Tuesday, January 13, 1998
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium CSC
Professor Paul Weiss
Pennsylvania State University
Atomic-Scale Views of Interactions and Dynamics of Molecules on Surfaces

Monday, February 02, 1998
10:00 AM, SSC Conference Room (Eberly Hall)
Professor Andre Peremans
Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgium
Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy of Charge Transfer at Interfaces

Tuesday, February 03, 1998
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium CSC
Professor John Simons
Univeristy of Oxford, England
Collider-scopic Visions: The Stereodynamics of Gas Phase Biomolecular Reactions

Eighteenth Annual
PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE LECTURES

Dr. James K. Gimzewski
IBM, Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Wednesday, February 04, 1998
8:15 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Exploring Nano,Femto, Pico and Atto Using Micromechanics and Nanoscale Science

Eighteenth Annual
PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE LECTURES

Dr. James K. Gimzewski
IBM, Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Thursday, February 05, 1998
3:00 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Engineering with Single Molecules. Architectures of Tomorrow

Thursday, February 12, 1998
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium CSC
Professor Bradley Smith
Notre Dame University
Ion and Biomolecule Recognition Using Organoboron Receptors

Thursday, February 12, 1998
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium CSC
Professor Michael Wasielewski
Northwestern Univeristy
Ultrafast Optical Control of Electron Transfer within Complex Molecules

Tuesday, February 17, 1998
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Richard W. Pekala
PPG Industries
Organic Aerogels: Controlling Structure and Properties at the Nanometer Scale
postponed

Thursday, February 19, 1998
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium CSC
Professor Andrew Ewing
Pennsylvania State Univeristy
Tools to Understand Exocytosis: Microelectrochemistry, Microelectrophoresis, and TOF SIMS Imaging

Thursday, February 19, 1998
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium CSC
Professor Philip Coppens
State University of New York at Buffalo
Measurement and Interpretation of Charge Density by X-ray Diffraction

Tuesday, February 24, 1998
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium CSC
Professor E. C. Lim
University of Akron
Electronic Relaxation of Vibrating Molecules

Thursday, February 26, 1998
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium CSC
Professor Jin Zhang
University of California, Santa Cruz
Femtosecond Studies of Charge Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductor and Metal Colloidal Nano-particles: Effects of Size and Surface

Friday, March 06, 1998
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium CSC
Professor Julian Talbot
Duquesne University
Investigations of Protein Adsorption Kinetics

Second Annual
DOWD SYMPOSIUM

Professor Reza Ghadiri
Scripps Research Institute
Wednesday, March 11, 1998
8:15 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Template-Directed Control of Peptide and Protein Architecture

Second Annual
DOWD SYMPOSIUM

Professor Reza Ghadiri
Scripps Research Institute
Thursday, March 12, 1998
3:00 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Self-Assembly of Tubular Nanostructures

Tuesday, March 17, 1998
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium CSC
Professor Jan-Åke Jönsson
Lund University
Supported Liquid Membrane Extraction as a Tool for Sample Preparation

Thursday, March 19, 1998
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Clifford P. Kubiak
Purdue University
Electron Transfer on the Infrared Time Scale and the Resistance of Individual Molecules

Tuesday, March 24, 1998
2:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor T. Mallouk
Pennsylvania State University
A Bricks and Mortar Approach to New Solids and Surfaces

Tuesday, March 24, 1998
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor James Panek
Boston University
Synthetic Studies and Stereochemical Assignment of Marine Natural Products
(Postponed- to be rescheduled)

Thursday, March 26, 1998
4:00 AM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Dor Ben-Amotz
Purdue University
Real-Time Raman and Hyper-Spectral Imaging Using Fiber-Bundle Image Compression (FIC)

Thursday, March 26, 1998
1:15 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Dennis A. Dougherty
California Institute of Technology
High Precision Studies of the Nicotinic Receptor: Physical Organic Chemistry on the Brain

Tuesday, April 07, 1998
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor James Tanko
Virginia Tech University
Activation-Driving Force Relationships in Radical Rearrangements

The Pittsburgh Symposium on the Frontiers of Condensed Matter Science

in conjunction with the Department of Physics of the University of Pittsburgh and the Department of Physics of Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Jacob Israelachvili
University of California, Santa Barbara
Wednesday, April 08, 1998
8:00 PM - Chevron 12B
Effects of Liquid Structuring on the Static and Dynamic Forces Between Surfaces

Thursday, April 09, 1998
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Ian P. Rothwell
Purdue University
A New Generation of Homogeneous Arene Hydrogenation Catalysts

The Pittsburgh Symposium on the Frontiers of Condensed Matter Science

in conjunction with the Department of Physics of the University of Pittsburgh and the Department of Physics of Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Jacob Israelachvili
University of California, Santa Barbara
Thursday, April 09, 1998
4:15 PM - Department of Physics - 750 Wean Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
Adhesion and Tribology at the Molecular Scale: Differences between Rough and Smooth Surfaces

Forty-Third Annual
FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Dr. Tobin J. Marks
Northwestern University
Tuesday, April 14, 1998
8:30 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Molecular Self-Assembly Routes to Optically Functional Thin Films

Forty-Third Annual
FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Dr. Tobin J. Marks
Northwestern University
Wednesday, April 15, 1998
11:00 AM - Ashe Auditorium
Metal-Ligand Bonding Energetics and the Invention of New Catalytic Reactions

Monday, April 27, 1998
10:30 AM, Ashe Auditorium
Dr. Eugenia Trushina
Mayo Clinic - Department of Pharmacology
Chemiluminescence-Based Detection of Nitric Oxide in Biological Fluids