Chemistry

Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule

Seminars are held on Thursdays at 5 p.m. in the Biology Auditorium in the Olin Life Sciences Building except when noted otherwise.  Faculty, students and the general public are welcome and all chemistry students are strongly encouraged to attend.  We hope to see you there.

Seminar dates will be updated throughout the semester.

 August 20 

Prof. Michael Babich, Chemistry Department Head, Florida Tech

Annual Chemistry Department Meeting

August 27

Ms. Rachel Gilman

Thesis: Analysis of Tryptanthrin Derivatives via Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

October 15

Dr. Nahid Mohajeri, Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL

Effects of PdO Distributions over TiO2 Particles on its Chemochromic Behaviors for Hydrogen Detection

October 22

Ms. Aliea Hernberg, Florida Tech

Thesis Proposal: The Effect of Structure and Functionalization on the Fluorescence Quenching Processes of Heterocyclic Aromatic Species and the Photophysical Processes of Heterocyclophanes

October 28

Wednesday

Room PS 140

Professor David Atwood, University of Kentucky

The Permanent Removal of Mercury from Water with Synthetic Thiolates

October 29

Dr. Monica Baloga, Florida Tech

Chemical Safety for Florida Tech Graduate Students

November 5

Dr. Yi Liao, University of Central Florida

Photo Retro-Diels-Alder Reaction and its Application in Organic Electronic Materials

November 12 Dr. Eddie Chang, Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC

Anti-Viral Properties of Cobalt Hexammine

November 19

Mr. Ray Terryn, Florida Tech

Novel Applications of Density Functional Theory: Mechanistic and Kinetic Analysis of Oxidations by Ferrate and Prediction of STM Barrier Height Images

Past Seminars

To see who has given chemistry seminars in the past, visit our archive:

spring 2008 fall 2008
spring 2009