Dear group,<br><br>Several of you asked to be notified when I&#39;ll be teaching what topics in Chem 243. Everyone is welcome (MW 2-3:30 Pfizer) and the plan for the next four lectures is roughly as follows:<br><br>1. (Today) Born-Oppenheimer approximation, diabatic and adiabatic representations, avoided crossings and conical intersections (incl. geometric phase), chemical arrangement channels, skewed coordinates<br>
2. (Wed) Normal modes, transition-state theory, RRKM<br>3. (next Mon) Wavepacket approach to photodissociation and/or reactive scattering<br>4. (next Wed) Electron transfer, which basically means Marcus theory<br><br>(Subject to violent changes without notice).<br>
<br>After that, Sergio will be doing some electronic structure theory.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Ivan<br>