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