Pitt provides a stimulating environment for theoretical and computational chemistry studnets. Having such a large TCC "supergroup" provides many benefits including having a very active seminar/visitors' program.
The Theoretical & Computational Chemistry community at Pitt sponsors the Henry Frank Lecture series, which brings leading theoretical/computational chemists to Pittsburgh for three-five day stays to deliver lectures and to interact with students, postdocs, and faculty. Additional seminars in theoretical and computational chemistry are held in the Chemistry Department, in Chemical Engineering, the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, and the Biophysics Theory Club. In addition to the above seminar series, there is a Joint CMU-Pitt Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology seminar series and a joint CMU-Pitt Computational Biology seminar series.
Leading theoretical chemists and physicists who have spoken in these seminar series include
- Lorenz Cederbaum, University of Heidelberg (2017)
- Weitao Yang, Duke University (2017)
- Filipp Furche, University of California, Irvine (2017)
- David Beratan, Duke University (2017)
- Julia Rice, IBM (2017)
- Ryan Steele, University of Utah (2016)
- Joan-Emma Shea, University of California, Santa-Barbara (2016)
- Michele Pavenello, Rutgers (2016)
- Eric Heller, Harvard University (2016)
- Noa Marom, Carnegie Mellon University (2016)
- Shaul Mukamel, University of California, Irvine (2016)
- Claudia Filippi, University of Twente (2015)
- Leticia Gonzalez, University of Vienna (2015)
- Hannu Hakkinen, University of Jyvaskyla (2015)
- John Perdew, Temple University (2015)
- Joost VandeVondele, University of Zurich (2015)
- Birgitta Whaley, University of California, Berkeley (2015)
- Roi Baer, Weizman Institute of Science (2014)
- Garnet Chan, California Institute of Technology (2014)
- Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge (2013)
- Fred Manby, University of Bristol (2013)
- Anne McCoy, University of Washington (2013)
- Thomas Miller, California Institute of Technology (2013)
- Mark Ratner, Northwestern University (2013)
- Bill Gelbart, University of California, Los Angeles (2012)
- Giulia Galli, University of Chicago (2010)
- Kieron Burke, University of California, Irvine (2010)
- Gerhard Hummer, NIH (2010)
- José Onuchic, Rice University (2010)
- Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford (2008)
- Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne (2007)
- David Wales, Cambridge University (2007)