Chemistry Department Seminars

Fall 2004

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Aug. 16 Monday	Mr. Diasuke Shirakawa Asahi Glass	The PERFECT Process (Direct Fluorination in AGC)	Thrasher
Aug. 20 Friday	Prof. Minh Nguyen University of Leuven	Electronic Structure of Triradicals: When Hund's Rule is Broken Down?	Dixon
Aug. 26		ACS Meeting, Philadelphia
Aug. 30 Monday, 1 pm	Dr. Peer Kirsch Merck KGaA	Highly Fluorinated Liquid Crystals for Active Matrix LCDs: Design, Synthesis and Recent Developments	Thrasher
Aug. 30 Monday, 4 pm	Dr. Matthias Bremer Merck KGaA	From Desktop Monitors to LCD Television: Liquid Crystal Material Development for the Living Room	Thrasher
Sep. 2
Sep. 9	Prof. Kevin Shaughnessy The University of Alabama	Organometallic Chemistry in Alternative Solvents: Fundamental Studies and Applications to Catalysis
Sep. 16	Prof. Gregory Dudley Florida State University	Towards Improving the Efficiency of Organic Synthesis	Jennings
Sep. 21 Tuesday, 7 pm 107 Shelby	Prof. Carl Wieman University of Colorado 2001 Nobel Prize winner for Physics	Bose-Einstein Condensation: Quantum Weirdness at the Lowest Temperature in the Universe	University
Sep. 22 Wednesday, 4 pm 107 Shelby	Prof. Carl Wieman University of Colorado 2001 Nobel Prize winner for Physics	Using the Tools of Science to Teach Science	University
Sep. 22 Wednesday, 2:15 pm 227 Gallalee	Dr. Shouheng Sun IBM	Chemical Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Monodisperse Magnetic Nanoparticles	Physics/Gupta
Sep. 23	Prof. James Haw University of Southern California	The Mechanism of Methanol-to-Olefin Catalysis	Shaughnessy
Sep. 24 Friday, 2:30 pm 107 Shelby	Dr. William Carroll Occidental Chemical Corp.	Vinyl Chloride and Cancer: An Unlikely Success Story	Rogers
Sep. 24 Friday, 7 pm 107 Shelby	Dr. William Carroll Occidental Chemical Corp. ACS President-Elect	An Invitation to Dialogue:  An ACS Agenda for 2005	Rogers
Sep. 28 Tuesday, 4 pm 110 AIME	Prof. G. Froment Texas A&M University	Kinetic Modeling of Complex Catalytic Processes	Chem. E.
Sep. 30	Cancelled
Oct. 7	Prof. Daesung Lee University of Wisconsin-Madison	Enyne Metathesis: Scope, Selectivity, and Application	Snowden
Oct. 14	Prof. Peter Prevelige University of Alabama-Birmingham	Paradigms of Molecular Self-Assembly Drawn from Biology	Gupta
Oct. 21	Prof. Catherine Murphy University of South Carolina	Synthesis, Assembly and Reactivity of Metallic Nanorods	Nikles
Oct. 27 Wednesday	Dr. K. V. Lakshmi Yale University	Magnetic Resonance Studies of Energy Transduction by Photosystem II	Redding
Oct. 28	Prof. David Norton University of Florida	Synthesis and Properties of Oxide Thin Films	Gupta
Nov. 4	Prof. Jeffrey Johnston Indiana University	The Development of New Reactions and Reagents for Alkaloid Total Synthesis: The Advent of Chiral Proton Catalysis	Jennings
Nov. 5 Friday, 12:45 Shelby 150	Dr. Emily Gibb Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Technology	Laser Based Detection Systems for Homeland Security and Environmental Applications	Cassady
Nov. 11	Prof. Kenneth Balkus The University of Texas-Dallas	Molecular Sieve Forms, Fibers and Films	Shaughnessy
Nov. 18	Prof. Ralph Salvatore Western Kentucky University	Efficient Cesium-Promoted Alkylations and Unprecedented C-C Bond Formation Via Organobarium Chemistry: Novel Synthetic Methodologies and Applications Toward Total Synthesis	Shaughnessy
Nov. 25		Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 3 Friday, 1 pm	Prof. Andrzej Rajca University of Nebraska	From High-Spin Molecules to Organic Polymers with Magnetic Ordering	Blackstock
Dec. 9	CH 401/501	Inorganic Chemistry Minisymposium	Nikles