Plenary Speakers
Plenary Speaker Archive
A record of plenary speakers and talks from recent Austin Symposium meetings in Dallas.
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Previous Plenary Speakers
28th Austin Symposium
2023
Professor
Cristina Puzzarini
University of Bologna
Theoretical Chemistry; Rotational Spectroscopy and Astrophysics
Professor
Joachim Sauer
Humboldt University Berlin
Theoretical Chemistry; Surface Science and Catalysis
Professor
Lu Wei
California Institute of Technology
Spectroscopy, Chemical Biology and Life Sciences
27th Austin Symposium
2018
Professor
Steven Boxer
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University
Electric Fields and Enzyme Catalysis
Professor
William Jorgensen
Department of Chemistry
Yale University
Computer-aided Discovery of Anti-infective and Anti-proliferative Agents
Professor
Ken Houk
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Dynamics of Pericyclic Reactions and Relationships to Cremer and Kraka’s Unified Reaction Valley Approach
Professor
K. V. Lakshmi
School of Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
High-resolution Pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Techniques for the Study of Charge Transfer Reactions in Complex Systems
Professor
Kenneth Leopold
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota
Microwave Spectroscopy of Complexes: New Surprises and Old Challenges
Professor
Leo Radom
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Influence of Thermodynamic, Polar and Hydrogen Bonding Effects on the Stability and Reactivity of Radicals
Professor
Markus Reiher
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
ETH Zürich
Keynote: Quantum Computing for Chemistry
Dr
Matthias Rupp
Department of Materials Research and Technology
Luxemburg Institute of Technology (LIST)
Machine Learning for Molecules and Materials: Potential and Limitations of Data-Driven Chemistry
26th Austin Symposium
2016
Professor
Susan Dexheimer
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Washington State University
Ultrafast Dynamics of Quasiparticle Formation in Structurally Tunable Materials
Professor
Neil Hunt
Department of Physics
University of Strathclyde, SUPA, Glasgow, UK
Thermal Denaturation of DNA studied by Ultrafast 2D-IR Spectroscopy
Professor
Ralf Ludwig
Physical Chemistry, Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis at the University of Rostock
University of Rostock
Peculiarities of Structure and Dynamics in Ionic Liquids and Their Mixtures Probed by IR, THz and NMR spectroscopy
Professor
Melanie Ohi
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Center for Structural Biology
Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Using Cryo-electron Microscopy to Study the Structure and Function of Dynamic Molecular Machines
Professor
Marius Schmidt
Department of Physics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Ultrafast Dynamics in Proteins Investigated by Time-Resolved Serial Femtosecond Crystallography
Professor
John Spence
BioXFEL Science and Technology Center, Department of Physics
Arizona State University
Time-resolved Molecular Imaging using X-ray Lasers Small Water Clusters in Unusual Quantum States and Ensembles
Professor
Jürgen Gauss
Institute of Physical Chemistry
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
High-Accuracy Calculations for Rotational Spectroscopy: New Molecules, Hyperfine Interactions, and Radio Astronomy
25th Austin Symposium
2014
Professor
Isaac B. Bersuker
Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
University of Texas at Austin
The Jahn-Teller and Pseudo Jahn-Teller Effects: Novel Findings and Applications
Professor
Luis Echegoyen
Department of Chemistry
University of Texas at El Paso
Buckyball Maracas: the Inside (an Outside) Story of Endohedral Fullerenes
Professor
Anne B. McCoy
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ohio State University
Spectral signatures of large amplitude vibrations in hydrogen-bonded and protonated systems. What do the intensities tell us about structure bonding?
Professor
Peter Pulay
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Ultrafast Quantum/Molecular Mechanics Monte Carlo Simulations
Professor
Martin Quack
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
ETH Zürich
Electroweak Parity Violation and the Structure, Symmetry and Dynamics of Chiral Molecules
Professor
Martin Suhm
Institute for Physical Chemistry
University of Göttingen
Small water clusters in unusual quantum states and ensembles
Professor
Yunjie Xu
Department of Chemistry
University of Alberta, Edmonton
Fourier Transform Microwave and Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Chirality, Chirality Recognition, and Chirality Transfer
24th Austin Symposium
2012
Dr
Bernhard R. Brooks
Computational Biophysics Section of the Laboratory of Computational Biology
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Enhanced Sampling in the Canonical Ensemble and Multi-scale Modeling Involving CHARMM
Professor
Wolfgang Jaeger
Centre for Molecular Structure and Dynamics
University of Alberta, Canada
Spectra of doped helium nanodroplets, helium clusters, and hydrogen clusters: Structure and dynamics of quantum-solvated systems
Professor
Stephen Kukolich
Department of Chemistry
The University of Arizona
Microwave spectroscopy measurements of hydrogen bonded structures, proton tunneling, and transition metal complexes and construction and testing of a BIG F-T spectrometer
Professor
Gerald J. Meyer
Department of Chemistry
John Hopkins University
Dynamics of Molecules at Semiconductor Interfaces for Solar Energy Conversion
Professor
Trond Saue
Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques
Université de Toulouse 3 (Paul Sabatier)
Hunting parity violation in chiral molecules
Professor
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Eberly Professor of Biotechnology and Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Penn State University
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion