Fall 2004 seminar schedule

Date
Time
Room

Speaker Seminar Title
Tuesday
9/7/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith
Xiaoyang Zhu
University of Minnesota
Kickoff Seminar: Understanding molecule-based electronics

Host: Marc Hillmyer
Wednesday
9/8/2004
3:35 pm
331 Smith
T. Keith Hollis
Univ. of California, Riverside
Special Seminar: Novel Ligand Architectures for Catalysis: Phosphametallocenes & More

Host: Richard Hsung
Tuesday
9/14/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith
Mark Schoenfisch
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Departmental Seminar: Nitric Oxide-Releasing Sol-Gel-Based Glucose Biosensors

Host: Phil Buhlmann
Thursday
9/16/2004
4:15 pm
331 Smith
Franz Geiger
Northwestern University
Special Seminar: Surface Processes Studied in Real Time Using Nonlinear Optical Laser Spectroscopy: From Geochemistry to Atmospheric Chemistry

Host: Kristopher McNeill
Friday
9/17/2004
4:15 pm
331 Smith
Scott Rychnovsky
Univ. of California, Irvine
Special Seminar: Prins cyclizations in Natural Product Synthesis

Host: Thomas Hoye
Tuesday 9/21/2004
4:15 pm
375 Sci. Classrm Bldg
Richard Mathies
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Kolthoff Lecture: Microfabricated Chemical and Biochemical Analyzers: Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Applications

Host: Michael Bowser
Thursday
9/23/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith
Richard Mathies
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Kolthoff Lecture: Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy: A New Tool for Chemical Reaction Dynamics

Host: Michael Bowser
Tuesday
9/28/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith

Richard Eisenberg
Rochester University

Schlumberger Lecture: Platinum Di- and Triimine Arylacetylide Complexes. Seeing and Using the Light
Monday
10/4/2004
TBD
331 Smith
Joseph Fox
University of Delaware
Special Seminar: TBD

Host: Richard Hsung
Tuesday
10/5/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith
Giancinto Scoles
Princeton University
Moscowitz Lecture: Atomic Force Microscopy: A Good Tool for the Manipulation of Biomolecules and for Molecular Electronics

Host: Ken Leopold
Wednesday
10/6/2004
4:15 pm
331 Smith
Darrin York
University of Minnesota
Special Seminar : The design of multi-scale quantum models to study mechanisms of RNA catalysis

Host: Wayne Gladfelter
Tuesday
10/12/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith
Edward Solomon
Stanford University
Crawford Lecture: Structure/Function Correlations Over Non-heme Iron Enzymes
Friday
10/15/2004
4:15 pm
331 Smith
Patricia Thiel
Iowa State University
WISE Seminar: Quasicrystals: Intellectual Beauty Meets Practical Application

Host: Sarah Schmidtke
Tuesday
10/19/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith
T. Don Tilley
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Etter Lecture: Participation of Ligand alpha-Substituents in Bond Activations and Catalytic Transformations Involving Carbon, Silicon and Tin

Host: Wayne Gladfelter
Wednesday
10/20/2004
2:30 pm
117/119 Smith
Sason Shaik
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Student Seminar Series: One Reagent, Many Pathways: Two-State and Multi-State Reactivity Patterns in Bond Activation Reactions by Metal-Oxo Reagents
Wednesday
10/20/2004
4:15 pm
Coffman Union Theater

Peter Agre
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2003)
Johns Hopkins University

Special Seminar on the Occasion of the Lillehei Heart Institute's 50th Anniversary of Open-Heart Surgery by Cross-Circulation
Thursday
10/21/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith
Sason Shaik
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Student Seminar Series: Is There Anything New in Chemical Bonding? New Bonding Paradigms from Valence Bond Theory
Tuesday
10/26/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith

Eric J. Beckman
Univ. of Pittsburgh

Donaldson Lecture (1 of 2): Design of a Wound Healing System: A Problem in Molecular Design

Host: Marc Hillmyer
Wednesday
10/27/2004
4:15 pm
100 Smith

Eric J. Beckman
Univ. of Pittsburgh

Donaldson Lecture (2 of 2): Water, Water Everywhere....?

Host: Marc Hillmyer
Tuesday
11/2/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith
John L. Wood
Yale University
Departmental Seminar: Bridged Polycyclic Natural Products: Inspirational Targets for Total Synthesis

Host: Craig Forsyth
Monday
11/8/2004
4:15 pm
TBD
Paul Alivisatos
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Kolthoff Lecture: Nanocrystals: From Scaling Laws to Applications

Host: T. Andrew Taton

Tuesday
11/9/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith

Paul Alivisatos
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Kolthoff Lecture: Structural and Chemical Transformations in Nanocrystals

Host: T. Andrew Taton
Tuesday
11/16/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith
Scott Nelson
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Departmental Seminar: Complex Molecule Synthesis using Catalytic Asymmetric Aldol Additions and Claisen Rearrangements

Host: Richard Hsung
Thursday
11/18/2004
TBA
331 Smith
Kazunori Koide
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Special Seminar : Organic synthesis as a tool to address biological questions

Host: Richard Hsung
Tuesday
11/30/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith
Joseph Jarrett
University of Pennsylvania
Departmental Seminar: The structure and a proposed mechanism for the AdoMet radical enzyme biotin synthase

Host: Lawrence Que
Tuesday
12/7/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith
Charles Winter
Wayne State University
Departmental Seminar: Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Oxide
and Nitride Nanoparticles and Their Application in Thin Film Growth for
Microelectronics

Host: John Ellis
Tuesday
12/14/2004
9:45 am
331 Smith
George Shields
Hamilton College
Departmental Seminar: Water Clusters in the Atmosphere: An Overview of Computational Chemistry Research at Hamilton College

Host: Thomas Hoye