Seminar Schedule 2017
Seminar Schedule
Spring 2017
2/2/2017
Finding NiMo: Exploring the Conversion Reaction of Nickel Molybdate Anode Materials
Speaker: James Pastore (Cornell, Bauer Lecture)
Host: Jon Rudick
2/3/2017
Measuring Non-covalent Interactions of Aromatic Surfaces using Molecular Balances
Speaker: Kenneth Shimizu (
University of South Carolina)
Host: Gregory Rushton
2/16/2017
Replicating Damaged DNA with Artificial Nucleotides
Speaker:
Shana Sturla (ETH-Zurich)
Host: Orlando Schärer
2/17/2017
The Aquatic Photochemistry of Naturally Occurring Sensitizers and Antioxidants
Speaker:
Kris McNeill (ETH-Zurich)
Host: Orlando Schärer
2/23/2017
Nanoparticle-Facilitated Membrane Depolarization-Induced Receptor Activation: Implications on Pharmaceutical Delivery
Speaker: Balaji Sitharaman (Stony Brook University, Biomedical Engineering)
Host: Jon Rudick
3/2/2017
Biomimetic Polymers - Synthesis and Properties of Multifunctional Polypeptides
Speaker: Timothy Deming (UCLA)
Host: Surita Bhatia
3/9/2017
Coordination Chemistry and Molecular Imaging: A Marriage Made In Vivo
Speaker: Thomas Meade (Northwestern University) (Franklin Lecture)
Host: Stephen Koch
3/23/2017
Nonadiabatic Events in Photoinitiated Processes in Molecules
Speaker: Spiridoula Matsika (Temple University)
Host: Thomas Allison
3/30/2017
Designing Brighter Dyes for Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy
Speaker: Luke Lavis (Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Host: Scott Laughlin
4/7/2017
Reactions of the Simplest Criegee Intermediate with Inorganic Acids and Alcohols
Speaker: Craig Murray (UC Irvine)
**11am in CHEM 412
4/13/2017
Impact of Local Structure on Transparent Conductors
Speaker:
Kenneth Poeppelmeier
(Northwestern University)
Host: Peter Khalifah
4/20/2017
Sequence Matters: How Sequence in Copolymers Affects Their Properties
Speaker: Tara Meyer (
University of Pittsburgh)
Host: Melanie Chiu
4/21/2017
Structure, Mechanism and Inhibition of the M2 Proton Channel from Influenza A Virus
Speaker: William F. DeGrado (UCSF) (Francis Johnson Lectures)
Host: Daniel Raleigh
**Francis Johnson Lecture, 3pm, Frey 104
4/27/2017
Towards the Convergence of Rate and Selectivity in Organocatalytic Ring-opening Polymerization
Speaker: Matthew K. Kiesewetter ( University of Rhode Island)
5/4/2017
Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Size-Selected Boron Clusters: From Planar Structures to Borophenes and Borospherenes
Speaker: Lai-Sheng Wang (Brown University)
Host: Christopher Johnson
5/5/2017
Protein Engineering – From Nature to Nanotechnology
Speaker: Tijana Z. Grove (Virginia Tech)
