UT Arlington            The University of Texas at Arlington

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Spring 2000 Seminar Program

Ron Elsenbaumer, Coordinator

 Room 114
 Chemistry Research Building (CRB)

 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.

January 21

Dr. Shivendra Singh

Mercy Hospital

"Toxicological Relevance of Human Glutathione Transferase Pi Polymorphism"

(Host: S. Awasthi)

 

January 28

Professor Robert F. Curl, Jr.

Rice University

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1996

PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE:

"Infrared Laser Spectroscopy"

(Host: Z. A. Schelly)

 

February 3 **Thursday**

Professor Maitland Jones, Jr.

Princeton University

"Carboranes, Reactive Intermediates, and a New Way to Cleave DNA"

(Host: M. Pomerantz)

 

February 4

Dr. Todd Allen

Los Alamos National Laboratory

"Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry"

(Host: R. B. Timmons)

 

February 11

Dr. Marion Thurnauer

Argonne National Laboratory

"Metal Protein Interactions Influencing Photosynthetic Electron Transfer"

(Host: F. MacDonnell)

 

February 17 **Thursday**

Professor Warren Ford

Oklahoma State University

"[60] Fullerene-Containing Polymers: What Happens to a Compound with 30 Double Bonds During Radical Polymerization?"

(Host: R. Elsenbaumer)

 

February 18

Professor Marvin Hackert

University of Texas at Austin

"Microelectrochemical Devices and Relevant Materials Considerations"

(Host: R. Elsenbaumer

 

February 25

Professor Carol Korzeniewski

Texas Tech University

"Strategies for Investigating the Surface Electrochemistry of Simple Molecules that Serve as Fuel Cell Reactants and Intermediates"

(Host: K. Rajeshwar)

 

March 3

Dr. Meital Zilberman

Department of Materials Engineering

Technion, Israel

"Electrically Conductive Polymer Blends Containing Polyaniline"

(Host: M. Pomerantz)

 

March 10

Professor Steve Watton

Virginia Commonwealth University

"Reactivity of Transition Metal complexes in Sol-Gel Media"

(Host: F. MacDonnell)

 

March 17

Professor Yogesh Awasthi

University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

TBA

(Host: S. Awasthi)

 

March 20 - 24, Spring Break

 

March 31

Professor James Tour

Rice University

"Building a Molecular Electronic Computer"

(Host: M. Pomerantz)

 

April 7

Professor Robert White

University of Oklahoma

"New Methods for Heterogeneous Catalyst Characterization"

(Host: R. Dias)

 

April 14

Professor Marianna Busch

Baylor University

"FIRE Spectrometry: Evolution of an Analytical Technique"

(Host: G. Kinsel)

 

April 21, Easter Holiday

 

April 28

Professor Tom Tullius

Boston University

"Structural Chemistry of DNA Damage by the Hydroxyl Radical"

(Host: T. Gluick)

 

May 5

Dr. Mike Kapin

Alcon Laboratories

TBA

(Host: R Dias)

 

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