Departmental Seminars - Summer and Fall 2009

 

 

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

Prof. Scott Snyder,  University of Columbia

Palladium and Nickel Controlled Stereoselectivity in Carbohydrate Synthesis

 

Wednesday, Feb. 17. 2010

Prof. Gerald Hammond,  University of Louisville

Title to be announced

 

Wednesday, Mar. 3. 2010

Prof. Mike Cascio, Duquesne University

Title to be announced

 

 

Wednesday, Mar. 10. 2010

Prof. Steve Sucheck,  The University of Toledo

Title to be announced

 

Wednesday, Mar. 17. 2010

Prof. Richard H. Squire, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Technology, West Virginia University

Title to be announced

 

 

Wednesday, Apr. 7. 2010

Professor Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, The University of Texas at El Paso

Title to be announced

 

Wednesday, Apr. 14. 2010

Prof. Sophia Hayes,  Washington University (St. Louis)

Title to be announced