Theoretical Photochemistry (WS 2017/18)

News

All regular lectures take place on Wednesdays from 10:15AM to 11:45AM (Lecture room OSZ H6).
Lecture starts on Wednesday, October 18th.

Exercises take place on Tuesdays from 16:00 to 17:00 in N140-207.

On 9 January 2018, the exercise session addresses the research paper by Gustavsson et al., J. Chem. Phys. 131, 031101 (2009) (see Lecture 8).

Take a look: group theory treatment of porphyrin

The written exam takes place on 13 February 2018 from 10:00 to 12:00 in room N140-207.
Here are the results of the written exam.

Lecture notes WS 2017/18 as PDF files:

(last update: 17.10.2017)	Introduction: Photophysical processes & wavepackets
(last update: 31.10.2017)	Born-Oppenheimer Approximation & beyond
(last update: 31.10.2017)	Diabatic representation
(last update: 31.10.2017)	Non-crossing rule; conical intersections
(last update: 14.11.2017)	Examples: Ethylene, Photoactive Yellow Protein
(last update: 14.11.2017)	Computational aspects: Electronic structure and dynamics
(last update: 28.11.2017)	Interaction with light: Absorption, emission, Raman spectroscopy
(last update: 05.12.2017)	Interaction with light: Nonlinear optical spectroscopies
(last update: 12.12.2017)	Background: Gaussian wavepackets, quantum dynamics, trajectories
(last update: 09.01.2018)	Excitation energy transfer (FRET)
(last update: 23.01.2018)	Fermi's Golden Rule
(last update: 23.01.2018)	Allowed and forbidden transitions - symmetry considerations
(last update: 05.02.2018)	Spin-orbit coupling

Exercises:

(last update: 17.10.2017)	Exercise 1
(last update: 31.10.2017)	Exercise 2 + solution
(last update: 06.11.2017)	Exercise 3 + solution
(last update: 10.11.2017)	Exercise 4
(last update: 26.11.2017)	Exercise 5
(last update: 04.12.2017)	Exercise 6 + solution
(last update: 11.12.2017)	Exercise 7
(last update: 18.12.2017)	Exercise 8 + solution
(last update: 07.01.2018)	Exercise 9: research paper (see above)
(last update: 16.01.2018)	Exercise 10 + solution
(last update: 22.01.2018)	Exercise 11
(last update: 30.01.2018)	Exercise 12 + solution
(last update: 05.02.2018)	Exercise 13