7th SoCal TheoChem Symposium
October 5, 2024 in La Jolla, CA

The symposium will be held at the Galbraith Hall Room 242 at the UCSD campus in La Jolla.

Tentative Schedule

Time Activity Title
8:30-9:00 BREAKFAST
9:00-9:10 Introductory remarks
9:10-9:35 Industry partnerships: Zhuoran Qiao (Iambic Therapeutics) State-specific biomolecular complex structure prediction with NeuralPLexer
9:35-10:00 Yuezhi Mao (SDSU) Elucidating noncovalent interactions in complex media
10:00-10:25 Filipp Furche (UCI) CT -Symmetry in Nonlinear Time-Dependent Many-Electron Theories
10:25-10:55 COFFEE BREAK
10:55-11:20 Ben Schwartz (UCLA) The Role of the Solvent in Chemical Identity, Chemical Reactivity and Quantum Decoherence
11:20-11:45 Jahan Dawlaty (USC) Controlling Electric Fields, Solvation, and Hydration at Electrochemical Interfaces
11:45-12:00 Junior faculty spotlight 1: Wanlu Li (UCSD) Predictive modeling of multi-element metallic glass nanoparticles for catalytic applications
12:00-12:15 Junior faculty spotlight 2: Haiwang Yong (UCSD) Imaging attosecond electron dynamics with ultrafast x-ray scattering
12:15-12:30 Junior faculty spotlight 3: Hongbo Zhao (UCSD) Learning Physical Chemistry of Reactive Systems from Images
12:30-1:30 LUNCH
1:00-3:00 Poster session
3:00-3:15 Poster awards
3:15-3:40 Bryan Wong (UCR) Probing Electron Dynamics of Complex Material Systems in Real Time
3:40-4:05 Elizabeth Lee (UCI) ML-driven an initio enhanced sampling: applications to catalysis and quantum defect formation
4:05-4:30 Oleg Prezhdo (USC) Ab initio quantum dynamics in nanomaterials with machine learning
4:30-5:00 COFFEE BREAK
5:00-5:25 Anna Krylov (USC) Water: A perpetual challenge for theory and experiment alike
5:25-5:40 Poster award talk - Grad student 1 - TBD TBD
5:40-5:55 Poster award talk - Grad student 2 - TBD TBD
5:55-6:10 Poster award talk - Postdoc - TBD TBD
6:10-6:15 Concluding remarks