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Fri 4/23 7:30PM	SUNYSB VIRTUAL GEOLOGY LECTURE Brian Phillips  "Useful impurities in minerals and how to find them with a big magnet and a radio" Carbonate minerals such as calcite are ubiquitous in nature, being the main component of limestone and similar rocks that are exposed over about 20% of Earth’s land surface.Precipitation of carbonate minerals locks up CO2while creating a record of environmental conditions.As crystals grow they take up impurities which can hold clues to the conditions at the time and place the mineral formed.I will describe the types of impurities and processes that govern their uptake in a mineral, along with our efforts to understand them  using  nuclear  magnetic  resonance  (NMR)  spectroscopy.This  technique  is  similar  to  MRI  but measures the pitch of atomic nuclei as they hum in a strong magnetic field, which can reveal the impurity’s signature and location. REGISTER
Fri 4/30 7:30PM	SUNYSB VIRTUAL PHYSICS LECTURE  Benjamin G. Levine  “Better Living Through Quantum Mechanics and Computers (…and Chemistry)”  Chemistry has enabled many important technological developments. Environmentally friendly energy conversion devices, life-saving medicines, robust and inexpensive plastics, and a nearly endless list of other technologies are made possible by the knowledge of chemistry. Chemistry is fascinating, too! Today, computers have become powerful tools for understanding and predicting chemical behavior. Through the solution of the Schrodinger equation, the fundamental equation of quantum mechanics, computers can provide a detailed picture of chemical behavior that is literally impossible to gain through laboratory experiments. However, computational chemists constantly run up against the “curse of dimensionality,” the fact that predicting the behavior of a chemical system becomes exponentially more difficult as its size increases. This forces computational chemists to make approximations, which succeed in some instances and fail in others. Successes yield useful physical insights, while failures provide valuable feedback on how to improve our approximations. In this talk, I will discuss the origin of the curse of dimensionality; why is it impossible to exactly predict the behavior of even relatively small molecules? Then, through a series of examples from recent research in biochemistry, solar energy conversion, and other fields, I will discuss the current state of the art; what kinds of problems can computational chemists reliably solve today, and what can we reasonably hope to be able to do in the future?  REGISTER
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5/24/19	Murray Gell-Mann dies at age 89 (1969 Nobel Prize in physics)
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