Chemistry Department Colloquium, Fall 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Host
September 12 Prof. Albert J. Fry Wesleyan University "Organic Electrochemistry as a Community" Dept. of Chemistry,
Wesleyan University
September 19 Dr. Taekjip HA University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Playing Extreme Sports with Nature's Nanomachines In Singulo" Prof. Manju Hingorani
September 26 Prof. Dong-Sheng Yang University of Kentucky "Transition Metal-arene complexes: Spectroscopy, structures, and spin states." Prof. Joseph L. Knee
October 3 Prof. David W. McCamant,'95 University of Rochester "Ultrafast structural dynamics in photochemistry and photobiology: Geometry changes that control electronic structure" Prof. Stewart E. Novick & Prof. Wallace C. Pringle
October 10 TBA TBA TBA TBA
October 17 Prof. Steven Bruner Boston College "Mechanism and Structure of Peptide Natural Product Biosythentic Pathways" Prof. Rex F. Pratt
October 31 Reserved   TBA Prof. George A. Petersson
November 7 Reserved   TBA Prof. George A. Petersson
November 14 Prof. Richard Silverman Northwestern University "Selective Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitors for the Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases" Prof. Erika A. Taylor
November 21 Prof. Thomas Cheatham University of Utah "Molecular Dynamic Simulations" Prof. David L. Beveridge
December 5 Prof. Doug Barrick Johns Hopkins University TBA Prof. Irina M. Russu