Robert Bergman Lecture in Organic Chemistry

120 Latimer Hall

Michael R. Wasielewski, Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University Photogenerated Spin-Correlated Radical Pairs: From Photosynthetic Energy Transduction to Quantum Information Science Abstract: More than a half-century ago, the NMR spectra of diamagnetic products resulting from organic radical pair reactions were observed to have strongly enhanced absorptive and emissive resonances. At the same time,…

CANCELLED CANCELED Quantum-state-resolved chemistry and physics with ultracold molecules

120 Latimer Hall

Tanya Zelevinsky, Department of Physics, Columbia University The control of quantum states of matter is no longer limited to atoms. It is now accessible to an increasing range of molecules, leading into studies of chemical processes in the quantum-mechanical regime. In this talk, we will discuss experiments where laser-cooled atoms are bound into molecular dimers…