Invited Seminars

  • Departments of Biology & Chemistry, Dickinson College, PA, April, 2005 “Toward Understanding Charge Transfer at the Nanometer Scale: Experimental and theoretical characterization of self-assembled monolayers”
  • Department of Chemistry, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 2005 “Toward Understanding Charge Transfer at the Nanometer Scale: Experimental and theoretical characterization of self-assembled monolayers”
  • Department of Chemistry, York College, NY, Feb. 2005 “Toward Understanding Charge Transfer at the Nanometer Scale: Experimental and theoretical characterization of self-assembled monolayers”
  • Division of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan, Dearborn, Jan. 2005 “Toward Understanding Charge Transfer at the Nanometer Scale: Experimental and theoretical characterization of self-assembled monolayers”
  • Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, March, 2004 "Probing Molecular Structure, Dynamics, and Intermolecular Interactions Using Photons and Electrons"
  • NSF Center for Electron Transport in Molecular Nanostructures (NSEC), Columbia University, New York, NY, Feb. 2004 “Dissecting the Molecular Balancing Act: Understanding 2D self-assembly on graphite using a combined STM and theoretical approach”
  • Department of Chemistry, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, Oct. 2003 “What Do Molecules Look Like?  The View from One-Billionth of an Inch”
  • Honors General Chemistry Course Guest Lecturer, Columbia University, New York, NY Oct. 2003 and Oct. 2002 “Atmospheric Chemistry of the Ozone Layer”
  • Freshman Science and Engineering Seminar Series, Columbia University, New York, NY, Feb. 2003 “What Do Molecules Look Like?  The View from One-Billionth of an Inch”
  • Department of Chemistry, Tohoko University, Sendai, Japan, July 2002 “Shedding Light on the Molecule of Darkness: Conformational preferences, solvation, and dynamics of jet-cooled melatonin”
  • Institute for Molecular Science, National Research Institute, Okazaki, Japan, July 2002 “Shedding Light on the Molecule of Darkness: Conformational preferences, solvation, and dynamics of jet-cooled melatonin”
  • The Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, March 2002 “Shedding Light on the Molecule of Darkness: Conformational preferences, solvation, and dynamics of jet-cooled melatonin”
  • Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March 2002 “Shedding Light on the Molecule of Darkness: Conformational preferences, solvation, and dynamics of jet-cooled melatonin”
  • Physical Chemistry Division Seminar, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Nov. 2000 “The Infrared Spectroscopy of Strongly Hydrogen-Bonded Dimers: A new look at an old problem”
  • Department of Chemistry, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, Feb. 1999 “The Spectroscopy of Solvation: Hydrogen-bonded molecular clusters”