Previous Seminars
FALL 2004
TBD , "TBA"
Tuesday, August 31, 2004, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
David Wright (Vanderbilt University), "Diatoms and Dendrimers: Bioinspired Routes to Metal Oxides"
Tuesday, September 7, 2004, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
David S. Cafiso (University of Virginia), "Dynamics and Conformational Changes of a Membrane Transport Protein Determined Using Site-Directed Spin Labeling" [abstract]
Tuesday, September 14, 2004, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Marlan O. Scully (Texas A&M University), "Bohr Model and Dimensional Scaling Analysis of the H2 Molecule" [abstract]
Tuesday, September 21, 2004, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Warren Warren (Princeton University), "Intermolecular Multiple Quantum Coherences in Solution NMR and MRI: How Everything Organic Chemists Teach About Magnetic Resonance can be Wrong" [abstract]
Thursday, September 23, 2004, 3:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Meghan M. Flaherty (Duke University), "Biologically Relevant Metal Containing Supramolecular Assemblies" [abstract]
Thursday, September 30, 2004, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
FACULTY COLLOQUIA - Ross Widenhoefer (Duke University), "Palladium- and Platinum-catalyzed Addition of Nucleophiles to Unactivated Olefins"
Friday, October 1, 2004, 4:00pm, Faculty Colloquia, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Richard Mendelsohn (Rutgers University), "Vibrational Microscopic Imaging: Spatially Resolved Molecular Structure Information from Bone and Skin" [abstract]
Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
FACULTY COLLOQUIA - Jie Liu (Duke University), "Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Synthesis to Applications"
Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 11:40am, Faculty Colloquia, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Louis Brus (Columbia University)
(2005 Douglas G. Hill Memorial Lecture), "Chemistry and Physics of Semiconductor Nanocrystals" [abstract]
Friday, November 5, 2004, 4:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Auditorium (Room 107)
Hiroshi Nakatsuji (Kyoto University), "Solving the Schroedinger Equation for Atoms and Molecules"
Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Stan S. Wong (State University of New York, Stony Brook), "Rational Chemical Strategies for Carbon Nanotube Functionalization" [abstract]
Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 4:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Peter Wipf (University of Pittsburgh), "Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Peptide Mimetics" [abstract]
Thursday, November 11, 2004, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Professor John Simons (University of Oxford), "Getting into Shape: Sugars and Other Interesting Biomolecules in the Gas Phase" [abstract]
Monday, November 15, 2004, 4:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Professor James R. Heath (California Institute of Technology), "Molecular Mechanics and Molecular Electronics" [abstract]
Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Professor Ron Naaman (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel), "Interaction of Electrons with DNA - From Radiation Damage to Molecular Electronics" [abstract]
Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 4:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Arun Ghosh (University of Illinois, Chicago), "From Design of Protease Inhibitors for AIDS and AD to Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products" [abstract]
Tuesday, November 23, 2004, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Joy Xin Wang (Duke University), "Boranophosphate Oligodeoxyribonucleotides as Antisense Reagents: Synthesis, Physicochemical and Biological Studies, and Efforts to Improve Their Properties" [abstract]
Monday, November 29, 2004, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Mary Gin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Synthetic Approaches to Switchable Transmembrane Ion Channels" [abstract]
Monday, November 29, 2004, 2:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 111
David Gin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Exploring Strategies for Carbohydrate and Alkaloid Synthesis" [abstract]
Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Ping Li (Duke University), "Synthesis of Nucleoside Boranophosphate Analogues as Potential Antiviral and Anticancer Drugs or Prodrugs" [abstract]
Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 3:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Trang Uyen Vo (Duke University), "Open Tubular Capillary Electrochromatographic Separations of Peptides Using G-Quadruplex DNA Stationary Phases" [abstract]
Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Saylor Room (Room 334)
Kieron Burke (Rutgers University), "Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory in Chemistry: Successes and Challenges" [abstract]
Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Dewey McCafferty (University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics), "Chemical Biology of Bacterial Virulence and Colonization" [abstract]
Monday, December 13, 2004, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall