Departmental Events for Spring 2011

 

Xiaosong Li, Assistant Professor (Univ. of Washington, Dept. of Chemistry), "DFT, TDDFT and Beyond: I. Electronic Magnetic Polaron in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dot II. Photoexcited Electron-Hole Dynamics in C60-electron-donor System"   [abstract]
Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

FACULTY COLLOQUIA - Patrick Charbonneau (Duke University), "How hard is it to form a glass? [chemistry-friendly] Insights from beyond three dimensions"   [abstract]
Thursday, January 20, 2011, 4:15pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231, French Family Science Center

James A. Dumesic, Steenbock Professor (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering), "Strategies for Catalytic Conversion of Biomass-derived Carbohydrates to Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels"   [abstract]
Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

Mahesh Mahanthappa, Assistant Professor (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Dept. of Chemistry), "Vinyl esters: A New Monomer Palette for Degradable Block Copolymers"   [abstract]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

So-Jung Park, Assistant Professor (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Chemistry), "Controlling Materials Properties through the Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles, Conjugated Polymers, and DNA"   [abstract]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 4:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

CANCELED: Marilyn Gunner, Professor (City College of New York, Dept. of Physics), "Proton pumping in bacteriorhodopsin and cytochrome c oxidase"   [abstract]
Thursday, February 3, 2011, 3:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

Timothy M. Swager, John D. MacArthur Prof. of Chemistry (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Dept. of Chemistry), "Top-Down Chemistry: Reactions and Applications of Nano-Carbon Materials"   [abstract]
Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

Bruce Novak, Howard J. Schaeffer Distinguished Prof. of Chemistry (N.C. State University, Dept. of Chemistry), "Chirality in Polymers: From Tunable, Single Molecule Polarizers to Molecule Machines"   [abstract]
Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

Stuart Rowan, Professor (Case Western Reserve Univ., Dept. of Macromolecular Science and Engineering), "Designing New Stimuli-responsive Materials: From Sea Cucumbers to Self-healing Films"   [abstract]
Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

Steve Weber, Professor (Univ. of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Chemistry), "Fluorous Media as Solvents"   [abstract]
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 12:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

Kai Zhang, Ph.D.Student (Duke University), "Solving Phase Diagram via free Energy Integration: Monte Carlo Simulation of Modulated Phases and Multiply Occupied Crystals"   [abstract]
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 12:00pm, Student Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

FACULTY COLLOQUIA - Stephen Craig (Duke University), "Mechanochemical Remodeling of Materials and Reaction Pathways"   [abstract]
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 4:15pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231, French Family Science Center

Marti S. Head, Director (Computational Chemistry US, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals), "Does My Raise Depend on This? Quantifying Expertise in Computational Chemistry"   [abstract]
Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

Christine K. Payne, Assistant Professor (Georgia Inst. of Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry), "Imaging Chemical Reactions Inside Living Cells"   [abstract]
Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

Patrick DeArmond (Duke University), "Mass Spectrometry-Based Strategies for Multiplexed Analyses of Protein-Ligand Binding Interactions"   [abstract]
Friday, March 25, 2011, 1:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Mary Jane Simpson (Duke University), "Investigating Melanin Dynamics and Imaging Melanin In Situ Using Pump-Probe Techniques"   [abstract]
Monday, March 28, 2011, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 2219 - French Family Science Center

Jeremy Michael Lenhardt (Duke University), "MECHANISMS, DYNAMICS AND APPLICATIONS OF MECHANICALLY-INDUCED REACTIONS"   [abstract]
Friday, April 1, 2011, 12:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Adria Wilson (Duke University), "Investigation of the Effect of Well-Defined Gold-Palladium Bimetallic Nanoparticle Structures on Catalytic Performance"   [abstract]
Monday, April 4, 2011, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 5316 - French Family Science Center

Scott Sauer (Duke University), "Direct Carbon—Carbon Bond Formation Through Reductive Soft-Enolization of a-Halothioesters and The Total Synthesis of (+)-Mefloquine"   [abstract]
Monday, April 4, 2011, 2:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 139, Biological Sciences

Linda H. Doerrer, Assistant Professor (Boston University, Chemistry Dept.), "Putting Metals to Work: Transition Metal Complexes for Electron Transfer and Electron Transport"   [abstract]
Monday, April 4, 2011, 4:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

Mariam Sharaf (Duke University), "Exploring the Immunogenicity and Therapeutic Applications of Boranophosphate-modified RNA"   [abstract]
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 1:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room A158, Levine Science Research Center

Lynne M. Hyman (Duke University), "Development of Fluorescent Iron and Copper Sensors Activated by Hydrogen Peroxide or Ultraviolet Light"   [abstract]
Thursday, April 7, 2011, 1:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Douglas G. Hill Memorial Lecture
Professor Harry B. Gray (California Inst. of Tech., Div. of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering), "The 21st Century Solar Army"   [abstract]
Friday, April 8, 2011, 4:30pm, 2011 Douglas G. Hill Memorial Lecture, Room 2231, French Family Science Center

Robert Harris (Duke University), "Mechanistic Studies of Gold(I)-catalyzed Hydrofuntionalization"   [abstract]
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232, French Family Science Center

Degao Peng (Duke University), "Variational Fractional Spin: a Density-Functional Method for Diradicals"   [abstract]
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 3:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232, French Family Science Center

Andrew Franks (Duke University), "Development of a next-generation photoreactive Cu2+ chemosensor"   [abstract]
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room A158, Levine Science Research Center

Jonathan M. Burg (Duke University), "Efforts Toward the Characterization o¬¬¬¬f the SWIRM-AOD Cleft and SWIRM Domain of LSD1 and Identification of a Unique Chemical Inhibitor"   [abstract]
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 2:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room A158, Levine Science Research Center

Fritz London Memorial Lecture
Daan Frenkel, Professor (Univ. of Cambridge, Dept. of Chemistry), "Van der Waals, Kamerlingh Onnes, and Phase Transitions: From Helium to Protein Crystal Nucleation"   [abstract]
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 8:00pm, Fritz London Memorial Lecture, Room 2231, French Family Science Center

Paul A. Maggard, Associate Professor (N.C. State University, Dept. of Chemistry), "Semiconducting Oxides and Oxide/Organic Hybrids for Harnessing Solar Energy"   [abstract]
Friday, April 15, 2011, 10:00am, Departmental Seminar, Room 144, Biological Sciences Bldg.

Stacey Turner (Duke University), "Asymmetric a-Alkylation via ACC Chiral Auxiliaries"   [abstract]
Friday, April 15, 2011, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Daan Frenkel, Professor (Univ. of Cambridge, Dept. of Chemistry), "Ordered Stackings are all Alike; Every Disordered Stacking is Disordered in its Own Way"   [abstract]
Friday, April 15, 2011, 1:15pm, Adventures in Theory Seminar, Room 139, Biological Sciences

Amy Palmer, Assistant Professor (Univ. of Colorado, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry), "Developing Fluorescent Probes for Imaging Metal Homeostasis in Living Cells"   [abstract]
Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

Marian Helsel (Duke University), "Design and Evaluation of Multifunctional Chelators Targeting Oxidative Stress Conditions"   [abstract]
Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Ronnie Pedersen (Duke University), "DNA-templated bio-molecular patterning"   [abstract]
Friday, April 22, 2011, 1:30pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Amy C. Rosenzweig, Professor (Northwestern Univ., Depts. of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology and of Chemistry), "Biological Methane Oxidation"   [abstract]
Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 11:40am, Departmental Seminar, Room 2237, French Family Science Center

Mary Glesner (Duke University), "New Compositions of Polymer-Wrapped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes"   [abstract]
Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 1:00pm, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Tana Elizabeth Villafaña (Duke University), "Non-Fluorescent Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy: A Dye Free Approach to Super Resolution Microscopy"   [abstract]
Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 10:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Ying Xu (Duke University), "Development and Applications of Chemical Labeling Protocols for Protein-Ligand Binding Analysis Using Bottom-Up Proteomics"   [abstract]
Thursday, May 5, 2011, 2:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Dr. Marshall D. Newton, Senior Chemist (Brookhaven National Laboratory), "Modeling Electronic Transport Rates: Energetics, Dynamics, and Electronic Structure (Reduced State Spaces and D/A Coupling)"   [abstract]
Friday, May 6, 2011, 11:00am, Departmental Seminar, Room 3232 - French Family Science Center

Dr. Samuel Achilefu, Professor (Washington University), "Contrast mechanisms and methods for optical molecular imaging of tumors"   [abstract]
Monday, May 16, 2011, 4:15pm, Departmental Seminar, 115 Teer Building

PLU Panel Discussion (Duke University), "RTP Panel Discussion: So what am I gonna do with this PhD?-- a perspective from local industries"
Friday, May 20, 2011, 4:30pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center

Keely Glass (Duke University), "Chemical approaches to Paleontology: A Study of Melanin in Fossilized Ink Sacs"   [abstract]
Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 10:00am, Student Exams Seminar, Room 3225 - French Family Science Center

Dr. Ramy Farid, President (Schrodinger, Inc.), "Recent Advances in Structure-based Drug Design"   [abstract]
Thursday, May 26, 2011, 2:00pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center

Aaron Virshup, Postdoctoral Associate (Duke University, Dept. of Chemistry), "Mapping and Mining the Complete Set of Small Organic Molecules"   [abstract]
Thursday, May 26, 2011, 2:45pm, Departmental Seminar, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center