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Visiting Speakers Schedule - 2005 · 2004 · 2006

January
10 Jan.
11:00am
V-107
Victor Hruby (University of Arizona)
New Chemical Paradigms for Drug Design: The Impact of Genomics and Proteomics
13 Jan.
11:00am
CAB 357
Al-Amin Dhirani (University of Toronto)
Nanoparticles and Molecules: Building Blocks for Artificial Materials
13 Jan.
7:00pm
V-107
David Bundle (U of Alberta)
Synthetic glycoconjugate vaccines
Bernard Bellau Award Lecture (CSC)
20 Jan.
10:00am
V-110
Philip Jessop (Queen's University)
The Utility of Carbon Dioxide in Homogeneous Catalysis
21 Jan.
12:00pm
BS-M149
Derek Muir (Environment Canada)
Is Mercury Increasing in Arctic Biota? A Review of the Evidence
21 Jan.
4:00pm
V-107
Derek Muir (Environment Canada)
Identifying New POPs: Challenges for Environmental Analytical Chemists
24 Jan.
11:00am
V-107
Jeffrey Johnston (Indiana University)
The Development of New Reactions and Reagents for Alkaloid Total Synthesis: The Advent of Chiral Proton Catalysis
31 Jan.
1:00pm
V-124
Soledade Pedras (University of Saskatchewan)
Plants and Fungi: Chemical Warfare or Natural Coexistence

February

2 Feb.
12:00pm
E3-25
Christopher B. Murray (IBM)
Advances in Multicomponent Nanoscale Assembly: Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices
3 Feb.
10:00am
V-110
Cheri Kagan (IBM)
Molecular Materials and Devices
7 Feb.
11:00am
V-107

Uwe Bunz (Georgia Tech University)
Synthesis and Structuring of PPEs

10 Feb.
10:00am
E3-25

Markus Oberthür (Harvard Medical School)
Glycosyltranferases as Synthetic Tools for the Generation of Novel Glycopeptide Antibiotics

March
3 March
11:00am
E3-25

Roland Roesler (University of Calgary)
The Unusual Coordination Chemistry of B-N-C Heterocycles: Carbenes and Cyclopentadienyl Analogs

3 March
2:00pm
E3-25

Raymond Kapral (University of Toronto)
How does a proton go from 'A' to 'B'?

17 March
2:00pm
E3-25

Robert Lipson (University of Western Ontario)
Technique development for mass spectrometry and photonics applications

21 March
11:00am
V-107

Torsten Hegmann (University of Manitoba)
Self-Assembly Processes in Liquid Crystals - Organized Soft-Matter for Nanopatterning

30 Mar.
2:00pm
E3-25
Gino DiLabio (NINT)
Novel Chain-Breaking Antioxidants based on Pyridinol and Pyrimidinol: From in silico Design to in vitro Testing
April
8 Apr.
12:00pm
V-107
Aicheng Chen (Lakehead University)
Nanostructured Materials: Design and Electrochemical Study
8 Apr.
4:00pm
V-106
John Lamb (Brigham Young University)
Macrocyclic ligands in ion separations
11 April
11:00am
V-107

Jonathan Ellman (UC Berkeley)
Practical New Methods for Selective Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation

14 April
2:00pm
V-107

William E. Buhro (Washington University)
Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Wires: Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Confinement Effects

21 April
8:00pm
Room 5-142
Grant MacEwan

Penny Le Couteur (Capilano College)
The Making of Napoleon's Buttons

22 April
11:00am
V-107

Penny Le Couteur (Capilano College)
"The Second Wave of Vitalism" or "It May be Natural but You are Just as Dead"

28 April
11:00am
V-107

Milton L. Lee (Brigham Young University)
Ultrahigh Pressure Capillary Liquid Chromatography

May
2 May
11:00am
V-107
James P. Morken (UNC, Chapel Hill)
Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis Through the Intermediacy of Stereogenic Carbon-Metal Bonds
9 May
11:00am
E1-60

Henri Kagan (Université Paris Sud)
Some aspects of screening in asymmetric catalysis
2004 Sandin Lectures

10 May
4:00pm
E1-60

Henri Kagan (Université Paris Sud)
History of asymmetric catalysis
2004 Sandin Lectures

11 May
11:00am
E1-60

Henri Kagan (Université Paris Sud)
Asymmetric amplification and propagation of chirality in chemical systems
2004 Sandin Lectures

16 May
11:00am
V-107
Brian Stoltz (Caltech)
Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry
June
2 June
11:00am
E3-25
Daniel W. Armstrong (Iowa State University)
High efficiency microbial separations
3 June
11:00am
E3-25
Jason Shear (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Biocompatible microfabrication of functional protein architectures
6 June
11:00am
V-107
Yong Gao (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
Magnetic Nanoparticles for Chemical and Biological Applications
13 June
1:00pm
V-107
Suzanne Abrams (Plant Biotech Inst., NRC, Saskatoon)
Abscisic Acid Metabolism and Action
July
5 July
11:00am
E3-25
Andrew Orr-Ewing (University of Bristol)
Chemical Applications of Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy
6 July
1:00pm
V-107
Richard McCreery (Ohio State University)
Carbon-based Molecular Junctions: A Unique Approach to Molecular Electronics
August
30 August
11:00am
E5-36
Hironari Yamada (Risumeikan University)
Extraction of a 1011 Order of Brightness Pure Monochromatic X-ray Beam from the MIRRORCLE-6X Tabletop Synchrotron
September
12 Sept.
11:00am
V-107
William Roush (Scripps Institute)
Studies on the Synthesis of Stereochemically Complex Biologically Active Natural Products
2005 Boehringer Ingelheim Lecture
15 Sept.
2:00pm
V-111
Joel Haber (University of Alberta)
Scalable Template-Directed Syntheses of Nanomaterials using Porous Aluminum Oxide
22 Sept.
4:00pm
V-110
Janusz Pawliszyn, (University of Waterloo)
New Sample Preparation and Separation Technologies for On-Site Investigations
26 Sept.
11:00am
V-107
Fred Wudl, (UCLA)
Recent Advances in Organic Electronics at UCLA
26 Sept.
7:00pm
E1-60
John Polanyi, (University of Toronto)
Seeing Molecules React One-Molecule-At-A-Time
28 Sept.
2:00pm
E3-25
Dermot O'Hare, (University of Oxford)
Studying Solid State Reactions Using Time-Resolved In-situ Diffraction
October
5 Oct.
11:00am
V-107
Glen Loppnow & Charles Lucy (University of Alberta)
How To Give Oral and Poster Presentations
CGSS Professional Development Seminar
7 Oct.
1:00pm
E3-25
P. Andrew Evans (Indiana University)
New Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling and Carbocyclization Reactions for the Construction of Complex Natural Products
12 Oct.
11:00am
V-107
Albert Padwa (Emory University)
Cascade Processes for Alkaloid Synthesis
17 Oct.
12:00pm
E3-25
Allen Apblett (Oklahoma State University)
Novel Routes to Nanoparticles and Spherical Nanoparticle Aggregates for Environmental Applications
18 Oct.
11:00am
V-107
Carol Robinson (University of Cambridge)
Mass spectrometry from rare gases to ribosomes
2005 Gunning Lecturer
19 Oct.
11:00am
V-107
Carol Robinson (University of Cambridge)
Mass spectrometry of non-covalent complexes - more than the sum of their parts
2005 Gunning Lecturer
20 Oct.
11:00am
V-107
Carol Robinson (University of Cambridge)
Mass spectrometry and the shape of things to come
2005 Gunning Lecturer
21 Oct.
4:00pm
V-102
Raymond Poirier (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Extracting Secrets from Transition State Structures
24 Oct.
11:00am
V-107
Seiichi Matsuda (Rice University)
Catalytic and Evolutionary Origins of Triterpenoid Skeletons
24 Oct.
1:00pm
E3-25
Bob Brown (Utah State University)
IR MALDI vs. UV MALDI:  New insights into ionization in MALDI
28 Oct.
4:00pm
V-110
Dirk Wallschlager (Trent University)
Thioarsenates in sulfidic waters - where geochemistry and analytical chemistry collide
November
7 Nov.
11:00am
V-107

Marco Ciufolini, (UBC)
Synthetic Studies on Heterocyclic Natural Products

9 Nov.
3:00pm
E3-25

Gustavo A. Aucar (Northeaster University, Argentina)
Some novel physical insights arising from nuclear magnetic properties

14 Nov.
11:00am
V-107

Ben Feringa (University Groningen, The Netherlands)
In control of chirality - monodentate or bidentate ligands in asymmetric catalysis
AstraZeneca Lecture

17 Nov.
1:00pm
E3-25

Cathleen Crudden (Queen's University)
Mechanistic studies of the hydroboration of vinyl arenes and the development of leach proof Pd complexes for Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reactions

28 Nov.
11:00am
V-107

Yves Dory (Université de Sherbrooke)
Design, Synthesis & Characterization of Cyclic Peptides Self-Assembling as Supramolecular Tubes or Spheres

30 Nov.
10:00am
V-112
Simon J. Gaskell (University of Manchester)
Quantitative proteomics - multiple perspectives and new approaches
December
12 Dec.
11:00am
V-107
Victor Snieckus (Queens University)
Directed ortho-Metalation: Soon to be a Textbook Reaction
AstraZeneca Lecture