas: the Inside (an Outside) Story of Endohedral Fullerenes

• Professor Anne B. McCoy
• Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Ohio State University
• Spectral signatures of large amplitude vibrations in hydrogen-bonded and protonated systems. What do the intensities tell us about structure bonding?

• Professor Peter Pulay
• Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
• University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
• Ultrafast Quantum/Molecular Mechanics Monte Carlo Simulations

• Professor Martin Quack
• Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
• ETH Zürich
• Electroweak Parity Violation and the Structure, Symmetry and Dynamics of Chiral Molecules

• Professor Martin Suhm
• Institute for Physical Chemistry
• University of Göttingen
• Small water clusters in unusual quantum states and ensembles

• Professor Yunjie Xu
• Department of Chemistry
• University of Alberta, Edmonton
• Fourier Transform Microwave and Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Chirality, Chirality Recognition, and Chirality Transfer

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• Dr. Bernhard R. Brooks, Chief
• Computational Biophysics Section of the Laboratory of Computational Biology
• National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Enhanced Sampling in the Canonical Ensemble and Multi-scale Modeling Involving CHARMM

• Professor Wolfgang Jaeger
• Centre for Molecular Structure and Dynamics
• University of Alberta, Canada
• Spectra of doped helium nanodroplets, helium clusters, and hydrogen clusters: Structure and dynamics of quantum-solvated systems

• Professor Stephen Kukolich
• Department of Chemistry
• The University of Arizona
• Microwave spectroscopy measurements of hydrogen bonded structures, proton tunneling, and transition metal complexes and construction and testing of a BIG F-T spectrometer

• Professor Gerald J. Meyer
• Department of Chemistry
• John Hopkins University
• Dynamics of Molecules at Semiconductor Interfaces for Solar Energy Conversion

• Professor Trond Saue
• Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques
• Université de Toulouse 3 (Paul Sabatier)
• Hunting parity violation in chiral molecules

• Professor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
• Eberly Professor of Biotechnology and Professor of Chemistry
• Department of Chemistry
• Penn State University
• Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion

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• Eleanor Campbell
• University of Edinburgh, U.K.
• "Growth, characterization and dynamical studies of carbon nanotubes"
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• Jens-Uwe Grabow
• Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität, Hannover, Germany
• "Delivering local structure information via long distance communication to a large amplitude motion site: Molecular Rotation Spectra"

• Robert McMahon
• University of Wisconsin, U.S.A.
• "Photochemistry and spectroscopy of organic reactive intermediates"
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• R. J. Dwayne Miller
• University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• "Making the molecular movie: quest for the structure-function correlation in biology"
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• Peter M. Weber
• Brown University, Providence, USA
• "Ultra structural dynamics in tertiary amines and cyclic dienes"

• Timothy Zwier
• Purdue University, U.S.A.
• "Laser-based probes of structure and dynamics in the complexity gap"
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