PHYSWednesday, August 22, 2007

1:20 PM-5:00 PM BCEC -- 158, Oral
Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics: Can One Avoid the Other?
Free Energies and Sampling
Organizers:Jiali Gao
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Presiding:Yingkai Zhang
1:20 PMTechniques for free energies estimation using ab initio QM/MM methods
Bernard R. Brooks, H. Lee Woodcock III, Wenjun Zheng
2:00 PMFree energies of chemical reactions in enzyme and in solution
Hao Hu, Weitao Yang
2:40 PMSampling enhanced quantum mechanical potential based free energy simulations
Hongzhi Li, Wei Yang
3:00 PMIntermission
3:20 PMUsing statistical mechanics with quantum mechanics for enzymes and nanoparticles
Donald G. Truhlar, Divesh Bhatt, Agnieszka Dybala-Defratyka, Jiali Gao, Mireia Garcia-Viloca, Zhen Hua Li, Piotr Paneth, Jingzhi Pu, J. Ilja Siepmann
4:00 PMConsistent and effective sampling in ab initio QM/MM simulations
Arieh Warshel
4:40 PMAb initio molecular dynamics study of nucleophilic attack of hydroxide on CO2 and manganese porphyrin hydration
Kevin Leung, Ida M. B. Nielsen, Ira Kurtz, Craig J Medforth

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