Seminars
May 8, 2009, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm, Graduate and Faculty Spring Awards Ceremony
July 9, 2009, Thursday, 301B Spedding Hall, 2:10 pm, Final Defense
David C. Perdian, Houk Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Direct Analysis of Samples by Mass Spectrometry: From Elements to Bio-Molecules Using Laser Ablation ICP-MS and Laser Desorption/Ionization MS"
(Houk)
July 10, 2009, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 10:00 am, Final Defense
Timothy Hathway, Jenks Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Using Substituted Biphenyls as Probes for Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis: A Tale of Three Molecules"
(Jenks)
July 10, 2009, Friday, 2104 Gilman Hall, 1:00 pm, Final Defense
Kuldeep Wadhwa, Verkade Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Proazaphosphatranes: Versatile Molecules with Applications in Fuel Cell Technology, Biodiesel Production and Important Organic Transformations"
(Verkade)
July 13, 2009, Monday, 301B Spedding Hall, 2:10 pm, Final Defense
Timothy Doherty, Hong Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Investigations of Cationic Peptides in Lipid Membranes by Solid-State NMR"
(Hong)
July 14, 2009, Tuesday, 301B Spedding Hall, 10:00 am, Final Defense
Daniel Kemp, Gordon Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Ions, Solute and Solvent, Oh my!"
(Gordon)
July 14, 2009, Tuesday, 205 TASF, 2:00 pm
Professor Ashok K. Ganguli, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
http://www.chemistry.iitd.ac.in/faculty/Ganguly_A.html
"Rare-earth Oxy-pnictides: A New Family of Superconductors"
(Corbett)
July 14, 2009, Tuesday, 1652 Gilman Hall, 2:00 pm, Final Defense
Alex Blom, Stauffer Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Observation of Excited State Charge Transfer with fs/ps-CARS"
(Stauffer)
August 20, 2009, Thursday, 301B Spedding Hall, 1:00 pm, Final Defense
Marlen Valverde, Larock Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Green Plastics, Rubbers, Coatings, and Biocomposites from Vegetables Oils"
(Larock)
August 28, 2009, Friday, 301B Spedding Hall, 11:00 am
Prof. Michael Ruck, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
http://www.chm.tu-dresden.de/ac2/
"TBA"
(Miller)
August 28, 2009, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:10 pm, 2009 Department of Chemistry Fall Convocation
Dr. Richard Larock, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/Richard_Larock/
"TBA"
September 11, 2009, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Professor Stephen DiMagno, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
http://www.chem.unl.edu/faculty/eachfaculty/dimagno.shtml
"TBA"
(Woo)
October 2, 2009, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Professor Piotr Piecuch, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University
http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/details.cfm?cemid=247
"TBA"
(Gordon)
October 9, 2009, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Professor Tom Sewell, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri
http://chemistry.missouri.edu/people/sewell.html
"TBA"
(Windus)
October 16, 2009, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Dr. Conrad Zhang, Chief Scientist, Institute for Interfacial Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
http://iic.pnl.gov/staff/staff_info.asp?first=Conrad&last=Zhang
"Liquid phase catalytic conversion of cellulosic biomass to HMF"
(Lin)
November 6, 2009, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Professor Ekaterina Kadnikova ( Ph.D, '01 Kostic group), Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri at Kansas City
http://cas.umkc.edu/chem/kadnikova.htm
"TBA"
(Lin)
November 20, 2009, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Professor Michael Bowser, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
http://www.chem.umn.edu/groups/bowser/MikeBowser.html
"TBA"
(Fang)
December 4, 2009, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Professor Jan-Uwe Rhode, Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa
http://www.chem.uiowa.edu/faculty/rohde/index.html
"Metal- and Ligand-centered Redox Chemistry: Stabilization of Transition Metals in High Oxidation States and a New Mechanism for the Activation of Dioxygen"
(Bakac)
March 26, 2010, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Prof. Bill Gelbart, The Virus Research Group, Department of Chemistry, UCLA
http://virus.chem.ucla.edu/gelbart
"TBA"
(Song)
