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.
Thursday August 23, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Ludwik Leibler, CNRS/ESPCI ParisTech
Vitrimers: A New Class of Organic Materials That Behaves Like the Glass
Location: Mellon Institute Social Room
Host: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Subha R. Das, Carnegie Mellon University
Clicks and Tricks with Nucleic Acids for Nano(bio)technology
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Thursday, September 6, 2012
2:30 p.m.
Nathan Gianneschi, University of California, San Diego
Enzymes, Peptides, and Nucleic Acids for Programming Nanoparticle Morphology and the Nanoscale Properties of Materials
Location: University of Pittsburgh, Chevron Science Center Room 150
Hosts: Geoffrey Hutchison (Pitt) and Rongchao Jin (CMU)
Joint Seminar with University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, September 6, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Geoffrey Strouse, Florida State University
Sustainable Nanocrystals and Their Applications in Bio-Medical Technologies
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Hosts: Linda Peteanu and Rongchao Jin
Thursday, September 13, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Ephraim Woods, Colgate University
Sea Spray from a Molecular Point of View
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Thursday, September 20, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Irina Artsimovich, The Ohio State University
Competition for the Secondary Channel
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Marc Lemaître, CEO, Girindus America, Inc.
Chemistry from Lab to Production Plant: The Surprises for Chemists Moving from University to Industry
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Subha R. Das
Thursday, October 4, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Amala Dass, The University of Mississippi
Gold Nanomolecules: Gold Nanoparticles of Molecular Definition
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Rongchao Jin
Friday, October 5, 2012
2:00 p.m.
Margaret I. Johnston, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Making Science Happen: From Chemistry to Global Health Impact
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Margaret (Peggy) Johnston graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1972 with a B.S. in chemistry.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
4:30 p.m.
Sam Kean, independent writer
Location: Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall)
Host: Eckard Münck
Thursday, October 18, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Violeta Marin, Abbott Laboratories, Global Pharmaceutical R&D
Modular Probes — from TR-FRET High Throughput Screening to Deconvoluting Cellular Targets of Lead Molecules
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Catalina Achim
Violeta Marin graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2005 with a Ph.D. in chemistry.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Susan Gottesman, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Bacterial Circuits with Small RNA Regulators
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Maumita Mandal
Thursday, November 1, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Frieder Jäkle, Rutgers University
Controlling the Architecture of Organoborane Polymers: New Optoelectronic Materials and Self-Assembled Nanostructures
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Kevin Noonan
Thursday, November 8, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Murray Johnston, University of Delaware
Nanoparticle Mass Spectrometry: How it Works and What it Tells Us about Atmospheric Processes
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Host: Ryan Sullivan
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
4:45 p.m.
Tomislav Pintauer, Duquesne University
Highly Efficient Ambient Temperature Synthesis of Copper(I)-Cyanide Frameworks Employing Photodecomposition of Free Radical Diazo Initiator (AIBN)
Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room
Hosts: Linda Peteanu and Rongchao Jin
Tomislav Pintauer graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2002 with a Ph.D. in chemistry.