CMWS Seminar
The CMWS Seminar is a lunch talk series on water-related science and technology. The aim of the series is to intensify the scientific exchange within the framework of the Center for Molecular Water Science CMWS. Currently the seminars take place every second Thursday at 2 pm.
Summer Semester 2024 (Lectures are scheduled at 12:00)
27th of June, 2024
Annette Pietzsch (HZB, Berlin)
13th of June, 2024
Denis Morineau (Institute of Physics of Rennes)
16th of May, 2024
Irene Fernandez-Cuesta (Universität Hamburg)
02nd of May, 2024
Aleksandra Radenovic (EPFL)
18th of April, 2024
Jonas Sellberg (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
Title: Probing structural motifs in water that control crys-tallization using x-ray scattering
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04th of April, 2024
Nikita Kavokina (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz).
Title: Quantum nanofluidics: from Coulomb drag to hydroelectric power
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Winter Semester 2023
11th of January, 2024
Simone Pezzotti (PASTEUR, Dèpartement de Chimie, Ecole Normale Supèrieur, PSL, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France)
Title: Hydration free energy contributions to biological and electrochemical processes
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14th of December, 2023
Sascha Epp (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter)
Title: A challenge for molecular interaction: Rubber-like elasticity in laser driven small-molecular liquids
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30th of November, 2023
Hans-Jürgen Butt (MPI für Polymerforschung)
Title: Spontaneous charging of hydrophobic surfaces by sliding drops
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2nd of November, 2023
Ellen Adams (Physics of Life Excellence Cluster, TU Dresden Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf)
Title: Role of Protein Solvation in Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation
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19 of October, 2023
Mariana Rossi (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter).
Title: Simulating atomic and electronic properties of water with ab initio accuracy at larger scales
A full abstract can be found here
Summer Semester 2023
22nd June, 2023
Oskar Paris (Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria)
Title: On the role of water for ion electro-sorption in charged carbon nanopores
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8th of June, 2023 at 12 (CEST)
Heshmat Noei (DESY)
Title: Water in confinement and water at the interface
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25th of May, 2023
Francesca Toma (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Title: Design and characterization of integrated systems for solar fuel production
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11th of May, 2023
Michael Fröba (UHH)
Title: Confinement of water in nanoporous host materials
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27th of April, 2023 at 12 (CEST)
Ludger Inhester. (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Title: Tracing Radiation Damage in Water and Aqueous Solutions via X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Simulations
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Winter Semester 2022/2023
20th of October, 2022 at 12pm (CET)
Vasily Artemov. (EPFL)
Title: The electrodynamics of water and ice: from basic principles to applications
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3rd of November, 2022 at 5pm (CET)
Valeria Molinero. (Henry Eyring Center for Theoretical Chemistry, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA)
Title: Ice-binding proteins: from ice nucleation to antifreeze
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17th of November, 2022 at 12pm (CET)
Robert H. Meißner. (Hamburg University of Technology and Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany)
Title: Atomistic simulations of the electrochemical solid/liquid interface
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1st of December, 2022 at 4pm (CET)
Angelika Kühnle. (Physikalische Chemie I, Universität Bielefeld)
Title: Hydration Layer Formation at Graphite Surfaces: Attraction or Confinement?
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15th of December, 2022 at 5pm (CET)
Kenneth Libbrecht. (Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology Caltech, Pasadena, USA)
Title: The Physical Dynamics of Ice Crystal Growth
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12th of January, 2023 at 12pm (CET)
Speaker: Christoph Schran (Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK)
Title: Understanding complex aqueous systems with machine learning
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Summer Semester 2022
7th of April, 2022
Simone Wiegand. (Forschungszentrum Jülich / Universität zu Köln)
Title: Thermophoresis as sensor for solute-water interactions
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21st of April, 2022
Alexander Schlaich. (Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science, University of Stuttgart)
Title: From interfaces to confinement - water's peculiar behavior on the nanoscale
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5th of May, 2022
Simone Techert. (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Title: How hydrophilic are hydrophobic hydrogels from disordered proteins? - From phenomenological to (ultrafast) mechanistical studies
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19th of May, 2022
Bogdan Dereka. (University of Zürich)
Title: Mapping energy landscape of a hydrogen-mediated chemical bond with femtosecond 2D full Mid-IR spectroscopy
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23rd of June, 2022
Livia Bove. (University of Rome / Sorbonne University)
Title: New structures and exotic properties of ices and hydrates under planetary conditions
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7th of July, 2022
Ruth Signorell. (ETH Zürich)
Title: Water droplets: Electron scattering, hydrated electrons and mass transfer across the air-liquid interface
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Winter Semester 2021/2022
10th of February, 2022 at 5pm
Pablo G. Debenedetti. (Princeton University)
Title: The phase behavior of supercooled water: Recent computational results
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13th of January, 2022
Mathias Ernst. (Technische Universität Hamburg)
Title: Expanding removal potentials of porous polymer membranes for sustainable drinking water treatment?
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9th of December, 2021
Philip Ball. (Science Writer, London)
Title: What does water actually do in a cell?
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25th of November, 2021
Hannes Hoeppe. (University of Göttingen)
Title: X-ray Imaging of Cavitation Dynamics with Free-Electron Laser Pulses.
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11th of November, 2021
Richard J. Saykally. (University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Title: Probing Complex Interfaces.
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28th of October, 2021
Melanie Schnell. (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY and Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
Title: Every water molecule counts - structural insights on microsolvation using rotational spectroscopy.
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14th of October, 2021
Simone Techert. (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Title: How Hydrophilic are Hydrophobic Hydrogels from Disordered Proteins? – from Phenomenological to (Ultrafast) Mechanistical Studies.
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Summer Semester 2021
8th of July, 2021
Ellen Backus. (Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Wien and Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz)
Title: The surface of ice, liquid water, and acidic water.
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24th of June, 2021
Lydéric Bocquet. (Micromégas team, Laboratoire de Physique Ecole Normale Supérieure and CNRS, Paris)
Title: Scale oddity of water transport in nanochannels.
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10th of June, 2021
Patrick Huber. (Hamburg University of Technology and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Title: Water confined in nanopores: What do we know about it and what is it good for?
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27th of May, 2021
Felix Lehmkühler. (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Title: Probing nanoscale dynamics with MHz repetition rates –superheating water above 170 °C. For a full abstract please click here.
- A full compilation of the seminar series for the summer semester 2021 can be found here.