About the Department
Seminars Spring 2007
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, January 18, 2007
Ferdinand Grozema, Delft University of Technology
Charge Transport along Conjugated Molecular Wires
Host: Linda Peteanu
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Ana Bettencourt-Dias, Syracuse University
Lanthanide Ion Complexes for Luminescence Applications
Host: Rick McCullough
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Richard Gross, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
Enzyme-Catalyzed Polymer Synthesis and Modification Reactions
Host: Newell Washburn
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Pierre Dorlet, Universite Paris-XI
EPR Studies of Metalloenzymes Active Site and Model Complexes
Host: Eckard Münck
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Paul Ziemann, University of California, Riverside
Chemistry of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol Formation from the Oxidation of Hydrocarbons
Host: Neil Donahue
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Stephane Petoud, University of Pittsburgh
Lanthanide Complexes and Nanomaterials for Bioanalytical and Imagery Applications
Host: Catalina Achim
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Dean M. DeLongchamp, The National Institute of Standards and Technology
The Microstructure Foundation of High Carrier Mobility in Semiconducting Polymers
Host: Rick McCullough
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Eckard Münck, Carnegie Mellon University
Exploring Molecules from the Inside Out(ward): Mössbauer Spectroscopy
Host: Rick McCullough
CANCELLED
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Tom O’Halloran, Northwestern University
Host: Catalina Achim
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Jean-Jacques Girerd, Université Paris-Sud
New Fe(III) OOH Model Complexes
Host: Eckard Münck
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Dev Arya, Clemson University
Major Groove Recognition of DNA
Host: Danith Ly
Thursday, April 12, 2007
4:00 p.m.
Marsha I. Lester, The University of Pennsylvania
Significant OH Radical Reactions in the Lower Atmosphere: A New View
Host: Neil Donahue
Location: University of Pittsburgh Chevron Building, Room 12B, Ashe Auditorium
Joint seminar with University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Joseph Keane, Muhlenberg College
A Strategy for Enantioselective Dearomatization
Host: Danith Ly
CANCELLED
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Geoffrey A. Cordell, University of Illinois at Chicago
Natural Products in a World-out-of-Balance: Implications for Global Health Care
Host: Roberto Gil
New time and date
Friday, April 27, 2007
3:00 p.m.
Mike Thorpe, Arizona State University
The Flexibility Window
Host: Maria Kurnikova
CANCELLED
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Joanne Kehlbeck, Union College
Host: Bruce Armitage