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This course discusses chemical reaction kinetics, with an emphasis on understanding the macroscopic reaction phenomena (reaction rates, activation energies, rate constants, etc.) from microscopic molecular dynamics. Topics of interest include reacting chemical mixtures, molecular collision theory, potential energy surfaces, transition state theory, uni- or bi-molecular reaction dynamics, etc. Catalytic mechanisms will be discussed in terms of heterogeneous reactions at solid-gas interface and homogeneous reactions in solution phase. Scenarios of applications will cover examples drawn from petroleum and chemical industries, pharmaceutics, renewable energy technologies (e.g., fuel cells), and biomedicine (enzymatic catalysis).