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Seminars for November 2015


Thursday, November 5, 2015

Departmental Seminar


Assistant Professor Sara Mason     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Iowa, Iowa City

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Fundamental Insights about Geochemical Surface Science from Density Functional Theory

Abstract           Host: James Johns



Thursday, November 12, 2015

Departmental Seminar


Professor Ohyun Kwon     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Phosphines and Phosphinocatalysis

Abstract           Host: Thomas Hoye



Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Aldrich Chemicals Seminar in Synthetic Organic Chemistry


Assistant Professor Mary Watson     (web page)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Delaware, Newark DE

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Stereospecific, Nickel-Catalyzed Cross Couplings of Alcohol- and Amine-Derived Electrophiles

Abstract           Host: Christopher Douglas



Monday, November 23, 2015

Departmental Seminar


Xingchen Ye, Ph.D.    
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 401 Walter Library

Chemical Design of Precise Nanocrystals: From Single-Particle Reaction Kinetics to Self-Assembled Mesostructures

Abstract           Host: Wayne Gladfelter



Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Departmental Seminar


Assistant Professor Rena Robinson     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Thinking outside of the brain in Alzheimer’s disease using proteomics technology

Abstract           Host: Edgar Arriaga



Monday, November 30, 2015

Departmental Seminar


Will Gutekunst, Ph.D.    
Materials Research Laboratory
University of California, Santa Barbara

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 401 Walter Library

New Synthetic Strategies for Small Molecules, Macromolecules and Everything in Between

Abstract           Host: Timothy Lodge