| DATE |
TIME & LOCATION |
 EVENT |
Thursday
(September 4)
2008 | 1:00 PM in
2201 NS2 |
Dmitrij Rappoport (UCI) will speak on: "How polarizable are molecules?"
(CaSTL Lecture Series)
Special
|
Thursday
(September 11)
2008 | 1:00 PM in
2201 NS2 |
Chi Chen (UCI) will speak on: "Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging at the Ultimate Spatial Resolution"
(CaSTL Lecture Series)
Special
|
Thursday
(September 18)
2008 | 1:00 PM in
2201 NS2 |
Professor Zachary Fisk (UCI) will speak on: "An Introduction to Strongly Correlated Materials"
(CaSTL Lecture Series)
Special
|
Saturday
(September 20)
2008 | 12:00 PM in
|
Merck Symposium: Prof. Jeffery Johnson (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) will speak on: "Simple and Useful Conjunctive Reagents"
(Pfizer Symposium)
Special
|
Saturday
(September 20)
2008 | 12:00 PM in
|
Merck Symposium: Prof. John Wood (Colorado State University) will speak on: "Bridged Polycyclic Natural Products: Inspirational Targets for Total Synthesis"
Special
|
Saturday
(September 20)
2008 | 12:00 PM in
|
Merck Symposium: Prof. Mikiko Sodeoka (RIKEN, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) will speak on: "Enantioselective Catalysis Based on Transition Metal Enolate Chemistry"
Special
|
Saturday
(September 20)
2008 | 12:00 PM in
|
Merck Symposium: Prof. Amir Hoveyda (Boston College) will speak on: "A New Approach to Chiral Catalyst Design: Stereogenic-at-Metal Complexes"
Special
|
Monday
(September 22)
2008 | 2:00 PM in
NS2 2201 |
Professor Yuguo Ma (Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, College of Chemistry, Peking University) will speak on: "From Macromolecules to Supramolecules: Constructing Non-covalent Bridges"
Special
|
Wednesday
(September 24)
2008 | 2:00 PM in
Natural Sciences 2, Room 2201 |
Dr. Henk Eshuis (Centre for Computational Chemistry, University of Bristol) will speak on: "Electronic dynamics of molecules in strong electric fields, and charge transfer dynamics using time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory"
Special
|
Thursday
(September 25)
2008 | 1:00 PM in
2201 NS2 |
Professor Mats Persson (The University of Liverpool) will speak on: "Organic Molecules on Metal Surfaces: Free-electron-like states, Spin-labels and Covalent Bond Formation"
(CaSTL Lecture Series)
Special
|
Tuesday
(September 30)
2008 | 12:01 AM in
CANCELLED will be rescheduled to a later date |
Professor Paula Hudson (California State University Fullerton) will speak on: "Examining the Human Factor in Climate Change"
(Host: Finlayson-Pitts)
Physical
|
Wednesday
(October 1)
2008 | 1:15 PM in
NS2 1201 |
Dr. Yong Chen (Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego.) will speak on: "High-throughput Protein Identification and Characterization Using LC/MS"
(Host: Greaves)
Special
|
Wednesday
(October 1)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Eric Fillion (University of Waterloo) will speak on: "Meldrum's Acid Derivatives as Powerful and Versatile Electrophiles in Carbon-carbon Bond Forming Reactions "
(Host: Overman)
Organic
|
Thursday
(October 2)
2008 | 12:01 AM in
CANCELLED will be rescheduled to a later date |
Professor Matt Law (UC Irvine) will speak on: "Harnessing Multi-excitons in Energy Conversion: Current Challenges Facing PbSe Quantum Dot Solar Cells"
(CaSTL Lecture Series)
Special
|
Thursday
(October 2)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Alan Heyduk (UCI) will speak on: "Using Redox-Active Ligands to Effect Multi-Electron Reactions at d0 Metal Complexes"
(Professor Heyduk's Tenure Talk)
Inorganic
|
Tuesday
(October 7)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Joseph Francisco (Purdue University) will speak on: "New Insights into HOCO Radical Chemistry"
(Host: Finlayson-Pitts)
Physical
|
Wednesday
(October 8)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Jon Tunge (University of Kansas) will speak on: "Synthesis via Decarboxylative Coupling"
(Host: Jarvo)
Organic
|
Monday
(October 13)
2008 | 2:00 PM in
Natural Sciences 2, Room 2201 |
Dr. John McKelvey (McKelvey Computational Chemistry, Fort Wayne, Indiana) will speak on: "A Solvent Dependent Study of UV-VIS Chromophores using TD-INDO/S and TD-DFT Methods"
(Theoretical Chemistry Seminar - Host: Filipp Furche)
Special
|
Monday
(October 13)
2008 | 4:15 PM in
Natural Sciences 2, Room 1201 |
Dr. Xinli Yang (Brown University) will speak on: "Mass Spectrometric Techniques for Proteomics Analysis"
(Host: Greaves)
Special
|
Tuesday
(October 14)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Rachel Martin (UCI) will speak on: "Solid-State NMR Methods Development for Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins and Protein Aggregates"
Physical
|
Thursday
(October 16)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Mark Banaszak Holl (University of Michigan) will speak on: "Targeted Delivery of Chemotherapeutics and Imaging Agents"
(Host: Blum)
Inorganic
|
Monday
(October 20)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
Natural Sciences 2, Room 1201 |
Professor Michael Shlesinger (United States Naval Academy) will speak on: "Pitfalls and Paradoxes in the History of Probability Theory"
(ISIS seminar - Host: Mukamel)
Special
|
Tuesday
(October 21)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Eric Potma (UCI) will speak on: "Moving Forward with CARS"
Physical
|
Wednesday
(October 22)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Kevan Shokat (University of California, San Francisco) will speak on: "Chemical Genetic Dissection of Protein and Lipid Kinase Signaling"
(Organic Student Host: Lucie Lee)
Organic
|
Monday
(October 27)
2008 | 2:00 PM in
2201 Natural Sciences II |
Dr. John F. Dobson (School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences and Nanoscale Science and Technology Centre, Griffith University, Australia ) will speak on: "Unusual Dispersion Force Laws In Nanostructures"
(ISIS seminar )
Special
|
Tuesday
(October 28)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Nien-Hui Ge (UCI) will speak on: "Multi-Dimensional Infrared Probing of Peptide Structure and Dynamics"
Physical
|
Wednesday
(October 29)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Dr. Terry Rosen (Amgen) will speak on: "Discovery and Characterization of Potent and Orally Bioavailable GPR40 Agonists"
(Host:Overman)
Organic
|
Thursday
(October 30)
2008 | 1:00 PM in
Natural Sciences 2, Room 2201 |
Professor Matt Law (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Harnessing Multi-excitons in Energy Conversion: Current Challenges Facing PbSe Quantum Dot Solar Cells"
(CBC CaSTL Seminar)
Special
|
Thursday
(October 30)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Dr. Tim Wenzel (Dow Chemical) will speak on: "Olefin Block Copolymers by Chain Shuttling Catalysis"
(Host: Blum)
Inorganic
|
Friday
(October 31)
2008 | 3:00 PM in
ICS, Room 174 |
Professor Nathan S. Lewis ( California Institute of Technology, Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center) will speak on: "Sunlight-Driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting"
(ChEMS / ISIS Seminar)
Special
|
Tuesday
(November 4)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Ioan Andricioaei (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Computing Biomolecular Conformational Transitions: Novel Methods and Applications"
( Theory Seminar)
Physical
|
Wednesday
(November 5)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Jerry Yang (University of California, San Diego) will speak on: "Designing Function in Organic Molecules for Biomedical Applications"
(Host: Nowick)
Organic
|
Thursday
(November 6)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Linda Doerrer (Boston University) will speak on: "Late Transition Metal Complexes with Fluorinated Aryloxide and Alkoxide Ligands
"
(Host: Borovik)
Inorganic
|
Thursday
(November 13)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Dr. Dave Clark (Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico) will speak on: "The Relative Roles of 5f and 6d Orbitals in Actinide Metal-ligand Bonding"
(Host: Evans)
Inorganic
|
Tuesday
(November 18)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Liang-Shi Li (Indiana University) will speak on: ""Control of Electron Transfer for Optical Voltage-Sensing and Organic Photovoltaics""
(Host: Martin)
Physical
|
Wednesday
(November 19)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Dr. Matthew Pratt (Rochefeller University) will speak on: "Small molecule control of proteins and biological pathways"
Special
|
Thursday
(November 20)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Warren Piers (University of Calgary) will speak on: "Mechanistic Studies on Ruthenium Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis"
(Host: Evans)
Inorganic
|
Tuesday
(November 25)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Peter J. Rossky (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Computational Molecular Science, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin) will speak on: "Anionic Water Clusters: The Evolution from Cluster to Bulk Solvation "
(Host: Burke )
Physical
|
Wednesday
(December 3)
2008 | 1:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Prof. Jon Njardarson (Cornell University) will speak on: "Study and Applications of Small Strained Heterocyclic Synthons"
(Host: Vanderwal)
Organic
|
Thursday
(December 4)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Dr. Kevin Kittilstved (University of Geneva) will speak on: ""High-resolution spectroscopy of transition metal ions orbitally-degenerate group states""
Special
|
Friday
(December 5)
2008 | 3:00 PM in
ICS 174 |
Dr. Luis M. Campos (UC Santa Barbara) will speak on: ""Thiol-Ene Click Chemistry as Platform for the Fabrication of Versitile Materials""
Special
|
Friday
(December 5)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Prof. Reza Ghadiri (The Scripps Research Institute) will speak on: "Toward Nanopore-Based Single-Molecule DNA Sequencing and Programmed Enzyme Therapeutics"
(Host: Guan)
Department Colloquium
|
Monday
(December 8)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
PSCB 120 |
Dr. Matthew Kanan (MIT) will speak on: "I. A selection-based approach to reaction discovery
II. Efficient Electrooxidation of Neutral Water Catalyzed by an Inorganic Cobalt-Phosphate Compound"
Special
|
Wednesday
(December 10)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
PSCB 140 |
Dr. Dorothea Fiedler (UCSF) will speak on: "A genetic map of the S. cerevisiae phosphorylation network"
Special
|
Friday
(December 12)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
PSCB 120 |
Dr. Benjamin J. Lear (Ohio State University) will speak on: "The effects of electronic coupling in mixed valence complexes"
Special
|
Monday
(December 15)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Michael Zdilla (Purdue University) will speak on: "Mechanism of chlorite dismutation: Studies of recombinant chlorite dismutase and synthetic iron-porphyrin catalysts"
Special
|
Wednesday
(December 17)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Chris Vanderwal (UCI) will speak on: "Studies in Natural Product Synthesis-Rediscovery of the Zincke Reactions and Investigations of the Chlorosulfolipids"
(Mid-career talk as part of the Organic Seminar Series)
Organic
|
Thursday
(December 18)
2008 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Dr. Troy A. Stich (UC Davis) will speak on: "Characterization of the Oxygen Evolving Complex from Photosystem II using Multifrequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy"
Special
|
Wednesday
(January 7)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Dr. Jennifer Prescher (Stanford) will speak on: "Lighting up life: Imaging biomolecules and cells with chemical tools in living animals"
Special
|
Friday
(January 9)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Ann McDermott (Columbia University ) will speak on: "Enzyme Motions and Mechanisms: Studies by Solid State NMR"
(Host: Martin)
Department Colloquium
|
Monday
(January 12)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Dr. Eric Robert Strieter (Harvard Medical School) will speak on: ""Non-canonical assembly-line biosynthesis: the story of coronatine biogenesis""
Special
|
Tuesday
(January 13)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Dr. Gerhard Hummer (NIDDK, National Institutes of Health) will speak on: ""Molecules under tension: theory of single molecule force spectroscopy""
(Host: Martens)
Physical
|
Wednesday
(January 14)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Elizabeth Jarvo (UCI) will speak on: "Design and Development of Catalytic Reactions Involving Organometallic Nucleophilies"
(Mid-career talk as part of the Organic Seminar Series)
Organic
|
Thursday
(January 15)
2009 | 1:00 PM in
2201 NS2 |
Professor William A. Goddard III (California Institute of Technology) will speak on: "First Principles Approaches to Design of Materials with applications to Catalysis, Nanoelectronics, Fuel Cells, Superconductivity, and Microelectronics Processing"
(CaSTL Lecture Series)
Special
|
Tuesday
(January 20)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Brian Anderson (University of West Virginia) will speak on: "Molecular, Thermodynamic, Reservoir, and Economic Modeling of Natural Energy Systems"
(Host: Janda)
Physical
|
Wednesday
(January 21)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Dr. Rebecca A. Butcher (Harvard Medical School) will speak on: "Small molecule-mediated signaling between organisms"
Special
|
Tuesday
(January 27)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Paul Bohn (University of Notre Dame) will speak on: "Chemistry in Crowded Environments. Recognition and Catalysis of Biomacromolecules in Nanopores"
(Host: Corn)
Physical
|
Wednesday
(January 28)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Timothy Swager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) will speak on: "Organic Electronics for Chemical Sensors"
(Student-Hosted Seminar)
Organic
|
Tuesday
(February 3)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Barry Dunietz (University of Michigan) will speak on: "Exploring Conductance Switching Properties of
Molecular Scale Devices - A Computational Approach."
Physical
|
Wednesday
(February 4)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 400 |
Professor Christian Melander (North Carolina State University) will speak on: "Small Molecule Control of Biological Processes"
(Host: Nowick)
Organic
|
Monday
(February 9)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
1114 NSI |
Professor Michael Springborg (University of Saarland, Germany) will speak on: "Theoretical Studies of Structural and Electronic Properties of Clusters"
Special
|
Wednesday
(February 18)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
CalIT2 Auditorium |
Professor John Hartwig (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) will speak on: "Catalytic Organometallic Carbon-Heteratom Bond Formation"
(Novartis Lecture, http://chem.ps.uci.edu/~novartis , Host: Jarvo)
Special
|
Tuesday
(March 3)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Peter Kusalik (University of Calgary) will speak on: "Finding order from disorder: from models and methods to understanding "
(Host: Janda)
Physical
|
Wednesday
(March 4)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Dr. Carl DeCicco (Bristol-Myers Squibb) will speak on: "Innovation in Drug Discovery"
(Host: Vanderwal)
Organic
|
Thursday
(March 5)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Adam Veige (University of Florida) will speak on: "Trianionic pincer ligands: nitrile synthesis via N-atom transfer, high oxidation state
Cr(IV) and Cr(V) and new chemistry with W-W triple bonds
"
(Host: Heyduk)
Inorganic
|
Monday
(March 9)
2009 | 2:00 PM in
RH 390 |
Thesis Defense: Xiang Pan (UCI) will speak on: "Photochemistry of limonene secondary organic aerosol studies with chemical ionization mass spectrometry"
(Nizkorodov Group)
Defense
|
Monday
(March 9)
2009 | 2:00 PM in
NS1 4112 |
Thesis Defense: Soohwan Sul (UCI) will speak on: "Ultrafast Dynamics and Structures of Biomolecules in Solution using Multi-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy"
(Ge Group)
Defense
|
Tuesday
(March 10)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Paula Hudson (California State University Fullerton) will speak on: "Examining the Human Factor in Climate Change"
Physical
|
Thursday
(March 12)
2009 | 2:00 PM in
NS2 2201 |
Dr. Takashi Kakiuchi (Kyoto University) will speak on: "Electrochemistry of Ionic Liquids"
Special
|
Thursday
(March 12)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Kathy Franz (Duke University) will speak on: "Manipulating Metal-Catalyzed Oxidative Stress"
(Host: Borovik)
Inorganic
|
Friday
(March 13)
2009 | 10:00 AM in
NS2 2201 |
Alvin Viray (UCI) will speak on: "Technology Transfer: Patenting and Commercializing Inventions at UCI"
Special
|
Friday
(March 13)
2009 | 10:00 AM in
NS2 2201 |
Dr. Shahin Farshchi (Lux Capital) will speak on: "An Introduction to Technology Commercialization and Venture Capital"
Special
|
Tuesday
(March 17)
2009 | 2:00 PM in
NS1 1114 |
Thesis Defense: Trenton Parsell (UCI) will speak on: "A MnIV-Oxo Complex Derived From O2: Characterization and Reactivity of [MnIVH3buea(O)]-."
(Borovik Group)
Defense
|
Tuesday
(March 17)
2009 | 3:00 PM in
NS2 2201 |
Thesis Defense: Nicole White (UCI) will speak on: "The catalytic asymmetric synthesis of allylic aryl ethers and progress toward the total synthesis of palau'amine, axinellamines A-D, and massadine"
(Overman Group)
Defense
|
Wednesday
(March 18)
2009 | 2:00 PM in
NS1 4112 |
Thesis Defense: Sara Lorenz (UCI) will speak on: "Examination of Ligand Effects on the Reactivity and Reduction Chemistry of Trivalent Lanthanide Metallocene Complexes"
(Evans Group)
Defense
|
Monday
(March 23)
2009 | 10:00 AM in
Natural Sciences 2, Room 1201 |
Thesis Defense: Michael Yang (UCI) will speak on: ""Conformational Analyses of Six-Membered Ring Oxocarbenium Ions""
(Woerpel Group)
Defense
|
Friday
(March 27)
2009 | 9:00 AM in
Beckman Center |
Pfizer Symposium: Professor Dennis Dougherty (California Institute of Technology) will speak on: "Chemistry on the Brain: High-Precision Studies of the Nicotine Receptor"
(Pfizer Symposium)
http://chem.ps.uci.edu/~pfizer/Symposium_Announcement.html
Special
|
Friday
(March 27)
2009 | 9:00 AM in
Beckman Center |
Pfizer Symposium: Professor Huw Davies (Emory University) will speak on: "C–H Functionalization: Applications in Organic Synthesis
"
(Pfizer Symposium)
http://chem.ps.uci.edu/~pfizer/Symposium_Announcement.html
Special
|
Friday
(March 27)
2009 | 9:00 AM in
Beckman Center |
Pfizer Symposium: Professor Michael Kerr (The University of Western Ontario) will speak on: "Heterocycles from Cyclopropanes: Enabling Methodologies for the Total Synthesis of Alkaloids
"
(Pfizer Symposium)
http://chem.ps.uci.edu/~pfizer/Symposium_Announcement.html
Special
|
Friday
(March 27)
2009 | 9:00 AM in
Beckman Center |
Pfizer Symposium: Professor Ilan Marek (Technion Israel Institute of Technology) will speak on: "When Simplicity Leads to Complexity"
(Pfizer Symposium)
http://chem.ps.uci.edu/~pfizer/Symposium_Announcement.html
Special
|
Friday
(March 27)
2009 | 9:00 AM in
Beckman Center |
Pfizer Symposium: Dr. Steve Tanis (Pfizer) will speak on: "Herpes Antivirals: The Importance of Asymmetry"
(Pfizer Symposium)
http://chem.ps.uci.edu/~pfizer/Symposium_Announcement.html
Special
|
Friday
(April 3)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Guy Bertrand (University of California, Riverside) will speak on: "New families of carbon-based ligands, novel catalytic reactions"
(Host: Blum)
Department Colloquium
|
Monday
(April 6)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Lucio Frydman (Weizmann Institute) will speak on: "Principles and Progress of Single-Scan Multi Dimensional NMR Spectorscopy"
Physical
|
Wednesday
(April 8)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Jon Antilla (University of South Florida) will speak on: "The Development of Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Reaction Methodology"
(Host: Woerpel)
Organic
|
Thursday
(April 9)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Bill Jones (University of Rochester) will speak on: "Strong C-H and C-C Bond Cleavage Reactions using Homogeneous Transition Metal Complexes"
(Host: Blum)
Inorganic
|
Tuesday
(April 14)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Chad Rienstra ( University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) will speak on: "High-Resolution Protein Structure
Determination by Magic-A ***CANCELLED***"
(Host: Martin)
Physical
|
Tuesday
(April 14)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Henry White (University of Utah) will speak on: "Electrical Sensors using Synthetic and Biological Nanopores"
(Host: Penner)
Physical
|
Wednesday
(April 15)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
Cal IT2 |
2009 Organic Synthesis Lectureship: Erick Carreira Professor of Organic Chemistry (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) will speak on: "Discovery and Surprises with Small Molecules"
Special
|
Thursday
(April 16)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
Cal IT2 |
2009 Organic Synthesis Lectureship: Erick Carreira Professor of Organic Chemistry (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) will speak on: "Recent Progress in Asymmetric Catalysis"
Organic
|
Tuesday
(April 21)
2009 | 11:00 AM in
Nat Sci 2, Room 2201 |
Professor Richard B. Silverman (Northwestern University) will speak on: "Selective Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitors for the Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases"
(Sponsored by Pharm. Sci., Host is Professor Poulos)
Special
|
Wednesday
(April 22)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Yan-Yeung Luk (Syracuse University) will speak on: ""Water-Driven Bioorganic Reactions and Amphiphile-Free Templated Synthesis From Drug Design to Enhanced Biocatalysis""
(Host; Guan)
Organic
|
Thursday
(April 23)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Chris Orvig (The University of British Colombia) will speak on: "Carbohydrate Conjugates in Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry"
(Host: Farmer)
Inorganic
|
Tuesday
(April 28)
2009 | 2:30 PM in
NS1 4112 |
Sean Devine (UCI) will speak on: "Palladium-Catalyzed Carbene Insertion Reactions"
(David L. VanVranken)
Defense
|
Tuesday
(April 28)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Hrvoje Petek (University of Pittsburgh) will speak on: "Alkali atoms and superatoms: Electronic structure, surface femtochemistry, and single molecule switching"
(Joint PChem/Chemical Bonding Center)
Physical
|
Wednesday
(April 29)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
Cal IT2 Auditorium |
Taft Lecture: Professor Eric Anslyn (University of Texas at Austin) will speak on: "Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry "
(Taft Lecture)
Special
|
Monday
(May 4)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Karl Wieghardt (Max Planck Institute, Mülheim, Germany ) will speak on: "Coordination Chemistry with pi-Radical Ligands: Where are the valence electrons"
(Special Inorganic Seminar - Host: Students, Inorganic Division)
Inorganic
|
Tuesday
(May 5)
2009 | 1:30 PM in
NS1 4112 |
Malin Backlund (UCI) will speak on: "Unexpected Reactivity of Sulfur Chelators"
Defense
|
Wednesday
(May 6)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Zhen Huang (Georgia State University) will speak on: "Selenium Derivatization for Phasing and Crystallization in Nucleic Acid X-ray Crystallography"
(Host: Shea)
Organic
|
Friday
(May 8)
2009 | 12:00 PM in
SH 134 |
Buck Taylor (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Organometallic Reactivity of Xanthates and Thiocarbonates"
Special
|
Friday
(May 8)
2009 | 12:00 PM in
SH 134 |
Florrie Williams (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Studies Toward a Palladium-Catalyzed Tandem Arylation, Oxypalladation, and Beta-Acetoxy Elimination to Produce1,3 Dihydroisobenzofurans"
Special
|
Thursday
(May 14)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Jake Soper (Georgia Tech) will speak on: "Redox-Active Ligand-Mediated Organometallic Catalysis at Manganese and Cobalt: New Routes to Formation of sp3-Hybridized C-C Bonds"
(Host: Heyduk)
Inorganic
|
Tuesday
(May 19)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Thomas Bligaard (Technical University of Denmark) will speak on: "Towards computational design of heterogeneous catalysts"
((ISIS))
Special
|
Wednesday
(May 20)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Paul Wender (Stanford University) will speak on: "Some Global Problems and Opportunities in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine"
(Student-Hosted Seminar Series)
Organic
|
Thursday
(May 21)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Nathan Crawford, Ph.D (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Electronic Structure Calculations in Inorganic Chemistry:Caveat Computor"
(Host: Heyduk)
Inorganic
|
Thursday
(May 21)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Filipp Furche (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Electronic Structure Calculations in Inorganic Chemistry: Which Numbers can I Trust?"
(Host: Heyduk)
Inorganic
|
Tuesday
(May 26)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Evelyn Goldfield (Natural Science Foundation) will speak on: ""Chemical reactivity within carbon nanotubes: Classical and quantum mechanical studies of the D + H2 HD + H reaction""
Special
|
Wednesday
(May 27)
2009 | 1:00 PM in
2201 NS2 |
Hikari Kimura (University of California, Berkeley) will speak on: "Scanning Josephson tunneling microscopy of single crystal Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ from a conventional superconducting tip"
(Hosted by CCI/CaSTL)
Special
|
Wednesday
(May 27)
2009 | 1:30 PM in
NS1 4112 |
Gary Juskowiak (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Sequence-Specific Reactivity of Short Peptides: Peptide Photooxidative Fluorogenesis and Peptide Tags for Small Molecule Probes"
Defense
|
Thursday
(May 28)
2009 | 10:00 AM in
NS2 2201 |
Andy Rodriguez (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Multidentate Lewis Acid Catalysis"
Defense
|
Thursday
(May 28)
2009 | 4:30 PM in
Student Center Pacific Ballroom C |
2009 E. K. C. Lee Lecturer: Professor Royce Murray (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) will speak on: "Analytical and Electron Transfer Chemistry of Nanoparticles"
Special
|
Friday
(May 29)
2009 | 2:00 PM in
NS1 4112 |
Laura Bourque (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Silylene Oxonium Ylides: Di-tert-butylsilylene Insertion into C-O Bonds"
Defense
|
Monday
(June 1)
2009 | 3:00 PM in
NS2 1201 |
Jason Midyett (UCI) will speak on: "Exhaled volatile organic compounds biomarkers for insulin dependent glucose metabolism"
(Blake Group)
Defense
|
Monday
(June 1)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
NS2 2201 |
Romas Kudirka (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Reactions Utilizing Palladium-Catalyzed Carbene Insertion Intermediates"
Defense
|
Tuesday
(June 2)
2009 | 10:00 AM in
NS2 1201 |
Dora Guzman (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Single Molecule Studies of Protein Nanomechanics"
Defense
|
Tuesday
(June 2)
2009 | 2:00 PM in
NS1 4144 |
Chi Chen (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Optical and Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy and Microscopy at the Ultimate Spatial Limit"
Defense
|
Tuesday
(June 2)
2009 | 2:00 PM in
NS2 1201 |
Harindar Keer (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Understanding the Molecular Architecture of the Light Harvesting 2 Complexes"
Defense
|
Tuesday
(June 2)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Dr. Garry Rumbles (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) will speak on: "Exciton dissociation in blends of fullerenes with conjugated polymers:
Advancing organic solar cells through basic research.
"
Physical
|
Tuesday
(June 2)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
NS2 2201 |
Professor Erik Sorensen (Princeton University) will speak on: "Target-Oriented Synthesis as a Stimulus for Chemical
Methods Development"
(Special Organic Seminar)
Special
|
Wednesday
(June 3)
2009 | 1:30 PM in
MacDonnell Douglas Auditorium |
Professor Erik Sorensen (Princeton University) will speak on: "Architectural Self-Construction in Nature and Chemical Synthesis"
(BMS Lecturer. Host: Vanderwal)
Special
|
Wednesday
(June 3)
2009 | 1:30 PM in
MacDonnell Douglas Auditorium |
Dr. Lori Spangler (Bristol-Myers Squibb) will speak on: "The Brivanib Alaninate Process: Route Selection and Strategic Development"
(BMS Lecturer. Host: Vanderwal)
Special
|
Wednesday
(June 3)
2009 | 1:30 PM in
MacDonnell Douglas Auditorium |
2009 Moore Awardee Aaron Kushner (UC Irvine) will speak on: "Biomimetic Modular Polymer Design for Advanced Material Properties"
(Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium)
Special
|
Wednesday
(June 3)
2009 | 2:00 PM in
NS1 4144 |
Hyun Min Kim (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Nonlinear optical imaging
for the nanostructral systems"
Defense
|
Thursday
(June 4)
2009 | 1:00 PM in
2201 NS2 |
Postdoc candidate Hongtao Chen (Purdue University) will speak on: "A multimodal nonlinear optical microscope and its applications
"
(Hosted by CCI/CaSTL)
Special
|
Thursday
(June 4)
2009 | 2:15 PM in
NS2 1201 |
Jacob Goldsmith (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Nanoconfined Water: Molecular dynamics simulations of cavities, model ice-pores, and modified carbon nanotube pores with applications related to ratchets and chemical pumps.
"
Defense
|
Thursday
(June 4)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Don Tilley (University of California, Berkeley) will speak on: "New Bond Activations at Transition Metal Centers: Fundamental Studies and Applications to Catalysis"
(Host: Blum)
Inorganic
|
Thursday
(June 4)
2009 | 10:00 PM in
NS2 2201 |
Chengxiang Xiang (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Lithographically Patterned Nanowire Electrodeposition"
Defense
|
Wednesday
(June 24)
2009 | 11:00 AM in
NS1 4112 |
Professor Michael G. Gardiner (University of Tasmania) will speak on: "Macrocyclic Control of Organolanthanide Chemistry"
(Dr. Bill Evans)
Special
|
Thursday
(June 25)
2009 | 1:00 PM in
2201 NS2 |
Professor Doug Mills (UC Irvine, Department of Physics) will speak on: "Electric Field Fluctuations Near Material Surfaces; Their Physical Effects"
(CaSTL Summer Lecture Series)
http://www.chem.uci.edu/CCI/index.html
Special
|
Thursday
(June 25)
2009 | 5:00 PM in
NS2 2201 |
Melissa Yang (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Characterization of VOC Emissions from Various Components of Dairy Farming and their effect on San Joaquin Valley Air Quality"
Defense
|
Thursday
(July 9)
2009 | 1:00 PM in
2201 NS2 |
Assistant Professor Eric Potma (UC Irvine, Department of Chemistry) will speak on: "Nonlinear imaging of individual carbon nanotubes"
(CaSTL Summer Lecture Series)
http://www.chem.uci.edu/CCI/index.html
Special
|
Monday
(July 13)
2009 | 3:00 PM in
NS2 1201 |
Dr. Fred Manby (University of Bristol, UK) will speak on: "No time like the present: Explicitly correlated electronic structure theory."
(Filipp Furche)
Special
|
Wednesday
(July 15)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 390 |
Professor Rainer Haag (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität, Takustr) will speak on: "Functional Dendritic Architectures"
(Host: Zhibin Guan)
Special
|
Friday
(July 31)
2009 | 2:00 PM in
NS2 1201 |
Walter Salamant (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "Correlations between Nucleophilicities and Stereoselectivities in the Substitutions of Tetrahydropyran Acetals"
Defense
|
Wednesday
(August 5)
2009 | 10:30 AM in
NS2 1201 |
Zachary Woydziak (UC Irvine) will speak on: "Synthetic Studies towards Tautomycetin and the design and synthesis of Tautomycetin/Tautomycin Analogs"
Defense
|
Wednesday
(August 5)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
NS2 1201 |
Dr. Shuntaro Takahashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) will speak on: "Quartz-Crystal Microbalance as a tool to Analyze complex bio-catalytic reactions"
Special
|
Thursday
(August 6)
2009 | 1:00 PM in
2201 NS2 |
Shiwu Gao (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) will speak on: "Coupling and damping of surface plasmons, insights from theoretical studies"
(CaSTL Seminar / Host: Wilson Ho)
http://www.chem.uci.edu/CCI/seminars/index.html
Special
|
Tuesday
(August 11)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
NS2 1201 |
Professor Lyndon Emsley (Universite de Lyon) will speak on: "NMR crystallography"
(Martin Host)
Special
|
Thursday
(August 20)
2009 | 1:00 PM in
2201 NS2 |
Professor Ara Apkarian (University of California, Irvine) will speak on: "How to make lightning without thunder"
(CaSTL Summer Lecture Series)
http://www.chem.uci.edu/CCI/seminars/index.html
Special
|
Thursday
(August 20)
2009 | 3:00 PM in
NS2 2201 |
Professor Wilhelm T.S. Huck (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) will speak on: "Microdroplets in Microfluidics: from device design to stochastic confinement"
(Host: Zhibin Guan)
Special
|
Tuesday
(September 8)
2009 | 3:00 PM in
NS2 1201 |
Katrine Gorham (UC Irvine) will speak on: " Characterization of Halogen Atom Chemistry in the Remote Inland, Sea-Ice Covered, and Coastal Arctic"
Defense
|
Tuesday
(September 29)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Jianjun Cheng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will speak on: "Ring-Opening Polymerization-Mediated Biopolymer Synthesis and Applications"
(Guan - Host)
Special
|
Wednesday
(September 30)
2009 | 4:00 PM in
RH 104 |
Professor Matt Meyer (UC Merced) will speak on: "When Nucleophiles Attack: Tales of Broken Symmetry"
(Host: Woerpel)
Organic
|
