Graduate Student Seminar Program Fall 2007

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Schedule as of January 3, 2008

Aug 28		Mandatory meeting for Seminar Presenters
Sept 4	Cancelled
Sept 11	Virgil Jackson	Astrochemistry - Molecules and Molecular Anions Identified in Space
Sept 18	Zhufang Liu (PhD Research)	Synthesis and Activation of Pt and Pt-based Nanoparticles for Anode Catalysts of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFCs)
Sept 25	Whitney Hough	Sweet and Sour: The Chemistry of Taste
Oct 2	Mirela Maxim	Analysis of Carbohydrates by Mass Spectrometry
Oct 9	Ning Sun	X-Ray Raman Spectroscopy
Oct 16	Qingmei Chen (PhD Research)	Towards an Environmentally Sound Fabric Treatment
Oct 23	Ryan Clemens (PhD Research)	Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of Varitriol and Amphidinolide X
Oct 30	David Drab	Biomineralization: from Basic Principles to Technological Applications
Nov 6	Cancelled
Nov 13	Prof. David Britt	Departmental Seminar
Nov 20	Vishal Warke (PhD Research)	Development of Block-Copolymers as Self-Assembling Templates for Magnetic Media and Spin Valves
Nov 27	Weihao Xu (PhD Research)	Spin-Polarized Electron Tunneling Through Molecular Junctions
Nov 29 Thursday	Tsang-Hsiu Wang	The Photoreduction of Metal Ions
Dec 4	Marcin Smiglak (PhD Research)	Toward a Modular "Ionic Liquid" Platform for the Custom Design of Energetic Materials