2007 Levine Lectures

Professor Paul Weiss
Penn State University
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
4:00 PM - Chevron Science Center 12B
Exploring and Controlling the Atomic-Scale World: Directing Chemical Reactions and Atomically Precise Structures

2007 Levine Lectures

Professor Paul Weiss
Penn State University
Thursday, January 25, 2007
2:30 PM - Chevron Science Center 12B
Designing, Measuring and Controlling Molecular- and Supramolecular-Scale Properties for Molecular Devices

Thursday, February 08, 2007
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center, 12B
Professor Michael Strano
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Chemistry of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Applications to Biomolecular Sensing and Electronic Devices

PhD Proposal Defense

Kristi L ONeal

Monday, February 12, 2007
1:30 PM - Room: n/a
Application of Fluorinated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Fluorous Solid-Phase Extraction Adsorbents

Thursday, February 15, 2007
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center, 12
Professor Michael Golde
University of Pittsburgh
Building Connections in Chemical Education

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense

Brijesh Bhayana

Monday, February 19, 2007
11:00 AM - Room: 245 Chevron
Diffusion and Reaction in SPOS and Noncovalent Interactions in Water

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center, 12B
Professor Kazuya Kikuchi
Osaka University
Fluorescent Sensor Molecules with Tunable Switches for Changing Fluorescence Characteristics for Cellular Imaging

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center, 12B
Professor Frank van Veggel
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Lanthanide(III)-based Photonic Nanomaterials and their Applications

Ph.D. Proposal Defense

Zhi Chen

Thursday, February 22, 2007
10:00 AM - Room: n/a
Flow-Counterbalanced Membrane Electrophoresis for Preparative Chiral Separation

Thursday, February 22, 2007
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center, 12B
Professor Ann Valentine
Yale University
Bioinorganic Chemistry of Titanium in Medicine and the Environment

PhD Dissertation Defense

Jamie M McCabe Dunn

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
12:00 PM - Room: n/a
APPLICATION OF Rh(I)-CATALYSIS TO NATURAL PRODUCT SYNTHESIS: ROUTES TO OVALICIN AND GUANACASTEPENE A

Thursday, March 01, 2007
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center, 12B
Professor Jef K. De Brabander
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
Chemical Adventures at a Biomedical Powerhouse

Thursday, March 01, 2007
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Norbert Scherer
University of Chicago
Resonantly Tweezing Single Plasmonic Objects to Controlling Plasmonic Excitations of Metal Nano-particles

Thursday, March 15, 2007
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Thomas Hoye
University of Minnesota
Oldies but (Still) Goodies: "Diels-Alders", "Copes", and Steroids

Thursday, March 15, 2007
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor John Marohn
Cornell University
Nanoscale Imaging of Charge and Spin

PhD Proposal Defense

Mark Morris

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
2:00 PM - Room: n/a
Towards Complete Miniaturization of a GC and Unambiguous Volatile Organic Compound Identification

Thursday, March 22, 2007
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Ohyun Kwon
University of California, Los Angeles
Phosphine Catalysis of Allenes in Target-Oriented Synthesis (TOS) and Diversity-Oriented Synthesis (DOS)

Thursday, March 22, 2007
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center 12B
Professor Boyd Goodson
Southern Illinois University
Xenon, Liquid Crystals, and SPIONs: Tools for Enhancing Sensitivity and Information Content in NMR and MRI

PhD Dissertation Defense

Mark Ams

Monday, March 26, 2007
11:00 AM - Room: n/a
Intramolecularly Sensitized Precipitons

PhD Proposal Defense

Zhi Chen

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
10:00 AM - Room: n/a
Flow-Counterbalanced Membrane Electrophoresis for Preparative Chiral Separation

Thursday, March 29, 2007
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center, 12B
Professor Patrick Unwin
University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Visualization of Interfacial Physicochemical Processes

Thursday, April 05, 2007
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center, 12B
Professor Karl Scheidt
Northwestern University
Through the Looking Glass: New Developments and Applications of Unconventional Bond Forming Methodology

Thursday, April 12, 2007
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center, 12B
Professor Marsha Lester
University of Pennsylvania
Significant OH Radical Reactions in the Lower Atmosphere: A New View

Wednesday, April 18, 2007
7:15 PM, Chevron Science Center, 12
Dr. Chris Miller
Wyeth Laboratories
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: SERMs, Subtype Selective Estrogens and TSECs, the Evolving Story of Estrogen Pharmacotherapy

Thursday, April 19, 2007
2:30 PM, Chevron Science Center, 12B
Professor Sidney Hecht
University of Virginia
Protein Synthesis Using Tandemly Activated tRNAs

Thursday, April 19, 2007
4:00 PM, Chevron Science Center, 12B
Professor Kristina Hakansson
University of Michigan
Gas-phase Radical Ion Chemistry for Biomolecular Structural Characterization

Friday, April 20, 2007
3:00 PM, Chevron Science Center, 12A
Professor David Parker
Durham University
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PhD Dissertation Defense

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Thursday, April 26, 2007
6:30 PM - Room: n/a
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Tenth Annual Dowd Lectures

Professor Kendall N. Houk
University of California, Los Angeles
Monday, April 30, 2007
1:30 PM - Chevron Science Center, 12
Enzyme Catalysis and the Design of New Enzymes

Tenth Annual Dowd Lectures

Professor Julius Rebek, Jr.
The Scripps Research Institute
Monday, April 30, 2007
2:50 PM - Chevron Science Center, 12
The Inner Space of Molecules

Tenth Annual Dowd Lectures

Professor Samuel Danishefsky
Columbia University & Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital
Monday, April 30, 2007
4:30 PM - Chevron Science Center, Room 12
Applications of Total Synthesis to Problems of Biological Consequence