时间：2022年5月23日（周一）下午4：00-5：30

Time：4:00-5:30 PM, Monday, May 23rd, 2022

地点：云栖校区5号楼学术报告厅

Venue：Auditorium, First Floor, Building 5, Yunqi Campus

主持人：西湖大学理学院教授王鸿飞

Host: Prof. Hongfei Wang, PI, School of Science, Westlake University

主讲人/Speaker：

刘国平 中国台湾中研院院士

Fellow Emeritus, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica

State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics; Aerosol Science Research Center, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China

Liu is a 1971 graduate of National Tsing Hua University. He moved to the United States to pursue a doctorate at Ohio State University. Liu began his research career at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After one year, he moved to Argonne National Laboratory, where he remained until 1993. Since his return to Taiwan, Liu has held several posts at Academia Sinica. In 1998, Liu was granted fellowship by the American Physical Society. Equivalent honors were bestowed by The World Academy of Sciences in 2005, and the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013. He became a member of the Academia Sinica in 2004 and the European Academy of Sciences in 2018. Liu has served as distinguished research chair professor within the department of physics at National Taiwan University since 2010. From 2010 to 2012, Liu was honorary chair professor at National Tsing Hua University. He is a 2011 recipient of the Humboldt Research Award.

报告题目/Title: A Physical Chemist’s View of Chemical Reactivity

讲座摘要/Abstract:

With recent developments of sophisticated experimental techniques and advanced theoretical methods/computations, the fields of gas-phase chemical reaction dynamics have reached to the point that theory‒experiment comparisons can be made at a quantitative level for a few prototypical three- or four-atom systems. However, as the system becomes larger, the complexity increases exponentially that renders the detailed investigations more difficulty, both experimentally and theoretically. At the same time, I believe and would advocate that the multifaceted nature of polyatomic reaction systems also opens up numerous possibilities for exploring new chemistry and novel phenomena―a land of opportunities for the chemical-dynamics studies to make significant contributions to the chemistry community at large. 

In this talk, I shall use two of our recent efforts as examples to elucidate my personal opinions about future developments of chemical dynamics. By keeping the technical detail to its minimum, I would like to convey the following key messages to you:  How do we, as physical chemists, view chemical reactivity in general? How do we address the most fundamental questions that could inspire or shape our thinking and lay the foundation for future explorations? And how do we design the appropriate and more direct methods to tackle the problems? 

联系人/Contact:

科技合作部Sci-tech02@westlake.edu.cn