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Visiting Speakers Schedule - 2004 · 2005 · 2006

January
14 Jan.
2:30pm
HMRC 2-07
Steven Porcelli (Alberta Einstein College of Medicine)
Modulation of immune responses by CD1-presented lipids
22 Jan.
1:00pm
E3-25

Rene Boere (University of Lethbridge)
Ligands are molecules too! Synthetic, structural and coordination chemistry of phosphorus-containing analogues of amidines

23 Jan.
10:00am
M-141, BioSci

Michael Siu (York University)
Molecular radical cations of peptides: Formation and dissociation chemistry

23 Jan.
10:00am
E3-25

David Cramb (University of Calgary)
Research at the interdisciplinary triple point: Bridging Chemistry, Physics and Biomedicine

23 Jan.
12:00pm
V-107

Tanya Dahms (University of Regina)
Investigating Opioid Receptor Localization and Polarized Fungal Growth by Atomic Force Microscopy

26 Jan.
11:00am
V-107

Bruce Arndtsen (McGill University)
Palladium Catalyzed Multicomponent Reactions: Developing a Simple Building Block Approach to Synthesis

29 Jan.
1:00pm
E3-25

Leslie Vazquez-Serrano (Purdue University)
Catalytic Homogeneous Hydrogenation of Olefins Using N-heterocyclic Carbene-Phosphine Complexes of Iridium

February

2 Feb.
11:00am
V-107

Robert Batey (University of Toronto)
Recent advances toward the synthesis of heterocyclic natural products using pericyclic reactions

6 Feb.
4:00pm
V-106

Michael Bowser
In vitro evolution of functional DNA using capillary electrophoresis

12 Feb.
1:00pm
E3-25

Robert Luth (EAS, University of Alberta)
Experiments at high pressure and temperature: a laboratory approach to the Earth's interior

26 Feb.
11:00am
E3-25

Al Meldrum (Physics, University of Alberta)
Optical Properties of Silicon Nanocrystals

27 Feb.
11:00am
V-107

Yingming Zhao (Southwestern Medical Centre)
Univeristy of Texas Novel proteomics technologies for probing organelles and protein modifications

March
1 March
11:00am

V-107

Dirk Trauner (UC Berkeley)
Chemistry Mimicking Nature - and Taking it a Step Further

3 March
2:00pm
E3-25

Robert Schurko (University of Windsor)
Solid-State NMR of Quadrupolar Nuclei in Metallocenes

5 March
11:00am
V-107

Robert A. Field (University of East Anglia, UK)
From glycosides and sugar nucleotides towards chemical genomics

5 March
4:00pm
V-106

Luis Colon (SUNY, Buffalo)
Chromatographic Materials and Very High Pressure Approaches for Liquid Chromatography

11 March
2:00pm
E3-25

Gren Patey (University of British Columbia)
Structure in confined fluids: Phase transitions, forces and friction

12 March
2:00pm
E3-25

Tom Baker (Los Alamos National Lab)
Precious Metal Phosphenium Complexes as Potential Bifunctional Catalysts

15 March
11:00am
V-107

Alois Furstner (Max Planck Institute)
Merck Frost Lecture: Recent advances in alkene and alkyne metathesis

17 March
7:00pm
V-110

Jed Harrison (Chemistry, University of Alberta)
Microchip technologies for biochemical analysis

19 March
4:00pm
V-107

Richard Oleschuk (Queen's University)
Low cost polymeric microfluidic devices: Fabrication, surface modification and detection

24 March
2:00pm
E3-25

Emil Roduner (University of Stuttgart)
ESR studies of the chemistry of Pt nanoclusters and of running fuel cells

25 March
1:00pm
E3-25

Hanadi Sleiman (McGill University)
Self-assembly of DNA and biomimetic polymers

26 March
4:00pm
V-107

Kevin Thurbide
Chromatographic detection using acoustic signals from an oscillating frame

April
2 April
11:00am
V-107

William Smyrl (University of Minnesota)
Portable Fuel Cells and Portable Batteries

5 April
11:00am

E3-25
Roger DeKock (Calvin College)
The Ideal Electronic Atom
6 April
3:30pm

ETLE 1-007
Charles A. Mims (University of Toronto)
Heterogeneous catalysts - how do they really work and why should we care?
8 April
11:00am
V-102

John Ripmeester (NRC, Steacie Institute)
Applications of NMR spectroscopy and microimaging to materials and processes for gas adsorption

8 April
1:00pm
E3-25

Michael Sailor (UC San Diego)
Smart Dust: Photonic crystals derived from nanocrystalline porous Si and their applications in sensors and medicine

15 April
11:00am

E3-25
Andriy Kovalenko (NINT)
Molecular theory of electrosorption of aqueous electrolyte solution in nanoporous carbon electrodes
22 April
11:00am
E3-25

Collin Raston
Controlling the confinement and interplay of fullerene C60 and other icosahedral molecules

May
3 May
11:00am
V-107

Keith Ingold (NRC, Carleton University)
Kinetic solvent effects on hydrogen atom and proton transfer reactions

10 May
3:00pm
ETLC 6-060

Stephane Evoy (University of Pennsylvania)
Nanotechnology in Microsystems: The path towards integrated nanosytems

17 May
11:00am
V-107

Scott Denmark (University of Illinois)
New Concepts in Catalysis: Chiral Lewis Base Activation of Lewis Acids

21 May
10:00am
ETLC, E6-060

Peter Grutter (McGill University)
Atomic Force Microscopy Investigation of Nanoelectronics

21 May
11:30am
V-107

Debra Rolison (Naval Research Laboratory)
Integrating the multifunction necessary for electrochemical power into mesoporous nanoarchitectures

27 May
11:00am
E3-25

Gilles Peslherbe (Concordia University)
Theoretical studies of photochemistry in polar solvent clusters

June
14 June
11:00am
V-107

Thomas Peters (University of Lubeck)
NMR Experiments to Detect and Characterize Binding of Ligands to Receptor Proteins

16 June
11:00am
V-110

Christopher Yip (University of Toronto)
Biophysical Applications of Scanning Probe Microscopy: Challenges and Insights

28 June
11:00am
V-107

Thomas Webster (Purdue University)
Nano-biotechnology: The design of better implants through the use of nanophase materials

July
8 July
11:00am
E3-25

Gary Kruppa (Bruker Daltonics, Inc.)
Applications of High Resolution and Accurate Mass FTMS to Structure Elucidation of Natural Products and Proteins

15 July
11:00am
E3-25

Zuowei Xie (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
The Role of Carborane in Polymerization / Organometallic Reactions

16 July
11:00am
E3-25

Jiguang Zhang (University of Toronto)
Polymer nanocomposites with multiscale hierarchy: From nano to micro

22 July
12:00pm
E3-25

Owen Terreau (McGill University)
Control of Size and Morphology of Block Copolymer Aggregates in Solution: The Effect of the Copolymer Molecular Weight Distribution

August
6 August
11:00am
E3-25

Jesus Angulo (Universitat Lubeck)
Binding of ligands to human blood group B galactosyltransferase as studied by NMR

9 August
1:00pm
V-125

Matthew Disney (ETH Zurich)
Small molecule targeting of RNA and carbohydrate microarrays

12 August
11:00am
V-125

Nicola Pohl (Iowa State University)
Chemical proteomics and synthetic strategies to decipher the glycocode

13 August
11:00am
E3-25

Andrzej J. Sadlej (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
Intermolecular interactions: From classical concepts to quantum ideas

September
7 Sept.
9:00am
E3-25
Jason Cleveland (Asylum Research)
Fazed by Phase Imaging
7 Sept.
11:00am
V-107
Mark Ratner (Northwestern University)
Molecular Electronics and Transport Junctions: Some Generalities
Gunning Lecture
8 Sept.
11:00am
V-107
Mark Ratner (Northwestern University)
Molecular Electronics and Transport Junctions: Some Mechanistic Issues
Gunning Lecture
9 Sept.
11:00am
V-107
Mark Ratner (Northwestern University)
Molecular Nanoscale Assemblies; Some Modeling Results
Gunning Lecture
10 Sept.
12:00pm
E3-25
George Agnes (Simon Fraser University)
Chemistry and Applications of Media With Net Charge
13 Sept.
4:00pm
Educ.N. 2-115

Robert Kennedy (University of Michigan)
Measuring the Chemistry of Life: How chemical measurements change our view of life processes
Boomer Lecture

14 Sept.
4:00pm
V-106

Robert Kennedy (University of Michigan)
New Opportunities in Chemical Analysis by Incorporation of Affinity Interactions into Chemical Separations
Boomer Lecture

15 Sept.
11:00am
V-107

Robert Kennedy (University of Michigan)
Chips, Imaging, and Sensors for Monitoring Living Cells
Boomer Lecture

16 Sept.
4:00pm
V-106

Robert Kennedy (University of Michigan)
Exploring brain chemistry in vivo using novel technology based on microfluidics, capillary electrophoresis, and mass spectrometry
Boomer Lecture

20 Sept.
11:00am
V-107

Paul O'Shea (Merck Frosst Canada)
Enantioselective Synthesis of Trifluoroethylamines

20 Sept.
7:30pm
King's College Auditorium

Jackie Barton (California Institute of Technology)
DNA: a Different Perspective
E. Gordon Young Lectureship

21 Sept.
11:00am
V-107

Jackie Barton (California Institute of Technology)
DNA, Recognition with Metallointercalators
E. Gordon Young Lectureship

21 Sept.
1:00pm
E3-25
Stephen J. Loeb (University of Windsor)
Metallo-Supramolecular Chemistry: From Rotaxanes to Materials
23 Sept.
1:00pm
V-128

Andrew Myers (Harvard University)
A Convergent and Enantioselective Synthetic Route to the Tetracycline Antibiotics
Boehringer Ingelheim Lecture

27 Sept.
11:00am
V-107

André Charette (Université de Montréal)
New Methods for the Asymmetric Catalytic Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds and Amines

30 Sept.
12:00pm
E3-25

Zameer Shervani (Supercritical Fluid Research Centre, Japan)
Development of "Green and Clean" Chemical Processing Media: Fundamentals to Applications

October
1 Oct.
2:00pm
E3-25

Karl Christe (University of Southern California)
Polynitrogen Chemistry

4 Oct.
11:00am
V-107
Paul Pregosin (ETH Zurich)
PGSE (Diffusion) and 1H, 19F HOESY NMR Studies on Homogeneous Catalysts: Ion Pairing and Learning About Anions
15 Oct.
12:00pm
V-107
Gary Christian (University of Washington)
Presentation to graduate students on scientific writing (or how not to write a paper: trials and tribulations of an editor)
15 Oct.
4:00pm
V-106
Gary Christian (University of Washington)
A brief history of analytical chemistry: from beginnings to modern analytical science

28 Oct.
11:00am
E3-25

Suning Wang (Queen's University)
Nitrogen Heterocyclic Compounds for OLEDs Supramolecular Assembly and C-H Activation

November
8 Nov.
2:00pm
E3-25
James Hurst (Washington State University)
Mechanisms of Water Oxidation Catalyzed by Dimeric Ruthenium Complexes.
15 Nov.
11:00am
V-107

Reza Ghadiri (Scripps Research Institute)
Toward Synthetic Biology: Design and Study of Complex Peptide Networks.
AstraZeneca Lecture

17 Nov.
11:00am
V-107

Peter Mahaffy (King's University College)
Tetrahedral Chemistry Education.

18 Nov.
11:00am
E3-25

Susan Kauzlarich (UC Davis)
Synthesis and Characterization of Magnetic Zintl Phases and Group IV Semiconductor Nanoparticles

22 Nov.
11:00am
V-107

A. Ramamoorthy (University of Michigan)
Mechanism of Membrane Disruption by Antimicrobial Peptides.

23 Nov.
2:00pm
E3-25

Cornelia Bohne (University of Victoria)
Dynamics in Supramolecular Chemistry: How can we understand function and complexity.

30 Nov.
10:00am
E3-25

Alan Doucette (Dalhousie University)
From Proteins to Proteomics: Moving Forward with Lessons from the Past.

December
1 Dec.
2:00pm
E3-25
Axel Becke (Queen's University)
Kohn-Sham Density-Functional Theory, the "Perfect" Molecular Orbital Formalism.
6 Dec.
11:00am
V-107
Steven Zimmerman (University of Illinois)
Supramolecular Polymer Chemistry: Dendrimers and Related Structures.
2005 Merck Frosst Lecture
14 Dec.
11:00am
V-107
Vickie McGuffin (Michigan State)
Using Fundamental Thermodynamic and Kinetic Studies to Investigate the Urban Legends of Separation Science