Spring Semester 2004
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Date and Location Speaker Seminar Title
Friday
Jan. 23 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
David C. Muddiman
Mayo Clinic
Departmental Seminar
LC-ESI-FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry: The Ultimate in Peak Capacity and
Adaptability for Measuring Biological Molecules

Host: Edgar Arriaga
Friday
Jan. 30 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Jay W. Ponder
Washington University School of Medicine
Departmental Seminar
Development of a Next-Generation Force Field for Biomolecular Simulation

Host: Darrin York

Monday
Feb. 2 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Mary Cloninger
Montana State University
Special Seminar
Using dendrimers to study protein-carbohydrate interactions

Host: Thomas Hoye
Friday
Feb. 6 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Daniel G. Nocera
MIT
Departmental Seminar
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: A Unifying Mechanism in Biological and Chemical Energy Conversion

Host: Wayne Gladfelter
Wednesday
Feb. 11
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Don Evenson
South Dakota State University
Analytical Seminar
Biochemical Analyses by Flow Cytometry

Host: Edgar Arriaga
Friday
Feb. 13 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
David A. Case
Scripps Research Institute
Departmental Seminar
Use of implicit solvent models in computer simulations of proteins and nucleic acids

Host:
Donald Truhlar
Friday
Feb. 20 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Jeffrey Moore
University of Illinois
Etter Lecture
Self-Healing Polymers

Host: Andrew Taton
Wednesday
Feb. 25 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Ken Rohly
Bethel College
Analytical Seminar
Metallic Surfaces at the Biological Interface


Host: Marian Stankovich
Friday
Feb. 27
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Elizabeth Ambrose Amin
University of Minnesota
Departmental Seminar
Computational Studies of MMP-3 and Human Serum Transferrin: Metalloprotein Modeling and Inhibitor Design


Host:
Christopher Cramer
Wednesday
Mar. 3 
2-650 Moos Tower
4:00 pm
Stan Veprek
Technical University of Munich
Donaldson Lecture
Superhard Nanocomposites: Design Concept, Properties and Large-scale Industrial Applications


Reception to follow in the Campus Club, Coffman Union
Friday
Mar. 5 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
John C. Wright
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Departmental Seminar
Chemistry in the Terawatt Regime

Host:
Tim Lodge
Friday
Mar. 12 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Charles M. Deber
University of Toronto
Departmental Seminar
Decoding the message for folding and assembly of proteins in membranes

Hosts: George Barany and Gianluigi Veglia
Tuesday
Mar. 23

100 Smith

4:15 pm

Thursday
Mar. 25
Note date change from orig. schedule
331 Smith

4:15 pm
E.W. (Bert) Meijer
Eindhoven Univ. of Tech., 
The Netherlands
Gassman Lectureship
Hierarchical Growth of Supramolecular Architectures; Chirality as a Muse
Reception to follow in Smith 117/119


A Modular Approach to Functional Supramolecular Materials



Host: Marc Hillmyer
Friday
Apr. 2 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
James Leighton
Columbia University
Departmental Seminar
Strained Silacycles: A Powerful Platform for Asymmetric and Tandem Reaction Design

Host: Craig Forsyth
Apr. 5-7
Charles Lieber
Harvard University
Kolthoff Lectureship
TBA

Host: Xiaoyang Zhu

Tuesday
Apr. 6 
B75 Amundson Hall
1:25 pm
Cancelled

Alexandra Navrotsky
University of California, Davis

Special Seminar cosponsored by CEMS
Nanoparticles in the Environment and Technology: the Interplay between Polymorphism and Surface Energy


Host:
Lee Penn

Monday
Apr. 12 
331 Smith
3:30 pm
Igor Alabugin
Florida State University
Special Seminar
Adding a little spin to cycloaromatization reactions

Host:
Chris Cramer
Friday
Apr. 16 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Viresh Rawal
University of Chicago
Departmental Seminar
Asymmetric Catalysis of Cycloaddition Reaction
s

Host: Thomas Hoye
Monday
Apr. 19 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Jack E. Houston
Sandia National Laboratory
Special Seminar
Interfacial Force Microscopy: Applications to Adhesion, Friction and Nanomechanical Properties

Host:
Xiaoyang Zhu
Friday
Apr. 23 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Penn State University
Departmental Seminar
Hydrogen Tunneling and Protein Motion in Enzyme Reactions

Host:
Jiali Gao
Monday
Apr. 26 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Jason Halfen
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
RSEC Seminar
Synthetic modeling of the active site chemistry of superoxide reductase

Host:
Jeffrey Roberts
Thursday
Apr. 29 
2-650 Moos Tower
3:00 pm
George Whitesides
Harvard University
Donaldson Lecture
Nanoscience and nanotechnology: Why is the area now attracting so much attention and what is it about?

Friday
Apr. 30 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Eric Kool
Stanford University
Student Seminar Series
Synthetic Replacements for the Bases in DNA

Host: Aimee Erickson (Taton Group)
Monday
May 3 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Jennifer Maynard
Stanford University
Special Seminar
Expression and engineering for development of therapeutic
proteins

Host: Lee Penn
Thursday
May 6 
331 Smith
4:15 pm
Daniel H. Rich
University of Wisconsin
Special Seminar
TBA

Host: George Barany
Friday
May 7
331 Smith
3:15 pm

Note time change
Jeffrey S. Johnson
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Special Seminar
Polarity Reversal Catalysis: New Applications for Organic Synthesis

Host: Richard Hsung
Friday
May 14
117/119 Smith
3:00 pm
Charles Lucy
Univ. of Alberta
Special Seminar
Appropriate Technology in Analytical Separations

Host: Michael Bowser
Friday
May 21
331 Smith
4:15 pm
A. G. M. Barrett, FRS
Imperial College
Abbott Workshop Series in Synthetic Organic and Medicinal Chemistry
Recent Advances in the Total Synthesis of Antibiotic Natural Products

Host: Thomas Hoye

Last Updated 1/21/04, K. McNeill