Chemistry Colloquium/Seminar Program Spring 2008

Friday Seminars are at 3:40 PM in the Life Sciences Annex Auditorium (A-101)

Friday, January 25, 2008 Host: Andy Maverick	Safety Seminar Required Attendance!!
Thursday, January 31, 2008 Host: Andy Maverick	Ken Houk, University of California – Los Angeles 3:40 PM in Choppin 210 “Stereoselective Organocatalysis”
Friday, February 1, 2008 Host: Andy Maverick	Pryor Lecture Ken Houk, University of California – Los Angeles “Designing New Enzymes”
Friday, Feburary 8, 2008 Host: Steve Soper	Daniel Chiu, University of Washington “Droplet Microfluidics”
Friday, February 22, 2008 Host: George Stanley	T. Keith Hollis, University of Mississippi “Tridentate CCC-N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Synthetic Method Development and Applications in Organic Synthesis and Nanomaterials”
Friday, February 29, 2008 Host: Jayne Garno	George Flynn, Columbia University “Graphene, Graphite and Soot: Probing Chemistry and Electronic Structure in Two Dimensions.  A Sub-Nanometer View”
Friday, March 7, 2008 Host: Robert Cook	Karl Mueller, Penn State University 3:40 PM in Williams 202 “Surface-Mediated Processes in the Environment: Enhancing Surface-Sensitive Solid-State NMR Methods with Computational Studies and Cyberinfrastructure”
Friday, March 14, 2008 Host: Carol Taylor	Dale Poulter, University of Utah “Isopentenyl Diphosphate Isomerase. Two Enzymes for One Reaction”
Friday, March 21, 2008	Spring break – No Seminar
Monday, March 31, 2008 Host: Fareed Aboul-ela	John Irwin, University of California – San Francisco 2:00 PM in Choppin 210 “What Can I Expect from a Virtual Screening Campaign for Ligand Discovery”
Friday, April 4, 2008 Host: Carol Taylor	P. Andrew Evans, University of Liverpool “Applications of Organometallic Reactions to the Total Synthesis of Natural Products”
Friday, April 11, 2008 Host: Isiah Warner	Dr. Troy A. Alexander, US Army Research Laboratory "Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: A New Approach to Reproducible Detection of Intact Biological Agents"
Friday, April 18, 2008 Host: Brian Hales	Graduate Student Awards Ceremony Faculty Club, 3:30 PM
Friday, April 25, 2008 Host: Evgueni Nesterov	Guillermo C. Bazan, University of California at Santa Barbara "Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: New Platforms for Biosensing and Optoelectronic Devices"
Friday, May 2, 2008 Host: Robert Cook	Dimitris Argyropoulos, North Carolina State University CANCELLED "Green Chemistry Technology Platforms for Biomass Conversion to Materials, Chemicals & Energy"

Unless otherwise noted, Friday seminars will be in the Life Science Annex Auditorium (A-101) at 3:40 PM.
Check the individual notices posted in the hallway or your mailbox for confirmation of times and locations.