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Seminars for April 2016


Monday, April 4, 2016

Kolthoff Lecture Series


Professor Scott McLuckey     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Creativity with a Capital ā€˜Cā€™: Laying the Framework for Making a Lasting Difference

Abstract           Host: Steven Kass



Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Kolthoff Lecture Series


Professor Scott McLuckey     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

New Reactions for Tandem Mass Spectrometry I: Proton Transfer and Electron Transfer Ion/Ion Reactions

Abstract           Host: Steven Kass



Thursday, April 7, 2016

Kolthoff Lecture Series


Professor Scott McLuckey     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

New Reactions for Tandem Mass Spectrometry II: Selective Covalent and Non-covalent Ion/Ion Reactions

Abstract           Host: Steven Kass



Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Student Seminar Series


Professor Melanie Cooper     (web page)
Department of Chemistry, Science Education
Michigan State University, East Lansing MI

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Evidence-Based Approaches to Curriculum Reform and Assessment

Abstract           Host: Megan Weisenberger & Victoria Szlag



Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Departmental Seminar


Professor David Milstein     (web page)
Department of Organic Chemistry
Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot Israel

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Design and Applications of Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry

Abstract           Host: Ian Tonks



Thursday, April 14, 2016

Student Seminar Series


Professor Martin Zanni     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Exciton transport in thin films of semiconducting carbon nanotubes using 2D white-light spectroscopy

Abstract           Host: Emily Keller



Monday, April 18, 2016

Departmental Seminar


Professor Stephen Lippard     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

How Bacteria Convert Methane to Methanol at the Diiron Center in Methane Monooxygenase

Abstract           Host: William Tolman



Thursday, April 21, 2016

Albert J. Moscowitz Lecture


Professor Georg Kresse     (web page)
Center for Computational Materials Science
University of Vienna, Austria

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Many body methods for condensed matter: current status and future developments

Abstract           Host: Donald Truhlar



Friday, April 22, 2016

Special Seminar


Assistant Professor Pavel Nagorny     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

Time:   4 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Development of new catalytic methods for the synthesis of natural products

Abstract           Host: Joseph Topczewski



Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Special Seminar


Assistant Professor Jeffrey Byers     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Iron-Based Catalysts for the Diversification of a Biodegradable Polymer

Abstract           Host: Ian Tonks



Thursday, April 28, 2016

Departmental Seminar


Professor Jonathan Sessler     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of Texas, Austin

Time:   9:45 AM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Expanded Porphyrins: A Personal Journey

Abstract           Host: Valerie Pierre



Friday, April 29, 2016

AbbVie Workshop Series


Professor Michael Jung     (web page)
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Los Angeles

Time:   4:15 PM
Room: 331 Smith Hall

Drug Discovery in Academia: A Successful Case Study

Abstract           Host: Thomas Hoye