MS Thesis Defense

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Saturday, January 01, 2005
1:00 AM - Room: n/a
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PhD Dissertation Defense

Youseung Shin

Tuesday, February 01, 2005
2:00 PM - Eberly 325
Total Synthesis of the Macrolactone Anticancer Agent Dictyostatin and Analogs

Thursday, February 03, 2005
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Peter Belshaw
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chemical and Biological Approaches for the Regulation of Protein Function with Small Molecules

Thursday, February 03, 2005
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Michael A. Duncan
The University of Georgia
Infrared Spectroscopy and Dynamics in Cation-Molecular Clusters

Tuesday, February 08, 2005
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12
Professor Yehiam Prior
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Studying Molecules with Shaped Ultrashort Light Pulses

Thursday, February 10, 2005
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor George Luther
University of Delaware
Exploring Diverse Biogeochemical Environments Using in Situ Electrochemistry

Thursday, February 10, 2005
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor David E. Bergbreiter
Texas A&M University
Soluble Polymers as Easily Separable Supports in Catalysis and Synthesis

Thursday, February 17, 2005
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Rigoberto Hernandez
Georgia Institute of Technology
Simple Models for Biological Processes and Material Properties

Wednesday, February 23, 2005
5:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12
Professor Art Ellis
National Science Foundation
Advancing the Chemical Sciences through Partnerships with the National Science Foundation

Thursday, February 24, 2005
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12
Professor Art Ellis
National Science Foundation
The ABCs of Nanotechnology: Atoms, Bits, and Civilization

Thursday, February 24, 2005
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Gary Gerfen
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
Protein structure determination via EPR of endogenous and introduced electron spins

1st Annual
Novartis Lectures

Professor Léon Ghosez
Institut Européen de Chimie et de Biologie (IECB), and Universite Catholique de Louvain
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
4:00 PM - Chevron Science Center 12 B
Silicon-triggered organic reactions

Thursday, March 03, 2005
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Paul Hanson
University of Kansas
Metathesis Enabled Combinatorial Chemistry for Drug Discovery

Thursday, March 03, 2005
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Joan-Emma Shea
University of California, Santa Barbara
Simulations of Chaperonin-Mediated Protein Folding

Thursday, March 17, 2005
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Li Nui
SUNY Albany
Rapid Kinetic Studies of Ion Channel Glutamate Receptors, and Development of Novel Aptamers

MS Thesis Defense

Robert W. Walters

Wednesday, March 30, 2005
12:30 PM - CSC 245
The Use of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Transition Metal Catalysis

Thursday, March 31, 2005
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Blake Peterson
Penn State University
Synthetic Mimics of Mammalian Cell Surface Receptors: Novel Tools for Targeting Cells and Ligands

Thursday, March 31, 2005
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Ron Naaman
Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Interactions of Electrons and DNA

Twenty-Fifth Annual
Pittsburgh Conference Lecture

Professor Pat J. Sandra
Ghent University, Belgium
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
5:30 PM - Chevron Science Center 12 A
The 1999 Belgian Dioxin Crisis

Twenty-Fifth Annual
Pittsburgh Conference Lecture

Professor Pat J. Sandra
Ghent University, Belgium
Thursday, April 07, 2005
2:30 PM - Chevron Science Center 12 B
Towards High Resolution in Fluid Chromatographic Techniques for Pharmaceutical Analysis

Thursday, April 07, 2005
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Charles T. Campbell
University of Washington
Probing Chemical Reactions at Surfaces: A Few New Methods

PhD Dissertation Defense

Bridget M. Willoughby

Tuesday, April 12, 2005
10:00 AM - Room: n/a
Quatitative voltammetric analysis in the brain: functional significance of tonic extracellular dopamine levels

Thursday, April 14, 2005
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Paul Braun
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Colloidal Crystal Based 3-D Chemical Sensors and Optical Waveguides, and Brief comments on the Colloidal Templating of Biologically Active Hollow Nanospheres

PhD Dissertation Defense

Alexei V. Tivanski

Friday, April 15, 2005
10:30 AM - Room: n/a
Spatially and Temporally Resolved Studies of Electron Transfer Reactions in Solutions and Thin Organic Surfaces

PhD Dissertation Defense

YUJIE SUN

Friday, April 15, 2005
1:00 PM - Room: n/a
MECHANICS OF PARTICLE AND POLYMER ASSEMBLIES

PhD Dissertation Defense

Larissa Stebounova

Monday, April 18, 2005
9:00 AM - Room: n/a
Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy for Measuring Materials Properties at the Nanoscale

PhD Dissertation Defense

Olivier Guise

Monday, April 18, 2005
2:00 PM - Room: n/a
Production and Characterization of Novel Nanostructure Materials

MS Thesis Defense

Andrey V. Tataurov

Tuesday, April 19, 2005
10:00 AM - Room: n/a
MEASUREMENT OF LATERAL DIFFUSION IN LIPIDS

Tuesday, April 19, 2005
1:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 A
Professor Oleg V. Ozerov
Brandeis University
Ligand Design and Reactivity: Chicken and Egg?

Thursday, April 21, 2005
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor James Leighton
Columbia University
Strained Silacycles: A Powerful Platform for Asymmetric and Tandem Reaction Design

PhD Dissertation Defense

Colleen Scott

Thursday, April 21, 2005
3:30 PM - Room: n/a
Synthetic Developments in Organic and Spramolecular Chemistry

Thursday, April 21, 2005
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12 B
Professor Martin Jarrold
Indiana University
Melting in Small Systems