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Spring 2010 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 (all Thursdays) Title Speaker
January 11
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
"Stimuli-Responsive Macromolecules: Smart Polymer-Protein Conjugates and Sugar-Sensitive Assemblies"
Host: Professor Thomas Gray
Brent Sumerlin
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas
January 14
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
"Optical and Electrochemical Properties of Metal Nanostructures as a Function of Size, Shape, and Functionality"
Host: Professor James Burgess
Frank P. Zamborini
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
January 28
    Flyer (PDF)
Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
"Energy and Charge Transport in Self-assembled Systems for Solar Energy Conversion"
Host: Professor Geneviève Sauvé
Michael R. Wasielewski
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
February 4
    Flyer (PDF)
Colloquium:
"Kinetic Cooperativity in a Monomeric Enzyme"
Host: Professor Irene Lee
Brian Miller
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
February 11
Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
"Paths to Improving the Excitonic Solar Cell"
Host: Professor Daniel Scherson
Garry Rumbles
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Golden, Colorado
February 18
Colloquium:
"Scaffolding Inter-pi-system Orientations in Semiconducting Polymers"
Host: Professor John Protasiewicz
Rhett C. Smith
Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina
February 25
Colloquium:
Title TBA
Host: Professor John Protasiewicz
Rory Waterman
University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
March 4
Colloquium:
Title TBA
Host: Professor Thomas Gray
Richard Eisenberg
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York
March 18
Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
"Sunlight-Driven H2 Formation by Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting"
Host: Professor Geneviève Sauvé
Nathan S. Lewis
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
March 25
Colloquium:
"Polyketide Biosynthesis"
Host: Professor Greg Tochtrop
David H. Sherman
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
April 1
Colloquium:
Title TBA
Host: Professor Irene Lee
Christine S. Chow
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan
April 8
Frontiers in Chemistry* lecture:
"Solar Fuels from Sunlight"
Host: Professor John Protasiewicz
Thomas J. Meyer
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
April 15
Colloquium:
Title TBA
Host: Professor Irene Lee
Shiou-Chuan (Sheryl) Tsai
University of California
Irvine, California
April 22
Colloquium:
Title TBA
Host: Professor Thomas Gray
Jonathan L. Sessler
University of Texas
Austin, Texas

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