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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

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