Presentations

Matthew R. Siebert and William L. Hase: “Elucidating Enzyme Influence in Abietic Acid Biosynthesis: Direct Dynamics on the Bifurcating Potential Energy Surface of the Pimaradienyl Cation Rearrangement.” Poster presented at the Southwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, October 21-23, 2011.

Jing Xie, Matthew R. Siebert and William L. Hase: “Dynamics of the OH-(H2O)n + CH3I, n = 0-2, Reaction.” Poster presented by Jing Xie at the Southwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, October 21-23, 2011.

Matthew R. Siebert: “Post-Transition State Dynamics on a Bifurcating Potential Energy Surface.” Lecture presented at the NSF/PIRE Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Studeis of Molecular Structures, Potential Energy Surfaces, and Electronic Non-Adiabatic Dyanmics, Universitat Wien, Austria, July 26-27, 2011.

Niger Washington and Matthew R. Siebert: “Potential Energy Surfaces for the 2Π3/2 and 2Π1/2 States of the HBr+ + CO2 → Br + HOCO+ Reaction.” Lecture presented by Niger Washington at the NSF/PIRE Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Studeis of Molecular Structures, Potential Energy Surfaces, and Electronic Non-Adiabatic Dyanmics, Universitat Wien, Austria, July 26-27, 2011.

Matthew R. Siebert and William L. Hase: “Elucidating Enzyme Influence in Abietic Acid Biosynthesis Through Direct Dynamics on a Bifurcating Potential Energy Surface.” Poster presented at the 9th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC), Santiago de Compostela, GA, Spain, July 17-22, 2011.

Matthew R. Siebert: “Chemistry and the TTU HPCC: Introduction to Advanced Molecular Simulation.” Lecture presented to the Yong Chen Group, TTU Department of Computer Science, Lubbock, TX, March 21, 2011.

Henry B. Wedler, Sarah R. Cohen, Rebecca L. Davis, Christian S. Hamann, Jason G. Harrison, Jared T. Shaw, Matthew R. Siebert, and Dean J. Tantillo: “Are You Blind? Then Computational/Theoretical Chemistry is for You!” Poster presented by Henry Wedler at:

Danyal J. Floysand and Matthew R. Siebert: “Photochemistry of Adenine Tautomers.” Lecture presented by Danyal Floysand at the NSF/PIRE Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Studeis of Molecular Structures, Potential Energy Surfaces, and Electronic Non-Adiabatic Dyanmics, Universidad de Santiago de Composteal, Spain, July 20-21, 2010.

Matthew R. Siebert and William L. Hase: “Elucidating Enzyme Influence in the Biosynthesis of Abietic Acid Through Post Transition State Dynamics.” poster presented at 10th European Conference on Atoms, Molecules, and Photons (ECAMP 2010), Salamanca, Spain, July 4-9, 2010.

Matthew R. Siebert: “Biosynthesis of an Abietic Acid Analog: Post-Transition State Dynamics on a Bifurcating Potential Energy Surface.” lecture presented at the Molecular Simulation Symposium, Lubbock, TX, May 20-21, 2010.

Phillip P. Painter, Matthew R. Siebert, and Dean J. Tantillo: “Exploring a Tandem Conjugate Addition/aza-Cope Sequence for the Generation of Medium Ring Heterocycles.” poster presented by Phil Painter at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA, March 21-25, 2010.

Matthew R. Siebert and Dean J. Tantillo: “Quantum Chemical Investigation of Synthetically Useful Rh-Catalyzed Reactions.” Poster presented at the 41st National Organic Symposium, Boulder, CO, June 7-11, 2009.

Matthew R. Siebert: “Rh C-H Activation Chemistry for Synthesis of Small Molecules.” lecture presented at the Chemical Biology Innovation Group (CBIG) meeting, Davis, CA, April 16, 2009.

Matthew R. Siebert and Dean J. Tantillo: “Transition State Complexation in the Pd(II)-Catalyzed Cope Rearrangement.” lecture presented at the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Salt Lake City, UT, March 22-26, 2009.

Matthew R. Siebert and Dean J. Tantillo: “Transition State Complexation: A Case Study in the Pd(II)-Promoted Cope Rearrangement.” Poster presented at:
  • The Gordon Research Conference - Organometallics, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, July 6-11, 2008.
  • The Gordon Research Conference Graduate Student Seminar - Organometallics, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, July 5-6, 2008.

Matthew R. Siebert, Kay M. Brummond and Dean J. Tantillo: “Theoretical Perspectives on the Thermal (2+2)-Cycloaddition of Allene-ynes.” Departmental group exchange invited lecture presented to the Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague Group, Davis, CA, June 6, 2008.

Matthew R. Siebert and Dean J. Tantillo: “Theoretical and Experimental Studies on the Pd(II)-Promoted Cope Rearrangement.” Department of Chemistry Student Seminar Series, Davis, CA, May 2, 2008.

Matthew R. Siebert, Andrei K. Yudin and Dean J. Tantillo: “Theoretical Perspectives on Cycloaddition/Ring Opening Reaction Sequences of N-Alkenyl Aziridines.” Departmental group exchange invited lecture presented to the Mark J. Kurth Group, Davis, CA, November 5, 2007.

Matthew R. Siebert and Dean J. Tantillo: “Palladium(II)-Promoted Cope Rearrangement.” Poster presented at:
  • The 232nd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006.
  • The Bradford Borge Weekend, Davis, CA, March 2-3, 2007.
  • SYLICCO.07 - Symposium on Learning and Industry Targeting Computational Chemistry Opportunities, Davis, CA, July, 26, 2007.