| Date/Host |
Speaker |
Title |
Tuesday 15 January
Prof. Kertesz
Reiss 112,
12:00 pm |
Mr. Brad Slepetz
Georgetown University
Thesis Seminar |
"Structural changes in vacancy cluster formation in diamond and paracylophane cycloaddition: insights into unusual carbon bonding" |
Thursday 17 January
Prof. Kertesz
Reiss 112,
2:00 pm |
Prof. M. Samy El-Shall
Virginia Commonwealth University |
"Novel Applications of Graphene in Energy Conversion and Heterogeneous Catalysis” |
Thursday 24 January
Prof. Tong
Reiss 112, 2:00 pm |
Prof. Rongchao Jin
Carnegie Mellon University |
"Controlling Gold Nanoparticles with Atomic Precision" |
Tuesday 29 January
Prof. Roepe
Reiss 112, 12:00 pm |
Mr. Alexander Gorka
Georgetown University
Thesis Seminar |
"The Pharmacology of Quinoline Antimalarials" |
Thursday 31 January
Prof. Weiss
Reiss 112, 2:00 pm |
Prof. Russell Schmehl
Tulane University |
"Oxygen Quenching in Ru(II) Complexes Having Coupled Electronic Excited States: Application to in vivo Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring and to Luminescence Reporting of Singlet Oxygen Reactivity" |
Wednesday 6 February
Keith Bentley & GSOC
Reiss 262, 3:30 pm |
Prof. Joseph DeSimone
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
"Bridging Fields and Harnessing Diversity for the Sake of Innovation: Tackling Unmet Needs in the Life Sciences" |
Tuesday 12 February
Prof. Weiss
Regents 109, 1:45-3:15 |
Prof. Dganit Danino
Technion, Israel
Co-sponsored by Chemistry and ISM |
"Spatial and Temporal Organization of Soft Condensed Matter: Insight from Cryo-TEM" |
Thursday 14 February
Prof. Warren
Reiss 112, 2:00 pm |
Prof. Thomas Vaid
University of Alabama |
1. "Oxidized and Reduced Main-Group Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Complexes: Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity"
2. "Toward Semiconducting Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Framework Materials" |
Thursday 21 February
Prof. Holman
Reiss 112, 2:00 pm |
Prof. Richard Hooley
University of California Riverside |
"Biomimicry with Synthetic Receptors: Self-Assembly and Molecular Recognition" |
Thursday 28 February
Prof. Moasser
Reiss 112, 2:00 pm |
Prof. Robert Flowers
Lehigh University |
"Follow the Thread: Unraveling the Mechanism of Single-Electron Reduction and Oxidation in Important Synthetic Reactions" |
Thursday 14 March
Prof. Hahm
Reiss 112, 2:00 pm |
Prof. Xinqiao Jia
University of Delaware |
"Interfacing Biology with Synthetic Materials" |
Tuesday 19 March
Prof. Stoll
Reiss 112, 12:00 pm |
Prof. David Eichhorn
Wichita State University |
"Coordination Chemistry Inspired by Metalloenzyme Active Sites" |
Thursday 21 March
Prof. Tong
Reiss 112, 2:00 pm |
Prof. Jürgen Haase
Universität Leipzig |
"The Chemical and Electronic Structure of Solids Studied with Extreme NMR" |
Tuesday 26 March
Prof. Moasser
Reiss 112, 12:00 pm |
Mr. Sudeep Das
Georgetown University
Thesis Seminar |
"Visualizing Enzymatic Activity with Magnetic Resonance Molecular Imaging" |
Wednesday 3 April
Prof. Warren
Reiss 262, 3:30 pm |
Prof. Liviu Mirica
Washington University in St. Louis |
"Oxidation Reactivity of Pd(III) and Pd(IV) Complexes Supported by Flexible Miltidentate Ligands" |
Thursday 11 April
Prof. Kertesz
Reiss 112, 2:00 pm |
Prof. Stephen Lee
Cornell University |
"How to count electrons in quasicrystals and other complicated intermetallics" |
Monday 15 April
Prof. Tong
Reiss 109, 4:00 pm |
Prof. Franz Geiger
Northwestern University |
"Aerosol Particles from Southern Finland, Amazonia, and California Studied by Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation” |
Thursday 18 April
Prof. Wolf
Reiss 112, 2:00 pm |
Mr. Peng Zhang
Georgetown University
Thesis Seminar |
“Synthesis of Organofluorine Compounds and Chirality Sensing with Tropos Ligands” |
Friday 19 April
Reiss 112, 3:30 pm
Saturday 20 April
St. Mary's 110, 9:00 am
Prof. Moasser |
|
GRADUATE STUDENT LITERATURE SEMINARS |
Tuesday 23 April
Prof. Roepe
Reiss 112, 12:00 pm |
Mr. David Gaviria
Georgetown University
Thesis Seminar |
"Investigating Potential Mechanisms of Cytocidal Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum" |
Thursday 25 April
Prof. Kertesz
Reiss 112, 2:00 pm |
Prof. Carol Parish
University of Richmond |
"The Intellectual Wanderings of a Computational Chemist: From Halogen Bonding; to Protein Folding; to Combustion" |
Friday 26 April
Prof. de Dios
Regents 209
1:30-5:00 pm |
|
UNDERGRADUATE HONORS TALKS |
Tuesday 30 April
Prof. Swift
Reiss 112, 12:00 pm |
Ms. Jessica Urbelis
Georgetown University
Thesis Seminar |
“Template-Directed Crystallization of High Energy Materials and Other Small Molecules" |
Monday, 13 May
Prof. Weiss
Reiss 112, 2:00 pm |
Prof. V. Ramamurthy
University of Miami |
"Science and Scientists" |
Thursday 23 May
Prof. Weiss
Reiss 262, 3:30 pm |
Prof. Scott Auerbach
University of Massachusetts |
"Modeling Inorganic and Organic Chemical Networks" |
Thursday 20 June
Prof. Weiss
Reiss 112, 2:00 pm |
Ms. Lora Angelova
Georgetown University
Thesis Seminar |
"An Exploration of the Properties and Applications of Gels from Borate-Crosslinked Partially Hydrolyzed Poly(vinyl acetate)s" |
