About the Department
Seminars Spring 2012
All the seminars are at 4:45 pm in the Mellon Institute Conference Room, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the seminar begins.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Robert Crabtree, Yale University
Organometallic Ir Precatalysts for Heteroarene Hydrogenation, Water Oxidation & CH Activation
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Kevin Noonan
Thursday, January 26, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Samie R. Jaffrey, Cornell University
RNA mimics of GFP: Fluorescent imaging of small molecule using sensors composed of RNA
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Marcel Bruchez
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Sergei Tretiak, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dynamics of excitons and phonons at the nanoscale
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Linda Peteanu
Thursday, February 9, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Virginia Cornish, Columbia University
TMP-Tag: A Chemical Surrogate to the Fluorescent Proteins for Live Cell Imaging
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Marcel Bruchez
Thursday, February 16, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Yaroslava Yingling, North Carolina State University
Nucleic acid materials: insights from molecular dynamics simulations
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Dave Yaron
Cancelled
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Art Ragauskas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Newell Washburn
Friday, March 2, 2012
4:45 p.m.
François Gabbaï, Texas A&M University
Lewis acidic properties of heavy onium ions
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Kevin Noonan
Thursday, March 8, 2012
4:45 p.m.
LaShanda Korley, Case Western Reserve University
Tunable Mechanics via Strategies from Nature
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Richard McCullough
Thursday, March 15, 2012
4:45 p.m.
De-en Jiang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Molecular Metallurgy of Gold from First Principles
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Rongchao Jin
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Christine Chow, Wayne State University
The Role of Modified Nucleotides in rRNA Structural Rearrangements
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Subha Das
Thursday, March 29, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Matt Hartman, Virginia Commonwealth University
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Subha Das
Thursday, April 5, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Lei Zhai, University of Central Florida
Conjugated Polymers on Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Richard McCullough
Thursday, April 12, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Dave Thirumalai, University of Maryland
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Thursday, April 19, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Robert Jackson, Duke University
Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change: Some Science and Solutions
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Mark Bier
Thursday, April 26, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Curtis Berlinguette, University of Calgary
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Hosts: Catalina Achim and Stefan Bernhard
Thursday, May 3, 2012
2:30 p.m.
Flavio Maran, University of Padova
Superefficient Electron Transfer through 310-Helical Peptides
Host: Catalina Achim
Location: University of Pittsburgh, Chevron Science Center Ashe Auditorium
Joint Seminar with University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, May 3, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Anthony Chianese, Colgate University
Alkane Dehydrogenation and Alkene Isomerization Catalyzed by Iridium-CCC-Pincer Complexes
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Hyung Kim
Thursday, May 10, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Peter Glazer, Yale University
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Danith Ly