Carnegie Mellon University Department of Chemistry

Other seminars in the Mellon College of Science

Past Chemistry Seminars

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Seminars Fall 2014

All the seminars are at 4:30 pm in the Mellon Institute Conference Room, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served 15 minutes before the seminar begins.

Thursday, September 4, 2014
4:30 p.m.

Departmental Seminar

Albena Ivanisevic, North Carolina State University

Development of Gallium Nitride Based Interfaces Using Surface Functionalization Techniques and Characterization

Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room

Host: Rongchao Jin

Thursday, September 11, 2014
4:30 p.m.

Departmental Seminar

David Goldberg, Johns Hopkins University

Tuning the First—and Second—Coordination Sphere of Heme and Non-Heme Metal-Oxygen Model Complexes

Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room

Host: Michael Hendrich

Thursday, September 18, 2014
4:30 p.m.

Departmental Seminar

Alexander Deiters, University of Pittsburgh

Discovery and Application of Small Molecule Modifiers of Micro RNA Function

Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room

Host: Maumita Mandal

Thursday, September 25, 2014
4:30 p.m.

Departmental Seminar

Hyung Kim, Carnegie Mellon University

Toward Understanding Ionic Liquids: Computational Study

Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room

Host: Maumita Mandal

Thursday, October 2, 2014
4:30 p.m.

Departmental Seminar

Mihaela C. Stefan, University of Texas at Dallas

Functional Polycaprolactones for Micellar Delivery of Anticancer Drugs and Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors

Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room

Host: Roberto Gil

Tuesday, October 21, 2014
4:30 p.m.

Departmental Seminar

Ryan Davison, American Chemical Society

How Politics are Impacting Chemistry and Basic Research

Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room

Host: Hyung Kim

Thursday, November 6, 2014
4:30 p.m.

Departmental Seminar

Jonathan Reid, University of Bristol

Studying Aerosols, One Particle at a Time

Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room

Host: Ryan Sullivan

Thursday, November 13, 2014
4:30 p.m.

Departmental Seminar

Ksenija Glusac, Bowling Green State University

In Search for Organic Catalytic Motifs for Solar Water Splitting

Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room

Host: Bruce Armitage

Thursday, December 4, 2014
4:30 p.m.

Departmental Seminar

Kevin Weeks, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Toward an RNA Structure of Everything, Concisely

Location: Mellon Institute Conference Room

Host: Bruce Armitage