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Department of Chemistry 2008-2009 Departmental Seminars


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Date: November 19, 2009
Speaker: Dr. Sheng Dai, Group Leader & Distinguished Staff Scientist, Nanomaterials Chemistry Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title: Synthesis and Functionalization of Porous Carbon Materials for Energy Applications

Date: November 12, 2009
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Que, Jr., Regents Professor and 3M/Alumni Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, University of Minnesota
Title: Bio-Inspired Iron-Catalyzed Hydrocarbon Oxidations

Date: November 5, 2009
Speaker: Dr. George C. Schatz, Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Title: Modeling the Self-Assembly of Nanostructures

Date: October 8, 2009
Speaker: Dr. Gary W. Small, Professor of Chemistry, Advance Technology Laboratories, University of Iowa
Title: Taking Infrared Spectroscopy Out of the Laboratory: Environmental and Biomedical Applications

Date: September 10, 2009
Speaker: Dr. G. Barney Ellison, University of Colorado
Title: Marine Aerosois, Organic Radicals, & A Molecular View of Cloud Formation

Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009
Speaker: Dr. Ned A. Porter, Stevenson Professor of Chemistry & Chairman, Vanderbilt University
Title: Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFAs) and 7-dehydrocholesterol as Targets of Oxidative Stress

Date: April 2, 2009
Speaker: Glenn Prestwich, University of Utah
Title: Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology in Three-Dimensions

Date: March 12, 2009
Speaker: Lawrence Ziegler, Boston University
Title: Barcoding bacteria: A Surface Enhanced Raman Microscopy Approach

Date: January 29, 2009
Speakers: Jude Abia and Juan Pablo Hinestrosa, University of Tennessee Graduate Students
Title: Radial Heterogeneity of Monolithic Columns Used in HPLC; Solution Dynamics and Adsorption Kinetics of Complex Block Copolymers

Date: January 22, 2009
Speaker: Z. B. Xue, University of Tennessee
Title: Chemistry of Transition Metal Complexes. Reaction Pathways, Biological Functions and Chemical Analysis

Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Z.D. Cheng, Dean, College of Polymer Science & Engineering, University of Akron
Title: Polymers for Photonics and Optical Technologies

Lind Lecture
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Cynthia M. Friend, T.W. Richards Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science & Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Title: Surface Reactivity and Restructuring at the Nanoscale

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008
Speaker: Dr. R. Stephen Berry, James Franck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
Title: Exploring (and Maybe Even Understanding) What Happens on Wild Energy Landscapes?

Date: October 23, 2008
Speaker: Dr. David M. Haaland, Senior Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories, Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico
Title: Hyperspectral Fluorescence Imaging of Biological Systems

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Date: September 25, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Gewirth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Oxygen Reduction and the Potential Dependent Structure of Water: Surface-Molecule Interactions Relevant to Fuel Cell Catalysis.

Date: September 18, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Marc Hillmyer, Elmore H. Northey Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
Title: Synthesis, self-assembly, and applications of polylactide block copolymers

Date: August 28, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Gregory S. Girolami, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Materials for Nanotechnology: New Chemistry for the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Thin Films

Department of Chemistry 2007-2008 Departmental Seminars

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Date: Apr. 10, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Roland Fischer, Chair of Inorganic Chemistry II, Ruhr-University, Germany
Title: Soft Chemical Approaches to Mixed Metal and Metal/Metaloxid Nanoparticles for Applications in Methanol Synthesis

Date: Mar. 6, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Shuford, Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division, ORNL
Title: Modeling Nanophotonics using Classical Electrodynamics

Date: Feb. 7, 2008
Speaker: Dr. T. Daniel Crawford, Virginia Polytechnic University
Title: On One Hand but Not the Other: Quantum Chemical Studies of Optical Rotation and Circular Dichroism

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Date: Jan. 24, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Carl Lineberger, University of Colorado
Title: Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Organic Anions

Date: Nov. 15, 2007
Speaker: Dr. Mark Ratner, Northwestern University
Title: LIND LECTURE

Date: Nov. 1, 2007
Speaker: Dr. Fred Menger, Professor, Emory University
Title: The Origin of Intelligence. Chemist View of Natural Selection

Date: Oct. 4, 2007
Speaker: Dr. Milan Mrksich, Professor of Chemistry, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Title: Engineering Active Interfaces Between Cells and Materials

Date: Sept. 20, 2007
Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Brock, Associate Professor, Wayne State Univ.
Title: Sol-Gel Methods for Assembly of Nanoparticles: Moving Beyond Oxides

Date: Sept. 6, 2007
Speaker: Dr. Bernard Wunderlich, Professor Emeritus, Univ of Tennessee
Title: How to Better Understand Chemistry (and Physics and Materials Science) by Recognizing Only Three Types of Molecules, but Deal with 57 Phases, and Know about the Glass Transitions

Department of Chemistry 2006-2007 Departmental Seminars
KidsU "Chemistry in Forensics" Class
Date: June 5, 2007
Speaker: Dr. William Bass, world-renowned forensic anthropologist and founder of the "Body Farm"
Topic: Interesting Stories from the Case Files

Date: March 29, 2007
Speaker: Ram Seshadri, University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: Exploring the Chemistry of Novel Magnets: Semiconductors, Half-Metals, and Multifunctional Materials

Date: March 8, 2007
Speaker: Nathan Hammer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Topic: Photophysics and Enhanced Properties of Quantum Dot/Conjugated Organic Composite Nanostructures Revealed by Single Molecular Spectroscopy

Date: February 8, 2007
Speaker: Peter Stang, University of Utah
Topic: Metallocyclic Polygons and Polyhedra via Coordination

Date: January 25, 2007
Speaker: Aaron L. Odom, Michigan State University
Topic: Titanium Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds in Heterocyclic Synthesis

Date: January 18, 2007
Speaker: Mark Wightman, University of North Carolina
Topic: Voltammetric Measurements of Rapid Signaling by Neurotransmitters

Date: Thursday, November 16, 2006
Speaker: Dave Tirrell, California Institute of Technology
Topic: Lind Lecture: New Ways of Thinking About Polymers and Proteins

Date: Thursday, November 9, 2006
Speaker: Guojun Liu, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
Topic: Higher Block Copolymer Assembly
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2006
Speaker: Brad Smith, University of Notre Dame
Topic: Molecular Probes for Biomembrane Recognition and Animal Imaging

Date: Thursday, October 5, 2006
Speaker: Art Janata, Georgia Institute of Technology
Topic: Origins of Modulation of Organic Field-Effect Transistors

Date: Thursday, September 21, 2006
Speaker: Akira Suzuki, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Topic: Suzuki Coupling Reaction

Date: September 7, 2006
Speaker: Steven Holmes, University of Kentucky
Topic: Building Block Approaches for Constructing Cyanometalate-Based Magnetic Clusters and Devices

Date: August 31, 2006
Speaker: Daniel Armstrong, University of Texas at Arlington
Topic: Electrokinetic Microbial Separations – Toward a Rapid Test for Sterility

Department of Chemistry 2005-2006 Departmental Seminars

Date: April 20, 2006
Speaker: Wayne Gladfelter, University of Minnesota
Topic: Thin Films and Nanorods from Organometallic and Inorganic Precursors

Date: April 13, 2006
Speaker: Timothy Hanusa, Vanderbilt University
Topic: The Allyl Group Grows Up: Chemical Consequences of a Sterically Enhanced Ligand

Date: March 16, 2006
Speaker: John Groves, Princeton University
Topic: The Chemical Biology of Iron. Iron Acquisition by Pathogens

Date: March 9, 2006
Speaker: Richard Pagni, University of Tennessee
Topic: To See A World in a Grain of Sand

Date: March 2, 2006
Speaker: Craig Hawker, University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: Facile Chemistry for the Generation and Commercial Application of Polymeric Nanostructures

Date: February 16, 2006
Speaker: Gabor Somorjai, University of California, Berkeley
Topic: The Nanoscience Revolution. The Merging of Colloid Science, Catalysis, and Nanoelectronics

Date: February 9, 2006
Speaker: David Anderson, University of Wyoming
Topic: Photochemistry in Solid Molecular Hydrogen at 4 K

Date: February 2, 2006
Speaker: Clifford Kubiak, University of California, San Diego
Topic: Ultrafast Inorganic Ground States

Date: January 26, 2006
Speaker: Harry McSween, UT Earth and Planetary Sciences
Topic: Discoveries of the Mars Exploration Rovers

Date: January 12, 2006
Speaker: Eric Anslyn, University of Texas-Austin
Topic: Supramolecular Chemistry and Pattern Recognition: A Complementary Match

Date: November 17, 2005
Speaker: Richard Finke, Colorado State University
Topic: Transition-Metal Nanoclusters. Synthesis, Kinetics and Mechanism of Formation, Stabilizer Ratings, and Catalysis

Date: November 10, 2005
Speaker: Jeffrey S. Moore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topic: Foldamer Heterosequences: Modular and Customizable Molecular Containers

Date: November 3, 2005
Speaker: Michael P. Doyle, University of Maryland
Topic: New Advances in Catalysis with Dirhodium(II) Compounds

Date: October 27, 2005
Speaker: James A. Dumesic, University of Wisconsin
Topic: Lind Lecture

Date: October 20, 2005
Speaker: Steven A. Soper, Louisiana State University
Topic: Flow-Through Lab-on-a-Chip Biosensors for the Collection of Rare Circulating Tumor Cells and the Analysis of Their Intracellular Contents

Date: September 29, 2005
Speaker: Donald F. Hunt, University of Virginia
Topic: Comparative Analysis of Post-Translationally Modified Proteins and Peptides by Mass Spectrometry

Date: September 22, 2005
Speaker: Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University
Topic: Waiting To Be Made

Date: September 8, 2005
Speaker: James Mayer, University of Washington
Topic: Oxidations of C–H and O–H Bonds: Hydrogen Atom Transfer, Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer, and Marcus Theory

Department of Chemistry 2004-2005 Departmental Seminars

Date: April 21, 2005
Speaker: Peter Carr, Univ of Minnesota
Topic: Analytical Applications and Advantages of Ultra-Stable Phase For Reversed Phases Liquid Chromatographic Materials

Date: April 14, 2005
Speaker: Kim Dunbar, Texas A&M
Topic: Building Block Approaches to Molecular Nanomagnets

Date: April 7, 2005
Speaker: Kathryn Uhrich, Rutgers
Topic: Biodegradable Polymers for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering

Date: March 3, 2005
Speaker: Dr. Michael Karas Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Topic: MALDI and Proteomics - An ideal partnership

Date: February 24, 2005
Speaker: William Jorgensen, Yale University
Topic: Biochemical Calculations

Date: February 10, 2005
Speaker: James Cross, Yale University
Topic: Finding Fulfillment in Filled Fullerenes [Not a Chem 501 Lecture]

Date: February 3, 2005
Speaker: Timothy Long, Va Tech
Topic: Branching in Macromolecular Design

Date: November 18, 2004
Speaker: Mark Meyerhoff (U. Michigan)
Topic: Nitric Oxide Releasing/Generating Polymers: Preparation, Characterization and Biomedical Applications
PowerPoint presentation (follow along with the video)

Date: October 28, 2004
2004 Lind Lecturer: Royce Murray (U. North Carolina)
Topic: Golden Quantum Dots: Synthesis, Analysis, Electrochemistry
PowerPoint Presentation (follow along with the video)

Date: October 21, 2004
Speaker: Lanny Liebeskind (Emory U.)
Topic: Novel Metal-Mediated Transformations of Organosulfur Compounds under Anaerobic and Aerobic Conditions

Date: October 7, 2004
Speaker: Peter Wolczanski (Cornell U.)
Topic: Mechanism and Energetics of Olefin to Alkylidene Rearrangements in the (t-Bu3SiO)3M(M=Nb,Ta)

Date: September 23, 2004
Speaker: John Turner (University of Tennessee)
Topic: Neutron Science, Applications of Scattering Techniques to Chemical Structure
PowerPoint Presentation (follow along with the video)

Date: September 16, 2004
Speaker: Bruce Garetz (Brooklyn Polytech)
Topic: Crystal Growth, Controlling Crystal Structure with Light

Date: September 9-10, 2004
Speaker: F. Sherwood Rowland
Event: S.D. Squibb Distinguished Lecture Series
Location: University of North Carolina, Asheville
Topic: Our Changing Atmosphere: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Global Warming
Topic: Hydrocarbons in Earth’s Atmosphere

Date: September 2, 2004
Speaker: Gary Molander (U. Pennsylvania)
Topic: Organoborane Chemistry, “Methods Driven Natural Product Synthesis”