Chemistry Department Seminars

Spring 2008

All seminars are Thursdays from 12:45 - 1:45 PM in Room 151 Shelby, unless noted otherwise.

January 10	Dr. Shanlin Pan University of Texas at Austin	From Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy to Electrochemistry: Surface Plasmon Resonance Enhanced Photoluminescence and Electrochemistry of DNA Modified Electrode	Szulczewski
January 15 Tues.	Prof. Thomas Vaid Washington Univ., St. Louis	Isostructural Dopants for Molecular Semiconductors: Organic Molecules in Unusual Oxidation States	Bakker
January 17	Dr. Eli Hvastkovs University of Connecticut	Electrochemiluminescent Arrays for Metabolism-Based Toxicity Screening	Szulczewski
January 24
January 30 Wed, 2:00 PM SHLB 150	Dr. W. Justin Youngblood Penn State University	Supramolecular and Nanostructured Materials for Information Storage and Solar Energy Applications	Bakker
January 31	Prof. Peter Wipf University of Pittsburgh	The Bicyclobutane Gateway to Heterocycles	Jenning
February 4 Mon. 2:00 PM SHLB 150	Dr. Greg Felton Princeton University	Bio-Inspired Catalysts for Hydrogen Production	Bakker
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February 26 Tuesday	Prof. Kenneth Doxsee University of Oregon	Phase- and Shape-Sensitive Synthesis and Crystallization of Solid-State Materials	Cassady
February 28	Prof. B. Vince McKoy California Institute of Technology	Interactions of Slow Electrons with DNA	Dixon
March 3 Monday, 2:00 PM 150 SHLB	Prof. Alan Pinkerton University of Toledo	From Molecular Structure to Thermodynamics – Modern Applications of X-ray Crystallography	Cassady
March 6 12:30 PM	Prof. Peter Stang University of Utah	Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination	Arduengo Lectureship
March 7 3:00 PM, Friday 107 SHLB	Prof. Peter Stang University of Utah	Chemical Publishing in the 21st Century: Perspectives of a JACS Editor	Arduengo Lectureship
March 10 2:00 PM, Monday 250 SHLB	Dr. Berthold Hoge University of Cologne	Molecules to Function: Design and Synthesis of High Performance Electron Conducting Materials	Thrasher
March 13	Prof. Elena Galoppini Rutgers University	Dye/metal oxide semiconductor interface studies: Model dyes for electron transfer studies and solar cells applications	Szulczewski
March 20		Spring Break
March 24 2:00 PM, Monday 150 SHLB	Prof. Robin McCarley Louisiana State University	Redox-Responsive Molecule Delivery Systems	Cassady
March 27	Prof. John Wise University of Southern Maine	Mechanisms of Hexavalent Chromium Induced Chromosome Instability	Vincent
April 3	Prof. Bruce Lipschutz UC-Santa Barbara		Snowden
April 10
April 17	Prof. Michael Crowder Miami University, Ohio	Metallo-β-lactamases: novel weaponry for antibiotic resistance in bacteria	Vincent
April 18 Friday, 10:00 AM, 150 SHLB	Prof. Zbigniew Krejpcio Agricultural University, Poznan	An Interdisciplinary Approach to New Dietary Supplements: Quest for Optimal Chromium(III) Chemical Formula	Vincent
April 24	Prof. Rainer Streubel University of Bonn	Phosphinidenoid complexes – A Recent Breakthrough in Reactive Intermediates Chemistry	Arduengo
May 1

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