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Fall 2006 Seminar Schedule

Date
Time
Room
Speaker Seminar Title

September 7
9:45
331 Smith
Marc Hillmyer
University of Minnesota
Promotion Seminar

Tailor-made Nanoporous Plastics
Host: Jeff Roberts


September 16-21

9/18 4:15, 100 Smith
9/19 9:45, 331 Smith
9/20 9:45, 402 Walter Library

Peter Chen
ETH
Gassman Lecture Series

Sept. 18 : Organometallic Chemistry by Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry.  Application in the Mechanism of Olefin Metathesis and the Design of ROMP Catalysts
Sept. 19: Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Free Radicals:  Unexpected Nonstatistical Dissociations and Quasiperiodic Trajectories
Sept. 20: Energy-Resolved CID Cross-Sections for Organometallic Thermochemistry
Host:  Andrew Taton


September 26-29

9/26 4:15, 100 Smith
9/27 12:15, 331 Smith
9/28 9:45, 331 Smith

Royce Murray
University of North Carolina
Kolthoff Lecture Series

Sept. 26: Chemical and Electrochemical Properties of 1-4 nm Monolayer Protected Metal Clusters
Sept. 27:  Publishing Chemistry: Process, Ethics, and The Internet
Sept. 28:  The Analytical Chemistry of 1-4 nm Monolayer Protected Metal Clusters
Host:  Christy Haynes


October 5
9:45
331 Smith

Uzi Landman
Georgia Tech
Donaldson Lecture

Emergent Physics and Chemistry at the Nanoscale
Host: Ilja Siepmann

October 12
9:45
331 Smith
Andrew Taton
University of Minnesota
Promotion Seminar

Self-Assembly of Complementary Particle and Polymer Nanomotifs
Host: Jeff Roberts


October 19
9:45
331 Smith
Stephen Bradforth
University of Southern California

Reaction dynamics in liquid water: near-frictionless spinning of diatomic products and electronic deactivation of DNA bases
Host: David Blank


October 26
9:45
331 Smith
Steven Howdle
University of Nottingham

Putting the Fizz Into Chemistry:  Polymer Synthesis and Polymer Processing using Supercritical CO2
Host: Tim Lodge


November 2
9:45
331 Smith

Paul Chirik
Cornell University

Catalysis with Iron
Host: Bill Tolman


November 14
9:45
331 Smith

Dr. Jimmy Wu
Stanford
Faculty Candidate Seminar

I. Asymmetric Catalysis with Lanthanide-Pybox Complexes
II. Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Communesin B

Host: Tom Hoye


November 6-10

11/6 4:15, 100 Smith
11/7 9:45, 331 Smith

Jean Frechet
Berkeley
Gassman Lecture Series

November 6: "Functional Macromolecules: From Design to Applications"
November 7:  "Polymers in Chemo- and Immuno-therapy"
Host:  Marc Hillmyer


November 16
9:45
331 Smith
Peter Rossky
University of Texas
Moscowitz Lecture

Electronic Dynamics and Spectroscopy in the Condensed Phase
Host: Sandy Lipsky


November 21
9:45
331 Smith

Dr. Chris Douglas
Cal Tech
Faculty Candidate Seminar

Enantioselective Synthesis of Sarain A & Investigations of Rhodium Porphyrins for Catalytic C-H Functionalization Reactions
Host: Bill Tolman


November 28
9:45
331 Smith

Dr. Neil Garg
UC Irvine
Faculty Candidate Seminar

Studies in Natural Product Synthesis: Total Synthesis of Dragmacidin F and Sarain A


December 5
9:45
331 Smith

Dr. Brandon Ashfeld
Cal Tech
Faculty Candidate Seminar

Efficiency Through Transition Metal Catalysis: Application and Development of Synthetic Methods

Host: Marc Hillmyer


December 7
9:45
331 Smith

Prof. Daesung Lee University of Wisconsin
Faculty Candidate Seminar

Metal-Catalyzed Ene-Yne Coupling Reactions and Their Use in Synthesis


December 12
9:45
331 Smith

Dr. Abbas Walji
Princeton
Faculty Candidate Seminar

New Strategies in Asymmetric Catalysis: From Metal Carbenoids to Organocatalysis

 


December 14
9:45
331 Smith

Dr. Dr. Ted Betley
MIT
Faculty Candidate Seminar

Multi-electron Redox Reactions at First Row Transition Ions

 


January 16
9:45
331 Smith

Dr. Anne McNeil
MIT
Faculty Candidate Seminar

TBA


 

 

 

 
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