Previous Seminars
FALL 2005
TBD , "TBA"
Tuesday, August 30, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Professor Chi Wu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), "Formation of Stable Mesoglobular Phase in Dilute Amphiphilic Copolymer Solutions" [abstract]
Friday, September 2, 2005, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Noel S. Hush (University of Sydney), "What is Delocalization? The Creutz-Taube Ion as Delphic Oracle" [abstract]
Monday, September 5, 2005, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Gerhard Hummer (National Institutes of Health), "Water, Proton, and Ion Transport: from Nanotubes to Biomolecular Machines" [abstract]
Tuesday, September 6, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Michael Fayer (Stanford University), "Dynamics of Molecular Complexes Probed with Ultrafast Infrared Nonlinear Experiments" [abstract]
Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 3:30pm, Physics/Chemistry Colloquium, 114 Physics Building
Alison Butler (Univ. of California - Santa Barbara), "Microbial Iron Mining in the Deep Blue Sea: Structure and Reactivity of New Marine Siderophores" [abstract]
Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Paul Jones (Wake Forest University), "Photochemistry in Sea-Slugs" [abstract]
Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Tyler McQuade (Cornell University), "Microreactors, Encapsulated Catalysts, and Mechanisms: New Tools and Techniques For Polymer and Small Molecule Synthesis" [abstract]
Tuesday, September 27, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Andrea J. Liu (CANCELLED) , "Actin Self-Assembly and Listeria Motility" [abstract]
Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Prof. Peter H. Seeberger (ETH Hönggerberg), "Of the Chemistry and Biology of Carbohydrates: From de novo Synthesis to a Malaria Vaccine" [abstract]
Tuesday, October 11, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
X. Peter Zhang (University of Tennessee), "Bio-Inspired Carbene and Nitrene Transfer Reactions by Metalloporphyrins" [abstract]
Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Professor Peter Agre, Vice Chancellor for Science & Technology (Duke University Medical Center), "From Lake Wobegon to Stockholm: Personal Reflections" [abstract]
Friday, October 21, 2005, 3:00pm, Colloquium, Auditorium (Room 107)
Dave Yaron (Carnegie Mellon University), "Virtual Labs and Scenario-Based Learning for Introductory Chemistry" [abstract]
Monday, October 24, 2005, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Dave Yaron (Carnegie Mellon University), "Modeling the Effects of Disorder on the Photophysics of Organic Materials" [abstract]
Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Sam Gellman (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "TBA"
Thursday, October 27, 2005, 2:00pm, Departmental Seminar, 203 Teer
Phillip W. Snyder (Duke University), "Chemical and Biological Approaches to the Construction of Micro- and Nanoscaled Devices and Materials" [abstract]
Monday, October 31, 2005, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Marcey L. Waters (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Form and Function in Designed Peptides: Approaches to Miniproteins" [abstract]
Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Curt Haffner (Glaxo SmithKline), "4-Fluoro-2-cyanopyrrolidine Inhibitors of DPP-IV" [abstract]
Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Joseph M. Fox (University of Delaware), "Strain as a Design Principle in Synthesis" [abstract]
Friday, November 11, 2005, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Chris Whitman (University of Texas - Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry), "How Nature Makes New Enzymes: Lessons from the Tautomerase Superfamily" [abstract]
Tuesday, November 15, 2005, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Yaoqi Zhou (University at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York), "Toward a Physically Reasonable Energy Function for Protein Folding and Binding by Statistical Analysis of Protein Structures" [abstract]
Thursday, November 17, 2005, 2:30pm, Duke Theory Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Karen Anderson (CANCELLED) (Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology), "Defining a Molecular Mechanism of Synergy between Nucleoside and Nonnucleoside AIDS Drugs" [abstract]
Thursday, November 17, 2005, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Adam Connor (Duke University - Ph.D. Defense Examination Seminar), "DISCOVERY OF INSULIN CAPTURE BY GENOME-INSPIRED DNA IN AFFINITY MALDI AND AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY" [abstract]
Friday, November 18, 2005, 10:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room
Preston MacDougall (Middle Tennessee State University), "New tools for molecular visualization with potential applications in drug design and molecular electronics" [abstract]
Friday, December 2, 2005, 2:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Ramesh Ramachandran (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Analysis of Solid-state NMR Experiments Using Multipole Multimode Floquet Theory" [abstract]
Monday, December 5, 2005, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Lillian Chong (Stanford University), "Exploring Protein Recognition Events Using Theory and Simulation" [abstract]
Tuesday, December 6, 2005, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Fritz London Lecture Hall
Lei An (Duke University - Ph.D. Defense Examination Seminar), "Controlling Diameters and Transport Properties of Carbon Nanotubes by Synthesis and Chemical Modification" [abstract]
Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 9:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Vosburgh Conference Room