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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

[Abstract]
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

[Abstract]
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

[Abstract]
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

[Abstract]
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



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