| DATE |
TIME & LOCATION |
EVENT |
Tuesday (September 13) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 306 |
Professor Nikolaus Schwentner (Institut für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität Berlin) will speak on: "Control of vibrational wave packet interferences and dispersion in the condensed phase" (Host: Apkarian) Special |
Saturday (September 17) 2005 | 8:00 AM in Beckman Center at UCI |
The UCI Merck Synthesis Symposium: Synthetic Methods. Professors Charette, Nozaki, Toste, and Molander (Breakfast at 8:00; Talks, Lunch, and Poster Session) Special |
Saturday (September 17) 2005 | 9:00 AM in Beckman Center at UCI |
Professor André Charette (University of Montreal) will speak on: "Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Cyclopropane Derivatives" Special |
Saturday (September 17) 2005 | 10:45 AM in Beckman Center at UCI |
Professor Kyoko Nozaki (University of Tokyo) will speak on: "Metal-Catalyzed Carbonylation and Carboxylation of Cyclic Ethers" Special |
Saturday (September 17) 2005 | 2:00 PM in Beckman Center at UCI |
Professor F. Dean Toste (University of California, Berkeley) will speak on: "Development of Application of Transition Metal Catalysts for Organic Synthesis" (UCI Merck Synthesis Symposium) Special |
Saturday (September 17) 2005 | 3:30 PM in Beckman Center at UCI |
Professor Gary Molander (University of Pennsylvania) will speak on: "Organotrifluoroborates: Expanding Organoboron Chemistry" Special |
Thursday (September 22) 2005 | 12:00 PM in RH 306 |
Dr. Peter Baum (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univerity Munich) will speak on: ""Probing molecular dephasing dynamics with tunable phase-locked multi-color pulses"" Special |
Tuesday (September 27) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Sergey Nizkorodov (UC Irvine) will speak on: "Photochemistry of Organic Aerosol Particles: New Frontier in Atmospheric Chemistry Research" Physical |
Wednesday (September 28) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
The Organic Reactions Lecture: Professor Mark Rizzacasa (The University of Melbourne) will speak on: "Adventures in the Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products Down Under" (Organic Reactions Lecture) Organic |
Friday (September 30) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
CANCELLED: The Robert W. Taft Memorial Lecture: Professor JoAnne Stubbe (MIT) will speak on: "Ribonucleotide Reductases: Something for Everyone" (Robert W. Taft Memorial Lecture) Organic |
Tuesday (October 4) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Robin Garrell (UCLA) will speak on: "Bis-amino Acids: A New Technology for Synthesizing Macromolecules with Designed Shapes" (Host: Corn) Physical |
Wednesday (October 5) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Janis Louie (University of Utah) will speak on: "The Versatility of Nickel Cycloaddition Catalysts" (Host: Woerpel) Organic |
Tuesday (October 11) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Marc Porter (Iowa State) will speak on: "Nanometric Magnetic and Optical Labels for the Design of Miniaturized Immunodiagnostic Platforms" (Host: Corn) Physical |
Wednesday (October 12) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Christian Schafmeister (University of Pittsburgh) will speak on: "Bis-amino Acids: A New Technology for Synthesizing Macromolecules with Designed Shapes" (Host: Nowick) Organic |
Tuesday (October 18) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Oleg Prezhdo (University of Washington) will speak on: "Excitation dynamics on the nanoscale" (Host: Mandelshtam) Physical |
Wednesday (October 19) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Tien-Yau Luh (National Taiwan University) will speak on: "Molecular Architecture of helical Double Stranded Polymers" (Host: Tsai) Organic |
Tuesday (October 25) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Jim Prestegard (University of Georgia) will speak on: "Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions: New NMR Tools for Challenging Systems" (Host: Shaka) Physical |
Wednesday (October 26) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Gregory Weiss (UC Irvine) will speak on: "Multi-Dimensional Molecular Evolution, Recognition and Inhibition" Organic |
Thursday (October 27) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Cliff Kubiak (UC San Diego) will speak on: "Ultrafast Inorganic Ground States" (Host: Heyduk) Inorganic |
Tuesday (November 1) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Dr. Wojciech H. Zurek (Los Alamos National Laboratory) will speak on: "Decoherence and the Physics of Information" (Host: Apkarian) Physical |
Wednesday (November 2) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Jackie Barton (California Institute of Technology) will speak on: "DNA Charge Transport Chemistry and Biology" (Iota Sigma Pi Lecture: See Woerpel) Organic |
Thursday (November 3) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Dr. Jaqueline Kiplinger (Los Alamos National Laboratory) will speak on: "Fun at the Bottom of the Periodic Table: Novel Reactivity Patterns in Actinide Molecular Systems" (Host: Evans) Inorganic |
Tuesday (November 8) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Parisa Ariya (McGill University) will speak on: "(Photo)chemical Reactions at Atmosphere-Snow-Ice Interface" (Host: Finlayson-Pitts) Physical |
Tuesday (November 15) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Peter McMurry (University of Minnesota) will speak on: "Observations of New Particle Formation and Growth Rates in the Atmosphere" (Host: Nizkorodov) Physical |
Wednesday (November 16) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
CANCELLED: Professor Karen Wooley (Washington University, St. Louis) will speak on: "Well-Defined Nanostructured Materials" Organic |
Tuesday (November 22) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Nien-Hui Ge (UC Irvine) will speak on: "Probing Peptide Conformations by Femtosecond Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectoroscopy" Physical |
Tuesday (November 29) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Mary Wirth (University of Arizona) will speak on: "Single-Molecule Probing of the Binding of Drugs to G-Protein Coupled Receptors" (Host: Corn) Physical |
Wednesday (November 30) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Helma Wennemers (Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland) will speak on: "Peptides - Molecular Recognition, Asymmetric Catalysis and Cleavage" Organic |
Thursday (December 1) 2005 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Peter Zhang (University of Tennessee) will speak on: "Bio-Inspired Carbene and Nitrene Transfer Reactions by Metalloporphyrins" (Host: Farmer) Inorganic |
Friday (December 9) 2005 | 8:00 AM in Beckman Center at UCI |
The UCI Pfizer Symposium. Professors Aube, Isobe, Lee and Williams (Breakfast at 8:00; Morning Talks, Lunch, and Afternoon Talks) Special |
Friday (December 9) 2005 | 9:00 AM in Beckman Center at UCI |
Professor Jeff Aube (University of Kansas) will speak on: "New Alkyl Azide Chemistry Leading to Natural and Unnatural Products" (UCI Pfizer Symposium) Special |
Friday (December 9) 2005 | 10:45 AM in Beckman Center at UCI |
Professor Minoru Isobe (Nagoya University) will speak on: "New Methods for the Synthesis and Bioorganic Chemistry of Natural Products:
Acetylene Biscobalt Complexes with Ligand Exchange for Ciguatoxin Synthesis &
Function Analysis of Timer Protein and Photo" (UCI Pfizer Symposium) Special |
Friday (December 9) 2005 | 1:15 PM in Beckman Center at UCI |
The Hal Moore Award Award Lecture for outstanding graduate research. Awardee: To Be Announced (UCI Pfizer Symposium) Special |
Friday (December 9) 2005 | 2:00 PM in Beckman Center at UCI |
Professor Eun Lee (Seoul National University) will speak on: "Radicals in Synthesis: Oxacyclic Natural Products" (UCI Pfizer Symposium) Special |
Friday (December 9) 2005 | 3:30 PM in Beckman Center at UCI |
Professor David Williams (Indiana University) will speak on: "Strategies for the Synthesis of Natural Products: Target-Driven Innovation" (UCI Pfizer Symposium) Special |
Thursday (January 12) 2006 | 2:00 PM in NS2 2201 |
Professor Christoph Dellago (Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Vienna) will speak on: "Jarzynski identity as a computational tool" (Host: Mukamel) Physical |
Thursday (January 12) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Malcolm Chisholm (The Ohio State University) will speak on: "Electronic Coupling Involving Carboxylate Links and MM Quadruple Bonds, Where M = Mo and W. M2 delta to Ligand pi-Conjugation" (Host: Heyduk) Inorganic |
Tuesday (January 17) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Kieron Burke (Rutgers University) will speak on: "Density Functional Theory in Chemistry: Successes and Challenges" (Host: Mukamel) Physical |
Wednesday (January 18) 2006 | 6:00 PM in Beckman Auditorium |
Dr. Alan Lloyd (Secretary of CalEPA) will speak on: "Air Quality, the Environment and Energy from Smog to Global Climate Change" (Evening reception and talk as part of the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship Series) Special |
Tuesday (January 24) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Jacob Schaefer (Washington University in St. Louis) will speak on: "Structure and Function in Bacteria and Plants by REDOR NMR" (Host: Yee) Physical |
Wednesday (January 25) 2006 | 12:00 PM in Crystal Cove Auditorium, UC Irvine Student Center |
Biomedical Distinguished Lecturer Series, co-sponsored by Chemistry Professor George Whitesides (Harvard University) will speak on: "Microtools for Biology" Special |
Wednesday (January 25) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Jim Morken (University of North Carolina) will speak on: "Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis with Chiral Organometallics" (Host: Jarvo) Organic |
Thursday (January 26) 2006 | 2:00 PM in Nat Sci II #1201 |
Professor Joseph Zyss (Molecular Quantum Photonics Laboratory and d’Alembert Institute, Ecole Normale Supérieure Cachan, Fr) will speak on: "Advances in Nonlinear Light-Matter Interactions in Molecular Media: from Materials to Single Molecules
" (Host: Mukamel) Special |
Monday (January 30) 2006 | 2:45 PM in 1201 Natural Sciences 2 |
Professor Michael Famulok (Kekulé-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) will speak on: "Synthesis and Amplification of High-Density Functionalized DNA" (Host: Nowick) Special |
Tuesday (January 31) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Richard Crooks (University of Texas Austin) will speak on: "Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Applications of 1-3 nm-Diameter Dendrimer-Encapsulated Nanoparticles" (Host: Corn) Physical |
Wednesday (February 1) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Joseph Sadighi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) will speak on: "N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of the Group 11 Metals: Synthetic and Catalytic Studies" (Host: Heyduk) Organic |
Tuesday (February 7) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Charles Martin (University of Florida) will speak on: "Nanoscience in Bioanalytical Chemistry" (Host: Penner) Physical |
Thursday (February 9) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Paul Chirik (Cornell University) will speak on: "Homogenous Catalysis with Iron: The importance of electronic structure" (Host: Heyduk) Inorganic |
Tuesday (February 14) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Jason Cheng (UC Riverside) will speak on: "Supported Lipid Membrances for Biosensing: an SPR Spectroscopic and Imaging Study" (Host: Corn) Physical |
Thursday (February 16) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Rich Jordan (University of Chicago) will speak on: "Recent Advances n Zirconocene Chemistry" (Host: Evans) Inorganic |
Tuesday (February 21) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Mark Wightman (UNC Chapel Hill) will speak on: "Voltammetric Measurements of Rapid Signalling by Neurotransmitters" (Host: Penner) Physical |
Tuesday (February 28) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Graham Fleming (UC Berkeley) will speak on: "Multidimensional Spectroscopy: The Chemical Physics of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting" (Host: Ge) Physical |
Tuesday (March 7) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Azadeh Tabazadeh (Stanford University) will speak on: "Impacts of Micelle Formation in Atmospheric Aerosols on Particle Optics and Chemistry
" (Host: Finlayson-Pitts) Physical |
Tuesday (March 14) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Andrew Miranker (Yale University) will speak on: "Origins of Catalysis in Pathological Protein Self-Assembly" (Host: Martin) Physical |
Wednesday (March 15) 2006 | 4:00 PM in Beckman Center Lecture Hall |
Organic Synthesis Lecture: Professor Manfred Reetz (Max-Planck-Institute at Mulheim) will speak on: "Directed Evolution of Enantioselective Enzymes: A New Approach to Asynmmetric Catalysis" (Organic Synthesis Lecture) Organic |
Thursday (March 16) 2006 | 12:00 PM in NS2 2201 |
Professor Ana de Bettencourt-Dias (Syracuse University) will speak on: "Lanthanide ion complexes with polymerizable ligands as precursors for luminescent films" (Host: Evans) Inorganic |
Thursday (March 16) 2006 | 4:00 PM in Beckman Center Lecture Hall |
The Organic Synthesis Lecture: Professor Manfred Reetz (Max-Planck-Institute at Mulheim) will speak on: "New Combinatorial Methods in Selective Transition Metal Catalysis" (Organic Synthesis Lecture) Organic |
Tuesday (March 21) 2006 | 4:00 PM in NS2 2201 |
Professor Julie Macpherson (University of Warwick) will speak on: "Electrochemical Applications of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Two Dimensional Networks to Scanning Imaging Probes" (Host: Penner) Physical |
Tuesday (April 4) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Ken Kuno (University of Notre Dame) will speak on: "Solution Based Semiconductor Nanowires: Synthesis, Characterization and Optical Properties" (Host: Nizkorodov) Physical |
Thursday (April 6) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Jacqueline L. Kiplinger (Los Alamos National Laboratory) will speak on: "Fun at the Bottom of the Periodic Table: Novel Reactivity Patterns in Actinide Molecular Systems" (Host: Heyduk) Inorganic |
Tuesday (April 11) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Charles Campbell, co-sponsored by ISIS (University of Washington) will speak on: "Probing Chemical Reactions at Surfaces: A Few Novel Approaches" (Host: Corn) Physical |
Wednesday (April 12) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Tyler McQuade (Cornell University) will speak on: "Materials and Methods: Toward More Efficient Synthesis" (Host: Guan/Weiss) Organic |
Tuesday (April 18) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Joint Seminar with ISIS, Professor Cynthia Friend (Harvard University) will speak on: "Surface Chemistry of Nanostructures: Materials Synthesis and Chemical Reactivity" (Host: Hemminger) Physical |
Wednesday (April 19) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Novartis Lectureship: Professor Raymond Funk (Pennsylvania State University) will speak on: "The Diels-Alder Reaction: In Forward and Reverse" (Host: Vanderwal) Special |
Thursday (April 20) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Dr. Brian Goodall (Rohm and Haas Company) will speak on: "Challenges and Advances in the Catalytic Copolymerization of Olefins with Polar Monomers" (Host: Guan) Inorganic |
Tuesday (April 25) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Ken Dill (University of California, San Francisco) will speak on: "Water, the Hydrophobic Effect and Ion Solvation" (Host: Martens) Physical |
Wednesday (April 26) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Phil Baran (Scripps) will speak on: "The Catalytic Cycle of Discovery in Total Synthesis" (Host: Rychnovsky) Organic |
Thursday (April 27) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Marc Johnson (University of Michigan) will speak on: "Tuning the Reactivity of Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds: Reactive Nitrides and Stable Carbides" (Host: Heyduk) Inorganic |
Tuesday (May 2) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Donald Brenner (North Carolina State University) will speak on: "Dynamics at Soft Interfaces: Modeling Molecular Diffusion on a Sef-Assembled Monolayer and Fluid Flow Through Smart Nanopores" (Host: Martens) Physical |
Wednesday (May 3) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Chulbom Lee (Princeton University) will speak on: "Transition Metal-Catalyzed Formation of C-O and C-C Bonds for Organic Synthesis" (Host: Van Vranken) Organic |
Thursday (May 4) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor James Mayer (University of Washington) will speak on: "Oxidations of C-H and O-H bonds by metal complexes via hydrogen atom transfer and possibly concerted pathways" (Host: Heyduk) Inorganic |
Tuesday (May 9) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Joint AirUCI and Physical Chemistry Seminar: Professor Tom Baer (UNC Chapel Hill) will speak on: "The Detection and Reactions of Model Aerosols by Single Particle Photoionization Mass Spectrometry" (Host: Finlayson-Pitts) Physical |
Wednesday (May 10) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Geoff Coates (Cornell University) will speak on: "New Catalysts for the Synthesis of Small Molecules, Polymers and Natural Products" (Host: Guan) Organic |
Tuesday (May 16) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Assistant Professor Marina Guenza (University of Oregon) will speak on: "Coarse-graining and Dynamics of Macromolecular Systems" (Host: Mandelshtam) Physical |
Tuesday (May 23) 2006 | 12:00 PM in NS2 2201 |
Professor Mostafa A. El-Sayed (Georgia Institute of Technology) will speak on: "Applications of Metallic Nanoparticles of Different Shapes in Chemical Catalysis, Cancer Diagnostics and Selective Cancer Photothermal Therapy" (Host: Apkarian/Hemminger) Special |
Tuesday (May 23) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Deborah Leckband (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will speak on: "The Chemistry of Biological Adhesion" (Host: Martens) Physical |
Wednesday (May 24) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor Paul Hergenrother (University of Illinois) will speak on: "Using Small Molecules to Identify Novel Targets for the Treatment of Cancer, Neurodegeneration and Drug-Resistant Bacteria" (Host: Weiss) Organic |
Tuesday (May 30) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Special CBC/Chemistry/ISIS Seminar: Professor Timothee Toury (Institut fédératif de recherche d'Alembert, Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan) will speak on: "Electro-Optical Microscopy :
Mapping Electrical fields with Micrometric Resolution, from polymer films to neurons" (Host: Mukamel) Special |
Thursday (June 1) 2006 | 4:00 PM in McDonnel Douglas Lecture Hall |
2006 Edward K. C. Lee Memorial Lecture: A. O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry Harry B. Gray (California Institute of Technology) will speak on: "The Currents of Life: Electron Flow Through Iron and Copper Proteins" (Chair: Janda) Special |
Tuesday (June 6) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Assistant Professor Geoffrey Smith (The University of Georgia) will speak on: "Measuring Reaction Kinetics in Organic Particles Using Aerosol CIMS" (Host: Nizkorodov) Physical |
Wednesday (June 7) 2006 | 2:30 PM in McDonnell Douglas |
Professor Dr. Reinhard Hoffmann (University of Marburg) will speak on: "Conformation Design: Flexible Molecules with Defined Shape" (Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture) Special |
Wednesday (June 7) 2006 | 2:30 PM in McDonnell Douglas |
Dr. Robert Waltermire (Bristol-Myers Squibb) will speak on: "Asymmetric Synthesis of the TACE Inhibitor BMS-561392" (Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture) Special |
Wednesday (July 26) 2006 | 11:00 AM in NS2 2201 |
Ramesh Jasti (University of California, Irvine (Rychnovsky Group)) will speak on: "A Mechanistic Study of the Prins Cyclization Reaction" (Thesis Defense) Organic |
Wednesday (August 9) 2006 | 9:00 AM in NS2 2201 |
CWCS Workshop: Professor Jack A. Kampmeier (Rochester University) will speak on: "Toward an Integrated View of Teaching and Research" (Host: Jhong KIm) Special |
Wednesday (August 23) 2006 | 4:00 PM in NS1 4112 |
Dr. Paul O'Mailee (Salk Institute) will speak on: "Chemical Phylogenetics Connecting Genetic Variation and Chemical Complexity in the Evolution of Terpene Biosynthesis" (Host: Weiss) Special |
Thursday (August 31) 2006 | 10:00 AM in NS1 4112 |
Thesis Defense: Lihua Zhao (UCI) will speak on: "Molecular Engineered Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Functional Materials and Progress Towards Light-Triggered Expansive Organic Polymers" (PI: Shea) Defense |
Friday (September 15) 2006 | 10:00 AM in NS1 4112 |
Audris Huang (UCI Chemistry) will speak on: "A New Asymmetric Synthesis of Pyrrolidinoindolines.
Application for the Practical Total Synthesis of (–)-Phenserine.
and
Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of Palau'amine" (PI: Overman) Defense |
Monday (September 18) 2006 | 11:00 AM in NS1 4112 |
Professor Yongming Chen (Institute of Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences) will speak on: "Well-defined polymers: Their Synthesis and Properties" (Host: Shea) Special |
Tuesday (September 19) 2006 | 10:00 AM in NS2 1201 |
Oral Exam: Hua Zhang (UCI Chemistry) will speak on: "Structure Determination of Subunit K of A-type ATPase by Solid-state NMR" (PI: Rentzepis) Special |
Thursday (September 28) 2006 | 4:00 PM in RH 104 |
Professor John Wolfe (University of Michigan) will speak on: "New Palladium-Catalyzed Carboamination and Carboetherification Reactions for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Tetrahydrofurans and Pyrrolidines" (Host: Overman) Organic |