January 22
Dr. Jim McQuillan
University of Otago, New Zealand
"Surface Chemistry & Photoelectrochemistry from In Situ
Infrared Spectroscopy of Hydrous Colloid Films"
Host: Krishnan Rajeshwar
January 29
Professor Daniel Romo
Texas A & M University
"Total Synthesis and Biomechanistic Investigations
of Physiologically Active Marine Natural Products"
Host: Carl Lovely
February 5
Dr. Daniel T. Colbert
Rice University
"Fullerene Nanotubes: Key Components for
Nanotechnological Applications"
Host: Rasika Dias
February 12
Professor Roger Frech
University of Oklahoma
"Polymer Electrolytes in Rechargeable Lithium Batteries:
Fundamental Issues and Technological Problems"
Host: Fred MacDonnell
February 19
Professor Ronald H. Goldfarb
University of North Texas
Health Science Center at Fort Worth
"Migratory and Degradative Properties of IL-2 Activiated Natural
Killer Cells: Implications for Therapy of Established Cancer Metastases"
Host: Edward Bellion
February 26
Professor Carl W. Dirk
The University of Texas at El Paso
"Thermal Analysis of Electro-optic Dyes and Enhancement
of Nonlinearities in 3D Molecular Systems"
Host: Martin Pomerantz
March 5
Professor Gary Kinsel
The University of Texas at Arlington
"Probing Surface-Protein Interactions by MALDI Mass Spectrometry"
Host: Martin Pomerantz
March 12
Mr. C. Mark Land
The University of Texas at Arlington
"Laser Stimulated Intramolecular Protonation of Biomolecules"
Host: Martin Pomerantz
March 26
Dr. Ming Yang
Texas Instruments, Inc.
"Device Leakage and Plasma Induced Si Damage
and Future Challenges in Microelectronics"
Host: Richard Timmons
April 8 (Thursday), 3:00 PM
(Note irregular day and time!)
Professor Yuri Feldman
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Dielectric Relaxation in Complex Liquids"
Host: Zoltan Schelly
April 9
Professor Thomas Kodadek
The University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
"New Methods for the Study and Manipulation
of Multiprotein Complexes"
Host: Carl Lovely
April 16
Professor Johann Deisenhofer
Department of Biochemistry
Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1988
PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE
"The Cytochrome bc1 Complex from Bovine Heart"
Host: Martin Pomerantz
April 16 (Cancelled)
Professor Ilya Prigogine
The University of Texas at Austin and the
International Solvay Institutes, Brussels, Belgium.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1977
PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE
"Irreversibility and Non-Locality"
Host: Zoltan Schelly
(Lecture has been postponed until October)
April 23
Professor Michael Lattman
Southern Methodist University
"Main-Group Element Calixarenes: Rooms with Moving Walls"
Host: Dennis Marynick
April 30
Professor Theresa A. Maldonado
Electrical Engineering Department
The University of Texas at Arlington
"Organic Polymer/Chromophore Material Systems for
Nonlinear Optical Processes"
Host: Martin Pomerantz
May 7
Professor David Son
Southern Methodist University
"Synthetic Approaches to Organosilicon Dendrimers
and Hyperbranched Polymers"
Host: Fred MacDonnell
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