PHYSSunday, August 19, 2007

1:20 PM-5:00 PM BCEC -- 158, Oral
Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics: Can One Avoid the Other?
Statistical Theories
Organizers:Jiali Gao
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Presiding:Maria A. Gomez
1:20 PMFrom quantum chemistry to model potentials: Coarse graining in polymer chemistry
Mark S. Gordon, Lyuda Slipchenko, Monica H. Lamm, Gaurav Pranami
2:00 PMEntropy-driven population distributions in a prototypical flexible molecule with two flexible side chains: O-(2-acetamidoethyl)-N-acetyltyramine
V. Alvin Shubert, Esteban Baquero, Daniel P. Schofield, Kenneth D. Jordan, Mark A. Lipton, Timothy S. Zwier
2:20 PMMultiscale theory of electronic structure in solution: Quantum mechanics coupled with 3-D molecular theory of solvation
Andriy Kovalenko
2:40 PMConstrained search density functional theory and the entropy of charge transfer
Susan R. Atlas, Steven M. Valone
3:00 PMIntermission
3:20 PMWhy not just evaluate the partition function?
Lawrence R. Pratt
4:00 PMModel for simulating nuclear and electronic state dynamics in liquids
David Chandler, David E. Manolopoulos, Thomas Miller
4:40 PMA statistical view of effective interactions in condensed matter
Gregory A. Voth

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007