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Spring 2006January 13, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Richard Larock, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/Richard_Larock/
"Adventures in Biopolymers, Iodine Cyclizations, and Palladium Annulation and Migration Chemistry"
January 20, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Prof. Joerg Schmalian, Department of Physics, Iowa State University
http://www.physics.iastate.edu/index.php?cmd=people.profile&PeopleID=1954
"The Shapes of Cooperatively Rearranging Regions in Glass Forming Liquids"
(Song)
January 27, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Monica Lamm, Department of Chemical Engineering
http://www.iastate.edu/~ch_e/faculty/lamm.html
"Exploring the Structure and Assembly of Advanced Materials with Molecular Simulation"
January 27, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Prof. Ranko Richert, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University
http://chemistry.asu.edu/faculty/r_richert.asp
"Solvation Dynamics in Viscous Liquids"
(Petrich/Song)
February 3, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
CANCELLED!!!
Prof. Karl Scheidt, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
http://www.chem.northwestern.edu/~scheidt/
"Advances in Nucleophilic Catalysis: Nature-Inspired Strategies and Beyond"
(Pohl)
February 10, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Craig Hill, Goodrich C. White Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory University
http://www.chemistry.emory.edu/faculty/hill.html
"Long-Sought Structures, Catalysts and Multifunctional Nanomaterials Based on Inorganic Clusters"
(Angelici)
February 10, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Prof. Darin Ulness, Department of Chemistry, Concordia College in Moorehead Minnesota
http://www.cord.edu/faculty/ulnessd/
"Noisy Light Spectroscopy"
(Stauffer)
February 17, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Chris Gorman, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University
http://www.ncsu.edu/chemistry/facultyPages/cbg.html
"Dendrimers and Patterned Surfaces: Electron Transfer ‘to’ and ‘through’ for Molecular Electronics"
(Woo)
February 21, 2006, Tuesday, 1352 Gilman, 12:30 pm
Prof. Anja-Verena Mudring, University of Köln, Institute for Inorganic Chemistry
"Chemistry with 6th Period Elements"
(Corbett)
March 8, 2006, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 8:00 pm, Gilman Lecture
Prof. Timothy M. Swager, Departmet of Chemistry, MIT
http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/www/faculty/swager.html
"Polymer Electronics for Ultra-Sensitive Chemical and Biological Sensors"
(Pohl)
March 10, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Eric Anslyn, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/directory/eric_anslyn/
"Supramolecular Chemistry and Pattern Recognition, A Complementary Match"
(Zhao)
March 10, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Prof. David Beratan, Department of Chemistry, Duke University
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Chemistry/faculty/david.beratan
"Theoretical Strategies to Design Molecules with Optimized Properties"
(Song)
March 22, 2006, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman, 4:10 pm
Prof. Juergen Koehler, Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart
"Lone Pairs and Clusters withIn Oxides and Fluorides"
March 24, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Alison Frontier, Department of Chemisty, University of Rochester
http://www.chem.rochester.edu/Faculty/Frontier.html
"Recent Progress in Nazarov Cyclization Chemistry"
(Pohl)
March 24, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Prof. Vinayak Dravid, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
http://www.matsci.northwestern.edu/faculty/vpd.html
"Teaching Old Materials New Tricks: Nanopatterning of Functional Inorganics"
(Student invited, Hyunjin Ko)
March 31, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Prof. Nancy Makri, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/chem/gmakr.htm
"Dynamics of Quantum Fluids: Path Integral and Semiclassical Methods"
April 7, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Samuel Gellman, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.chem.wisc.edu/people/profiles/Gellman.php
"Structure and Function in Peptidic Foldamers"
(Zhao)
April 7, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Prof. Frank Creegan, W. Alton Jones Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Washington College
http://faculty.washcoll.edu/bios/creegan_frank.html
"The POGIL (Process-Oriented, Guided-Inquiry Learning) Laboratory: Using Student-generated Data to Teach Chemistry"
(Greenbowe)
April 12, 2006, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm, The Cotton-Uphaus Competition
Finalists: Ben Prince (Stauffer), Daniel Kemp (Gordon), Matthew Soyk (Badman), Beth Prince (Stauffer), Erin Rockafellow (Jenks), Igor Slowing (Lin), Iowa State University
Refreshments will be served starting at 3:45 pm.
April 14, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Fraser Stoddart, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
http://stoddart.chem.ucla.edu/
"Whither Molecular Electronics"
(Pohl)
April 14, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Prof. Sunil Saxena, Department of Chemistry, Univesrity of Pittsburgh
www.pitt.edu/~sksaxena
"ESR Spectroscopic Rulers: A New Spin on Protein Dynamics"
(Lin)
April 19, 2006, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman, 4:10 pm
"Spring Awards Ceremony"
April 21, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Wenbin Lin, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
http://www.chem.unc.edu/people/faculty/linw/wlindex.html
"Supramolecular Approaches to Functional Materials"
(Lin)
April 21, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Prof. Eckard Munck, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.chem.cmu.edu/groups/Munck/
"Mossbauer and Density Functional Theory Studies of Novel Fe(IV)-oxo Complexes"
(Bakac)
April 28, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Roi Baer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://www.fh.huji.ac.il/~roib/
"Real-Time Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Electronic Processes With Applications to Molecular Junctions and Nonlinear Spectroscopy"
(Gordon)
May 1, 2006, Monday, 301 B Spedding Hall, 11:00 am
Prof. Bruce V. King, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/math-physical-science/our_staff/king_bruce.html
"The NASA Genesis Mission: Modeling Radiation Induced Transport in Silicon Genesis Samples"
(C. Jenks)
May 1, 2006, Monday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:30 pm
Prof. Mark A. Ratner, Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
http://www.chem.northwestern.edu/faculty/professor?professor_id=910
" Molecular Transport Structures: Tunneling, Scattering and Beyond"
May 2, 2006, Tuesday, 1414 Molecular Biology Building, 8:00 pm, The Iowa State Presidential Lecture in Chemistry
Prof. Mark A. Ratner, Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
http://www.chem.northwestern.edu/faculty/professor?professor_id=910
"NANO 301: What is New, and What Might Be Next"
This is the inaugural lecture in The Iowa State Presidential Lectureship in Chemistry.
Mark Ratner was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1942. He was in junior high school when Sputnik was launched, and that occasioned his becoming a scientist. He finished high school in Shaker Heights, Ohio, college at Harvard, and doctoral work at Northwestern (in 1969). Following postdoctoral work at Aarhus in Denmark (where he worked on the kind of very formal theory that attracts young scientists), and in Munich, he began his career in the Chemistry Department at New York University. His first student there, Ari Aviram, was really the person who launched modern investigations into the area of molecular electronics.
Ratner returned to Northwestern as Professor of Chemistry in 1975. He has chaired the Chemistry Department at Northwestern, served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and now holds the Morrison Professorship in the Department of Chemistry.
Ratner is interested in structure at the nanoscale, function at the nanoscale, and the theory of fundamental chemical processes. More specifically, he tries to bring together structure and function in molecular nanostructures, based on theoretical notions, on exemplary calculations, and (very importantly) on collaborations with experimentalists and other theorists, in the United States and around the world. Some principal areas of interest are molecular electronics, electron transfer in molecules, theories of self-assembly, nonlinear response in molecules, and exact and approximate theories of quantum dynamics. In the interstices of these, he spends as much time trout fishing as he possibly can.
Ratner’s research has been recognized quite broadly he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. He has received the Langmuir Award from the American Chemical Society and the Feynman Award from the Foresight Institute. He also has also been a member of the Faculty Teaching Honor Roll at Northwestern eleven times, and has taught roughly five thousand students in General Chemistry in the last dozen years.
May 10, 2006, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman, 2:10 pm
Prof. Ira Weinstock, Department of Chemistry, Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)
http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~iaw/
"Electron Transfer of Molecular Oxygen in water: From Fundamental Processes to Catalysis by Oxo-Molybate Nanoclusters"
(Kögerler)
May 16, 2006, Tuesday, 1352 Gilman, 2:10 pm, Fassel Lecture
Dr. Royce W. Murray, Kenan Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
http://www.chem.unc.edu/people/faculty/murrayrw/rwmindex.html
"Size-Dependent Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Monolayer Protected Gold Clusters"
An important dimension range of nanoscience is that in which properties of chemical materials are size-dependent. For semiconductors, such materials are called "quantum dots" and have been investigated for some years. Metal-based materials with variable and very small dimensions that cross the bulk-to-molecule transition have been more recently uncovered. It is currently possible to prepare Au quantum dots in which a core of Au atoms (1 to 2nm in diameter) is surrounded by a monolayer of satbilizing thiolate ligands, so-called monolayer protected clusters (MPCs). I will discuss some of the synthetic and analytical methodologies, chemical and spectroscopic characteristics, and electrochemistry of Au quantum dot MPCs. Recent developments include HPLC of MPCs, thiloate ligand and metal atom exchange reactions, NIR luminescence and electrochemistry of Au38, Au140, and Au225 MPCs.
This research has been supported by NSF, ONR, and the DOE, and my inventive students and collaborators have made it possible.
(Yeung)
July 7, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 2:10 pm
Wenbin Luo, Department of Chemistry, Hong Group, Iowa State University
"Investigation M2 Proton Channel Structure by Anisotropic 1H-Driven Spin Diffusion NMR"
July 14, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 2:10 pm
Ming Tang, Hong Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Membrane-Insertion and Conformation of Charged Residues in a Beta-Sheet Membrane Peptide by Solid-State NMR"
July 20, 2006, Thursday, 1651 Gilman, 1:30 pm
Professor Amparo Fuertes, Institute of Materials Chemistry of Barcelona, Spain
"Synthesis and Crystal Chemistry of Mixed Anion Layered Nitrides"
(Corbett)
August 25, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:10 pm, Department of Chemistry Fall Convocation
Dr. Patricia A. Thiel, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of Chemistry, Director of Ames Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/Patricia_Thiel/
"New Surface Phenomena Arising from Structural Complexity"
August 28, 2006, Monday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:30 pm
Dr. Marek Pruski, Senior Scientist, Ames Laboratory
http://www.external.ameslab.gov/pbchem/PI%20info/pruski.htm
"Advances in Solid-State NMR Studies of Microporous and Mesoporous Materials"
(Lin)
August 29, 2006, Tuesday, 301B Spedding, 1:30 pm
Prod. Segey N. Krylov, Canada Research Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, York University
http://www.chem.yorku.ca/profs/krylov/
"Kinetic Capillary Electrophoresis - An Analytical Swiss Army Knife"
(Yeung)
September 1, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Daniel J. Mindiola, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University
http://mindiola.chem.indiana.edu/
"Organometallic Consequences of a One-Electron Oxidation Reaction"
(Sadow)
September 8, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Alan Van Orden, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
http://www.chm.colostate.edu/vanorden/
"Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy for Studying Dynamic Properties of Biomolecules and Nanoparticles"
(Yeung)
September 15, 2006, Friday, ACS Meeting in San Francisco
September 22, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Kenneth J. Klabunde, University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University
http://www.ksu.edu/chem/personnel/faculty/grad/kjk/klabunde.html
"The Unusual Reactivity and Chemistry of Nanocrystals"
(Verkade)
September 22, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Michael Segura, Ph.D. and Arron Karcher, Ph.D., HALLIBURTON, Duncan, OK
"TBA"
(Harris)
September 29, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Dr. Duy H. Hua, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University
http://www.ksu.edu/chem/personnel/faculty/grad/dhh/hua1.html
"Counteraction of Protein Misfolding in Alzheimer and Huntington's Diseases"
(Kraus)
September 29, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Prof. Doug S. English, Ph.D. 1998 ISU, Petrich Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland
http://www.chem.umd.edu/groups/english/DougInformation.htm
"Fluorescence-Based Studies of Biomaterials: Self-Assembly and Sensing"
(Petrich)
October 6, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Dr. Chulbom Lee, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
http://www.princeton.edu/~leegroup/
"Developing New Methods for C-O and C-C Bond Formations: Transition Metal Catalysis Leads the Way"
(Pohl)
October 6, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Edward J. Maginn, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame
http://www.nd.edu/~ed/
"Structure-Property Prediction via Atomistic Simulation: Application to Ionic Liquids and Inorganic Ion Exchangers"
(Gordon)
October 13, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Dr. Brent Iverson, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Faculty Warren J. and Viola Mae Raymer Professorship, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas-Austin
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/directory/brent_iverson/
"The Chemistry of Large Molecules: From Foldamers to Proteins"
(Zhao)
October 18, 2006, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Fei Wang, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Miller Group
"Development in Biomimetic Synthesis of Inorganic Materials"
October 20, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Dr. Sidney M. Hecht, John W. Mallet Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia
http://www.virginia.edu/chem/people/faculty/hecht/
"Bleomycin Mechanism: Lessons from a Combinatorial Library"
(Pohl)
November 2, 2006, Thursday, 301B Spedding, 4:10 pm
Dr. John Chisholm, Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University
http://www-che.syr.edu/faculty/chisholm.html
"New Transition-Metal Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions"
(Kraus)
November 3, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Dr. James S. Nowick, School of Sciences, University of California-Irvine
http://www.chem.uci.edu/faculty/jsnowick/
"Mimicry of Protein Structures and Interactions with Unnatural Amino Acids"
(Zhao)
November 10, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Timothy R. Hughbanks, Department of Chemistry, Texas A & M University
http://www.chem.tamu.edu/faculty/faculty_detail.php?ID=50
"Understanding and Predicting Magnetic Ordering in Lanthanide-Containing Compounds"
(Corbett)
November 17, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Dr. Raymond E. Schaak, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University
http://www.chem.tamu.edu/faculty/faculty_detail.php?ID=779
"Metallurgy in a Beaker: Nanoparticle Toolkit for Solid-State Synthesis"
(Lin)
November 17, 2006, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Prof. Conrad Stoldt, Ph.D. 1999 Thiel Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado
http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/rmgrp/conrad.htm
"Nanomaterials Development for Molecular Imaging Applications"
(Thiel)
December 6, 2006, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Po-Wen Chung, Department of Chemistry, Lin Group, Iowa State University
"Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-coated Mesoporous Silica Nanosphere"
