Seminars for December 2011

Professor Jillian Buriak     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Templates for Nanolithography: Enabling Density Doubling and Fine Structure Control

Gerardo Gamez, Ph.D.    
Department for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Thun Switzerland

Time:   8:30 AM
Room: 220 STSS

Glow Discharge Plasmas in Analytical Spectrochemistry: Not Just for Elemental Depth Profiling Anymore!

Assistant Professor Jennifer Schuttlefield    
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh WI

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

What does Economics have to do with Chemistry?

Elizabeth "Beth" Landis, Ph.D.     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Harvard University, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Molecular Monolayers as Functional Interfaces for Hybrid Nanoscale Systems

Professor Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt     (web page)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 402 Walter Library

The Strange Structures and Unusual Properties of Actinide Borates  

Alison Ondrus, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University, Stanford CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

[Re]activity of Natural Products: Chemistry of Myrmicarin Alkaloids and Neurobiology of Modified Saxitoxins

Danna Freedman, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Unusual Low Dimensional Magnetism: Molecular Magnets and Spin Frustration