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UM Chemistry/Seminar - Fall 2008

Except as noted below, seminars are held on Friday afternoon at 3:30 PM in Smith Chemistry Building, room 102, preceded by refreshments.  Please contact Edwin Webster (678-3293) for more information.

If you would like to receive e-mail announcements of upcoming seminars, send an e-mail to Elizabeth Vollmer.
Date Speaker Institution Title
August 26 **SM 404** Dr. Tibor Macko Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut (German Institute for Polymers) Development of interactive liquid chromatography for polyolefins
August 29 Safety Seminar
September 5 Faculty Recruiting Seminars Dr. Tomoko Fujiwara: What can smart polymers do?

 Dr. Daniel Baker: Application of Mass Spectrometry to the Analysis of Bioactive Lipids

 Dr. Xuan Zhao: Understanding photosynthesis: the conversion and storage of solar energy as chemical fuel

 Dr. Ted Burkey: Photochromic Materials: Opportunities for Research in Organic Synthesis, Analytical Chemistry, and Ultrafast Spectroscopy Studies
September 12 Dr. Kevin Williams Western Kentucky University Effects of Size and Shape of Cisplatin Analogs on the Reactions with DNA and Protein Targets
September 19 Dr. Kara Huff Hartz Southern Illinois University - Carbondale Characterization of Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol
September 26 Dr. Keith Hollis The University of Mississippi CCC-(N-Heterocyclic Carbene) Pincer Complexes: Synthetic Methods, Catalytic Applications, Chiral Variants, Perforated Organometallic Nanotubes
October 3 SW Regional ACS Meeting--Little Rock, AR
October 10 Dr. Mauricio Cafiero Rhodes College Developing a truly non-local Density Functional Theory method for predicting dispersion interactions: problems in protein-ligand chemistry
October 17 Dr. Alvin A. Holder The University of Southern Mississippi The Photodynamic Therapeutic Process:-New Developments with Transitional Metal complexes
October 24 Dr. Julia Metzker Georgia College and State University Investigations of biomimetic complexes: What can we learn from computational chemistry?
October 31 Dr. John Young Mississippi State University Structure in an Extreme Environment: NMR at High Salt
November 7 Dr. James C. Patterson University of Alabama at Birmingham Molecular Dynamics Simulations of monomeric α-Synuclein with Micelles and Vesicles
November 14 SE Regional ACS Meeting--Nashville, TN
November 17 Dr. Serge Gorelsky University of Ottawa's Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation New insights into the mechanism of Pd-catalyzed direct alkylation and arylation reactions
November 28 Thanksgiving Break
December 1 Samuel Tekobo The University of Memphis Directed Covalent Assembly of Rigid Organic Nanodisks
December 5 Tarshay Denise Boyd The University of Memphis An Analysis of a Quality Control Analyst

  Department of Chemistry, The University of Memphis | 213 Smith Chemistry Bldg, Memphis, Tennessee  38152-3550
phone 901.678.2621 | fax 901.678.3447