Seminars for February 2012

Associate Professor Matthew Disney     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter FL

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Progress Toward the Rational Design of Small Molecules Targeting RNA from Genomic Sequence

Professor Michael Graetzel     (web page)
Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , Lausanne Switzerland

Time:   3:45 PM
Room: 100 Smith Hall

Lecture #1: The Advent of Mesoscopic Solar Cells

Professor Michael Graetzel     (web page)
Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne Switzerland

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Lecture #2: Optimizing Photon Harvesting and Charge Carrier Collection in Mesoscopic Solar Energy Conversion Systems

Professor Michael Graetzel     (web page)
Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne Switzerland

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Lecture #3: Photo Meets Electrocatalysis: United we Split (. . .Water)

Professor & Research Fellow Garry Rumbles     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder
Research Fellow at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden CO

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Comparing the Primary Electron Transfer Process in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers with Organic Photovoltaic Heterojunctions

Associate Professor Yadong Yin     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of California-Riverside, Riverside CA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Magnetic Assembly of Responsive Photonic Nanostructures

Associate Professor Daniel Mindiola     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Indiana University, Bloomington IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Taming Methane and Other Alkanes with Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonds