Thursday, January 15, 2004
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Patrick Walsh
University of Pennsylvania
Asymmetric C-C Bond-Forming Reactions

Thursday, January 22, 2004
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor L. Andrew Lyon
Georgia Institute of Technology
Exploring and Exploiting Colloidal Hydrogels

Thursday, January 29, 2004
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Armin de Meijere
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Facile Construction of Complex Organic Molecules by New Palladium-Catalyzed Cascade Reactions

Thursday, February 05, 2004
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Colin Nuckolls
Columbia University
Creating New Materials through Self-Assembly

Thursday, February 05, 2004
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Kirk S. Schanze
University of Florida
Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Self-Assembly, Amplified Quenching and Application to Biosensors

Thursday, February 12, 2004
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Tomislav Rovis
Colorado State University
Organic and Metal Catalysts for the Control of Stereochemistry in Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions

Thursday, February 19, 2004
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor John Brauman
Stanford University
Hydrogen Bonding: Acidity, Basicity, and Proton Transfer Reactions

Thursday, February 19, 2004
4:00 PM, 325 Eberly Hall
Dr. Hirotsugu Hiramatsu
Center for Integrative Biosciences and Institute for Molecular Sciences, Okazaki Japan
Core Structure of Amyloid Fibril Proposed from IR Linear Dichroism

Thursday, February 26, 2004
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor David Shortle
Johns Hopkins University
Sidechain/Backbone Interactions Encode a Native-like Topology in the Denatured States of Several Proteins

Tuesday, March 02, 2004
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Léon Ghosez
Institut Européen de Chimie et de Biologie (IECB), and Universite Catholique de Louvain
Silicon-triggered organic reactions

Tuesday, March 02, 2004
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Léon Ghosez
Institut Européen de Chimie et de Biologie (IECB), and Universite Catholique de Louvain
Silicon-triggered organic reactions

Thursday, March 04, 2004
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor John Gladysz
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
From sp Carbon Chains to sp³ Carbon Double Helices: How to Insulate a Molecular Wire

Friday, March 05, 2004
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Takashi Kakiuchi
Kyoto University
Electrochemical Instability: A New Concept?

Twenty-Fourth Annual
PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE LECTURES

Professor Karin Markides
Uppsala University, Sweden
Monday, March 15, 2004
5:30 PM - Room 12
Nano, Micro, Macro - All in One Chip!

Twenty-Fourth Annual
PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE LECTURES

Professor Karin Markides
Uppsala University, Sweden
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
2:30 PM - Room 12
New Opportunities in Liquid Separation - Mass Spectrometry

Eighth Annual
DOWD LECTURES

Professor David MacMillan
Caltech
Monday, March 22, 2004
5:30 PM - Room 12
Iminum Catalysis: A New Catalysis Concept of Broad Utility to Chemical Synthesis

Eighth Annual
DOWD LECTURES

Professor David MacMillan
Caltech
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
2:30 PM - Room 12
Enamine Catalysis: Teaching an Old Dog Some New Tricks

Forty-Ninth Annual
FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Professor David Walt
Tufts University
Thursday, March 25, 2004
5:30 PM - TBA
Optical Sensor Arrays as a Platform for Systems Biology

Forty-Ninth Annual
FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Professor David Walt
Tufts University
Friday, March 26, 2004
2:30 PM - Room 12B
Lessons from the Olfactory System Applied to Chemical Sensing

Thursday, April 01, 2004
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Glen L. Millhauser
University of California, Santa Cruz
Why We Have Prions: Insights into PrP's Function as a Copper Metalloprotein

Thursday, April 08, 2004
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor David N. Harpp
McGill University
Communicating Chemistry - From the Classroom to the Wider Public

Thursday, April 08, 2004
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Tom James
University of California San Francisco
RNA Structure-Based Drug Discovery

Thursday, April 15, 2004
2:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Suzanne Walker
Princeton University
Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis and its Inhibition

Professor Jean Chmielewski
Purdue University
Thursday, April 15, 2004
2:30 PM - Room 12B
Modulating Protein-Protein Interactions

Thursday, April 15, 2004
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Ed Castner
Rutgers University
Friction Versus Length Scales in Hydrophilic Polymers