Guests

May 10, 2024
Prof. Joost M. Bakker
(Radboud University, Netherlands)
Infrared characterization of laser synthesized metal clusters and metal fullerene complexes

January 10, 2023
Prof. Kaito Takahashi
(Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taiwan)

December 12, 2022
Prof. Gregory F. Metha
(University of Adelaide, Australia)
Bimetallic clusters: Studying catalyst-surface interactions in the gas phase

June 21, 2022
Prof. Keijiro Ohshimo
(Tohoku University)

April 12, 2019
Prof. Mattaanjah S. de Vries
(University of California, USA)
How nature covers its bases

September 25, 2018
Prof. Thorsten M. Bernhardt
(Universität Ulm, Germany)
Ultrafast photochemistry on oxide surfaces and supported metal clusters

June 28, 2018
Prof. Tomokazu Yasuike
(The Open University of Japan)

May 31, 2018
Prof. Hiroyuki Higaki
(Hiroshima University)

December 14, 2017
Dr. Gabriele Santambrogio

(LENS - European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy / University of Florence, Italy)
Cold molecules for precision spectroscopy

April 20, 2017
Prof. Naresh Patwari Ganpathi
(Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Electrostatics and Stark effects in intermolecular interactions

April 21, 2016
Prof. Eleanor E.B. Campbell
(University of Edinburgh, UK)
Exploring the properties of fullerenes in the gas phase

April 21, 2016
Prof. Mats Jonson
(University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Spin gating of mesoscopic devices

April 14, 2016
Prof. Hiroyuki Yoshida
(Chiba University)

January 19, 2016
Prof. Tomokazu Yasuike
(The Open University of Japan)
Single molecule imaging by enhanced Raman scattering: Advantage of collective electron excitation in plasmonic clusters

August 20, 2015
Prof. Bernd von Issendorff
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany)
Morino Lecture: "Matter at the nanoscale: study of the structure and dynamics of clusters"

July 22, 2015
Dr. Kazuhiro Egashira
(Genesis Research Institute, Inc.)
Magnetic property of the chromium dimer cation: Analysis by optical absorption spectroscopy

July 16, 2015
Prof. Naresh Patwari Ganpathi
(Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Musings with Intermolecular Interactions

February 4, 2015
Prof. Ludger Wöste
(Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
High Power fs-Laser Filamentation: An attractive new tool for white-light sub fs-spectroscopy, remote environmental analysis and weather control

June 20, 2014
Prof. Tatsuya Tsukuda
(University of Tokyo)
Chemistry of Superatoms and Superatomic Molecules

March 5, 2014
Prof. Naresh Patwari Ganpathi
(Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
The bright and the dark of phenylacetylenes

Prof. James M. Lisy (Program Director, CHE/MPS, National Science Foundation and Research Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
October 10, 2013
EEP seminar (Enhanced Education Program)
Part 1:"The Chemistry Curriculum at the University of Illinois: How to transform a successful model from the 20th century to lead in the 21st"
Part 2:"Live and remote lectures in physical chemistry: A comparison in contrasting styles"
October 11, 2013
New Perspectives on Cluster Ion Photodissociation

April 8, 2013
Dr. Gabriele Santambrogio
(Fritz-Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany)
Molecule Chip

March 28, 2013
Prof. Thorsten M. Bernhardt
(Universität Ulm, Germany)
Selective Oxidation Catalysis with Metal Clusters in an Ion Trap

February 13, 2012
Prof. Hideki Tanaka
(Chuo University)
Recent Progress on Triangular Nanoplates produced by Photoreduction: Synthesis and their Reactivity

November 17, 2011
Prof. Seong Keun Kim
(Seoul National University)
Single Molecule Bio-spectroscopy: Deoxyribozyme Folding, Genetic Assay, and Observing Enzymatic Reactions

October 3, 2011
Dr. J. Tobias Lau
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialen und Energie GmbH)
X-ray spectroscopy of size-selected cluster ions: From electronic and geometric structure to spin coupling and orbital moment quenching