Fall 2001 Seminar Program
Dennis Marynick, Coordinator
(817) 272-3814, dennis@uta.edu
Place: Room 114
Chemistry Research Building (CRB), except those noted.
See map
All seminars will be at 2:30 p.m. on Fridays, except those noted.
Refreshments will be served before the Seminar
at 2:15 p.m. in Room 112 CRB.
Aug. 31, 2001
No Seminar – ACS National Meeting.
12:00 noon, Sept. 7, 2001, Room 100 Science Hall
Frontiers in Science Series
Joseph Nagyvary
Texas A & M University
A Possible Solution to the Stradivarius Puzzle
(Host: Martin Pomerantz)
Sept. 14, 2001
Jeffery Coffer
Texas Christian University
Constructing ‘Doped’ Semiconductor Nanocrystals of Silicon:
Effects of Incorporating Optically-Active Erbium Centers
(Host: Krishnan Rajeshwar)
Sept. 21, 2001
CANCELLED
Dave Mullins
CANCELLED
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Surface Studies of Model Supported Catalysts: Rh/CeOx
(Host: Rasika Dias)
Sept. 28, 2001
Gene Crowder
University of Texas at Arlington
Conformational Analysis by Vibrational Spectroscopy
(Host : Dennis Marynick)
Oct. 5, 2001
Alan Marchand
University of North Texas
From Cage Compounds to Molecular Clefts. Novel Cage-Annulated Crown Ethers,
Cryptands, and Molecular Boxes: A New Class of Ionophores for Selective Ion Complexation
(Host : Martin Pomerantz)
Oct. 12, 2001
Carl Lovely
University of Texas at Arlington
Synthetic Approaches to Structurally Novel Alkaloids
(Host: Ron Elsenbaumer)
Oct. 19, 2001
Presidential Lecture
Henry F. Schaefer III
University of Georgia
Molecular Anions: A Wealth of Important, Uncharacterized Species?
(Host: Dennis Marynick)
CANCELLED
Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001
CANCELLED
Kim Dunbar
Texas A & M University
Frontiers in Magnetic Materials Based on Molecules
(Host: Fred MacDonnell)
Oct. 26, 2001
Paul Marshall
University of North Texas
From Fire Extinguishers to Microchips: Kinetic Studies of Halogen Molecules
(Host: Richard Timmons)
Nov. 2, 2001
John Brash
McMaster University
Protein Surface Interactions: Role in Biocompatibility
(Host: Gary Kinsel)
Nov. 9, 2001
Leonard R. MacGillivray
University of Iowa
Template-Controlled Synthesis: Using Molecules to Make Molecules by Design
(Host: Dmitry Rudkevich)
Nov. 16, 2001
Brian Pagenkopf
University of Texas at Austin
Advances in Asymmetric Synthesis
(Host: Carl Lovely)
Nov. 23, 2001
No seminar – Thanksgiving Vacation
Nov. 30, 2001
Nathan S. Lewis
California Institute of Technology
Towards an Electronic Nose: Vapor Detection Using Arrays of Conducting Polymer
Composites
(Host: Krishnan Rajeshwar)
Dec. 7, 2001
Sharon Polach
University of Texas at Arlington
'Teflon Coated' Scorpionates and their Coinage Metal Adducts
(Host: Rasika Dias) |
