Research Presentations (while at Harvey Mudd College, not including student presentations).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAb Initio Studies of Polyene Electronic Spectra,\u201d University of California Riverside, February 1990; talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cApplication of QuasidegenerateVariational Perturbation Theory to the Calculation of Electronic Excitation Energies,\u201d Twelfth Annual West Coast Theoretical Chemistry Conference, 1990; poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA Theoretical Investigation of the Low-Lying States of Butadiene Radical Cation,” American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, 1990; talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAb Initio Studies of the Ground and Excited States of Molecules,\u201d California Polytechnic University at Pomona, May 1991; talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA Theoretical Investigation of the Low-Lying States of Butadiene Radical Cation,” VIIth International Conference on Quantum Chemistry,\u201d Menton, France, July 1991, poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA Theoretical Investigation of the Low-Lying States of Butadiene Radical Cation,\u201d National ACS Meeting, New York, August 1991, poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cApplication of Approximately Size-Consistent Methods to the Study of Molecular Excited States,\u201d National ACS Meeting, San Francisco, April 1992, invited talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA Theoretical Investigation of Several Low-Lying States of CH2<\/sub>NH and CH2<\/sub>NH+<\/sup>,\u201d West Coast Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, June 1993; poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA Theoretical Investigation of Several Low-Lying States of CH2<\/sub>NH and CH2<\/sub>NH+<\/sup>,” American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, June 1993; poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMethods for the Calculation of the Electronic Coupling Element in Electron Transfer Reactions,\u201d Dept. Of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, February 1995; talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMethods for the Calculation of the Electronic Coupling Element in Electron Transfer Reactions,\u201d Dept. Of Chemistry, Columbia University, April 1995; talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMethods for the Calculation of the Electronic Coupling Element in Electron Transfer Reactions,\u201d Dept. Of Energy Solar Photochemistry Conference, June 1995; poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTheoretical Studies of Electron Transfer Processes: Ab Initio Studies of Solvent Effects on the Electronic Coupling Element,\u201d American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, June 1996; poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTheoretical Studies of Electron Transfer Processes: Ab Initio Studies of Solvent Effects on the Electronic Coupling Element,\u201d Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions Gordon Conference, August 1996; invited talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTheoretical Studies of Electron Transfer Processes: Ab Initio Studies of Solvent Effects on the Electronic Coupling Element,\u201d National ACS Meeting, San Francisco, April 1997; talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSolvent Effects on the Electronic Coupling Element in Electron transfer Reactions,\u201d Oesper Symposium<\/em>, University of Cincinnati, October 1997; talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Theoretical Studies of Solvent Effects on Electron Transfer Reactions, Colorado State University, March 1998; talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Theoretical Studies of Solvent Effects on Electron Transfer Reactions, ACS Spring Meeting, Dallas, 1998; poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUltrafast Photo-Induced Electron Transfer from Solvent: Inertial Solvent Dynamics and Electronic Coupling,\u201d ACS Spring Meeting, Dallas, 1998; talk (with E. Castner).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat is \u03b2 in Water?\u201d Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions Gordon Conference, Newport Rhode Island, August 1998; poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSolvent Effects on Electron Transfer Reaction,\u201d University of Florida, Gainesville, November 1998; talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSolvent Effects on Electron Transfer Reaction,\u201d California State University, Long Beach, October 1999; talk<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMethods for Calculating the Electronic Coupling Element for Electron Transfer Reactions,\u201d Nonadiabatic Dynamics Workshop, Telluride, CO, July 30-August 5, 2000; talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCorrelation and Multi-State Effects on the Electronic Coupling Element for Electron Transfer Reactions,\u201d Spring ACS Meeting, 2001; poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSolvent Effects on the Electronic Coupling Element for Electron Transfer Reactions,\u201d Rutgers University, Fall, 2001, talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Poster on Solvent Effects on Electronic Coupling, Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions Gordon Conference, Newport Rhode Island, August 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTDDFT study of the Low-Lying Excited States of Coumarins 102, 152, 153, and 343\u201d (E. W. Castner co-author), ACS Spring Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Spring 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA Comparison of Through-Space and Through-Bond Coupling for Tunneling in Alkane Chains,\u201d Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions Gordon Conference, Newport Rhode Island, August 2004; poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTheoretical Studies of the Electronic Coupling Element for Electron Transfer Reactions.\u201d American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, (July 2005), Talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAb Initio Calculation of Local Electronic Coupling Elements \u2013 Some Bad News,\u201d ACS Physical Chemistry Symposium, \u201c20 Years of Pathways, ACS Spring Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Electronic Coupling Element in Electron Transfer Reactions: A Sensitive Probe of Bonding and Dynamics.\u201d Sanibel Meeting, (February 2012), Talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat Makes For Fast Electron Transfer In Biology, And Why Should You Care? One Theorist\u2019s Point Of View.\u201d Elisheva Goldstein Memorial Lecture, Cal Poly Pomona, (May 2013), Talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBlock Diagonalization Approach to Diabatic EOM-CC States.\u201d ACS Meeting, Dallas (March 2014), Talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDiabatic States for Spectroscopy and Electron Transfer Processes.\u201d University of California, Irvine, (April 2014), Talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cQuasidiabatization Methods for Spectroscopy and Charge Transfer.\u201d \u201cThe Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar on Molecular Electronics 2015: 40 years later.\u201d Poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cButadiene \u2013 the simplest of polyenes? Not by a long shot.\u201d Pacifichem, December 2015, Invited Talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cQuantum Chemical Alchemy: Dynamical Gold from Born-Oppenheimer Lead.\u201d University of California, Davis (April 2016), Talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDoing Theory with Undergraduates and Having a Great Time.\u201d ACS Meeting, San Diego (March 2016), Talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTheory and Application of Computational Chemistry,\u201d The Davidson Correction: Electron Correlation, Science, and Life, Conference Seattle WA (August 2016), Talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOrganic Chemistry Catalyzed by Undergraduate Theorists.\u201d ACS Meeting, Washington D.C. (August 2016), Talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cButadiene: Why is such a \u201csimple\u201d molecule a huge pain in the neck?\u201d Pacific Conference on Spectroscopy and Dynamics, San Diego (January 2018), Talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSpectroscopy and Diabatization: Turning the GMH Method Upside Down, or: Butadiene: Why is such a \u201dsimple\u201d molecule a huge pain in the neck?\u201dUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (February 2018), Talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSpectroscopy and Diabatization: Turning the GMH Method Upside Down to Study Butadiene,\u201d Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton (April 2018), Talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Research Presentations (while at Harvey Mudd College, not including student presentations). \u201cAb Initio Studies of Polyene Electronic Spectra,\u201d University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":166,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3788","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3788\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}