Chemistry Seminars


Seminars for Monday, September 01, 2003 to Wednesday, December 31, 2003


Thursday, September 04, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Dr. Lou Jungheim
Eli Lilly and Company
Design and Synthesis of Potent and Selective Tricyclic Isoxazole-Based Inhibitors of Multidrug Resistance Protein (MRP1)


Thursday, September 04, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Imants Zudans
University of Cincinnati
In Situ Studies of Sensor Film Dynamics by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry


Tuesday, September 09, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Nancy Allbritton
University of California, Irvine
Tracking Cellular Signal Transduction with Microanalytical Techniques


NOTE: THIS IS A ROOM CHANGE FROM EBERLY HALL

Professor Kohei Uosaki
Hokkaido University
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
1:30 PM - Room 12B
Non-linear Optical Spectroscopic Studies on Structure and Reactions at Solid/Liquid Interfaces


Wednesday, September 10, 2003
3:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Masakatsu Shibasaki
University of Tokyo
Recent Progress in Bronsted Base-Lewis Acid Asymmetric Catalysis


Thursday, September 11, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Mark Schoenfisch
University of North Carolina
Nitric Oxide-Releasing Sol-Gels: Towards More Biocompatible In Vivo Glucose Sensors


Friday, September 12, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Masayoshi Watanabe
Yokohama National University
Ion Gels and Opal Gels for Energy and Information Conversion


Friday, September 12, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Sophia Yaliraki
Imperial College, London
Dynamics of Self-assembling Networks


Thursday, September 18, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor T. Brent Gunnoe
North Carolina State University
Utilization of Ruthenium Complexes for the Activation of C-H and C-N Bonds


Second Annual
ELI LILLY LECTURES

Professor Erick M. Carreira
ETH Zurich
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
5:30 PM - Room 12
Studies in Asymmetric Synthesis


NOTE: THE ROOM AND TIME HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS

Second Annual
ELI LILLY LECTURES

Professor Erick M. Carreira
ETH Zurich
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
9:30 AM - Room 12
Asymmetric Synthesis with Acetylenes


Thursday, September 25, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Jeffry Madura
Duquesne University
Simulations of Ice/Water and Lipid/Water Interfaces


Thursday, October 02, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Dr. George Purvis
CAChe Group, Fujitsu America, Inc.
Communicating Chemistry through Visulization: Computer-aided Chemistry Experiments for Teaching Chemistry and Biochemistry


Thursday, October 02, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Debbie Mohler
Emory University
Radical-Based Modulation of Biomolecular Structure and Function


Thursday, October 09, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Charles Pennington
Ohio State University
Diffusion-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Biological Cells


Twenty-Fifth Annual
BAYER LECTURES

Professor Roger Tsien
University of California, San Diego
Monday, October 13, 2003
8:00 PM - Room 12
Breeding Molecules to Spy on Cells


Twenty-Fifth Annual
BAYER LECTURES

Professor Roger Tsien
University of California, San Diego
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
2:30 PM - Room 12
Hybrid Organic/Inorganic/Genetic Approaches to Study Protein and RNA Sociology


Friday, October 17, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Nancy Levinger
Colorado State University
Water in Confinement: Probing Dynamics of Water in Confined Environments


Monday, October 20, 2003
8:00 PM, Pointview Room, Station Square
Professor Christopher Orvig
University of British Columbia
Insulin-Enhancing Vanadium Compounds


Thursday, October 23, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Murray Goodman
University of California, San Diego
Novel Reactions and Structures for Peptidomimetic Drug Design


Seventeenth Annual
KAUFMAN LECTURES

Professor David Chandler
University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
5:30 PM - Room 12
Hydrophobicity at Small and Large Length Scales: Two Faces of Water


Seventeenth Annual
KAUFMAN LECTURES

Professor David Chandler
University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, October 30, 2003
2:30 PM - Room 12
Capturing the Kinetics of pH: Throwing Ropes Over Mountain Passes in the Dark


Tuesday, November 04, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor James Tour
Rice University
Constructing a Computer from Molecular Components


Thursday, November 06, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Kendall Houk
University of California, Los Angeles
Theory and Modeling of Organocatalysis: Amino Acids to Enzymes


Thursday, November 06, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Brad Moore
Northwestern University
Selectivity in Chemical Bond Breaking


Forty-Eighth Annual
FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Professor Charles Lieber
Harvard University
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
5:30 PM - Room 12
Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanoscale Science and Technology


Forty-Eighth Annual
FRANCIS CLIFFORD PHILLIPS LECTURES

Professor Charles Lieber
Harvard University
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
3:00 PM - Room 12B
Nanoscience and the Pathway Towards Nanocomputing


Tuesday, November 18, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Bernd Brutschy
Universität Frankfurt
Small Microsolvated Molecules in Gas Phase and Large Noncovalently Bonded Biomolecules in Solution, Both Studied with IR Lasers


Thursday, November 20, 2003
2:30 PM, Room 12B
Professor Jeff Aube
University of Kansas
New Alkyl Azide and Ring Expansion Chemistry


Thursday, November 20, 2003
4:00 PM, Room 12B
Professor Cather Simpson
Case Western Reserve University
Vibrational Dynamics in Porphyrins


ATTENTION: THIS SEMINAR IS RESCHEDULED FROM PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS

Professor M. Samy El-Shall
Virginia Commonwealth University
Thursday, December 04, 2003
4:00 PM - Room 12B
Nucleation, Clusters and Nanoparticles: From the Vapor Phase to Advanced Materials