Chemistry Seminars


Seminars for Sunday, September 01, 2002 to Tuesday, December 31, 2002


Thursday, September 05, 2002
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Martin Head-Gordon
University of California Berkeley
New Electronic Structure Methods for High Accuracy and Bond-Breaking


Thursday, September 12, 2002
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Viresh Rawal
University of Chicago
Highly Enantioselective Diels-Alder Reactions


Thursday, September 12, 2002
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Xueyu Song
Iowa State University
Protein Crystallization: A Theoretical Perspective


Tuesday, September 17, 2002
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Jillian Buriak
Purdue University
A Road Map of the Organometallic Chemistry of Silicon Surfaces: Towards a Chemical Interface with the Nanoworld


Tuesday, September 17, 2002
7:15 PM, Room 12B
Dr. Craig Lindsley
Merck & Co., Inc.
Fluorous Technology for Solution Phase Parallel Synthesis


Thursday, September 19, 2002
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Ann Andrews
Pennsylvania State University
Serotonin and the Misbehaving Brain


Pitt-CMU
FRONTIERS OF CONDENSED MATTER SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM

Professor Y. R. Shen
University of California Berkeley
Monday, September 23, 2002
4:30 PM - Carnegie Mellon University, Wean Hall 7500
Nonlinear Optical Probing of Molecular Chirality


Pitt-CMU
FRONTIERS OF CONDENSED MATTER SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM

Professor Y. R. Shen
University of California Berkeley
Tuesday, September 24, 2002
2:30 PM - University of Pittsburgh, Room 12 CSC
Surface Melting of Ice
(Perspectives in Chemical Science)


Twenty-Fourth Annual
BAYER LECTURES

Professor Angelica Stacy
University of California Berkeley
Wednesday, October 02, 2002
5:30 PM - Room 12 CSC
Nanowire Arrays for Thermoelectric Refrigerators


Twenty-Fourth Annual
BAYER LECTURES

Professor Angelica Stacy
University of California Berkeley
Thursday, October 03, 2002
2:30 PM - Room 12 CSC
Thinking About Teaching and Learning


Friday, October 04, 2002
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Shu Kobayashi
University of Tokyo
Toward Truly Efficient and Powerful Organic Synthesis


Tuesday, October 08, 2002
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Eric Borguet
University of Pittsburgh
Nanoscale Dymanics at Electrode Interfaces


Wednesday, October 09, 2002
4:00 PM, Room 12A
Professor Mitsuo Tasumi
Saitama University
Further Analyses of the Vibrational Spectra of Benzene and trans-Stilbene Based on Density Functional Caluclations and Raman Measurements


Thursday, October 10, 2002
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Nat Finney
University of California San Diego
Visualizing Molecular Recognition: Fluorescence Chemosensing Mediated by Control of Excited State Dynamics


Thursday, October 10, 2002
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Andrew Teplyakov
University of Delaware
Surface Chemistry of Complex Interfaces: Reactions on Bimetallic Surfaces and Chemistry of Si/TiN/Al Interface


Sixteenth Annual
KAUFMAN LECTURES

Professor Mario J. Molina
Massachusettes Institute of Technology
Tuesday, October 15, 2002
5:30 PM - Room 12 CSC
Atmospheric Chemistry and Flow Reactors
(Perspectives in Chemical Science)


Sixteenth Annual
KAUFMAN LECTURES

Professor Mario J. Molina
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
2:30 PM - Room 12 CSC
Surface Chemistry of Atmospheric Aerosols


Thursday, October 24, 2002
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Hicham Fenniri
Purdue University
Rosette Nanotubes: Adaptive Materials with an Intrinsic Ability to Self-Replicate


Thursday, October 24, 2002
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Mark E. Meyerhoff
University of Michigan
Nitric Oxide Releasing Polymers: Preparation, Characterization and Biomedical Applications


Thursday, October 31, 2002
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Chien Ho
Carnegie Mellon University
Tracking Cell Migration In Vivo by MRI
(Perspectives in Chemical Science)


First Annual
ELI LILLY LECTURES

Professor Barry Trost
Stanford University
Wednesday, November 06, 2002
5:30 PM - Room 12 CSC
On Inventing Reactions for Atom Economy


First Annual
ELI LILLY LECTURES

Professor Barry Trost
Stanford University
Thursday, November 07, 2002
2:00 PM - Room 12A CSC
On the Impact of New Methodology on Synthetic Design: The Total Synthesis and Assignment of Absolute Configuration of Callipeltoside A


Tuesday, November 12, 2002
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Dr. Robert Syvret
Air Products
Industrial Fluorine Chemistry - From Microelectronics to Pharmaceuticals


Thursday, November 14, 2002
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Dr. Robert Kumpf
Bayer Corporation
From Innovation to Applications: Examples from Bayer Corporation Plastics Technology


Thursday, November 14, 2002
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Edgar Arriaga
University of Minnesota
Analysis of the Subcellular Distribution and Metabolism of Anti-Cancer Drugs


Thursday, November 21, 2002
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Mike Calter
University of Rochester
Catalysis in Natural Product Synthesis


Thursday, December 05, 2002
12:00 PM, Medical School
Dr. Jay W. Ponder
Washington University Medical School
Development and Application of a Polarizable Force Field for Macromolecular Simulation


Thursday, December 05, 2002
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Raymond Funk
Penn State University
New Pericyclic-Reaction-Based Methods for Natural Product Synthesis


Thursday, December 05, 2002
2:30 PM, TBA
Dr. Ralph Scannell
UCB-Research, Inc.

CANCELLED