About the Department
Seminars Fall 2008
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.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
11:00 a.m.
Christian Griesinger, Max Plank Institute in Göttingen, Germany
Drug-like Small molecules: Configuration and their interactions with proteins studied by NMR
Host: Roberto Gil
abstract (17K pdf file)
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Douglass Mitchell, University of California, San Diego
Streptolysin S-like Bacterial Toxins: Biosynthesis, Structure, and Attenuation
Host: Terry Collins
Thursday, September 11, 2008
David Beratan, Duke University
Electron Transfer in Fluctuating Environments
Host: Catalina Achim
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Doug Turner, University of Rochester
Microarray and NMR Constraints for Facilitating Secondary Structure Prediction of a Retrotransposon RNA
Host: Bruce Armitage
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Clemens Burda, Case Western Reserve University
Nanostructures for Solar Energy Conversion
Host: Linda Peteanu
Thursday, October 9, 2008
José S. Duca, Schering-Plough Institute
Computational Methods in Drug Discovery: Thinking Out of the Box
Host: Roberto Gil
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Tim Lian, Emory University
Ultrafast Charge Transfer from Quantum Dots — Towards Multi-Exciton Dissociation
Host: Linda Peteanu
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Larry Que, University of Minnesota
'Snapshots' of the Nonheme Oxoiron(IV) Landscape
Host: Eckard Munck
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Javier Vela-Becerra, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
I. Synthesis of a Low-Coordinate Binuclear Iron(II) Sulfide and its Reactivity Towards Nitrogenase-Relevant Substrates.
II. Giant Multishell CdSe Quantum Dots: Nonblinking and Robust Quantum-Dot Fluorophores for Applications in Biology.
Area: Materials Chemistry
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Bern Kohler, Ohio State University
Photoinduced Charge Transfer Dynamics in Supramolecular Systems: From A-tracts to Zeolites
Area: Experimental Physical Chemistry
Friday, November 14, 2008
1:30 p.m.
The First Stephanie Kwolek Lecture in Materials Chemistry
Klaus Müllen, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Mainz, Germany
The Chemists’ Approach to Carbon Materials
Hosts: Rick McCullough, Kris Matyjaszewski, and Tomek Kowalewski
Location: Mellon Institute Auditorium
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Lars Gundlach, Rutgers University
Optically Induced Ultrafast Electron Dynamics
Area: Experimental Physical Chemistry
New Date
Monday, December 1, 2008
Kevin Kittilstved, University of Geneva, Switzerland
High resolution spectroscopy of transition metal ions with orbitally-degenerate ground states
Area: Materials Chemistry
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Koichi Iwata, University of Tokyo
Tracing "Loose Electrons"- New Physical Chemistry with Femtosecond Time-resolved Near-infrared Spectroscopy
Host: Hyung Kim
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Matthew Sfeir, Columbia University
Broadband Optoelectronic Characterization of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Area: Experimental Physical Chemistry
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Edwin J. Heilweil, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Terahertz Measurement Approaches for Spectroscopy, Imaging and Nanophotonics
Area: Physical Chemistry
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Yue Wu, University of California, Berkeley
Semiconductor Nanocrystal-based Solar Cells
Area: Materials Chemistry
Thursday, January 15, 2008
Jonathan Owen, University of California, Berkeley
The Inorganic Chemistry of II-VI Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Area: Materials Chemistry
Thursday, January 22, 2008
Eric J. Schelter, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Area: Materials Chemistry