Thursday, September 29, 2005

Eric Amis, National Institute of Standards & Technology

Thinking Outside the Combinatorial Gradient Box

Host: Newell Washburn

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Charles Michael Drain, Hunter College/CUNY

Hierarchical Self-Organization of Photonic Materials

Host: Newell Washburn

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Ward H. Thompson, University of Kansas

How is Chemistry Different in a Nanoconfined Solvent?

Host: Hyung Kim

CANCELLED

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Dan Appella, National Institute of Health

Highly Substituted Peptide Nucleic Acids that Improve DNA Detection

Host: Danith Ly

Thursday, October 27, 2005

2:30 pm

Kristi L. Kiick, University of Delaware

Integrating Biological and Chemical Strategies for the Production of Multifunctional Biopolymeric Materials

Host: Newell Washburn

Thursday, November 3, 2005

Terunori Fujita, Mitsui Corporation, Japan

Creation of New Olefin-Based Materials Using FI Catalysts

Host: Kris Matyjaszewski

Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Ghenadi Novitchi, Moldovia State University

Richness of Isomerism in Labile Octahedral Werner-type Cobalt(II) Complexes Demonstrated by Dynamic NMR Spectroscopy

Host: Catalina Achim

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Kenneth Carter, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Patterned Polymer Brushes From Molded Polymer Surfaces

Host: Rick McCullough

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Hongcai (Joe) Zhou, Miami University of Ohio

The First Active-Site Analogue for the All-Ferrous Iron Protein of Nitrogenase

Host: Catalina Achim