Spring 2001 Seminar Program

Krishnan Rajeshwar, Coordinator

Place: Room 114
Chemistry Research Building (CRB) 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.

Monday, January 8, 2001
Prof. Amos B. Smith, III
University of Pennsylvania
Total Synthesis of (-)-Penitrem D: An Architecturally Complex Synthetic Target
(Host: Pomerantz)

January 19, 2001
Prof. David Birney
Texas Tech University
Pseudopericyclic Reactions. Surprising Consequences of a Lack of Orbital Overlap
(Host: Lovely)

January 26, 2001
Prof. Wayne Bolen
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Protein Folding in Osmolyte Accumulating Organisms: The Medium is the Message
(Host: Gluick)

February 2, 2001
Prof. Sarah Woodson
Johns Hopkins University
Folding Mechanisms of RNA
(Host: Gluick)

February 9, 2001
Prof. Angela Belcher
University of Texas at Austin
Understanding and Using Protein-Inorganic Interactions from Sea Shells to Semiconductors
(Host: Timmons)

February 16, 2001
Prof. Qiming Zhang
University of Texas at Arlington
First-Principles Studies of Semiconductor Materials
(Host: Marynick)

February 23, 2001
Dr. Dan Blake
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Photocatalytic Chemistry - Self-Cleaning Surfaces, Indoor Air, and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
(Host: Bellion)

March 2, 2001
Prof. Denis McGarry
U. T. Southwestern Medical School at Dallas
Diabetes as a Disease of Lipid Metabolism
(Host: Bellion)

March 9, 2001
Dr. Steve Feldberg
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Measurement of Fast Heterogeneous Electron Transfer Rate Constants Using a Temperature-Jump Method
(Host: Rajeshwar)

March 16, 2001
Prof. Bruce Parkinson
Colorado State University
Molecular-Scale Structure/Property Relationships in 2D Ordered Chromophore Monolayers on Electrode Surfaces
(Host: Rajeshwar)

March 23, 2001
No Seminar – Spring Break

March 30, 2001
Prof. Tsuneo Okubo
Gifu University, Japan
The Beautiful World of Self-Organization in Colloid Systems
(Host: Schelly)

April 6, 2001
No Seminar - ACS Meeting Week

April 13, 2001
No Seminar - Easter Holiday

April 20, 2001
Dr. Nick Serpone
National Science Foundation
Metal Oxides and Photocatalysis - The Saga Continues
(Host: MacDonnell)

April 27, 2001
Prof. Jay Switzer
University of Missouri
Epitaxial Electrosynthesis
(Host: Rajeshwar)

Wednesday, May 2, 2001, 4:00 PM
Dr. Eusebio Juaristi
Center of Research and Advanced Studies,
National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
Enantioselective Synthesis of alpha- and beta-Amino Acids
(Host: Lovely)

May 4, 2001
Dr. David Rauh
EIC Inc.
New Trends in Electrochromic Materials
(Host: Rajeshwar)