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, January 11, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, Princeton University
Polymer Solar Cells, Deconstructed
Host: Tomek Kowalewski
Thursday, January 13, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Ananth Dodabalapur, The University of Texas at Austin
Organic and Polymer Semiconductor Devices: The Coming of Age
Host: Tomek Kowalewski
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Kim Dunbar, Texas A&M University
Conducting and Magnetic Materials: A Golden Opportunity for Coordination Chemists
Host: Catalina Achim
Thursday, February 17, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Hunaid Nulwala, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
Highly Efficient Materials Synthesis Using Click Chemistry
Host: Hyung Kim
Thursday, February 24, 2011
4:45 p.m.
David Graves, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Recognition and Binding of the Human Telomeric G-Quadruplex by the Protein, UP1.
Host: Bruce Armitage
Thursday, March 3, 2011
4:45 p.m.
So-Jung Park, University of Pennsylvania
Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles, Amphiphilic Polymers and DNA
Hosts: Nat Rosi (Pitt)/Rongchao Jin
Joint Seminar with University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, March 17, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Theodore Goodson III, University of Michigan
Enhanced and Useful Optical Properties of Multi Chromophore Materials
Host: Rongchao Jin
Thursday, March 24, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Trevor Hayton, University of California, Santa Barbara
Synthesis and Characterization of an Iron (IV) Ketimide Complex
Host: Catalina Achim
Thursday, March 31, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Todd Przybycien, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Chemical Engineering
PEGylation as Panacea: PLG-Based Microsphere Delivery of PEG-Modified Proteins
Host: Newell Washburn
Thursday, April 7, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Rita Mihailescu, Duquesne University
Are Swapping RNA Kissing Partners Mediating Molecular Switches in the Hepatitis C Virus?
Host: Bruce Armitage
Thursday, April 14, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Jie Zheng, University of Texas at Dallas
Probing Nano-Bio Interactions with Luminescent Metal Nanoparticles
Host: Rongchao Jin
Thursday, April 21, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Eriks Rozners, Binghamton University
Sequence Selective Recognition of Double Helical RNA via Triplex Binding PNA Analogues
Host: Danith Ly
Monday, April 25, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nanoscale Characterization of Solar Cell Materials
Hosts: Toby Nelson/Rick McCullough
Thursday, April 28, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Frank Keutsch, University of Wisconsin
Probing Air with Light: Testing Atmospheric Oxidative Chemistry and Aerosol Formation with New Laser Based Instrumentation
Host: Neil Donahue
Thursday, May 5, 2011
4:45 p.m.
Daron Freedberg, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
NMR of Carbohydrates On and Off Cells
Host: Roberto Gil