Thursday, February 10, 2000
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Robert Pascal, Jr.
Princeton University
Polyphenyl Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Friday, February 11, 2000
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Randall Halcomb
University of Colorado
Synthesis of Compounds of Biochemical Interest: Zaragoic Acid, Sialic Acids, and Glycopeptides

Thursday, February 24, 2000
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Russell P. Hughes
Dartmouth College
Activation of Aliphatic C-F Bonds at Transition Metal Centers

Thursday, February 24, 2000
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Margaret Rice
New York University
Regulation of Extracellular Dopamine in the CNS

The Pittsburgh Symposium on the Frontiers of Condensed Matter Science

in conjunction with the Departments of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Departments of Physics and Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University

Professor Steven Chu
Stanford University
Thursday, February 24, 2000
8:00 PM - 243 Masonic Temple
Looking at Enzymes Function, Unfold and Refold, One Molecule at a Time

The Pittsburgh Symposium on the Frontiers of Condensed Matter Science

in conjunction with the Departments of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Departments of Physics and Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University

Professor Steven Chu
Stanford University
Friday, February 25, 2000
4:00 PM - CMU
What Biology Can Do for Physics

Thursday, March 02, 2000
2:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Dr. Craig Hawker
IBM, Almaden Research Center
Studies at the Interface of Organic and Polymer Chemistry: Architecturally Controlled Advanced Materials for the Next Generation of Computers

Thursday, March 02, 2000
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor G. Barney Ellison
University of Colorado at Boulder
Atmospheric Processing of Aerosols
(Perspectives in Chemical Science)

Fourth Annual
Dowd Symposium

Professor Eric Jacobsen
Harvard University
Thursday, March 09, 2000
8:00 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Studies in Asymmetric Catalysis

Fourth Annual
Dowd Symposium

Professor Eric Jacobsen
Harvard University
Friday, March 10, 2000
11:00 AM - Ashe Auditorium
Enantioselective Hetero-Diels Alder Reactions: Synthesis of FR-901464

Thursday, March 16, 2000
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor John Toscano
Johns Hopkins University
Structure and Reactivity of Organic Intermediates as Revealed by Time-Resolved IR Spectroscopy

Thursday, March 16, 2000
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Jeff Krause
University of Florida
Quantum Control of Wave Packet Dynamics
(Perspectives in Chemical Science)

Thursday, March 23, 2000
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Bart Hessen
The Netherlands
C-C Coupling and Polymerization with Early Transition Metal Catalysts

Tuesday, April 04, 2000
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Richard Taylor
Notre Dame University
Synthetic Methods for Chemical Diversity: From Structural to Conformational Libraries

Forty-Fifth Annual
FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Professor Edward S. Yeung
Iowa State University
Wednesday, April 05, 2000
6:15 PM - Room 12 CSC
Chemical Basis for the Dynamic Behavior of Single Mammalian Cells

Forty-Fifth Annual
FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Professor Edward S. Yeung
Iowa State University
Thursday, April 06, 2000
3:30 PM - Room 12 CSC
Imaging Single molecules: Implications on Microenvironments and Disease Diagnosis

Twentieth Annual
Pittsburgh Conference Lectures

Professor Christian Amatore
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Wednesday, April 12, 2000
8:15 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Artificial Synapses Based on Ultramicroelectrodes: Application to the Mechanism of Vesicular Release from Single Cells

Twentieth Annual
Pittsburgh Conference Lectures

Professor Christian Amatore
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Thursday, April 13, 2000
4:00 PM - Ashe Auditorium
Electrochemistry at Ultramicroelectrodes: New Opportunities, New Challenges, and New Problems

Friday, April 14, 2000
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Dr. Christian Amatore
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Catalysis by Palladium Complexes: Are Well-Known Mechanisms So Well-Known?

Thursday, April 20, 2000
2:30 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Peter Petillo
University of Illinois
The Synthesis and Solution Structure of Complex Carbohydrates

Thursday, April 20, 2000
4:00 PM, Ashe Auditorium
Professor Tianquan Lian
Emory University
Electron-Transfer Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanomaterials