Thursday, January 21, 1999
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor H.-L. Dai
University of Pennsylvania
Highly Excited Molecules: Energy Transfer and Time-resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy

Friday, January 22, 1999
2:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor H.-L. Dai
University of Pennsylvania
aser and Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy on Surfaces and in Colloids

Twelfth Annual
KAUFMAN LECTURES

Dr. John Hopfield
Princeton University
Wednesday, January 27, 1999
7:00 PM - Ashe Auditorium
How Do We Think So Fast?

Twelfth Annual
KAUFMAN LECTURES

Dr. John Hopfield
Princeton University
Thursday, January 28, 1999
4:00 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Olfaction - The Oldest Sense

Thursday, February 04, 1999
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Chad Mirkin
Northwestern University
Programmed Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticles into Functional Materials

Thursday, February 11, 1999
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Dominic V. McGrath
University of Arizona
New Photochromic Macromolecular Architectures

Friday, February 12, 1999
2:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Peter Rossky
University of Texas
Molecular Mechanisms of Excited State Relaxation in Solution

Nineteenth Annual
PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE LECTURES

Dr. Andreas Manz
Imperial College of Science, London
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
8:15 PM - Ashe Auditorium
The Incredibly Shrinking Lab

Nineteenth Annual
PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE LECTURES

Dr. Andreas Manz
Imperial College of Science, London
Thursday, February 18, 1999
1:30 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Cyclic Separations Using Chip Microstructures and a Novel Fourier Transform Concept

Friday, February 19, 1999
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Alois Furstner
Max-Planck Institut Kohlen Forschung
Metal Catalyzed Macrocyclization Reactions Revisited

Thursday, February 25, 1999
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Robert Austin
Princeton University
Applications of Microlithography in Molecular Biology
postponed

Friday, February 26, 1999
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Peter Dorhout
University of Colorado
University of Colorado The Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Heavy-Ion Selective Sorption Materials for Environmental Remediation

Tuesday, March 02, 1999
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Junzo Otera
Okayama University of Science
New Concepts for Compaction of Chemical Process

Tuesday, March 02, 1999
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor John Frederick
University of Nevada
Nonadiabatic Relaxation of Photochemistry of Polyenes

Tuesday, March 09, 1999
4:45 PM, Joint CMU and University of Pittsburgh Seminar. To be held in the MI Conference Room at CMU.
Professor Andrew Rappe
University of Pennsylvania
Molecule Surface Properties by Design

The Pittsburgh Symposium on the Frontiers of Condensed Matter Science

Professor Benjamin Widom
Cornell University
Monday, March 15, 1999
4:30 PM - Carnegie Mellon University - 7500 Wean Hall
Model of the Hydrophobic Interaction

The Pittsburgh Symposium on the Frontiers of Condensed Matter Science

Professor Benjamin Widom
Cornell University
Tuesday, March 16, 1999
3:00 PM - Room 12 Chevron Science Center
Molecular-motor Model

Third Annual
DOWD SYMPOSIUM

Professor Laura Kiessling
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Thursday, March 18, 1999
8:00 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Carbohydrates in Cell - Cell Recognition Processes

Third Annual
DOWD SYMPOSIUM

Professor Laura Kiessling
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Friday, March 19, 1999
2:00 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Synthesis and Applications of Glycoprotein-Inspired Materials

Tuesday, March 30, 1999
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor David L. Van Vranken
University of California, Irvine
Protein Aging: Clues for Natural Products Synthesis

Thursday, April 01, 1999
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Suk-Wah Tam-Chang
University of Nevada, Reno
Controlling Molecular Assembly and Properties of Organic Thin Films by Rational Design

Thursday, April 01, 1999
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Mike White
University of Texas at Austin
Photon Drive Chemistry of Adsorbates
(Perspectives in Chemical Science)

Tuesday, April 06, 1999
4:00 AM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Maryanne Collinson
Kansas State University
Sol-gel Derived Materials: Chemistry, Structure, and Applications

Thursday, April 08, 1999
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Billy W. Day
University of Pittsburgh
Medicinal Chemistry of Novel Microtubule Perturbing Agents

Monday, April 19, 1999
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Lynne Regan
Yale University
Design of Proteins with Novel Structures and Activities

Forty-Fourth Annual
FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Professor Alexander Pines
University of California, Berkeley
Monday, April 19, 1999
8:15 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Some Magnetic Moments

Forty-Fourth Annual
FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Professor Alexander Pines
University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, April 20, 1999
12:30 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Ups and Downs of Spins in Solids

Tuesday, April 20, 1999
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Felicia Etzkorn
University of Virginia
Rare Protein Turns: Helix-Turn-Helix and cis-Proline Mimics

Thursday, April 22, 1999
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Geraldine Richmond
University of Oregon
Molecular Structure and Bonding at Liquid Surfaces and Interfaces
postponed

Friday, April 23, 1999
1:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Rebecca Conry
University of Nevada, Reno
Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of Unique Copper(I) Complexes