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Lectures and Talks

Below are lectures, talks, and other presentations given by TCB faculty and other group members in meetings and conferences locally and around the world.

Klaus Schulten     Laxmikant Kale     Robert Skeel     Todd Martinez     Other TCB Members

Klaus Schulten

• February 19, 2001, Detroit, MI, Wayne State University
  Lecture: "From Simplicity to Complexity and Back: Function, Architecture and Quantum Mechanical Mechanism of Light Harvesting Systems in Photosynthetic Bacteria"
   

• February 28-29, 2001, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Amsterdam
  Lecture: "Quantum Biology of Light Harvesting in Photosynthesis"
   

• March 12, 2001, Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland 
  Lecture: "Quantum Biology of Light Harvesting in Photosynthesis"
   

• March 13-17, 2001, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland,  Conference on Structure, Dynamics and Function of Proteins in Biological Membranes
  Lecture: "The energy conversion apparatus of purple bacteria - An integral view"
   

• March 23, 2001, IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratory, Yorktown, NY
  Lecture: "Theory and Modeling of Biological Nanodevices"
   

• March 28, 2001, Hamilton, ON, Canada, McMaster University
  Lecture: "How Nature Harvests Sunlight"
   

• April 3-5, 2001, San Diego, CA
  ACS Symposium on Forces in Biological Systems
  Lecture: "Molecular Dynamics Investigations of Protein Mechanics"
  ACS Symposium on Methods for Addressing Time and Length Scale Problems in Molecular Simulations
  Lecture: "Multi-Scale Modeling of a Protein-DNA Complex"
   

• April 12-15, 2001, Florida State University, Tallassee, Florida
  Lecture: "How Nature Harvests Sunlight"
   

• May 22, 2001, Darmstadt, Germany, 15th Darmstadt Molecular Modeling Workshop
  Lecture: "Steered Molecular Dynamics - A Novel Method for Investigating Biomolecular Systems"
   

• May 22, 2001, Dortmund, Germany, Max Planck Institut f¸r Molekulare Physiologie,
  Lecture: "Mechanical Force Generation by G-Proteins"
   

• May 25, 2001, Stuttgart, Germany, Annual Meeting of the German Society for Physical Chemistry
  Lecture: "Molekulardynamische Simulationen Biologischer Systeme - Von Oligopeptiden zur ATPase"
   

• May 28, 2001, Berlin, Germany, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Max-Volmer-Institut
  Lecture: "Physik der Photosynthese"
   

• May 29, 2001, Berlin, Germany, Freie Universitaet Berlin
  Lecture: "Static and Dynamic Disorder of the Exciton System in Light Harvesting Complexes"
   

• July 25-27, 2001, Nagoya, Japan
  Lecture: "Static and Dynamic Disorder of the Excitation System in Light Harvesting Complexes LH2 of Purple Bacteria"
   

• August 3, 2001, Kyoto, Japan, Fourth Annual Conference on Biological Physics
  Lecture: "Observation and Multiscale Modeling of Biomolecular Mechanics: How Proteins Pull and DNA Coils"
   

• August 13, 2001, Los Alamos, NM, Center for Nonlinear Studies Workshop
  Lecture: "Excitons in a Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting System: A Combined Molecular Dynamics/Quantum Chemistry, Polaron Model, and Random Matrix Study"
   

• August 16, 2001, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Molecular Dynamics Workshop
  Lecture 1: "Introduction to Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
  Lecture 2: "What can we learn from Molecular Dynamics?"
  Lecture 3: "Case Study: Protein-Membrane Simulation"
   

• August 2001, San Diego, CA, CalTech, Visit with collaborator Rob Phillips
   

• September 11, 2001, Arlington, VA, National Science Foundation Workshop on Computational Physics
  Lecture:  "Concepts and Methods in Computational Bioelectronics"
   

• October 4, 2001, Miramare, Trieste, Italy, College on Biophysics: From Molecular Genetics to Structural Biology
  Lecture 1: "Membrane Proteins: A Tale of Conduction, I"
  Lecture 2: "Membrane Proteins: A Tale of Harvesting, II"
  Lecture 3: "Membrane Proteins: A Tale of Vision, III"
   

• October 22 - November 2, 2001, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Master Classes in Molecular Biophysics
  Lecture 1: "Water transport in kidneys and molecular modeling"
  Lecture 2: "Muscle elasticity and atomic force microscopy"
  Lecture 3: "Regulation of the genome and mechanical engineering"
  Lecture 4: "Harvesting sun light and quantum physics"
  Lecture 5: "Photosynthesis and solar technology"
  Lecture 6: "Vision and ultrafast chemistry"
  Lecture 7: "Neural pulses and non-linear dynamics"
  Lecture 8: "Pictures in the brain and mathematics"
  Lecture 9: "Slime mold amoebae and pattern formation"
  Lecture 10: "Bird navigation and spin chemistry"
   

• October 22 - November 2, 2001, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
  Colloquium in Dept. of Pharmacology: "Structure and function of aquaporins"
  Colloquium in Dept. of Physics: "Thermal disorder in bioelectronic systems"
   

• November 7-9, 2001, Tallahassee, FL, Florida State University
   

• November 2001, Zichron Ya'acov, Isael, Conference on Sequence, Structure and Function in Membrane Protein Systems
  Lecture: "The Energy Conversion Apparatus in Purple Bacteria - an integral view"
   

• December 6, 2001, Lausanne, Switzerland,  Symposium on Bioinformatics and Proteomics: From Sequence to Function
  Lecture: "Membrane Channels in Action"

Robert Skeel

• April 4, 2001, San Diego, Califonia, ACS San Diego National Meeting, Symposium: Methods for Addressing Time- and Length-Scale Problems in Molecular Simulations
  Lecture: "Multigrid methods for classical molecular dynamics"
   

• July 26-August 3, 2001, Vancouver, Canada, International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations
   

• August 11-19 2001, Los Angeles, CA, Siggraph 2001

Todd Martinez

• January 2001, University of Pennsylvania
  Lecture: "Ultrafast Photochemistry from First Principles cis-trans Isomerization and Ring-Opening Reactions in Gas and Condensed Phases"
   

• February 2001, Wabash College
  Lecture: "First Principles Reaction Dynamics on Ground and Excited Electronic States"
   

• February 2001, California Institute of Technology
  Lecture: "Ultrafast Photochemistry from First Principles cis-trans Isomerization and Ring-Opening Reactions in Gas and Condensed Phases"
   

• February 2001, Los Angeles, California, University of California at Los Angeles
  Lecture: "Ultrafast Photochemistry from First Principles cis-trans Isomerization and Ring-Opening Reactions in Gas and Condensed Phases"
   

• February 2001, University of Southern California
  Lecture: "Ultrafast Photochemistry from First Principles cis-trans Isomerization and Ring-Opening Reactions in Gas and Condensed Phases"
   

• February 2001, Santa Barbara, California, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Lecture: "Ultrafast Photochemistry from First Principles cis-trans Isomerization and Ring-Opening Reactions in Gas and Condensed Phases"
   

• March 2001, Tokyo, Japan, Frontiers of Theoretical Chemistry
  Lecture: "First-Principles Chemical Reaction Dynamics Including Quantum Effects of Nuclear Degrees of Freedom"
   

• March 2001, MIT/Harvard/Boston University Theoretical Chemistry Series
  Lecture: "Hybrid Quantum/Classical Methods for Atomistic Simulation"
   

• March 2001, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Lecture: "Ultrafast Photochemistry from First Principles cis-trans Isomerization and Ring-Opening Reactions in Gas and Condensed Phases"
   

• April 2001, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Lecture: "Ultrafast Photochemistry from First Principles cis-trans Isomerization and Ring-Opening Reactions in Gas and Condensed Phases"
   

• April 2001, University of Georgia
  Lecture: "Ultrafast Photochemistry from First Principles cis-trans Isomerization and Ring-Opening Reactions in Gas and Condensed Phases"
   

• April 2001, Emory University
  Lecture: "Ultrafast Photochemistry from First Principles cis-trans Isomerization and Ring-Opening Reactions in Gas and Condensed Phases"

Other TCB members (includes meetings attended and poster sessions)

• February 2001, Boston, MA, Biophysical Society Meeting
  Lecture: "Simulated Late Stage Refolding of Titin Immunoglobulin Domain" (Barry Izralewitz, Mu Gao)
  Lecture: "Molecular Dynamics Study of Rhodopsin" (Emadeddin Tajkhorshid)
  Lecture: "ab initio QM/MM and Molecular Dynamics Study on Proton Pump Mechanism of Bacteriorhodopsin" (Shigehiko Hayashi)
  Lecture: "Simulated Late-Stage Refolding of Titin Immunoglobulin Domain" (M. Gao)
  Lecture: "MscL Gating Studies by Molecular Dynamics Simulations" (Justin Gullingsrud)
  Lecture: "Molecular Dynamics Study of Protein Interaction with a Crystal Surface" (Rosemary Braun)
  Lecture: "Dynamics of Electron Transfer Pathways in Cytochrome C Oxidase" (Ilya Balabin)
   

• March 2001, Seattle, WA, American Physical Society meeting
  Lecture: "Mechanical Force Generation by G-proteins" (Ioan Kosztin)
   

• March 2001, Raleigh, NC, ACM Siggraph 13D 2001 Conference
  Lecture: "A System for Interactive Molecular Dynamics Simulation" (John Stone)

• April 2001, San Francisco, CA, Workshop for Massively Parallel Processing, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (J. Unger)
  Lecture: "Emulating PetaFLOPS Machines and Blue Gene"
   

• June 2001, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, Linux Clusters: HPC (B. Isralewitz)
   

• June 2001, Siguenza, Spain, ESMTB Summer School (M. Dittrich, S. Park)
   

• July 2001, Nagoya, Japan, 4th International Conference on Biological Physics (S. Hayashi)
   

• August 2001, Los Angeles, CA, Siggraph 2001 (J. Stone)
   

• August 2001, Pittsburgh, PA, NAMD Workshop (J. Phillips, I. Kosztin, J. Gullingsrud)
   

• August 2001, Heidelberg, Germany, HFSP Meeting (E. Tajkhorshid)
   

• October 2001, University of California at Pasadena. Visit with Collaborator (M. Dittrich)
   

• October 2001, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Cave Programming Workshop
  Lecture: "Biomolecular Visualization with VMD and the Cave" (John Stone)
   

• November 2001, Denver, CO, SC2001 (J. Phillips)
   

• November 2001, San Diego, CA, LISA 2001 (T. Skirvin)