Previous Seminars
FALL 2009
Thomas Meyer, Arey Distinguished Professor of Chemistry (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Solar Fuels from Sunlight"
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Roman Boulatov, Assistant Professor (Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Chemistry)
"Chemical Insights from Molecular Force Probes"
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Kay Brummond, Associate Professor (University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Chemistry)
"Exploiting Allenes in the Synthesis of Challenging Functional Motifs and Reaction Discovery"
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Kai Zhang (Duke University)
"Monte Carlo Study of Modulated Phases by Thermodynamic Integration" [abstract]
Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 2:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Dr. Robert C. Reynolds, Director, Drug Discovery Technology (Southern Research Institute)
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Igor Rubtsov, Professor (Tulane Univ., Dept. of Chemistry)
Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Thomas Livinghouse, Professor (Montana State Univ., Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Joshua T. Stecher (Duke University)
"Synthesis, Modification, and Characterization of UV Emitting Upconvertion Nanocrystals" [abstract]
Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 10:30am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Ian Stanton (Duke University)
"Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Spectroscopy of Novel Nano-scale Upconversion Nanocrystals" [abstract]
Friday, October 16, 2009, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar,
Room 4219, French Family Science Center
Laura Kaufman, Assistant Professor (Columbia Univ., Dept. of Chemistry)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Thomas P. McNicholas (Duke University)
"Structure and Morphology Control in Carbon Nanomaterials for Nanoelectronics and Hydrogen Storage" [abstract]
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 9:00am, Student Exam Seminar,
Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Paramita Mukherjee (Duke University)
"Gold(I)-Catalyzed Allylic Amination" [more]
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminiar,
Room 3225 - French Family Science Center
Alexander A. Shestopalov (Duke University)
"Chemical Reactions and Self-Assembly in Nano-Confine Environments: The Development of New Catalytic Microcontact Printing Techniques and Multicomponent Janus Particles" [abstract]
Monday, November 23, 2009, 2:00p, Student Exams Seminiar,
Room 3232 - French Family Science Center
Cecilia Clementi, Assoc. Professor (Rice Univ., Dept. of Chemistry)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Joseph M. DeSimone, Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept. of Chemistry)
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center
Graham West (Duke University), "A Covalent Modification Technique for Protein-Ligand Binding Analysis Using Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics Platforms" [abstract]
Friday, December 4, 2009, 9:00am, Student Exams Seminiar,
Room 3232 - French Family Science Center