Chemistry Department Seminars

Fall 2012

Thursdays, 12:45-1:45 PM, 1093 Shelby Hall (unless otherwise noted)

Seminar Home

Aug. 30
Sep. 6	Marcy Huey Environmental Health and Safety	Safety refresher training--requred for all department personnel	Shaughnessy
Sep. 13	Prof. Eric Anslyn University of Texas, Austin		Snowden
Sep. 20	Prof. Andreas Bommarius Georgia Tech	Development of Novel Biocatalysts	Frantom
Sep. 27	Prof. Michael Shatruk Florida State University	Controlling Magnetic Bistability in Solid State and Molecular Materials: Itinerant Magnets and Spin-Crossover Complexes	Vaid
Oct. 4		Fall Break
Oct. 11	Prof. Sreejayan Nair University of Wyoming	Chromium in the Treatment of Insulin Resistance - Molecular Mechanisms and Future Directions	Vincent
Oct. 18	Prof. Chris Landry University of Vermont	Selective Modification of Porous Silica for Biological Applications	Bakker
Oct. 25	Cancelled		Pan
Nov. 1		Graduate Student Seminar
Nov. 8	Prof. Catherine Murphy University of Illinois	Surface Chemistry of Gold Nanorods: Wrapping, Stitching, Exchanging and Coating	Pan
Nov. 9 Fri. 1:30 PM	Prof. Luis Montero-Cabrera University of Havana	Wave functions of nanoscopic systems and their excitonic binding properties by the Coulomb-exchange term	Metzger
Nov. 15	Prof. Dan Baker University of Memphis	Sphingosine Kinase-1: Promise and Pitfalls	Busenlehner
Nov. 22		Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov. 27 Tue, 4:00 PM	Prof. Kristen Iversen Dept. of English University of Memphis	Rocky Flats and the Secrets of the Cold War	Dixon
Nov. 29	Prof. Nan Zheng University of Arkansas	A Phototouch on Amines: New Synthetic Adventures of Nitrogen Radical Cations by Visible Light Photocatalysis	Shaughnessy
Dec. 6	Prof. John Gladysz Texas A&M University	From Molecular Gyroscopes to Homeomorphic Isomerization: Molecules that Turn Themselves Inside-Out	Shaughnessy
Dec. 12	Prof. Anne Gorden Auburn University	Soft Donor Ligands for Use in Actinide Selective Sensors and Catalysis	Vincent
Dec. 17	Prof. Elizabeth Papish Drexel University	Biomimetic Dentrification, Hydrogenation, and Water Oxidation with New Hydrogen Bonding LIgands	Vincent