Welcome to the website of 2020-2021 virtual Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics seminar series

Virtual AMO seminars will be held on Mondays. The Zoom webinar begins 15 min before the actual seminar start time.
We welcome your nominations of speakers. Please email your nominations to Alexei Kananenka.

Past seminars

Spring 2021


05/17/2021: Roberto Covino, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Discovering Molecular Mechanisms from Computer Simulations with Deep Reinforcement Learning


05/03/2021: László Túri, Eötvös Loránd University
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Electron Solvation in Clusters of Polar Molecules


04/26/2021: Jason Goodpaster, University of Minnesota
New Quantum Chemistry Methodology: Quantum Embedding and Machine Learning Algorithms for Complex Systems


04/12/2021: Arnaldo Serrano, University of Notre Dame
Revealing Protein Structure in Complex Environments using 2DIR Spectroscopy


04/05/2021: Pavlo Dral, Xiamen University
Quantum Chemistry Assisted by Machine Learning


03/29/2021: Tristan Bereau, University of Amsterdam
Physics-based Machine Learning for Multiscale Computer Simulations


03/22/2021: Carmen Domene, University of Bath
Studies of Ion Channel Activation and Modulation using Computational Approaches


03/15/2021: Giuseppe Carleo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Simulating Many-body Quantum Matter with Neural Network States


Fall 2020


9/14/2020: Weinan E, Princeton University
Integrating Machine Learning with Physics-Based Modeling


10/19/2020: Venkatraman Gopalan, Penn State University
Probing Emergent Phenomena in Complex Oxides through Nonlinear Optics and Coherent X-rays


10/26/2020: Ignacio Franco, University of Rochester
Quantum Coherence in Chemistry: Tackling the Decoherence Challenge


11/2/2020: Chia-Lung Hsieh, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Ultrahigh-Speed Imaging by Coherent Brightfield (COBRI) Microscopy for Biophysical Studies


11/9/2020: Roman Krems, University of British Columbia, Canada
Machine Learning with Small Data as a Physics Exploration Tool


11/16/2020: Robin Garrod, University of Virginia
A Taste of Space: New Recipes for Making Complex Interstellar Molecules