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”