Seminar Schedule
(CHM679)
Spring 2008
Updated 12 February 2008

Seminars are held in Cox 318 at 2:30 PM on the following dates:

January      30             Professor Francesca Ottawani, Uni. Florence, Italy
                                    (V. Ramamurthy)
                                    Electron magnetic resonance as a tool to study supramolecular                                     systems

February    08             Dr. Malcolm Forbes, UNC, Chapel Hill (V. Ramamurthy)
                                    Photochemistry and Free Radicals from Polymers, Beer, and                                     Personal Care Products
      
                  15              Dr. Terry P. Lybrand, Vanderbilt Uni. (R. Prabhakar)
                                    Cyclooxygenase reaction mechanism studies using combined                                     quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics                                     calculations
                                  
                  22              Dr. Bart Chernow, Uni. Miami (D. Heller)
                                    UM Innovation - Advancing Discovery beyond the Research Bench

                  29              Dr. Raj Rathore, Marquette Uni. (V. Ramamurthy)
                                    Electronic Communication Through Cofacially-Arrayed                                     Polybenzenoid Nano Structures

March        07              Dr. Sukhdev Roy, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (F. Raymo)
                                    Switching Light with Light in Natural Photoreceptors and its                                     Application to All-Optical Bio-molecular Computing

                  14              Dr. Robin L. McCarley, LSU, Baton Rouge (A. Kaifer)
                                    Reductively Activated Supramolecular Delivery Systems – Toward                                     Enzyme-triggered Delivery of Therapeutics

                  20              Sir John Meurig Thomas, Department of Materials Science,                                     University of Cambridge and the Davy Faraday Research                                     Laboratory, Royal Institution of Great Britain, London
                                    The Genius of Michael Faraday
                                    (Cox Science Bldg., Room 145, 4:00 PM)

                  21              Mike Richmond, University of North Texas       (B. Captain)
                                    Kinetic and Isotope Studies on C-H Bond Activation in Diphosphine                                     and Diimine Ligands at Triosmium Clusters            

                  28              Garima Thakur (Grad. Student)

April           04              A. Kaifer, UM
                                    Ferrocene: A Versatile Redox-Active Building Block in                                     Supramolecular Systems

                  11              H. Yamamoto, Uni. Chicago (N. Takenaka)
                                    Design of acid catalysis for organic synthesis

                  18              F. D’Souza, Wichita State Uni. (A. Kaifer)
                                    Bio-inspired Supramolecular Donor-Acceptor Nanostructures for                                     Light Energy Harvesting

                  25              Qiang Cui, University of Wisconsin (R. Prabhakar)
                                    Unexpected roles of water molecules in enzymes and biomolecular                                     motors: new insights from QM/MM simulations

Student Seminar Schedule-
Held on Mondays in Cox 318 at 4:30 PM:

March        17               Keshwani, Malik M.

                  24               Thakur, Garima
    
                  31               Choudhury, Partha Pratim

April          14               Deniz, Erhan

                  21               Seerla, Sreehari Kumar

                  28               Vannoy, Charles Harvey