Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

The Ertl Lecture Award was established in 2008 by the three Berlin universities (Humboldt University, Technical University and Free University) and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and is awarded once a year. It commemorates former FHI Director Gerhard Ertl's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he received in 2007. The prize honours outstanding personalities and researchers in the field of catalysis where Ertl carried out exceptional research for many decades. The prize, sponsored by BASF, includes a one-week research stay at the participating Berlin institutions and a keynote lecture. The winner is typically announced in Spring, the lecture takes place around the December 10th, the anniversary of Ertl's Nobel Prize reception.

Learning Chemistry from a Computer: Recent Applications of Automatic Mechanism Generation for the Microkinetics of CO₂ Methanation on Nickel

• TH Department Online Seminar
• Date: Nov 24, 2022
• Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Prof. C. Franklin Goldsmith
• Chemical & Biochemical Engineering School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA | AvH Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Awardee at Theory Department
• Location: https://zoom.us/j/95559570295?pwd=c043TWxrM0hxckZQVy9SZHdqRmFTZz09
• Room: Meeting ID: 955 5957 0295 | Passcode: 472826
• Host: TH Department

Microkinetic mechanisms in heterogeneous catalysis can be incredibly complex, and the development of these mechanisms raises many problems. How do you determine which species and reactions to include? How do you obtain the corresponding parameters? [more]