Chemistry Department Colloquium - Fall 2016
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| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
| September 9 | Dr. Angela Hight Walker, PhD '94 | National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD |
"Recent Progress in Raman Spectroscopic Characterization of Carbon Nanostructures: Nanotubes & Graphene." | Prof. Stewart E. Novick |
| September 16 | Prof. Richard H. West | Northeastern University | "Predicting complex reaction systems though automatic construction of detailed kinetic models." | Prof. Michelle L. Personick |
| September 23 | Prof. Pinghua Liu | Boston University | Alkaloid biosynthesis: examples of iron-enzyme catalyzed C-S bond and endoperoxide formation | Prof. Erika Taylor |
| September 29, Thursday | Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anna Marie Pyle Molecular Biophysics Retreat |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Departments of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Department of Chemistry, Yale University |
Structural and mechanistic insights into RNA splicing | Professors Ishitia Mukerji and David L. Beveride |
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| October 7 | Prof. Jacob Stewart | Connecticut College | "High-resolution spectroscopy using quantum cascade lasers" | Prof. Stewart E. Novick |
| October 14 | Prof. Julie Millard | Colby College | "CSI New England: Serving Time at the Maine State Police Crime Lab" | Prof. Erika A. Taylor |
| October 21 | Prof. Jing Zhao | University of Connecticut | “Structural Evolution of Bimetallic Nanoparticles during Synthesis”. | Prof. Michelle L. Personick |
| October 28 | Prof. Jennifer M. Heemstra | University of Utah | "Harnessing Nucleic Acid Molecular Recognition and Self-Assembly for Biosensing and Bioimaging. | Prof. Erika A. Taylor |
| November 4 | Prof. Mark Ratner | Northwestern University |
By Indirections Find Directions Out: Electron Passage in Organic Solar Cells | Prof. David Beveridge |
| November 11 | Prof. David Boucher | College of Charleston | Solubility Parameters: A Mathematical Approach | Prof. Michelle L. Personick |
Chemistry Department Colloquium - Spring 2017
Coorindated by Prof. Michelle L. Personick |
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 84 at 3:30 p.m. Coffee is served outside room 84 before the seminar and |
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
| January 27 | Prof. Steven Tait | Indiana University, Bloomington |
"Developing Chemistry Activity at Surfaces Through Molecular and Supramolecular Design.” |
Prof. Michelle L. Personick |
| February 3 | Prof. AnGayle Vasiliou | Middlebury College | "Thermal Decomposition Mechanisms of Sulfur Compounds" | Prof. Michelle L. Personick |
| February 10 | Prof. Katherine Mirica | Dartmouth College | "Stimuli-Responsive Materials for Chemical Sensing and Microelectronics" | Prof. Brian Northrop |
| February 17 | Prof. Thomas Seery | University of Connecticut | “Growing Polymers on Surfaces” | Prof. Michelle L. Personick |
| February 24 | TBA | |||
| March 3 | Prof. Charles Jakobsche | Clark University: Carlson School of Chemistry and Biochemistry |
"From Organic Synthesis to Chemical Biology" |
Prof. Michael Calter |
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| March 31 | Prof. Jennifer Koviach-Côté | Bates College | "Automated Synthesis of O-Mannosylated Glycans" | Prof. Erika A. Taylor |
| April 7 |
Prof. Andreas Gahlmann
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University of Virginia | "High-Throughput 3D Tracking of Single Proteins in Live Bacterial Cells" | Prof. Stewart Novick |
| April 14 | Prof. Gary Grubbs II | Missouri University of Science & Technology | "FTMW Spectroscopy and the Fundamentals of Nature: A window to bonding, structure, and chirality" | Prof. Stewart Novick |
| April 21 |
Prof. Vince Ortiz |
Auburn University |
"Electron Propagator Theory, Dyson Orbitals and Correlation-Bound Anions" | Prof. Michael Frisch |
| April 28 | Dr. Keith Fandrick co-presenting with Dr. Nina Gonnella | Boehringer Ingelheim | "Development of an accurate and efficient NMR chemical shift prediction procedure using B3LYP/cc-pVDZ: A powerful method for molecular structure elucidation” | Prof. Michael Calter |