Chemistry

Spring 2013 Seminar Schedule

All seminars start at 5 pm in the Physical Sciences Building, Room 140, except Tuesday seminars will take place in the rooms listed.  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.

Tuesday, February 5

Gleason Auditorium

15th A.H. Blatt Seminar presented by

Professor Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology

 Design and Applications of Selective Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis

Tuesday, February 12

Harris Building room 327

Prof. Richard Blair, University of Central Florida

Mechanochemical Catalysis and Synthesis for Materials and Biomass-derived Chemicals

February 14

Dr. Michael P. Tolocka, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Nanoparticle Chemistry and its Effect on Human Health

Tuesday, February 19

Harris Building room 327

Prof. Yi Liao, University of Central Florida

Macroscopic Control of Proton Concentration with Reversible Photoacids and Its Applications in Material, Chemical and Biomedical Science

February 28

Dr. Ettigounder Ponnusamy, Principal Scientist at Sigma Aldrich, St. Louis

Greener Chemistry at Sigma-Aldrich: Enabling a More Sustainable Future

Tuesday, March 12

Olin Life Sciences room 129

Prof. Frank J. Millero, University of Miami

Effect of Ocean Acidification on Processes in the Oceans

March 14

Richard Comitz, Florida Institute of Technology

Ph. D. thesis seminar

March 28

Mohammed Erhayen, Florida Institute of Technology

Ph. D. thesis seminar

Tuesday, April 2

140 Olin Physical Sciences

Nada Traina, Florida Institute of Technology

MS thesis seminar

April 4

Ray Terryn, Florida Institute of Technology

Ph.D. thesis seminar

April 11

CANCELLED

Dr. Jeremy Tipton, Director of Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, University of South Florida

Mass Spectrometry Based Sciences: Separations, Instruments, and Applications

CANCELLED

April 18

Krishnan Sriraman, Florida Institute of Technology

Study of Tryptanthrin and its Analogs by Barrier Height Spectroscopy

Ph. D. thesis seminar