<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Title</strong> </span>: Exploring Energy Landscapes : From Molecules to Nanodevices</h3>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Abstract :</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The potential energy landscape provides a conceptual and computational framework forinvestigating structure, dynamics and thermodynamics in atomic and molecular science. This talk will summarise new approaches for global optimisation, quantum dynamics, the thermodynamic properties of systems exhibiting broken ergodicity, and rare event dynamics. Applications will be presented that range from prediction and analysis of high-resolution spectra, to conformational changes of biomolecules and coarse-grained models of mesoscopic structures.</p>
<p><br />Selected Publications:<br />D.J. Wales, Curr. Op. Struct. Biol., 20, 3-10 (2010)<br />D.J. Wales, J. Chem. Phys., 130, 204111 (2009)<br />B. Strodel and D.J. Wales, Chem. Phys. Lett., 466, 105-115 (2008)<br />D.J. Wales and T.V. Bogdan, J. Phys. Chem. B, 110, 20765-20776 (2006)<br />D.J. Wales, Int. Rev. Phys. Chem., 25, 237-282 (2006)<br />D.J. Wales, "Energy Landscapes", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003</p>