SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA - 2003 - 2004

SEMINAR
9/4/2003 James. L. Skinner / Host: Jin Wang
Department of Chemistry, U. of Wisconsin - Madison
Vibrational Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics of Liquid Water

COLLOQUIUM
9/5/2003 Jan Reedijk / Host: Steve Koch
Professor, Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Leiden University
Platinum Antitumor Chemistry: From Drug Design to DNA Binding

SEMINAR
09/09/2003 Jianpeng Ma / Host: Jin Wang
Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Simulating, Refining and Modeling Supermolecular Complexes at Multiple Resolutions Scales and Multiple Length Scales

SEMINAR
09/11/2003 Rebecca Braslau / Host: Kathlyn Parker
UC Santa Cruz, Dept of Chemistry
Synthesis of Tailored N-Alkoxyamines for Nitroxide Mediated Polymerization

Fourteenth Annual Jacob Bigeleisen Endowed Lecture
09/12/2003 Gerhard Wegner
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Mainz
Functional Polymers and Polymer-modified Surfaces to Control Mineralization Processes

COLLOQUIUM
09/19/2003 Robert Austin / Host: Jin Wang
Princeton University, Department of Physics
Nanotechnology and Nanofluidics in Biology

SEMINAR
10/02/2003 Becky Gee / Host: Clare Grey
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
Structural Analysis of Vanadate and Aluminosilicate Materials by Solid State NMR

PROVOST'S LECTURE SERIES
10/8/03 Elga Wasserman / Host: K. Parker
Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School
Women in Science and Engineering: The Unfinished Agenda

SEMINAR
10/09/2003 Girija Krishnamurthy / Host: P. Tonge
Wyeth Research
HTI-286 interactions with tubulin: A case study of biophysical approaches in drug discovery”

COLLOQUIUM
10/17/2003 A. W. Castleman, Jr. / Host: M. White
Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry and Physics and Eberly Distinguished Chair in Science, Penn State University
Cluster Dynamics: Laying The Foundation For Cluster Assembled Materials

JOINT CHEMISTRY - MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING SEMINAR
10/27/03 Yitzhak Rabin / Host: Benjamin Chu
Bar Ilan University, Israel
Importing DNA and Proteins to the Cell Nucleus: Translocation Through Nuclear Pores”

SPECIAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY SEMINAR
10/27/03 Bernard Langlois / Host: Iwao Ojima
Université Claude Bernard-Lyon I, France
New methodologies for the direct introduction of lipophilic CF3 moieties on organic substrates. Applications to the synthesis of potentially bioactive compounds

SEMINAR
11/6/03 Kimberly A. Bagley / Host: S. Koch
Department of Chemistry Buffalo State SUNY
Infrared Spectroscopy as a Probe of Active Site Structure and Molecular Mechanism in the Hydrogenases and Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase/Acetyl CoA Synthase

COLLOQUIUM
11/21/03 Kevin Plaxco/ / Host: Dan Raleigh
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
My protein folds faster than yours; an experimentalist's view of protein folding theory

COLLOQUIUM
12/05/03 S. Alex Kandel
Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame
Structure and Dynamics of C60 on Gold Surfaces

SEMINAR
12/11/03 Patrick Woodward / Host: Clare Grey
Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University
Studies of the Relationship between Composition, Structure and Properties in Perovskite Oxides and Oxynitrides

SEMINAR
01/16/2004 Neil R. Thomas / Host: D. Drueckhammer
School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, UK
Molecular Recognition & Mechanistic Studies on Catalytic Antibodies and Mycobacterial enzymes

SEMINAR
01/29/2004 Philip Grandinetti / Host Clare Grey
Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University
Insight into the Structure of Oxide Glasses from Solid-State NMR

FRONTIERS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY SEMINAR
02/13/2004 Hisashi Yamamoto / Host: Iwao Ojima
Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago
Acid Catalysis for Selective Organic Synthesis

SEMINAR
02/16/2004 Gabriel Luna-Bárcenas / Host: B. Chu
CINVESTAV Unidad Queretaro, Mexico
Polymers In Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: From Science Towards Technology

SEMINAR
02/19/2004 Jie Liu / Host: S.S. Wong
Department of Chemistry, Duke University
Gaining Control in the Synthesis of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes

COLLOQUIUM
2/20/2004 Larry Scott / Host: F.W. Fowler
Department of Chemistry, Boston College
Chemical Methods for the Rational Synthesis of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes

COLLOQUIUM
02/27/2004 Craig Wilcox / Host: D. Drueckhammer
Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
Physical and Organic Chemistry Investigations of New Chemical Separation Methods and Combinatorial Chemistry

SEMINAR
03/04/2004 Felix Grucci / Host: Undergraduate Chemistry Society
Grucci Fireworks Company
The art of Firework making, including the chemistry of fireworks

COLLOQUIUM - CHEMISTRY RESEARCH DAY
03/05/2004 Peter Tonge
Department of Chemistry, SUNY Stony Brook
Tuberculosis: From Little Pigs To The Magic Mountain and Beyond

15th Annual Jacob Bigeleisen Endowed Lecture
03/10/2004 Yuan T. Lee
President, Academia Sinica in Taiwan
Dynamics of Photodissociations of Simple Organic Molecules

SEMINAR
3/11/04 Tianbo Liu / Host: S. Koch
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Discovery of the Second Solute State - New Science Emerges When Inorganic Molecules Reach the Size of Nanometer Scale

COLLOQUIUM
3/19/2004 Eric W. Kaler / Host: Benjamin Chu
Department of Chemical Engineering, Colburn Laboratory, University of Delaware
Colloid Scale Engineering

SEMINAR
03/25/2004 Nathaniel Brese / Host: Clare Grey
Rohm & Haas
SiC, Electronic Materials, and the World's Largest CVD Reactor

COLLQUIUM
03/26/2004 Robert Hwang
Brookhaven National Lab
Highlights and Access to Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory

SEMINAR
03/29/2004 Gert Strobl / Host: Ben Hsiao
University of Freiburg, Germany
Evidence for a Multi-Stage Route Followed in Polymer Crystallization

COLLOQUIUM
04/02/2004 Charles Han / Host: Ben Hsiao
The Chinese Academy of Sciences
Micro and nano binary structures in some multi-component polymer systems

SEMINAR
04/06/2004 Rik Wierenga / Host: Nicole Sampson
University of Oulu, Finland
Structural and Protein-Engineering Studies on Triosephosphate Isomerase

SEMINAR
04/15/2004 Duncan Quarless / Host: N Sampson
Department of Chemistry, Old Westbury
The Coordination Chemistry of Mercaptoacetamides: Non-Covalent Forces in Lewis Acid Chemistry

COLLOQUIUM
04/16/2004 Jose Onuchic / Host: Jin Wang
Department of Chemistry, UCSD
Protein Folding - Contacting Theory with Experiments

SEMINAR
04/21/2004 Ric Slayden / Host P. Tonge
CSU
Cell Cycle Regulation and Latency in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

SEMINAR
04/22/2004 Uwe Bunz / Host: N. Goroff
Georgia Tech
Synthesis, Nano and Microstructuring of Polyaryleneethynylenes

SEMINAR
04/29/2004 Takushi Kaneko / Host: Kathlyn Parker
Pfizer
Natural Products and Medicinal Chemistry

COLLOQUIUM
05/07/2004 Qiang Cui / Host: Jin Wang
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Theoretical studies of chemistry in biomolecules - from enzyme catalysis to mechanochemical coupling in molecular motors

SEMINAR (ACS)
5/11/2004 Valerie Kuck / Host: M.G. White
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (ret.)
The Training and Employment of Chemists: A Study in Inequities

SEMINAR
5/13/2004 Nancy Goroff / Host: N Sampson
Department of Chemistry, SUNY Stony Brook
Sticks, Balls, and Belts: Unusual Carbon Chemistry

COLLOQUIUM
5/14/2004 David Chandler / Host: Jin Wang
Berkeley
Throwing ropes over mountain passes, in the dark, to discover the pathways to pH

SEMINAR
06/25/2004 Hiroshi Ito / Host: B. Chu
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dept. of Organic and Polymeric Materials
Film Processing-Structure-Properties Investigation via On-line Birefringence Measurements

SEMINAR
06/25/2004 John J. Kane / Host: J. Lauher
Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Synthesis Studies and Biological Investigation of the Iejimalides

SEMINAR
08/27/2004 Takashi Sakurai / Hosts: B. Chu & B. Hsiao
Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., Petrochemicals Research Laboratory, Japan
Hot Drawing Behavior of Isotactic Polypropylene Film by Synchrotron Time-Resolved WAXD and SAXS Measurements

SEMINAR
08/27/2004 Hiroki Murase / Hosts: B. Chu & B. Hsiao
Manager, Toyobo Research Center Co., Ltd., Japan
Structure Formation in Semidilute Solution of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Under Shear Flow

Maintained by: Bob.Schneider at sunysb.edu
Last Update: 08-Nov-2004