Graduate Student Seminar Program Spring 2004

January 13th	Mandatory Meeting for Seminar Presenters
January 20th	Lucas Moore Redox-Active Main-Group Compounds
January 27th	Jelana Hamilton Biosynthesis of Vitamin B12
February 3rd	David Arrington (Ph.D. Research) Dendrimer Patterning and Electrodeposition of Thin Metal Films atop Dendrimer-Mediated Silicon Oxide
February 10th	Dan Pu Advances in Ion Chromatography
February 17th	Jason Hatfield (Ph.D. Research) Attempts to Isolate Chromodulin from Non-Mammalian Sources
February 24th	John Hauptfleisch The Use of Ultrasound in Synthesis
February 26th Thursday	Dipali Chaudhari Controlled Drug Delivery Systems
March 2nd	Galina Gulis Photosynthetic Water Oxidation Centers: Structure, function, and the Role of Manganese
March 9th	Keith Gutowski Relativistic Effects in Chemistry
March 16th	Richard Swatloski (Ph.D. Research) Ionic Liquids as Green Solvents: Enabling New Materials and Technologies
March 23rd	Nick Bridges Modern Gas-Solid Microcalorimetry
March 24th Wednesday	Luyi Sun (Ph.D. Research) Thermal and Morphological Studies on Nafion® for Fuel Cell Applications
April 6th	Violina Cocalia Radiocarbon Dating
April 7th Wednesday	Grant Broker (Ph.D. Research) An Investigation into the Supramolecular Interactions of Coordination Polymers in the Solid State using Nitrogen Containing Ligands
April 13th	Kailas Sawant Ring-Closing Metathesis from Discovery to Wide-Scale Application
April 14th Wednesday	Jia Sun (Ph.D. Research) Scanning Probe Microscopy of Redox Active Arylamine Thin Films
April 20th	Matthew Reichert (Ph.D. Research) A Study into the Solvent Properties of Ionic Liquids: the Use of LSER to Predict Solute Partitioning
April 21st Wednesday	Pakritsadang Kaewsuya (M.S. Research) Synthesis and Characterization of a Fluorinated Dendritic Monomer; Perfluoro-(tetrakis-{[2-methoxycarbonylethoxy]methyl}-methane)
April 27th	Rebecca Booth (Ph.D. Research) Water-Soluble Alkylphosphines as Ligands in Palladium-Catalyzed Couplings: Mechanistic Advances in Catalyst Design and Activity
May 11th	Yuan Chen Sequencing of Peptides by Mass Spectrometry
May 18th	Yunjie Gao Analytical Techniques for Mercury Analysis
June 1st	Jelana Hamilton The Biological Significance of Iodine
June 8th	Joon-Hyung Cho Combinatorial Chemistry