Seminars

2024

HYIL-79: On Dec. 15th, Prof. Jing Ma (Nanjing University) gave a CAT lecture for undergraduates titled “Electronic structure and catalytic property prediction of material molecules.”

HYIL-78: On Nov. 22nd, Prof. Tse-Wen Chang (Immunwork Company) gave an invited seminar titled “Experience on inventing anti-IgE and T-E type new drug series.”

HYIL-77: On Nov. 22nd, Prof. Carmay Lim (Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica) gave an invited seminar titled “Principles Governing Biological Processes.”

HYIL-76: On Nov. 13th, Prof. Xiao Zheng (Fudan University) gave an invited seminar titled “Accurate theoretical modeling of surface molecular quantum state regulation.”

HYIL-75: On Oct. 14th, Prof. Xiao-Guang Bao (Soochow University) gave an invited seminar titled “Theoretical and experimental study on the selective conversion of carbene/nitrene precursor.”

HYIL-74: On Oct. 14th, Prof. Kuang-Biao Liao (Guangzhou Laboratory) gave an invited seminar titled “AI Chemistry: From automatic synthesis to intelligent synthesis.”

HYIL-73: On Oct. 11th, Prof. Chao Zheng (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS) gave an invited seminar titled “Mechanistic insights driven controllable synthesis of polycyclic indole derivatives—from ground state to excited state.”

HYIL-72: On Sep. 24th, Dr. Jun Zhang (Shenzhen Bay Laboratory) gave an invited seminar titled “Structure prediction of chemical clusters: principles and applications.”

HYIL-71: On July 29th, Prof. Wen-Guang Wang (Beijing Normal University ) gave an invited seminar titled “New half-sandwich iron complexes—molecule activation and catalytic reactions.”

HYIL-70: On July 29th, Prof. Da-Tong Song (University of Toronto, Canada) gave an invited seminar titled “Ligand Design toward Bifunctional Catalysts for Alkyne Functionalization”.

HYIL-69: On June 15th, Prof. Wen-Hua Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China) gave an invited seminar titled “Theoretical studies of single atom structural evolution in catalytic mechanisms”.

HYIL-68: On May 14th, Prof. Marten Ahlquist (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) gave an invited seminar titled “Simulating reactions at electrode/electrolyte interfaces”.

HYIL-67: On May 10th, Prof. Shuang-Lin Qu (Hunan University) gave an invited seminar titled “Applications of Computational Chemistry in Homogeneous Catalysis & Solid Waste Utilization from a Chemical Perspective”.

HYIL-66: May 10th Prof. Xing Chen (Tianjin University) gave an invited seminar titled “Theoretical study on the near-field response of surface plasmon coupled molecules”.

HYIL-65: Apr. 19th Prof. Dai-Qian Xie (Nanjing University) gave an invited seminar titled “Quantum dynamics of collision energy transfer between gas-phase small molecules and cold molecular chemistry”.

HYIL-64: Apr. 19th Prof. Wei-Hai Fang (Beijing Normal University) gave an invited seminar titled “Progresses in quantum computational chemistry”.

HYIL-63: Jan. 3nd Dr. Shao-Qi Zhan (Uppsala University, Sweden) gave an invited seminar titled “Modeling of molecular catalysts, surface reactions, and supermolecular dynamics”.

2023

HYIL-62: Oct. 29th Prof. Xiao He (East China Normal University ) gave an invited seminar titled “Recent advances in quantum fragmentation approach to large molecules and condensed-phase systems”.

HYIL-61: Oct. 24th Prof. Evert Jan Meijer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) gave an invited seminar titled “Role of solvent and ions in chemical conversions”.

HYIL-60: Oct. 19th Prof. Fahmi Himo (Stockholm University, Sweden) gave an invited seminar titled “The quantum chemical cluster approach in biocatalysis”.

HYIL-59: Oct. 14th Prof. Han-Yu Gao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) gave an invited seminar titled “Machine learning for chemical synthesis planning and development”.

HYIL-58: Oct. 13th Prof. Pedro Fernandes (University of Porto, Portugal) gave an invited seminar titled “Structure requsites for enzyme catalysis: beyond the active site pre-organization model”.

HYIL-57: Oct. 13th Prof. Feliu Maseras (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Spain) gave an invited seminar titled “A DFT approach to multimetallic cooperative catalysis”.

HYIL-56: Oct. 13th Prof. Hai-Chao Xu (Xiamen University) gave an invited seminar titled “Organic electrosynthesis”.

HYIL-55: Aug. 3rd Prof. Bin-Ju Wang (Xiamen University) gave an invited seminar titled “Multiscale simulations on catalysis of metalloenzymes: oxygen activation and spin-regulated electron transfer”.

HYIL-54: Aug. 3rd Prof. Rui Cao (Shaanxi Normal University) gave an invited seminar titled “Metal porphyrin catalyzed water oxidation reactions”.

HYIL-53: Aug. 2nd Prof. Jun Gao (Huazhong Agricultural University) gave an invited seminar titled “Multiscale modeling of energy transfer and quinone/quinol exchange in photosynthetic systems”.

HYIL-52: Aug. 2nd Prof. Chao-Yuan Zhu (National Yang Ming Chiao-Tung University) gave an invited seminar titled “Global switching algorithm for trajectory surface hopping molecular dynamics simulation within time dependent density functional theory”.

HYIL-51: May. 19th Prof. Rajeev Prabhakar (University of Miami, USA) gave an invited seminar titled “Roles of Distinct Chemical Factors in Hydrolysis Catalyzed by Metalloenzymes and their Synthetic Analogues”. 

HYIL-50: May. 12th Prof. Yan Zhang (Tianjin University) gave an invited seminar titled “Z base DNA synthetase and new enzymes for purine degradation”. 

HYIL-49: Apr. 24th Prof. Shu-Xian Hu (University of Science and Technology Beijing) gave an invited seminar titled “Theoretical Study on Chemical Bonding of Plutonium”. 

HYIL-48: Apr. 24th Prof. Qi Zhang (Fudan University) gave an invited seminar titled “Function and catalytic mechanism of SAM radical enzymes”. 

HYIL-47: Mar. 25th Prof. Xiao-Jun Wu (University of Science and Technology of China) gave an invited seminar titled “Simulations and Designs of Materials”in the undergraduate course “Discussions of Chemistry Frontiers”.

HYIL-46: Feb. 22nd Prof. Xiao-Tian Qi (Wuhan University) gave an invited seminar titled “Theoretical studies on mechanisms of organic reactions”. 

HYIL-45: Feb. 22nd Prof.  Zhi-Han Zhang (Central China Normal University) gave an invited seminar titled “Mechanistic investigation of open-shell systems: from radical reactions to sustainable metal catalysis”. 

HYIL-44: Jan. 12th Prof. Bin-Ju Wang (Xiamen University) gave an invited seminar titled “Theoretical studies on catalytic mechanisms of metalloenzymes”. 

2022

HYIL-43: Dec. 29th Prof. Zhuo-Feng Ke (Sun Yat-sen University) gave an invited seminar titled “Precise design in sustainable catalysis: inspiration from theoretical calculations and electronic structures”.

HYIL-42: Dec. 17th Prof. Ying Zhang (Fudan University) gave an invited seminar titled “Methods and applications of density functional theory”in the undergraduate course “Discussions of Chemistry Frontiers”.

HYIL-41: Nov. 26th Prof. Gang-Long Cui (Beijing Normal University) gave an invited lecture titled “Theory and computational modeling of photochemistry” in the undergraduate course “Discussions of Chemistry Frontiers”.

HYIL-40: Sep. 20th Prof. Hai Lin (University of Colorado Denver, USA) gave an invited seminar titled “Adaptive Multiscale Simulations for Diffusive Systems”.

HYIL-39: Jul. 6th Ass. Prof. Li-Zhe Zhu (Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)) gave an invited seminar titled “Path method in biomolecular simulations”.

HYIL-38: Jun. 28th Prof. Jun Cheng (Xiamen University) gave an invited seminar titled “Theoretical and Computational Electrochemistry”.

HYIL-37: Jun. 28th Prof. Chao Zhang (Uppsala University, Sweden) gave an invited seminar titled “Finite-field DFTMD Modelling of the Protonic Double Layer and Beyond”.

HYIL-36: Jan. 5th Dr. You Lu (Senior Computational Scientist, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, UK) gave an invited seminar titled “Showcasing Py-ChemShell v21—Introducing the Brand New Biomolecular Simulation Workflow”.

2021

HYIL-35: Dec. 19th Prof. Dong Gu (Wuhan University) gave an invited seminar titled “New mesoporous materials: synthesis, catalysis, and energy applications”.

HYIL-34: Oct. 25th Prof. Fahmi Himo (Stockholm University, Sweden) gave an invited seminar titled “Mechanisms of Metal-Dependent Decarboxylases from Quantum Chemical Calculations”.

HYIL-33: Oct. 10th Prof. Rui Cao (Shanxi Normal University) gave an invited seminar titled “Mechanism of molecular electrocatalytic water oxidation”.

HYIL-32: Jul. 8th Prof. Wen-Guang Wang (Beijing Normal University) gave an invited seminar titled “Biomimetic metal-ligand cooperative catalysis: reaction and mechanism”.

HYIL-31: Jul. 8th Prof. Ming-Tian Zhang (Tsinghua University) gave an invited seminar titled “Water oxidation: catalysis and mechanism”.

HYIL-30: May 20th Prof. Genping Huang (Tianjin University) gave an invited seminar titled “Computational Homogeneous Catalysis: Mechanism, Reactivity and Selectivity“.

2020

HYIL-29: Oct. 13th Prof. Xue-Bo Chen (Beijing Normal University) gave an invited seminar titled “Electron and Energy Transfer Theory in Visible-Light Photocatalysis“.

2019

HYIL-28: Dec. 24th Prof. Ai-Tao Li (Hubei University) gave an invited seminar titled “P450 monooxygenase“.

HYIL-27: Dec. 9th Prof. Jun Zhu (Xiamen University) gave an invited seminar titled “Past and Future of Aromaticity”.

HYIL-26: Dec. 7th Prof. Ya-Jun Liu (Beijing Normal University) gave an invited seminar titled “Bioluminence”.

HYIL-25: Dec. 7th Prof. Hai-Yan Liu (University of Science and Technology of China) gave an invited seminar titled “Protein design”.

HYIL-24: Oct. 28th Prof. Vicente Moliner (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) gave an invited seminar titled “QM/MM Computational Studies of Enzymatic Catalysis: Towards the Design of New Biocatalysts”.

HYIL-23: Oct. 15th Prof. Mei Wang (Dalian University of Science and Technology) gave an invited seminar titled “Copper-catalyzed water oxidation and reduction”.

HYIL-22: Jul. 8th Prof. Raja Angamuthu (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India) gave an invited seminar titled “Sustainable Activation of SO2 Using Organic Hydride Donors through SO2 Coupled Electron Transfer”.

HYIL-21: Jun. 25th Prof. Yan Zhao (Wuhan University) gave an invited seminar titled “Developments and applications of quantum chemical methods”.

HYIL-20: Jun. 25th Prof. Ming Lei (Beijing University of Chemical Engineering) gave an invited seminar titled “Transition metal-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenations”.

HYIL-19: Jun. 19th Prof. Yong-Gui Zhou (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics) gave an invited seminar titled “biomimetic chiral reduction based on coenzyme NADPH”.

HYIL-18: May 10th Prof. Jun Jiang (University of Science and Technology of China) gave an invited seminar titled “Diopole moment in functional materials”.

2018

HYIL-17: Dec. 5th Prof. Kenneth M. Merz Jr. (Michigan State University, USA) gave an invited seminar titled “Role of Dynamics in Enzymatic Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution”.

HYIL-16: Jul. 10th Prof. Edina Rosta (King’s College London, UK) gave an invited seminar titled “Dynamics and Reaction Mechanism of Phosphate Catalytic Enzymes”.

HYIL-15: Jun. 20th Prof. Zhi-Xiang Yu (Peking University) gave an invited seminar titled “Proton Transfer Mechanisms and Developing Ring Formation Reactions”.

HYIL-14: Mar. 15th Prof. Mu-Hyun Baik (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KAIST, Korea)gave an invited seminar titled “Computer Assisted Design of New Catalytic Reactions: Catalytic Borylation of Methane and Other Reactions”.

2017

HYIL-13: Dec. 21st Prof. Ping-Hua Liu (Boston University, USA)gave an invited seminar titled “Synthetic biology: from small molecular discovery, production to the creating of conditional knockout animal models”.

HYIL-12: Nov. 23rd Prof. Walter Thiel (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany)gave an invited seminar titled “Quantum Chemistry: Status and Perspectives”.

HYIL-11: Nov. 21st Prof.Evert-Jan Meijer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)gave an invited seminar titled “Modeling Catalytic Reactions in an Aqueous Environment”.

HYIL-10: Oct. 31st Prof. Odile Eisenstein (University of Montpellier, France) gave an invited seminar titled “Have 13C NMR chemical shifts predictive power in catalysis?”.

HYIL-9: Oct. 16th Prof. Wei-Hai Fang (Beijing Normal University) gave an invited seminar about “Quantum trajectory mean-field theory”.

HYIL-8: Sep. 28th Prof. Carmay Lim (Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica) gave an invited seminar titled “Principles Governing Biological Processes: Applications to drug design and drug target identification”.

HYIL-7: May 26th Prof. Zhi-Xiang Wang  (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) gave an invited seminar titled “The Power of Computational Quantum Chemistry (CQC): Understanding and Prediction”.

2016

HYIL-6: Oct. 9th Prof. Per Siegbahn (Stockholm University, Sweden) gave an invited seminar titled “Methods and models for investigating mechanisms of redox-active enzymes”.

HYIL-5: Jul. 12th Dr. Likai Du (Huazhong Agricultural University) gave an invited seminar about dynamics of excited states.

HYIL-4: Jul. 12th Dr. Xiang Sheng (Stockholm University, Sweden) gave an invited seminar titled “Theoretical Study of Enzyme Promiscuity”. 

HYIL-3: Apr. 29th Prof. Qing-Gang Wang (Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology) gave an invited seminar about catalytic asymmetric Mannich reactions.

2015

HYIL-2: Oct. 23rd Dr. Xing-Rui Cao (Xiamen University) gave an invited seminar about nanocatalysis.

HYIL-1: Sep. 30th Prof. Jeremy Harvey (KU Leuven, Belgium) gave an invited seminar titled “Exploring Organic and Organometallic Chemistry with Computational Methods: Structure and Reactivity”.