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Lectures and Talks

Below are lectures, talks, and other presentations given by TCB faculty and other group members in meetings and conferences locally and around the world.

Klaus Schulten     Laxmikant Kale     Robert Skeel     Gila Budescu     Other TCB Members

Klaus Schulten

• January 11, 2002, Santa Fe, NM, Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology (PMMB) - Modeling Across the States - Atoms to Organisms
  Lecture: "Modeling the Mechanical Functions of Proteins and DNA"
   
• January 14, 2002, Santa Fe, NM, Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) - Workshop on Self-Organizing Biomoleculers - The Evolving Picture
  Lecture: "Studying Water and Glycerol Transport in the Membrane Channel Protein Aquaglyceroporin"
   
• January 16-30, 2002, Klosters, Switzerland, 37th Winter Seminar, Biophysical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cybernetics of Cell Functions
  Lecture: "The Mystery of Membrane Channels, Fast Conduction, and Strong Selection, Approached Through Crystallography and Modeling"
   
• February 8, 2002, Ames, IA, Iowa State University, Chemistry Department
  Lecture: "Static and Dynamic Disorder of the Exciton System in Light Harvesting Complexes LH2 and PS1"
   
• February 24-27, 2002, San Francisco, CA, 46th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society 2002, Symposium Membrane Channels & Pumps: Mechanisms of Transport
  Lecture: "Molecular Dynamics Investigations of Transport in Aquaporins"
   
• April 3, 2002, Bloomington, IN, Indiana University, Physics Department Colloquium
  Lecture: "The Physics of Photosynthesis"
   
• April 6-8, 2002, Orlando, FL, 223rd American Chemical Society Meeting, Division of Physical Chemistry, Symposium "Forces in Biology"
  Lecture: "Investigating the Mechanochemistry of Immunoglobulin, Fibronectin, and ATPase by Steered Molecular Dynamics"
   
• April 13, 2002, Chicago, IL, UIC/UIUC Symposium on Bioinformatics in Medicine and Biology
  Lecture: "Convergence of Sequence and Structure Information in VMD"
   
• April 17 -19, 2002, Urbana, IL, NCSA NAMD Workshop2002, University of Illinois
  Lecture 1: "Introduction to Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
  Lecture 2: "What Can We Learn from MD Simulations"?
  Lecture 3: "Accelerating Processes via Steered MD"
   
• May 4, 2002, Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL, Olga G. Nalbandov Symposium on "Membrane Proteins: Experimental and Computational Approaches to Understanding Cellular Function
  Lecture: "Membrane Channels in Action"
   
• May 7, 2002, Rochester, MN, Mayo Foundation, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department Seminar
  Lecture: "Molecular Dynamics Investigation of Transport in Aquaporins"
   
• May 9, 2002, Urbana, IL, NCSA Alliance All-Hands Meeting keynote address
  Lecture: "Grid Tools for Biomolecular Modeling"
   
• May 14, 2002, College Park, MD, University of Maryland Scientific Computation Seminar
  Lecture: "Physics of the kidney: How it filters a bathtub of water a day without letting a proton pass"
   
• May 15, 2002, Urbana, IL, Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Complexity in Physical and Biological Structures, Medicine& Ecology, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  Lecture: "From Simplicity to complexity and Back: Function, Architecture and Mechanism of Light Harvesting Systems in Photosynthetic Bacteria"
   
• June 16-18, 2002, Schloss Reisensburg, Germany, Search Conference "Development of Theoretical Methods for Complex Systems
  Lecture: "Nanometric Macromolecular Devices in Biological Cells"
   
• June 25-26, 2002, Bari, Italy, National Meeting on the Physics of Matter (INF Meeting)
  Lecture: "Thermal Disorder in Bioelectronic Systems"
   
• August 17-21, 2002, San Diego, CA, Protein Society Meeting
  Lecture: The Mechanical Functions of Protein"
   
• August 20-24, 2002, Seattle, WA, 10th International Conference on Retinal Proteins
  Lecture: "Spectral Tuning and Photodynamics in Visual Receptors"
   
• September 7-12, 2002, San Feliu du Guixois, Spain, EURESCO Conference on "Computational Biophysics: Integrating Theoretical Physics and Biology
  Lecture: "Physics of Photosynthetic Units in Purple Bacteria"
   
• September 27-29, 2002, Boston, MA, APS Workshop, Opportunities in Biology for Physicists
  Lecture: "Membrane Proteins in Action"
   
• September 30-October 2, 2002, US/UK Meeting High Performance Computing
  Lecture: "Large Scale Simulation of Membrane Protein Function"
   
• October 9, 2002, Bad Honneff, Germany, Biophysics School
  Lecture: "Immunoglobulins and Fibronectins - Essential Proteins for the Mechanics of Cells"
  Lecture: "Light Harvesting and Primary Energy Conversion in Photosynthesis"
   
• November 26, 2002, Berkeley, CA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Life Sciences Division
  Lecture: "Membrane Proteins in Action as Seen by in situ Molecular Dynamics Simulations"

• April 25-28, 2002, San Francisco, CA, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
   
• November 2002, Baltimore, MD, Supercomputing ’02 Conference

Robert Skeel

• March 17-21, 2002, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. From Ja Jolla, CA (on sabatical) to check status on research.
   
• May 2002, Lyon, France, Dynamics of Proteins on a Continuous Energy Landscape
   
• June 2002, Geneva, Switzerland, Conference on Scientific Computation
   
• October 2002, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,  Applied Math Seminar
   
• November, 2002, Pasadena, CA, Molecular Modeling and Computation: Perspectives and Challenges

Gila Budescu

• August 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, ISMB 200 Conference
   
• September 16, 2002. Ballston, VA, Data and Collaboratories in the Biomedical Community
  Lecture: "BioCoRE: A Collaboratory for Structural Biology"
  Lecture: "Collaboratory Evaluation: Beyond BioCoRE"

Other TCB members (includes meetings attended and poster sessions)

• April 2002, San Francisco, CA, Biophysical Society Meeting (E. Tajkhorshid, R. Braun, B. Isralewitz, J. Gullingsrud, M. Sener, M. Gao, F. Zhu, S. Hayashi, S. Park, I. Balabin)
   
• May 2002, Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Scaling to New Heights Workshop (J. Phillips)
  Lecture: "NAMD: Biomolecular Simulations on Thousands of Processors"
   
• May 2002, Urbana, IL, NCSA 2002 Alliance All Hands Meeting (J. Phillips, K. Vandivort, R. Brunner, T. Skirvin)
   
• May 2002, Rochester, MN, Mayo Foundation, Visit with Collaborator Julio Fernandez (M. Gao)

• May 2002, Berlin, Germany CCGrid2002 Conference (Sameer Kumar)
   
• July 2002, Colby-Sawyet College, New London, NH, Gorden Research Conference on Computational Chemistry (Emad Tajkhorshid)
  Lecture: "Computational Chemistry for Membrane Channels"
   
• July 2002, San Antonio, TX, SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference (John Stone and Michael Bach)
   
• August 2002, Seattle, WA,10th International Conference on Retinal Proteins (Emad Tajkhorshid)
  Poster: "Molecular dynamics simulation of early events in the activation of rhodopsin"
  Poster: "Structural changes during the formation of early intermediates in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle"
  Poster: "Spectral tuning and photoisomerization dynamics of retinal in rhodopsin studied by ab initio quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical calculations"
   
• August 2002, Aichi, Japan, 11th Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry (Shigehiko Hayashi)
   
• August 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, ISMB 200 Conference (Kirby Vandivort)
   
• September 2002, Chicago, IL, Edward Tifte Graphic Press LLC Course (Chalermpol Kanchanawarin)
   
• September 2002, Pasadena, CA, Scientific Python Conference, UCSD/Scripps Research Institute (Justin Gullingsrud)
   
• October 2002, Antalya, Turkey, European Science Foundation, Femtochemistry and Femtobiology Conference (Melih Sener)
   
• October 2002, UIUC, Urbana, IL, Cell & Molecular Biology Molecular Biophysics Research Symposium (Emad Tajkhorshid and Chalermpol  Kanchanawarin)
   
• October 2002, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Second Annual Computational Chemistry Conference (Emad Tajkhorshid)
   
• November 2002, Philadelphia, PA, LISA ’02 – 16th Systems Administration Conference and Exhibition (Tim Skirvin)
   
• November 2002, Baltimore, MD, Supercomputing ’02 Conference (Jim Phillips and Sameer Kumar)
   
• November 2002, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, Molecular Modeling and Computation Workshop at Cal Tech (David Hardy and Wei Wang)
  Lecture: "Modeling and Simulation for Materials"
   
• November 2002, Tokyo, Japan, Gen ProE 2003 (Shigehiko Hayashi)