Hi All,
There are not more slots available for meetings. If you are interested in
dinner, let me know.
Cheers,
Jhonathan.
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Romero Fontalvo, Jhonathan <
jromerofontalvo(a)g.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
There are still a couple of meetings slots and dinner slots available for
the visit of Prof. Adam Willard, next Wednesday. Regarding dinner, it will
take place in Kendall square after the Theochem seminar (~6:20 pm). Don't
miss this opportunity!
Cheers,
Jhonathan.
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Romero Fontalvo, Jhonathan <
jromerofontalvo(a)g.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
Professor Adam Willard from MIT (
http://willardgroup.mit.edu/index.html) will
be visiting our group next Wednesday, March 29th, as part of the
Theochem lecture series. His research focuses on the application of
quantum dynamics and statistical mechanics to understand how disorder
impacts the properties of light-harvesting materials, water interfaces and
polymers. He is also interested in the chemical dynamics of aqueous
electrode interfaces. *Please contact me in your are interested in
lunch, dinner or a meeting slot. *For all of you planning to become
faculty, this is a great opportunity to talk to a young faculty member.
Cheers,
Jhonathan
*Abstracts.*
P*art I: “Nanoscale Disorder Drives the Dynamics of Excitons in
Molecular Semiconductors"*
Many organic electronic materials are composed of soft condensed matter
that is both electronically active and disordered on the nanoscale. The
electronic properties of these materials can depend sensitively on the
details of molecular morphology, reflecting a complex coupling between
excited electrons and the disordered nuclear environment. To better
understand this coupling and how nanoscale disorder affects the
electronic dynamics in these materials we utilize numerical simulation. In
this talk I describe our approach to unraveling the effects of nanoscale
disorder on the dynamics of excitons, which utilizes atomistic simulation,
coarse-grained models, and quantum dynamics.
*Part II: "What Can Interfacial Water Molecules Tell Us About Solute
Structure?”*
The molecular structure of bulk liquid water reflects a molecular
tendency to engage in tetrahedrally coordinated hydrogen bonding. At a
solute interface water’s preferred three-dimensional hydrogen bonding
network must conform to a locally anisotropy interfacial environment.
Interfacial water molecules adopt configurations that balance water-solute
and water-water interactions. The arrangements of interfacial water
molecules, therefore encode information about the effective solute-water
interactions. This solute-specific information is difficult to extract,
however, because interfacial structure also reflects water’s
collective response to an anisotropic hydrogen bonding environment. Here I
present a methodology for characterizing the molecular-level structure of
liquid water interface from simulation data. This method can be used to
explore water’s static and/or dynamic response to a wide range of
chemically and topologically heterogeneous solutes such as proteins.
--
Jonathan Romero Fontalvo
*Ph.D. Student in Chemical Physics*
*Harvard University*
Website:
https://sites.google.com/site/jonathanromeroswebsite/
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Jonathan Romero Fontalvo
*Ph.D. Student in Chemical Physics*
*Harvard University*
Website:
https://sites.google.com/site/jonathanromeroswebsite/
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Jonathan Romero Fontalvo
*Ph.D. Student in Chemical Physics*
*Harvard University*
Website: