About the Department
Seminars Fall 2009
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 22, 2009
5:00 p.m.
Ric Kaner, University of California, Los Angeles
Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Chemically Converted Graphene
Host: Rick McCullough
Location: Doherty Hall 2302
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Eric Borguet, Temple University
Single Molecule Charge Transfer and Localization at Interfaces
Host: Catalina Achim
Monday, October 5, 2009
4:30 pm
The Inaugural John A. Pople Lectures in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and the Presentation of John A. Pople’s Nobel Medal to Carnegie Mellon University
Mark Gordon, Frances M. Craig Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Iowa State University and Director, Ames Laboratory Applied Mathematical Sciences program
Enabling Accurate Calculations on Large Molecular Systems
Walter Kohn, Emeritus and Research Professor of Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1998
Location: Mellon Institute Auditorium
Reception following lecture, Mellon Institute Lobby
Host: Hyung Kim
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Christine M. Aikens, Kansas State University
Optical Absorption, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, and Chiroptical Properties of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles
Host: Rongchao Jin
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Eckhard Jankowsky, Case Western Reserve University
How RNA Helicases Unwind
Host: Kausik Chakrabarti
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Qing Lin, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Photoinducible Bioorthogonal Chemistry: A New Tool for Chemical Biology
Host: Danith Ly
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Marek Urban, University of Southern Mississippi
From Stimuli-Responsive to Self-Healing Polymers
Host: Kris Matyjaszewski
Friday, November 6, 2009
2:00 pm
The Stephanie Kwolek Lecture in Materials Chemistry
Takuzo Aida, University of Tokyo
Functional Soft Materials by Programmed Self-Assembly
Location: Mellon Institute Auditorium
Host: Kris Matyjaszewski
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Patricia Hill, Millersville University
Chemistry and Art? What can you do with that?
Host: Catalina Achim
Thursday, November 19, 2009
David Yaron, Carnegie Mellon University
What is conceptual learning in chemistry and why should we promote it?
Host: Subha Das
Monday, November 23, 2009
3:30 p.m.
Ryan A. Mehl, Franklin and Marshall College
Generating Permissive Site-specific Unnatural Amino Acid Synthetases for In Vivo Production of Proteins Containing Useful Chemical Functionality
Host: Subha Das
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Nathaniel Rosi, University of Pittsburgh
Bio-Inspired Synthesis and Organization of Nanostructures
Host: Rongchao Jin
CANCELLED
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Ben Van Houten, University of Pittsburgh
Structure-Function Studies of Bacterial Nucleotide Excision Repair Proteins: How Do Protein Machines Detect and Remove Damaged DNA?
Host: Marcel Bruchez