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Seminars Fall 2004
All the seminars are at 4:45 pm in the Mellon Institute Conference Room, unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Adrian E. Roitberg, University of Florida, Gainesville
New Methods for Quantum/Classical Modelling of Enzymatic Reactions
Joint seminar with University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry
Host: Maria Kurnikova
Friday, September 17, 2004
2:30 PM
Nobuhiro Ohta, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Electric Field Effects on Emission and Photofunction of Materials
Host: Linda Peteanu
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Leslie Dutton, University of Pennsylvania
Synthetic Metalloprotein Designs: Folding in Function and Structure
Host: Eckard Münck
Thursday, September 30, 2004
David Waldeck, University of Pittsburgh
Fundamental Studies into Electron Tunneling in Molecules and Molecular Assemblies
Host: Catalina Achim
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Nicholas Hud, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nucleic Acid Intercalation and the RNA World
Host: Bruce Armitage
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Victoria DeRose, Texas A&M University
The Influence of Metal Ions on RNA Catalysis
Host: Catalina Achim
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Piotr Piotrowiak, Rutgers University
Host-Guest Complexes: Excitation Transfer and Photoredox Chemistry with Proteins and Nanoparticles
Host: Linda Peteanu
Mellon Institute Room 355
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Vincent Huynh, Emory University
Site Specific Chemistry at a Unique Iron Site of the [4Fe-4S] Cluster in Ferredoxin: Thioredoxin Reductase
Host: Eckard Münck
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Michael D. Barnes, University of Massachusetts
Nantennae: Oriented Nanostructures from Single Molecules of Conjugated Polymers
Host: Linda Peteanu
Tuesday, November 11, 2004
Sanford Asher, University of Pittsburgh
Intelligent Polymerized Crystalline Colloidal Array Photonic Materials for Chemical Sensing and for Controlling Light Transmission
Host: Hyung Kim
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Dmitry Matyushov, Arizona State University
Polar Solvation: Born Vs. Onsager Picture
Host: Hyung Kim
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Caroline Harris, PPG Industries, Inc.
Superhydrophilic TiO2 Thin Films and Applications to Glass Technology
Host: Catalina Achim