Seminars
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Spring 2007January 12, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. John G. Verkade, University Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/John_Verkade/
"New Main Group Cage-Like Structures and Their Applications in Organic Transformations as Bases and Catalysts"
January 19, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
CANCELLED!!!
Prof. Steven O. Smith, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, SUNY Stony Brook
http://sos.bio.sunysb.edu/cv.html
"Helix Interactions in Membrane Protein Structure, Misfolding and Disease"
(Hong)
February 2, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Alexei V. Demchenko, University of Missouri-St. Louis
http://www.umsl.edu/~chem/faculty/demchenko.htm
"New Methods and Strategies for Convergent Oligosaccharide Synthesis"
(Pohl)
February 9, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Dr. Greg Sotzing, Department of Chemistry, University Connecticut
http://web.uconn.edu/chemistry/sotzing.html
"The Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers for Color Changing Thread Application"
(Jeffries-EL)
February 16, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Ned B. Bowden, Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa
http://www.chem.uiowa.edu/faculty/bowden/index.html
"Adventures in Metathesis: Polymers, Small Molecules, and Surfaces"
(Jeffries-EL)
February 22, 2007, Thursday, 1312 Hoover, 4:10 pm, Chemistry-Physics-Materials Science Seminar
Prof. Ron Lifshitz, School of Physics & Astronomy, Tel Aviv University (Currently on sabbatical leave at the California Institute of Technology)
"Quasicrystals - Some of nature's Most Intriguing Forms of Matter"
(Thiel)
February 23, 2007, Friday, Chemistry Open House
March 1, 2007, Thursday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Sergey Nizkorodov, Department of Chemistry, University of California - Irvine
http://aerosol.chem.uci.edu/
"Photochemistry of Organic Aerosol Particles"
(Stauffer/Jenks)
March 2, 2007, Friday, Chemistry Open House
March 6, 2007, Tuesday, 1651 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Daniel Kost, Ben Gurion University in Israel
http://www.bgu.ac.il/~kostd/
"Penta- and Hexacoordinate Silicon Compounds: Structure, Rearrangements and Interconversion"
(Verkade)
March 9, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Joseph Marshall, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Trahanovsky Group
""Chiral reactions in ionic liquids: recent advances.""
March 9, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Dr. Xikui Fang, Ames Lab
"Tuning Performance-Related Structural Features of Polyoxometalates"
March 16, 2007, Friday, Spring Break
March 23, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Alan Goldman, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University
http://rutchem.rutgers.edu/content_dynamic/faculty/alan_goldman.shtml
"Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Alkane Dehydrogenation and Formation of C-C Bonds"
(Angelici)
March 23, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
CANCELLED!!!
Prof. Peter Rossky, Marvin K. Collie-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas-Austin
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/directory/peter_rossky/
"Water Cluster Anions: The Evolution of Cluster Properties to Bulk Solvation"
(Song)
March 23, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Alex Travesset, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
http://www.physics.iastate.edu/staff/travesset/index.html
"Charge Inversion in Electrolyte Solutions: Chemistry or Physics?"
(Song)
March 30, 2007, Friday, ACS Meeting in Chicago
April 4, 2007, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Tae-Soo You, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University (Miller Group)
"The Influence of Atomic Size and Electron Counts in a Polar Intermetallic Series: Puckered vs. Planar Nets in EuGaTt (Tt = Si,Ge,Sn)"
April 6, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm, Cotton-Uphaus Finals Competition
Finalists
Sarah D. Cady (with Mei Hong)
Reed E. Oshel (with John Verkade)
Chorthip Peeraphatdit (with Victor Lin)Mingmin Shen (with Pat Thiel)
April 6, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Prof. Zhiqun Lin, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Iowa State University
http://zqlin.public.iastate.edu/Pages/Homepage.htm
"Drying Mediated Self-assembly of Polymers and Nanoparticles From a Sphere-On-Plate Geometry"
(Jeffries-EL)
April 11, 2007, Wednesday, 301B Spedding Hall, 2:30 pm
Tse-Ming Hsin, Department of Chemistry, Yeung Group, Iowa State University
"Single Molecule Reactions in Liposomes"
April 11, 2007, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman, 4:10 pm
Harun Mbuvi, Department of Chemistry, Woo Group, Iowa State University
"Novel Reactions Catalyzed By Metal Porphyrin Complexes"
April 11, 2007, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 8:00 pm, Iowa State University ACS Local Chapter
F. Wood-Black, Ph.D., Director of Consent Decree Coordination, ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas
"What’s Happening? One person’s perspective on the industry (petroleum)?"
Abstract: Have you ever wondered about the price of gasoline and what the future may bring to the petroleum industry? This talk will provide a perspective on the grand challenges faced by the industry while providing an explanation of what goes into the price of a gallon of gasoline.
Biography: F. Wood-Black is the Director, Business Services for Downstream Technology. Prior to Sept. 2002, Frankie was the Technology Services Marketing Manager, for Phillips Petrolium. She also served as the Quality Assurance Team Leader at the Borger Refinery and NGL Center. Wood-Black began her career with ConocoPhillips in 1989 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, as a research scientist for research and development. In 1994, she was an environmental scientist whose job responsibilities include regulatory compliance for air, Community-Right-to-Know and the Toxic Substance Control Act. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics with a minor in chemistry from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1984. She earned her doctorate in physics from Oklahoma State University in 1989 and completed her MBA in Dec. 2002. Frankie is active in numerous professional activities and serves as the ConocoPhillips representative on Corporation Associates of the American Chemical Society. She is a contributing editor of the Journal for Chemical Health and Safety with her co-authored column "CHAS Netways." She has 1 patent, 10 technical publications, and has co-authored a book entitled "Emergency Preparedness Planning: A primer for Chemists." Wood-Black is a registered environmental manager.
April 12, 2007, Thursday, 1652 Gilman, 3:10 pm
Tim Doherty, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Hong Group
"Conformation, Insertion, and Oligomeric Structure of Tachyplesin Peptides in"
April 18, 2007, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman, 4:10 pm, Spring Awards Ceremony
April 20, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Craig Hawker, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa
http://www.chem.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/hawker/index.shtml
"Facile Chemistry for the Synthesis of Polymeric Nanostructures: From Cardiovascular Disease to Microelectronics"
(Student Invited)
April 25, 2007, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Dr. Cynthia Friend, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
http://www.chem.harvard.edu/groups/friend/
"Dynamic Restructuring at the Nanoscale: Reactions on Au surfaces"
(Iota Sigma Pi)
April 27, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Dr. Michael Morris, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
http://www.umich.edu/~morgroup/index.html
"What Raman Spectroscopy Can Tell Us About Structure, Function and Pathology of Muculoseletal Tissue"
(Smith)
April 27, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Sandra J. Rosenthal, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Chemistry/faculty/bio.php?ID=37
"Structure-Property Relationships in Functional Quantum Dots: From Biological Imaging to Solid State Lighting"
(Petrich)
May 2, 2007, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman, 4:10 pm
Yulin Huang, Lin Group, Iowa State University
"Chirally Functionalized Porous Inorganic Materials for Asymmetric Heterogeneous Catalysis"
May 11, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Simon Lotz, Department of Chemistry, University of Pretoria, South Africa
http://www.up.ac.za/academic/chem/staff/simon.html
"Diverse Coordination Modes and Template Effects of Transition Metal Aryl, Acyl and Carbene Complexes"
(Angelici)
May 15, 2007, Tuesday, 1148 Gerdin Business Building, 8:00 pm, Iowa State Presidential Lecture in Chemistry
Dr. Nate S. Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech
http://nsl.caltech.edu/index.html
"Scientific Challenges in Sustainable Energy Technology"
A reception with refreshments will begin at 7:30 pm prior to the lecture.
May 16, 2007, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:10 pm
Dr. Nate S. Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech
http://nsl.caltech.edu/index.html
"An Electronic Nose from Arrays of Polymer Composite Vapor Sensors"
May 21, 2007, Monday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:10 pm, The Velmer A. Fassel Lecture
Prof. Joel M. Harris, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah
http://www.chem.utah.edu/faculty/harrisj/index.html
"Spectroscopy under the Microscope: Analysis of Dispersed Particles and Single Molecules"
(Yeung)
June 11, 2007, Monday, 1652 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Prof. Carmen Najera-Domingo, Department of Chemistry, University of Allicante, Spain
http://www.ua.es/dept.quimorg/webcarmen/Web_Carmen_Najera1.html
"Palladium-Catalyzed C-C Bond Forming Reactions in Aqueous Media"
(Larock)
June 12, 2007, Tuesday, 1651 Gilman Hall, 1:30 pm
Prof. Miguel Yus Astiz, Department of Chemistry, University of Allicante, Spain
"Asymmetric Catalysis: Synthesis of Chiral Tertiary Alcohols"
(Larock)
July 12, 2007, Thursday, 1652 Gilman Hall, 3:30 pm
Sarah Cady, Hong Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Conformation and Orientation of the Influenza A M2 Peptide from Solid-State NMR"
August 24, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:10 pm, Department of Chemistry Fall Convocation
Prof. Gordon J. Miller, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/Gordon_Miller/
"Chains, Planes and Polyhedra: Unraveling the Character of Complex Intermetallics"
August 31, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Xi Chen, Department of Chemisty, University of California - Davis
http://www.chem.ucdavis.edu/cfmx/fpage2.cfm?id=64
"Chemoenzymatic Approaches to Studying Carbohydrate-recognizing Proteins"
(Pohl)
September 7, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Paul Maggard (PhD '00, Corbett Group), Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University
http://www.ncsu.edu/chemistry/facultyPages/pam.html
"The Hydrothermal and Flux Syntheses of Metal-Oxides and -Oxides/Organics for New Photocatalytic And Magnetic Properties"
(Corbett)
September 14, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Clark R. Landis, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison
http://www.chem.wisc.edu/people/profiles/landis.php
"Enantioselective Catalysis with Diazaphos Ligands"
September 14, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Jon Parquette, Center for Materials Research, The Ohio State University
http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/cgi/brochure?Faculty=Parquette
"The Structure and Function of Folded Oligomers and Dendrimers"
(Zhao)
September 18, 2007, Tuesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 7:30 pm, Sponsored by the Ames Local Section of the ACS
Dr. Douglas J. Raber, GreenPoint Science
"Bombs and Anthrax: Advising the Federal Government on Terrorism"
(Burnett)
September 21, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Dr. Sheng Dai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/csd/Research_areas/NC_staff.htm
"Synthesis and Functionalization of Mesoporous Carbon Materials"
(Lin)
September 21, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Peter J. Rossky, Marvin K. Collie-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas, Austin
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/directory/peter_rossky/
"Hydration at the Nanoscale"
(Song)
September 28, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Gregory N. Tew, Polymer Science and Engineering Department
http://www.pse.umass.edu/~gtew/
"Novel Molecular Scaffolds for Studies in BioNanoTechnology"
(Jeffries-EL)
September 28, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Michael Widom, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University
http://info.phys.cmu.edu/people/faculty/Widom/
"Cohesive Energies and Phase Stability in the Al-Co and Al-Co-Ni Alloy Systems"
(Thiel/Song)
October 3, 2007, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman, 4:10 pm, Life Skills for the Technical Professional I
Dennis Banasiak, Ph.D., Independent Consultant,, West Des Moines, Iowa
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/seminars/tps.html
Dr. Dennis Banasiak (B.S., chemistry, DePaul, 1972; Ph.D., organic chemistry, Iowa State University, 1977 ) will be offering a series of four seminars in a series entitled, "Life Skills for the Technical Professional." The series is free of charge and designed for scientists and engineers who will be entering the workforce. There will be four one-hour sessions with additional time for discussion (30 minutes) after each session.
The seminar series will provide information to:
o assist in making decisions on the type of job to seek;
o understand and evaluate the job offer;
o navigate and communicate in the new organization;
o introduce general business financial and operating principles;
o manage one's career.
Dr. Banasiak has a unique background in the field of bioenergy:
Ph.D. chemist with direct experience in biotechnology, specialty chemical, agricultural chemical, and oil and gas industries.
Executive experience with start up and growth situations, joint venture formation, and commercial development of large scale engineering projects.
President & CEO for 9 years
AgriSense, A JV between Phillips Petroleum and Dow Corning, Certis USA, a Mitsui & Company Subsidiary
Lead Project Developer for 10+ Years
Phillips Petroleum; Provesta; AgriSense; Certis USA
Technology Management & Development for 20+ Years
Phillips Petroleum; Provesta; AgriSense; Certis USA
Independent Consultant
October 4, 2007, Thursday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 8:00 pm, The 31st Annual Gilman Lecture
CANCELLED!!!
Prof. Jean M. J. Fréchet, Henry Rapoport Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
http://chem.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/frechet/frechet.html
"Designing Macromolecules for Chemotherapy"
(Trahanovsky)
October 5, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Yan Zhao, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/Yan_Zhao/
"Learning from Nature: A Conformational Approach to Responsive Supramolecular Hosts, Catalysts, and Sensors"
October 10, 2007, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman, 4:10 pm, Life Skills for the Technical Professional II
Dennis Banasaik, Ph.D., Independent Consultant, West Des Moines, Iowa
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/seminars/tps.html
October 17, 2007, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman, 4:10 pm, LIfe Skills for the Technical Professional III
Dennis Banasiak, Ph.D., Independent Consultant, West Des Moines, Iowa
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/seminars/tps.html
October 18, 2007, Thursday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 7:30 pm, Sponsored by the Ames Local Section of the ACS
Prof. Stanley E. Manahan, Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri - Columbia
http://www.chem.missouri.edu/faculty/Manahan/index.html
"Toxicological Chemistry and Toxic Terror"
(Burnett)
October 22, 2007, Monday, 301 B Spedding Hall, 10:00 am
Prof. Bernard C. Gerstein, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/Bernard_Gerstein/
"NMR, Its Past and My Present"
October 24, 2007, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman, 4:10 pm, LIfe Skills for the Technical Professional IV
Dennis Banasiak, Ph.D., Independent Consultant, West Des Moines, Iowa
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/seminars/tps.html
October 26, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Dr. Bert de Jong, Senior Research Scientist, WR Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
http://emslbios.pnl.gov/id/dejong_wa
"Exploring Actinide Chemistry Through A Combination of Computational Modeling and Experiment"
(Windus)
November 2, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. T. Brent Gunnoe, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University
http://www.ncsu.edu/chemistry/facultyPages/tbg.html
"Use of Well-Defined Ruthenium, Platinum and Copper Complexes for the Activation of X-H Bonds (X = C, N, O or S)"
(Lin)
November 2, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Karl T. Mueller, Department of Chemistry, Penn State University
http://www.chem.psu.edu/faculty/ktm2
"Surface-Mediated Processes in the Environment: Combining Solid-State NMR, Computational Studies, and Cyberinfrastructure"
Abstract
Advanced spectroscopic and computational tools allow fundamental studies of the relationship between structure and function at surfaces in the environment Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one area where recent advances in surface selectivity or overall sensitivity have pushed technological limits, now allowing new analyses of lower surface area materials or insensitive (but important) chemical species in the environment. To provide examples of the power of these techniques, I will present our recent work in detecting reactive species on complex oxide surfaces using solid-state NMR, following the kinetics of neophase formation from the caustic weathering of soil minerals, and the detection of nuclides such as strontium in aluminosilicate systems. These studies are further facilitated through their integration into a new NSF-funded project aimed at producing collaborative cyberinfrastructure tools to promote multi-disciplinary, multi-scale research in environmental molecular sciences.
(Pruski)
November 9, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. David G. Whitten, Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico
"Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Biosensing and Biocidal Applications"
(Jenks)
November 9, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Uwe Burghaus, Department of Chemistry, North Dakota State University
http://www.uweburghaus.de/
"Gas-Nanotube Interactions: An Ultra-High Vacuum Molecular Beam Scattering Study"
(Thiel)
November 12, 2007, Monday, 1810 Gilman Hall, 11:00 am
Prof. Zeev Rosenzweig, Department of Chemistry, University of New Orleans
http://www.chem.uno.edu/ChemistryDepartmentfolder/Rosenzweig.html
"Luminescent Quantum Dot Based Probes for Cellular Assays"
(Yeung)
November 16, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman, 1:10 pm
Prof. Stephen L. Craig, Department of Chemistry, Duke University
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Chemistry/faculty/stephen.craig
"Mechanisms and Mechanochemistry in Single Molecules, Interfaces, and Macroscopic Materials"
(Jeffries-EL)
November 16, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Yoshitaka Ishii, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Chicago
http://www.chem.uic.edu/WWW/FACULTY/Ishii/FACULTY.HTM
"Solid-State NMR Studies of Amyloid Misfolding and Paramagnetic Systems"
(Hong)
November 30, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. George G. Stanley, Cyril & Tutta Vetter Alumni Professor, Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University
http://chemistry.lsu.edu/stanley/
"Bimetallic Cooperativity in Homogeneous Catalysis: From Hydroformylation to Hydrogen Production (from Water!)"
(Woo)
November 30, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Gregory A. Voth, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah
http://www.chem.utah.edu/faculty/voth/
"Proton Solvation and Transport in Aqueous and Biomolecular Systems: Insights and Surprises Revealed by Computer Simulation"
(Gordon)
December 7, 2007, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Dr. Lyudmila Slipchenko, Gordon Group, Iowa State University
"Forces that govern life: On the way to understanding intermolecular interactions"
(Gordon)
