Graduate Student Seminar Program Spring 2005

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Schedule as of January 5th, 2005

January 11	Mandatory Meeting for Seminar Presenters
January 18	open
January 25	open
February 1	Monica Khural Organofluorine Chemistry and its Application to the Pharmaceutical Industry
February 8	Daniela Tapu (PhD Research) New Architectures in Imidazoyl-2-ylidene Chemistry
February 15	Smitha Vokkaliga Recent Developments in Transition Metal Catalyzed Reactions: A Microwave Approach
February 22	Rongcai Huang (PhD Research) I. Asymmetric Hydrosilylation of Acetophenone using Titanium Catalysts. II. Synthesis of Water-Soluble Palladacycles and their Application to the Suzuki Coupling Reaction. III. Rhodium-Catalyzed Addition of Aryl and Alkenylboronic Acids to Aldehydes
March 1	Dwayne Reed Liquid Crystal Displays
March 8	R. Ryan Bennett The Bioluminescence and Fluorescence of Aquorea aquorea
March 9 Wednesday	Dean's Office Academic Misconduct Training Attendance by All Graduate Students Required
March 15	Walter J. Shumate (PhD Research) Spectroscopic and Electronic Studies of Langmuir-Schaefer and Langmuir-Schaefer Films of Donor-Acceptor Molecules
March 22	Melanie L. Moody (PhD Research) Characterization of Polyethylene Glycol/Dextran Aqueous Biphasic Systems Using Linear Solvation Energy Relationships (LSER) and the Effect of pH
March 29	Spring Break-No Seminar
April 5	No Seminar
April 12	Ashok Ganta Discovery, Development, and Applications of Organic Catalysts
April 19	Megan Turner (PhD Research) Immobilization of Biocatalysts Using Novel Ionic Liquid-Reconstituted Cellulosic Support Materials
April 26	Marc A. Klingshirn (PhD Research) Ionic Liquid-Based Gels and Their Potential Applications to Green Chemistry
May 3	Julia Shamshina How Endeavors in Total Synthesis Lead to Fundamental New Discoveries in Synthetic Organic Chemistry