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Spring 2009 Colloquia and Frontiers in Chemistry* Lectures

4:30 pm, Goodyear Lecture Hall - Clapp Hall, Room 108
Visitors are welcome for coffee at 4:15

Date Title Speaker
January 22
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
Catalysis for Methanol and Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Host: Professor James Burgess
Christina Bock
National Research Council
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
January 29 Colloquium: CANCELLED, to be rescheduled
Electrochemical Stability, Reactivity, and Optical Properties of Metal Nanostructures as a Function of Size and Functionality
Host: Professor James Burgess

Francis P. Zamborini
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky

February 5
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
Plasmon Coupling in a Nanoparticle Self-Assembly
Host: Professor Clemens Burda
Stephan Link
Rice University
Houston, Texas
February 12
    Flyer (PDF)
Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
Recent Materials Advances in Li-ion Battery Research and Future Challenges
Host: Professor Daniel Scherson
Jean-Marie Tarascon
Universite de Picardie Jules Verne
Amiens, France
February 19
    Flyer (PDF)
Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
Efforts to Expand the Genetic Alphabet
Host: Professor Carlos Crespo
Sponsored by the Institute for the Science of Origins
Floyd Romesberg
Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California
February 26
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
How Cells Sense and Set Their Cholesterol
Host: Professor James Burgess
Theodore L. Steck
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
March 5
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
Chemical Biology Approaches to Sorting Out Histone Acetylation
Host: Professor Irene Lee
Yujun George Zheng
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia
March 19
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:

Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Nanoparticles From an Organic Chemist’s Perspective
Host: Professor Carlos Crespo

Tito Scaiano
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
March 26
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
Dynamics and Kinetics of Heat Transfer at Nano-Scale Interfaces
Host: Professor Alfred Anderson
Co-sponsored by the Core Facility in Advanced Research Computing, Division of Information Technology Services
William L. Hase
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
April 2
    Flyer (PDF)
Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
Molecular Self-Assembly
Host: Professor Irene Lee
Sponsored by Lubrizol
Julius Rebek, Jr.
Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California
April 9
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
Vanadium Based Materials for Primary Lithium Batteries used in Medical Devices
Host: Professor Daniel Scherson
Esther Takeuchi
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
April 16
    Flyer (PDF)
Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
Systems Chemistry
Host: Professor Gregory Tochtrop
Sponsored by the Institute for the Science of Origins
M. Reza Ghadiri
Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California
April 23
    Flyer (PDF)
Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
RNA-Mediated Epigenetic Inheritance
Host: Professor Rajesh Viswanathan
Sponsored by BASF
Laura F. Landweber
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey

* The Frontiers in Chemistry brochure is available in PDF format. Adobe Acrobat is required. It is designed for print on legal size (8.5"x14") paper.