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Spring 2008 Colloquia and Frontiers in Chemistry Lectures

4:30 pm, Goodyear Lecture Hall - Clapp Hall, Room 108
Visitors are welcome for coffee and cookies at 4:15
Date Title Speaker
January 17 Colloquium:
Electrochemical Synthesis of Inorganic Materials with Controlled Micro- and Nano-Structures (PDF)
Host: Professor Clemens Burda		 Kyoung-Shin Choi
Purdue University
January 24 Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
All the Ways to Have a Bond (PDF)
Host: Professor Thomas Gray		 Roald Hoffmann
Cornell University
January 31 Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
There Are No Chemical Bonds, Just Bonded Atoms (PDF)
Host: Professor Alfred Anderson		 Richard F.W. Bader
McMaster University
February 7 Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture: (Rescheduled from November 15, 2007)
Designing Safe Electrochemical Couples for High Energy/High Power Lithium-Ion Batteries (PDF)
Host: Professor Daniel Scherson		 Michael M. Thackeray
Argonne National Lab
February 14 Colloquium:
Using Silicones to Control Dynamic Interfaces: Silicone Biomaterials to Gold Crystals (PDF)
Host: Professor Malcolm Kenney		 Michael A. Brook
McMaster University
February 21 Colloquium:
The Structure of Biological Molecules In and Out of Water: Combined Mass Spectrometry, Optical Spectroscopy and Computation Studies (PDF)
Host: Professor Mary Barkley		 Rebecca A. Jockusch
University or Toronto
February 28 Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
Metal Cyanide Clusters that Display Single Molecule Magnetism (PDF)
Host: Professor Michael Kenney		 Kim Dunbar
Texas A&M University
March 6 Colloquium:
Chlorine: Element from Hell or Gift of God? Nature's Amazing Role in the Organohalogen Controversy (PDF)
Host: Professor Greg Tochtrop		 Gordon W. Gribble
Dartmouth College
March 20 Colloquium:
New N~P and N~C Chelating Ligands for Applications in Hydroamination Catalysis (PDF)
Host: Professor John Protasiewicz		 Joseph A.R. Schmidt
University of Toledo
March 27 Colloquium:
Metallo-b-lactamases: Novel Weaponry for Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (PDF)
Host: Professor Irene Lee		 Michael W. Crowder
Miami University of Ohio
April 3 Colloquium:
Designer Trioxanes for Chemotherapy of Malaria and Cancer (PDF)
Host: Professor Greg Tochtrop		 Gary H. Posner
Johns Hopkins University
April 10 Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
Studies of Organometallic Reaction Steps in Homogeneous Catalysis (PDF)
Host: Professor John Protasiewicz		 Karen I. Goldberg
University of Washington
April 17 Colloquium:
Polychromophoric compounds for photogeneration of bioactive agents. Photochemical strategies for NO delivery (PDF)
Host: Professor Thomas Gray		 Peter C. Ford
UC Santa Barbara
April 24 Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
New Metal-Metal Bonds (PDF)
Host: Professor John Protasiewicz		 Philip Power
UC Davis

* Frontiers in Chemistry brochure available in PDF format. Designed for print on legal size (8.5"x14") paper.