PTC Seminar Series Archives

- Dr. Ré Mansbach
Concordia University - Dr. An Ghysels
Ghent University, Belgium
- Stephanie Jones
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Thomas Preston
McGill University

- Conrard Giresse Tetsassi Feugmo
University of Waterloo - Rodrigo Vargas Hernandez
McMaster University

- Albert Stolow
University of Ottawa - James Gaynor
Northwestern University

- Viktor Staroverov
Western University - Matthias Ernzerhof
Université de Montreal

- Eric McCalla
McGill University - Leanne Chen
University of Guelph

- Lingzi Sang
University of Alberta - Ernest Awoonor-Williams
Novartis

- Kristen Poduska
Memorial University - Jamie Donaldson
University of Toronto

- Tristan Borchers
McGill University - Aron Walsh
Imperial College London

- Alex Voznyy
University of Toronto - Alastair Price
Dalhousie University

- Samantha Gateman
Western University - Amy Stevens
University of Saskatchewan

- Divya Kaur Matta
Brock University - Kevin Stamplecoskie
Queen's University

- Nadine Borduas-Dedekind
University of British Columbia - Stephen Dale
Griffith University

- Georg Schreckenbach
University of Manitoba - Jan Pohls
University of New Brunswick

- Ilsa Cooke
University of British Columbia - Katie Wilson
Memorial University

- Heather Wiebe
Vancouver Island University - Seyed Mohamad Moosavi
Freie Universität Berlin

- Armand Soldera
Université de Sherbrooke - Thomas Cheshire
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

- Ruijie Teo
University of Calgary - Augusto Gerolin
University of Ottawa

- Joel R Schmitz
Emory University - Matthias Degroote
Boehringer Ingelheim

- Cody Aldaz
Stanford University - Michelle Dolgos
University of Calgary

- Susannah Bourne-Worster
University of Bristol - Paul A. Johnson
Université Laval

- Letitia Birnoschi
University of Manchester - Irina Paci
University of Victoria

- Idil Ismail
University of Warwick - Artur Izmaylov
University of Toronto

- Sahar Nikoo
University of Windsor - Paul Mayer
University of Ottawa

- Mark Wilson
University of Toronto - Zachary Widel
Duke University, Department of Chemistry

- Lena Simine
McGill University - Pablo Carpio-Martínez
University of Alberta

- Wolfgang Jaeger
University of Alberta - Stephanie Hart
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

- Laura Gagliardi
University of Chicago - Rodrigo A Vargas- Hernandez
University of Toronto & Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

- Ramon Miranda Quintana
University of Florida - Diptarka Hait
University of California, Berkeley

- Nicholas Chilton
University of Manchester - Alba Cervera-Lierta
University of Toronto

- Martin Head-Gordon
University of California, Berkeley and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

- Patrick Ayotte
Université Sherbrooke - Joonho Lee
Columbia University
Ayotte: “Rotranslational dynamics under confinement and their impact on water’s ortho-para nuclear spin isomer interconversion mechanisms and rates”
Lee: “Challenges in quantum chemistry beyond the electronic ground state”
- Toby Zeng
York University - Heide Ibrahim
Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Zeng: “TBD”
Ilbrahim: “A molecular road movie – capturing roaming fragments in real time“

- Iwan Moreels
Ghent University - Joshua Hollet
University of Winnipeg
Hollet: “Correlated electron motion: much to learn, much to gain”
Moreels: “Materials design of 2D colloidal nanocrystals: toward highly fluorescent emitters across the visible spectrum.”
- Bess Vlaisavljevich
University of South Dakota - Mathieu Frenette
Université du Québec à Montréal
Vlaisavljevich: “Electronic structure and oxidation state in copper catalysts”
Frenette: Exploring reactive intermediates in (photo)redox chemistry
- Joshua Pottel
Molecular Forecaster Inc. - Peter Limacher
SAP Security Research
Pottel: “From PhD to CEO: kickstarting Molecular Forecaster and supporting research”
Limacher: “How a strong background in quantum mechanics can boost your career in a software company.“

- Jennifer van Wijngaarden
University of Manitoba - Leanne Chen
University of Guelph
Wijngaarden: “Exploring conformational landscapes using rotational spectroscopy fingerprints”
Chen: “Ni-based Materials for Electrochemical Ammonia Oxidation”

- Vladimir K. Michaelis
University of Alberta - Michael Schuurman
National Research Council Canada
Michaelis: “Approaching Exact Quantum Chemistry by Stochastic Wave Function Sampling and Deterministic Coupled-Cluster Computations”
Schuurman: “Directing Dynamics at Conical Intersections”

- Piotr Piecuch
Michigan State University - Scott Hopkins
University of Waterloo
Piecuch: “Approaching Exact Quantum Chemistry by Stochastic Wave Function Sampling and Deterministic Coupled-Cluster Computations”
Hopkins: “Understanding and Applying Differential Ion Mobility”

- Anja Röder
University of Ottawa/NRC - Gabriel dos Passos Gomes
University of Toronto
Röder: “Exciting molecules and following their dynamics with time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy”
dos Passos Gomes: “Machine Learning Dihydrogen Activation in the Chemical Space Surrounding Vaska’s Complex”

- Katarzyna Pernal
Lodz University of Technology, Poland - Bradley J. Siwick
McGill University
Pernal: “Dynamic Electron Correlation for Multireference Problems”
Siwick: “Shining New Light on the Control and Understanding of Material Properties”

- Pawel Tecmer
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland - Pat Clancy
McMaster University
Tecmer: “Electron correlation effects in complex electronic structures from the pCCD model and beyond”
Clancy: “Spin‐orbit driven ground states in Iridium‐based quantum materials”

- Stacey Wetmore
University of Lethbridge - Zoya Leonenko
University of Waterloo
Wetmore: “Computer Modeling of DNA Repair”
Leonenko: “Biophysical study of Alzheimer’s disease”

- Erin Johnson
Dalhousie University - Lewis Kay
University of Toronto
Hosted by Ryan MacDonell, University of Sydney
Johnson: “Dispersion Interactions in DFT and Application to Molecular Crystal-Structure Prediction”
Kay: “Seeing the invisible by solution NMR spectroscopy”