Mini-Symposium in honor of Nobel laureate in chemistry Prof. Arieh Warshel

Kenneth Ruud and Bjorn-Olav Brandsdal are organizing a mini-symposium in connection with Nobel laureate in chemistry Prof. Arieh Warshel's promotion as Doctor Honoris Causa at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Prof. Arieh Warshel (Picture: Tomasz Wesolowski, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Arieh Warshel (77), is an Israeli-American chemist and biochemist. Together with Martin Karplus and Michael Levitt, Warshel was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems."

Prof. Warshel is one of the most prominent researchers in the field of computational methods for studies of chemical and biological systems. These are methods that are much used and further developed at the Hylleraas Centre, a Norwegian Centre of Excellence. Prof. Warshel has over the years been a strong supporter of the Hylleraas Center at UiT, and have visited UiT on multiple occasions, both as a lecturer and as an opponent at PhD defenses. He was also the 2015 Almlöf-Gropen lecturer. 

Prof. Warshel will visit us in connection with his promotion as Doctor Honoris Causa at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and Kenneth Ruud and Bjorn-Olav Brandsdal are organizing a mini-symposium in this occasion. We warmly welcome you to join the mini-symposium.

 

The mini-symposium program (25-09-2018)

Speaker Title Time Place

Arieh Warshel

Computer modelling of biomolecular systems

10:15-11:00

Tabletten Farmasibygget

Johan Åqvist

Entropy and Enzyme catalysis

11:15-12:00

Tabletten Farmasibygget

Avital Shurki

Insights from Valence Bond - A Step Towards Rational Design

13:15-14:00

F2.304 (Aud 2) Farmasibygget

Tomasz Wesolowski

Opening a Pandora's box with Professor Arieh Warshel: Frozen-Density Embedding Theory view on QM/MM methods

14:15-15:00

F2.304 (Aud 2) Farmasibygget

Edina Rosta

Dynamics and Reaction Mechanism of Phosphate Catalytic Enzymes

15:15-16:00

F2.304 (Aud 2) Farmasibygget

 

Published Aug. 21, 2018 11:44 AM - Last modified Sep. 19, 2018 8:42 PM