Chemistry Seminars


Seminars for Wednesday, January 01, 2003 to Wednesday, April 30, 2003


Tuesday, January 07, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12
Professor Mike Sailor
University of California San Diego
Smart Dust: Photonic Crystals Derived from Nanocrystalline Porous Si


Thursday, January 16, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Hiroaki Suga
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Induction and Inhibition of Bacterial Quorum Sensing by Synthetic Molecules, and Artificial Ribozymes for Biotechnological Applications


Thursday, January 30, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Dr. John Porco
Boston University
Exploring Chemical Diversity of Bioactive Natural Products


Thursday, January 30, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Al-Amin Dhirani
University of Toronto
Exploiting Nanoscale Structure: From Tuning Single Electron Effects to Driving Insulator-Metal Transitions


Tuesday, February 04, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12
Professor David Clemmer
Indiana University
Anhydrous Protein Ions: Understanding Elements of Structure and Applications in the Emerging Field of Proteomics


Thursday, February 06, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor John Hartwig
Yale University
Enantioselective Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Nitrogen Bond Formation


Thursday, February 06, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Darryl Y. Sasaki
Sandia National Laboratories
Chemical Recognition on Lipid Membranes


Thursday, February 13, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor James Morken
University North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Development and Utility of New Stereoselective Catalytic Reactions


Tuesday, February 18, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Ghislain Deslongchamps
University of New Brunswick
Web-Based Chemistry Flashware: Transparent Teaching and Learning Tools


Thursday, February 20, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Dr. Ralph Scannell
UCB Research, Inc.
The Chemistry and Biology of Novel, Dual Acting 5-Lipoxygenase Inhibitors and H1 Receptor Antagonists for the Treatment of Asthma


Thursday, February 20, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Dr. Philippe Maitre
University Paris-Sud, Orsay France
Infrared Spectroscopy of Selectively Prepared Ions in the Gas Phase


Thursday, February 27, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Michael V. Mirkin
CUNY, Queens College
Probing Redox Activity of Mammalian Cells: Kinetic Analysis, Electrochemical Imaging and Detection of Cancer Cells


Thursday, March 06, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Karen Wooley
Washington University at St. Louis
Regiochemical Control Across Nanoscale Molecular Frameworks


Thursday, March 06, 2003
4:00 PM, TBA
Professor Cather Simpson
Case Western Reserve University

POSTPONED


Friday, March 07, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Vincent Pecoraro
University of Michigan
Rational and Rationalizing Design of Inorganic Solids and Chiral Hosts Using Metallacrowns


Tuesday, March 18, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12
Dr. Scott Hanton
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
New Advances in Polymer MALDI


Thursday, March 20, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Kwang S. Kim
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Theoretical Insights into the Kaleidoscopic World of Gas Phase Clusters and Nanomaterials


Thursday, March 20, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Noemi Mirkin
University of Michigan
Building a Better Mousetrap: Is There Room Out There for Another Force Field


Tuesday, April 01, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12
Professor Matthew Zimmt
Brown University
Electron Tunneling Through Organic Media: In Solution and at Interfaces


Thursday, April 03, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor A. Welford Castleman
Penn State University
Clusters: Building Blocks of Nanoscale Materials


Twenty-Third Annual
PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE LECTURES

Professor Wolfgang Kiefer
Universitaet Wuerzburg, Germany
Monday, April 07, 2003
2:30 PM - Room 12B
Femtosecond Coherent Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy


Twenty-Third Annual
PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE LECTURES

Professor Wolfgang Kiefer
Universitaet Wuerzburg, Germany
Tuesday, April 08, 2003
8:00 PM - Room 12
Physics and Chemistry in Microdroplets


Forty-Eighth Annual
FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Professor Charles Lieber
Harvard University
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
5:30 PM - Room 12
CANCELLED


Forty-Eighth Annual
FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Professor Charles Lieber
Harvard University
Thursday, April 17, 2003
1:30 PM - Room 12A
CANCELLED


Seventh Annual
DOWD LECTURE SERIES

Professor Chaitan Khosla
Stanford University
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
5:30 PM - Room 12
Scaleable Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural Polyketides by Biosynthetic Engineering


Seventh Annual
DOWD LECTURE SERIES

Professor Chaitan Khosla
Stanford University
Wednesday, April 30, 2003
2:30 PM - Room 12
Chemistry and Biology of Celiac Sprue