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Spring 2004April 24, 2004, Saturday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Keith Fagnou, Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa
http://www.science.uottawa.ca/~kfagn061/
"TBA"
(Larock)
September 3, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:30 pm
Dr. James Espenson, Department of Chemistry Convocation
"Catalytic Chemistry with Complexes of Rhenium"
(Dr. Keith Woo)
September 10, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Dr. Douglas C. Neckers, Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/photochem/dcneckers/index.html
"Photochemical Processes and the Academic/Industrial Interface"
(Trahanovsky)
September 10, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 2:30 pm
Dr. Keith Hollis, Department of Chemistry, University of California-Riverside
http://www.chem.ucr.edu/faculty/hollis/hollis.html
"Novel Ligand Architectures for Catalysis: Phosphametallocenes and More"
(Verkade)
September 17, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm, ACS PROGRESS Lectureship in Chemical Sciences
Dr. Shelli McAlpine, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University
http://www.scs.sdsu.edu/faculty/McAlpine/
"Synthesis of Macrocycles With Novel Biological Activity"
(Pohl)
September 17, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 2:30 pm
Dr. Anatoly Kolomeisky, Department of Chemistry, Rice University
http://python.rice.edu/~kolomeisky/
"Dynamics of Polymer Translocation Through Nanopore: Theory Meets Experiments"
(Song)
September 24, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm, ABBOTT LABORATORIES LECTURES
Dr. Kevin Burgess, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M, Abbott Lecturer
http://www.chem.tamu.edu/brochure/faculty/burgess/burgess.html
"New Concepts in Catalysis: Chiral "Lewis Base" Activation of Lewis Acids"
(Pohl)
September 24, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 2:30 pm
Cheng-Yu Lai, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
Lin Group
"Pluripotent Mesoporous Nanotransporter for Cellular Delivery"
(Lin)
September 30, 2004, Thursday, 1352 Gilman, 11:00 am
Dr. Paula Hammond, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://web.mit.edu/cheme/people/faculty/hammond.html
"Engineering Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Thin Films for Energy and Biomaterials Applications"
(ChE)
October 1, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Dr. Scott E. Denmark, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/chem/gdenm.htm
"New Concepts in Catalysis: Chiral "Lewis Base" Activation of Lewis Acids"
(Trahanovsky)
October 1, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 2:30 pm
Dr. Chad Rienstra, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/chem/rienstra.htm
"Protein Structure Determination by Magic-Angle Spinning NMR:
Methods and Applications to Parkinson's Disease"
(Hong)
October 1, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 4:10 pm
Stacey Bries, Kostic Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Structural and Functional Variations of Ln(III) and Mn(II) Complexes: Developments in the Design of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Contrast Agents"
(Woo)
October 7, 2004, Thursday, 1352 Gilman, 11:00 am
Dr. David Kofke, UB Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, SUNY - State University of New York - Buffalo
http://www.cheme.buffalo.edu/kofke/index.html
"Free Energy and All That"
(ChE)
October 8, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 2:30 pm
Seong Huh, Lin Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Morphological Control of Multifunctionalized Mesoporous Silica Nanomaterials for Catalysis Applications"
(Lin)
October 14, 2004, Thursday, 301B Spedding Hall, 10:00 am
Dr. Bruce King, Associate Professor, Discipline of Physics, University of Newcastle, Australia
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/math-physical-sci/staff/bking.html
"Surface Analysis using a Free Electron Laser"
(C. Jenks)
October 14, 2004, Thursday, 1352 Gilman, 11:00 am
Dr. Eric Amis, National Institute of Standards and Technology
http://www.cheme.buffalo.edu/kofke/index.html
"What's New Since Edison?"
Joint Institute for Combinatorial Discovery and ChE Lecture Combinatorial Methods for Materials
(ChE)
October 15, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Dr. Victor Lin, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/Victor_Lin/
"Gatekeeping Effect: Synthesis of Multifunctionalized Mesoporous Silica Materials for Catalysis and Biomedical Applications"
October 15, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 2:30 pm
Dr. T. Daniel Crawford, Virginia Tech University
http://www.chem.vt.edu/faculty/crawford.php
"Ambidextrous Quantum Chemistry: Ab Initio Predictions of Optical Rotation in Chiral Molecules"
(Gordon)
October 22, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm, ABBOTT LABORATORIES LECTURES
Dr. Erik Sorensen, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
http://www.princeton.edu/~ejsgroup/
"Strategies for Complex Alkaloid Synthesis"
(Pohl)
October 22, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 2:30 pm
Dr. Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/Klaus_Schmidt-Rohr/
"Studies of Structure and Dynamics of Complex Organic Matter and Polymers by Advanced Solid-State NMR"
October 29, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Dr. Joel Hawkins, Pfizer Inc.
"The Role of New Technology in Solving Chemical Problems in Pharmaceutical Process R&D"
(Pohl)
October 29, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 2:30 pm
Dr. Lawrence Que, Jr., Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
http://www.chem.umn.edu/directory/faculty.lasso?serial=462
"Oxygen Activation at Nonheme Iron: The Oxoiron(IV) Reaction Landscape"
(Kostic)
November 2, 2004, Tuesday, 305 Spedding, 9:00 am
Yang Cai, Espenson Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Catalysis by Methyltrioxorhenium(VII). Reduction of Hydronium Ions by Europium(II) and Reduction of Perchlorate Ions by Europium(II) and Chromium(II) in Acidic Solution"
(Espenson)
November 2, 2004, Tuesday, 301B Spedding Hall, 4:10 pm
Dr. Vincent Fourne, LSG2M, CNRS UMR, Ecole des Mines, Nancy, France
"Unusual Growth Phenomena on Quasicrystalline Surfaces Observed by STM"
(Thiel)
November 4, 2004, Thursday, 301B Spedding, 2:10 pm, HANSEN LECTURE
Dr. William A. Goddard, Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics and Director of the Materials and Process Simulation Center, Caltech University
http://chemistry.caltech.edu/faculty/goddard/index.html
"Strategies for de Novo Multi-Scale Simulations and Applications to Materials, Catalysis, Protein Folding and Nanotechnology"
(Gordon)
November 5, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 2:30 pm
Dr. Charles Davis, Sigma-Aldrich, Inc.
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/Local/SA_Splash.html
"Advancing Science in the Scientific Research and Fine Chemicals Market"
This talk will include a discussion of a recent technical challenge involving commercialization of BH3-THF.
(Verkade)
November 12, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm, PSI Lecturer
Dr. Geert-Jan Boons, Department of Chemistry, Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia-Athens
http://www.ccrc.uga.edu/~gjboons/boons/index.html
"Complex Glycoconjugates: New Synthetic Methods and Exploring Biological Functions"
(Pohl)
November 12, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 2:30 pm
Dr. Robert Walker, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
http://www.chem.umd.edu/faculty/physical/walker/walker.htm
"TBA"
(Thiel)
November 12, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 4:10 pm
Brian Trewyn, Lin Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"TBA"
(Woo)
November 18, 2004, Thursday, 1352 Gilman, 11:00 am, PROCTER & GAMBLE LECTURE
Dr. Todd Przybycien, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Head of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cheme.cmu.edu/who/faculty/przybycien.html
"Protein Narcissism"
(ChE)
November 19, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Dr. Arnold Guloy, (ISU alum, Corbett Group), Department of Chemistry, University of Houston
http://www.chem.uh.edu/Faculty/Guloy/Index.html
"In Search of Discovery: Some Insights into the Chemical Bonding and Reactivity of Zintl Phases"
(Corbett)
November 19, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:30 pm
Dr. Peter Lu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"Single Molecule Biophysics"
(Yeung)
December 2, 2004, Thursday, 1352 Gilman, 11:00 am
Dr. Daniel Armstrong, Professor of Chemistry and the Caryle G. Caldwell Chair in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/Daniel_Armstrong/
"Synthesis and Use of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids"
(ChE)
December 3, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Dr. Christopher F. Bauer, Department of Chemistry, University of New Hampshire
http://www.unh.edu/chemistry/cfb.html
"Curriculum and Assessment Research in College Chemistry"
(Greenbowe)
December 3, 2004, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 2:30 pm
Dr. Wei Sen Wong, Viscotek Corporation
"Application of Triple/Tetra Detection GPC for the Characterization of Synthetic Polymers"
December 9, 2004, Thursday, 1352 Gilman, 11:00 am
Dr. Matthew Neurock, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia
http://www.che.virginia.edu/neurock.html
"Atomically Engineered Active Sites and their Nanoscale Environments for Supported Metal Catalysts"
(ChE)
