Past Symposium Topics and Speakers
| 2012 "Better Chemistry Through Quantum Mechanics: A celebration of Prof. George A. Petersson's 70th birthday" | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Prof. Paolo Carloni | German Research School of Simulation Science | "Excess proton at water/hydrophobic interfaces: A Car-Parrinello MD study." |
| Prof. G. Barney Ellison | University of Colorado | "Climate Change, Biomass Energy, Organic Radicals, & George Petersson." |
| Prof. Joseph Francisco | Perdue University | "New Perspective on Radical Chemistry in Atmospheric and Combustion Processes from Computational Chemistry." |
| Prof. Kirk A. Peterson | Washington State University | "Complete basis set limits for high accuracy ab initio = predictions of thermochemistry and spectroscopy." |
| Prof. Krishnan Raghavachari | Indiana University | "Towards accurate electronic structure methods for large molecules." |
| Prof. Kenneth B. Wiberg | Yale University | "CBS Calculations for Reactions and Properties of Me20 and Me2C=0 and S, Se, NH, PH and AsH counterparts." |
| 2010 "Green Energy and Biofuel Technology" | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Professor George W. Huber | University of Massachusetts |
"Pyrolysis Based Technologies for the Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass into Fuels and Chemicals" |
| Dr. Paul M Mathias | Fluor Corporation |
"Analysis of Carbon Capture" |
| Dr. Edward Rubin | US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and Genomics Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) |
"Bioenergy Genomics" |
| Prof. Pamela Silver | Harvard Medical School |
"Harnessing the sun: Design principles for converting photons to fuels" |
| Prof. Ranjan Srivastava | University of Connecticut |
"Cellular Engineering of Escherichia coli for Hydrogen Production" |
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| 2006 "Challenges to Chemistry from Other Sciences" | ||
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Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| Prof. Michael Frenklach | University of California, Berkeley |
"Reaction mechanism of carbon formation: from Bunsen burner to Diesel engine" |
| Prof. Klavs Jensen | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Chemical and Biological Microsystems - Revolutionizing the Laboratory" |
| Prof. Mark Reed | Yale University | "Atomic and Molecular Scale Electronic Transport" |
| Prof. Greg Rutledge | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"The Chemistry of Polymer Engineering" |
| Prof. Kristen Sellgren | Ohio State University |
"Dust and Gas Between The Stars: Challenges in Interstellar Astrochemistry" |
| Prof. Harel Weinstein | Weill Medical College of Cornell University |
"Analysis of Cell Function: Where Chemistry Meets Systems Biology" |
| 2005 "Chirality" | ||
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Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| Prof. Geoffrey W. Coates | Cornell University |
"New Catalysts for Constructing Small Molecules and Polymers of Defined Stereochemistry"
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| Prof. David A. Evans | Harvard University | "From Crystal Structures to Chiral Catalysts" |
| Dr. Michael J. Frisch | Wesleyan University and Gaussian, Inc. | "Spectroscopy of Chiral Molecules" |
| Dr. Edward J. J. Grabowski | Merck Research Laboratories | "Novel Asymmetric Hydrogenations" |
| Prof. Kendall N. Houk | University of California, Los Angeles | "Theory and Modeling of Stereoselectivity" |
| Prof. Eric N. Jacobsen | Harvard University | "Seeking General Asymmetric Catalysts" |
| 2004 "The Molecular Basis of Materials Science" | ||
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Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| Dr. A. Paul Alivisatos | University of California, Berkeley | "Nanocrystals as a New Class of Macromolecules" |
| Dr. Robert R. Birge | University of Connecticut | "Protein-Based Memories and Associative Processors" |
| Dr. Paul C. Canfield | Iowa State University | "Energy Scales and Strangers Tales: The Physics of New Materials" |
| Dr. Tobin J. Marks | Northwestern University | "Self-Assembly Routes to Nanoscale Photonic and Electronic Structures and Devices" |
| Dr. George M. Whitesides | Harvard University | "Dynamic Self-Assembly" |
| 2003 "Metals in Medicine" | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Dr. Peter C. Preusch | National Institutes of Health, NIGMS | "Biomedical Significance and Inorganic Chemistry" |
| Dr. Dennis P. Riley | MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | "Functional Mimetics of Superoxide Dismutase Enzymes as Human Pharmaceuticals" |
| Prof. Jonathan L. Sessler | University of Texas at Austin | "Expanded Porphyrins and Therapeutic Leads" |
| Dr. Randall B. Lauffer | EPIX Medical, Inc. | "Biophysical Tuning and Targeting of Gadolinium Chelates for MRI" |
| Prof. Christopher Orvig | University of British Columbia | "Insulin-Enhancing Vanadium Compounds" |
| Prof. Stephen J. Lippard | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | "Chemical and Biological Studies of Platinum Anticancer Drugs" |
| 2002 "Perspective in Chemistry" | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Prof. Harry H. Wasserman | Yale University | "Natural Product Synthesis as a Matrix for Testing New Methodology. Polycarbonyl Chemistry" |
| Prof. Robert H. Grubbs | California Institute of Technology | "Catalysts for the Synthesis of Large and Small Molecules" |
| Professor Cynthia M. Friend | Harvard University | "New Frontiers in Nanoscale Materials: Growth, Structure and Reactivity" |
| Prof. Henry F. Schaefer | University of Georgia | "Molecular Anions: A Wealth of Important, Uncharacterized Systems. From Diatomics to DNA Base Pairs and Beyond" |
| Prof. Gregory F. Petsko | Brandeis University | "The Birth and Development of Structural Enzymology" |
| Prof. Ronald C. D. Breslow | Columbia University | "Bioorganic Chemistry" |
| 2001 "The Ribosome: Chemistry and Structural Biology" | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Prof. Joachim Frank | State University of New York at Albany | The Ribosome - A Molecular Machine in Motion as Seen by Cryo-Electron Microscopy |
| Prof. Jamie H. D. Cate | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Structure and Function of the Ribosome |
| Dr. Brian T. Wimberly | Pharmacia Corporation | The Small Ribosomal Subunit: High-Resolution Structure and Interactions with Antibiotics |
| Prof. Peter B. Moore | Yale University | Structure and Function in the Large Ribosomal Subunit |
| Prof. Rachel Green | Johns Hopkins University | A Functional Dissection of Ribosomal Translocation |
| Prof. David E. Drapper | Johns Hopkins University | RNA Tertiary Folding and Protein Recognition in a Corner of the Ribosome |
| 2000 "Where Chemistry Meets Art and Archeology" | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Prof. Dudley Herschbach | Harvard University | |
| Dr. Walter McCrone | McCrone Research Institute | Authenticating Paintings: The Shroud of Turin |
| Prof. Joseph B. Lambert | Northwestern University | Organic Materials as Archaeological Artifacts |
| Prof. Nikolaas Van Der Merwe | Harvard University | Archeometry: Prehistoric Diets via Isotope Analysis |
| Dr. Barbara Berrie | National Gallery of Art | Art and Chemistry: Two Ways of Seeing |
| Prof. R. J. H. Clark | University College, London | Raman Microscopy: Its Application to the Identification of Pigments on Manuscripts, Paintings and other Artifacts |
| Prof. Wilfred N. Arnold | University of Kansas Medical Center | Vincent van Gogh: Chemicals, Crises and Creativity |
| 1999 "Modern Natural Products Chemistry: A Symposium in Honor of Satoshi Omura" | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | |
| Prof. Satoshi Omura | Kitasato Institute | |
| Prof. Amos B. Smith, III | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Prof. Peter Jacobi | Dartmouth College | |
| Prof. K. Barry Sharpless | Scripts Research Institute | |
| Dr. Suan Rohrer | Merck Research Laboratories | |
| 1998 "Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in a Changing Global Environment" | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | |
| David W. Fahey | National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | |
| Jamers G. Anderson | Harvard University | |
| John H. Seinfeld | California Institute of Technology | |
| Karl K. Turekian | Yale University | |
| Wallace S. Broecker | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia | |
| Steven C. Wofsy | Harvard University | |
| 1997 "Extraterrestrial Chemistry & Biology" | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | |
| Ralph Harvey | Case Western Reserve University | |
| William Klemperer | Harvard University | |
| Leslie E. Orgel | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | |
| William J. Schopf | University of California at Los Angeles | |
| Patrick Thaddeus | Harvard University-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysicis | |
| Richard N. Zare | Stanford University | |
| 1996 "FRONTIERS OF THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY: A Tribute to John A. Pople | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | |
| Brunger, Axel T. | Yale University | |
| Buckingham, A. David | University of Cambridge | |
| Pople, John A. | Northwestern University | |
| Raghavachari, Krishnan | AT&T Bell Laboratories | |
| Stillinger, Frank H. | AT&T Bell Laboratories | |
| Wiberg, Kenneth B. | Yale University | |
| 1995 "FRONTIERS & FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN CHEMISTRY" | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | |
| Neil Bartlett | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Joshua S. Boger | Vertex Pharmaceuticals | |
| Thomas C Bruice | University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| Martin Karplus | Harvard University | |
| Kurt Wüthrich | ETH, Zurich | |
| Ahmed H. Zewail | California Institute of Technology | |