Departmental Seminars - Summer and Fall 2009
- Unless specified otherwise, departmental seminars are held in room Clark 312 at 4:30 p.m.
- Refreshments are served in the Bennett Conference room, Clark 214 roughly 15 minutes prior to the seminar.
Wednesday, Aug. 26. 2009
Barbara Foster
Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories
Wednesday, Sep. 2. 2009
J.F. Rubinson, Georgetown UniversityConducting polymer electrodes: tools for biomedical research
Wednesday, Sep. 9. 2009
Professor Kung Wang
Cascade Cyclizations of Unsaturated Systems
Wednesday, Sep. 16. 2009
Prof. Ding-Yah Yang, Department of Chemistry at Tunghai University (Taiwan)
Design & Synthesis of 4-Hydroxyoumarin-based Molecular Switches
Wednesday, Sep. 23. 2009
Prof. Professor Luke Tolley, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University.
"Dynamic Isoelectric Focusing for the Discovery of Unknown, Active Proteins"
Wednesday, Sep. 30. 2009
Professor Yoshitaka Ishii
New methods in Solid-state NMR spectroscopy and applications to amyloid proteins and graphite nano materials
Wednesday, Oct. 7. 2009
Peter Zhang, University of South Florida
Metalloradical-Catalyzed Asymmetric Carbene and Nitrene Transfers: Development of Co(II) Chiral Porphyrin Catalysts.
Wednesday, Oct. 14. 2009
Professor Mark Kobrak, Brooklyn College - CUNY
The Chemical Environment of Ionic Liquids: Conventional Behavior from Exotic Systems
Wednesday, Oct. 21. 2009
Professor Joseph Ready, Univ. of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
Optically Active Allenes in Asymmetric Synthesis
Wednesday, Oct. 28. 2009
Professor Jeffrey Carver, HR&E
Science Education Theory into Practice: Using Data Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Chemistry.
Wednesday, Nov. 5&6. 2009
Clark Lecturer, R. Stephen Berry
Wednesday, Nov. 11. 2009
Aiwen Lei, Wuhan University
Novel Approach, New Catalysts and Understanding Toward Bond Formation
Tuesday, Nov. 17. 2009
Professor Dean Toste, UC Berkeley
New Synthetic Methods from Homogenous Gold Catalysts
Departmental Seminars - Spring 2010
Wednesday, Jan. 27. 2010
Prof. Hien Nguyen, University of Iowa
Palladium and Nickel Controlled Stereoselectivity in Carbohydrate Synthesis
Thursday, Feb. 4. 2010, 4:00 pm
Prof. Scott Snyder, University of Columbia
Lessons in Chemoselectivity: Total Synthesis of Polyphenolic Natural Products
Wednesday, Feb. 24. 2010
Prof. Gerald Hammond, University of Louisville
"Seeking a role reversal in synthesis"
Wednesday, Mar. 3. 2010
Prof. Mike Cascio, Duquesne University
Understanding Glycine Receptor Allostery and its Utility as a Biochemical and Therapeutic Tool
Wednesday, Mar. 10. 2010
Prof. Steve Sucheck, The University of Toledo
The Sticky World of Glycoconjugates: Design, Synthesis and Function
Wednesday, Mar. 17. 2010
Prof. Richard H. Squire, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Technology, West Virginia University
Chemical Implications of Cuprate Superconductor Models
Wednesday, Mar. 24. 2010
Prof. Michael Haley, University of Oregen
It Takes Alkynes to Make a World - New Methods for the Formation of Annulenes, Cinnolines and Isoindazoles
Wednesday, Apr. 7. 2010
Professor Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, The University of Texas at El Paso
Toxicity and biotransformation of nanoparticles on Terrestial plants: The case of Ni(OH)2, ZnO and CeO2 Nanoparticles.
Wednesday, Apr. 14. 2010
Prof. Sophia Hayes, Washington University (St. Louis)
Title to be announced
Wednesday, Apr. 21. 2010
Prof. Rinaldo Poli, Labortoire de Chimie de Coordination, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Interplay of Various One-electron Processess involving Transition Metals in Controlled Radical Polymerization
Wednesday, Apr. 28. 2010
Departmental Honors Day
Thursday, Apr. 29. 2010
Prof Jurgen Rohr, University of Kentucky
Generation of Biodiversity of Microbial Natural Products through Combinatorial Biosynthesis
Wednesday, Sep. 22. 2010
Dr. Anthony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Wednesday, Sep. 29. 2010
Prof Sue Bae
Title to be announced