Seminars for March 2014

Professor David Vanden Bout     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Texas, Austin

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymer Aggregates: Building up Bulk Materials from Single Polymer Chains

Assistant Professor Naoki Haraguchi     (web page)
Department of Environmental and Life Sciences
Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi Japan

Time:   2:30 PM
Room: 117/119 Smith Hall

Molecular Design of Novel Polymeric Chiral Catalysts for Asymmetric Reaction

Assistant Professor Mitchell Croatt     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Discovery, Design, and Desperation: Three Excellent Tools for New Reactions

Professor Michael Krische     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Texas, Austin

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Formation of C-C Bonds via Catalytic Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation

Assistant Professor Chris Beaudry     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Oregon State University, Corvalis Oregon

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Synthesis of Natural Products with Conformational Chirality

Assistant Professor JR Schmidt     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

First-Principles Force Fields from Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory