Spring 2006

Date
Time
Room

Speaker Seminar Title
Tue., Jan. 3, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith 		Andrew J. Phillips
University of Colorado

Faculty Candidate Seminar: Chemical Synthesis of Cytotoxic Natural Products: The Interplay of New Reactions and Strategies

Host: Thomas Hoye

Thurs., Jan. 5, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith 		Tom G. Driver
California Institute of Technology

Faculty Candidate Seminar: Methodology and Mechanism: (i) Silacyclopropane Formation (ii) Selectivity Trends in C-H Bond Activation
Host: Wayne Gladfelter

Mon., Jan. 9, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith 		Tristan H. Lambert
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Faculty Candidate Seminar: Investigations of New Claisen Rearrangements and Total Synthesis of the Telomerase Inhibitor UCS1025A

Host: Thomas Hoye

Wed., Jan. 11, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith 		Dustin Maly
University of California, San Francisco

Faculty Candidate Seminar: Mechanism-Based Chemical Tools for Studying Protease and Kinase Function

Host: George Barany

Thurs., Jan. 12, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith 		Jason S. Kingsbury
Harvard University

Faculty Candidate Seminar: Design and Serendipity in Organic Synthesis. New Catalysts and Methods for Stereo- and Enantioselective C-C Bond Formation
Host: Craig Forsyth
Mon., Jan. 16, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith 		Suzanne A. Blum
Harvard Medical School

Faculty Candidate Seminar: Heterocycle-Opening Reactions Mediated by Zirconium Imido Complexes

Host: Kris McNeill

Fri., Jan. 27, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith Hall		 Erik J. Sorensen
Princeton University		 Student Seminar Series: Reactivity and Applications of a New Diene for Organic Synthesis

Thurs., Feb. 9, 2006
9:45 am
331 Smith

Liang Li
Univ. of Alberta

 Departmental Seminar: Enabling Mass Spectrometric Techniques for Proteomics Applications

Host: Michael Bowser

Fri., Feb. 10, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith

David J. Hart
The Ohio State University

Abbott Workshop Lecture in Synthetic Organic and Medicinal Chemistry: A Radical Approach to the Quassinoids Family of Terpenoids

Fri., Feb. 17, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith

 
Mikhail V. Barybin
University of Kansas
Special Seminar: Toward Organometallic Architectures Involving Hitherto Elusive 2,6-Azulenic Linkers: Circumventing Conventional Rules of the Game

Host: John Ellis

Thurs., Feb. 23, 2006
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall

Christopher B. Murray
IBM

Departmental Seminar: The preparation and properties of multi-component nanocrystal superlattices

Host: Wayne Gladfelter

Thurs., Mar. 2, 2006
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall		 Julie A. Kovacs
Univ. of Washington		 Departmental Seminar: Understanding How the Cysteinate Contributes to the Function of the Non Heme Iron Enzyme Superoxide Reductase

Host: Larry Que

Mon., Mar. 6, 2006
4:15 pm
100 Smith Hall

Wed., Mar. 8, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith Hall

Henry S. White
University of Utah

Kolthoff Lecture Series
Lecture 1: Electrochemistry using Glass Nanopore Electrodes

Lecture 2: Visualization of Iontophoretic Transport in Skin using Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy

Host: Phil Buhlmann

Wed., Mar. 22, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith Hall

Amy R. Howell
Univ. of Connecticut

Special Seminar: Unusual Oxetanes in Organic Synthesis

Thurs., Mar. 23, 2006
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall

Wesley I. Sundquist
University of Utah

 Departmental Seminar

Host: Karin Musier-Forsyth

Fri., Mar. 24, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith Hall

 Judith P. Klinman
Univ. of California, Berkeley		 Student Seminar Series: TBA
Wed., Apr. 5, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith Hall 		D. Tyler McQuade
Cornell Univ.		 Special Seminar: Materials and Small Molecules: Toward More Efficient Synthesis

Host: Kristopher McNeill
Thurs., Apr. 6, 2006
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall		 F. Fleming Crim
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison		 Moscowitz Lecture: Controlling Reactions and Watching Energy Flow in Gases and Liquids

Host: David Blank
Fri., Apr. 7, 2006
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall		 Tobin Marks
Northwestern University

Student Seminar Series

Thurs., Apr. 13, 2006
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall		 P. Shiv Halasyamani
Univ. of Houston		 Departmental Seminar: Acentric Properties on Hexagonal Tungsten Bronzes

Host: Andreas Stein
Wed., Apr. 19, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith Hall		 R. Mark Wightman
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 		Special Seminar: Watching Neurotransmitters in Action with Voltammetry

Host: Christy Haynes and Michael Bowser
Thurs., Apr. 20, 2006
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall		 Dirk Trauner
Univ. of California, Berkeley		 Departmental Seminar: A 12 Step Program for Total Syntheses

Host: Craig Forsyth
Fri., Apr. 21, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith Hall		 Axel D. Becke
Queen's University

Student Seminar Series: Electron Correlation: the Hole Story

Host: Erin Dahlke
Mon., Apr. 24, 2006
4:15 pm
331 Smith Hall		 Eckard Münck
Carnegie Mellon University 		Special Seminar : Mössbauer and Computational Studies of Iron Diketiminate Complexes: Surprises and their Resolution

Host: Larry Que
Thurs., Apr. 27, 2006
9:45 am
331 Smith Hall		 Mark A. Johnson
Yale University		 Departmental Seminar: Water at Work: Molecular Aspects of Electron Hydration through Cluster Spectroscopy

Host: Doreen Leopold