01/12/2006

Seminar talk at Physics Department, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Title: First-Principles Study of Weak Intermolecular Forces

03/27/2006-03/09/2006

2006 American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore, MD

(invited talk) Title: The Hydrophobic Effect ab initio

11/06/2006-11/08/2006

The 9th Asian Workshop of First-Principles Electronic Structure Calculations, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea

(invited talk) Title: Theory of Dispersion Forces and its Application to Molecular Assemblies on a Crystalline Surface

12/05/2006-12/09/2006

The 1st Winter School of JSPS ASIA CORE Program in Beijing - Frontiers of Materials, Photo, and Theoretical Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

(invited lecture) Theory of Dispersion Forces and its Application to Molecular Assemblies on a Crystalline Surface

01/15/2007

Seminar talk at the Department of Chemistry, National Tsinghua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan

02/18/2007-02/25/2007

Colloquium talk at Center for Materials Innovation and the Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Title: Molecular Driving Forces in Templated Self-Assembly

03/02/2007-03/11/2007

2007 American Physical Society March Meeting, Denver, CO

(contributed talk) Title: Phonon-Induced Anisotropy in Dispersion Forces on a Metallic Substrate

03/26/2007

Seminar talk at Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Title: Molecular Driving Forces in Templated Self-Assembly

05/08/2007-05/10/2007

11th East Asian Workshop on Chemical Dynamics, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan

(invited talk) Talk: Hydrophobic interaction in liquid water

05/16/2007

Theoretical Physics Seminar at the Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Title: Towards Graphene Origami

06/12/2007-06/15/2007

19th Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

(invited talk) Title: Ab Initio Investigation of Hydrophobic Interaction

07/27/2007-07/29/2007

The 1st International Symposium on Molecular Theory for Real Systems, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

(invited talk) Title: Ab Initio Investigation of Hydrophobic Interaction

08/09/2007-08/10/2007

Emerging Information Technology Conference (EITC) 2007
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Session Chair at Nanotechonogy

08/09/2007-08/10/2007

The 2007 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT

Title: Functionalized Single-Sheet Graphene by Oxidation and Thermal Expansion of Graphite: Exfoliation Mechanism and Characterization

11/09/2007

Colloquium talk at the Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Title: Molecular Driving Forces in Templated Self-Assembly

12/14/2007-12/17/2007

International Workshop on Molecular Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water, Shanghai, China

(invited talk) Title: First-Principles Study of Hydrophobic Effect