Chemistry

Fall 2011 Seminar Schedule

Seminars are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5 p.m. in Room 140 in the FW Olin PhysicalSciences 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.

January 12

Prof. Brian Benicewicz, University of South Carolina

Functionalization of silica nanoparticles by surface-initiated RAFT polymerization

January 17

Room TBA

Mr. Mohamed Erhayem

Research Proposal

February 16

Ms. Hui Xie

Research Proposal

February 21

Profs. Joel Olson

Safety in the Chemistry Research Laboratory

February 23

Prof. Susan Latturner, Florida State University

Synthesis of complex carbides in metal fluxes

March 1

Prof. John York, Stetson University

Tuning the properties of metal complexes through ligand electronic effects: Insight gained from synthetic and computational investigations

March 15

Prof. Sylwia Ptasinska, University of Notre Dame

Atmospheric Pressure Studies in Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory

March 16, noon

Room 230 Crawford

Professor Goestar Klingelhoefer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Mainz, Germany

Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Mars Exploration Rover Missions

March 19

Room 327 Harris

Mr. Brian Fogg

Polyurethane: 65 years of progress

March 22

Prof. Karolina Siskova, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy on noble metal nanoparticles prepared by green syntheses

April 5

Ms. Meagan Strouse

MS Thesis Seminar

April 10

Room 327 Harris

Mr. Yannick Ouedraogo

Ph. D. Dissertation Seminar, Synthesis and Computational Studies of Photoreactive Caged Molecules

April 12

Mr. Manish Khandelwal

PhD Dissertation Seminar

April 19

Mr. Erik Casbeer

PhD Dissertation Seminar

April 24

Mr. Mohamed Erhayem

Original Proposal, Synthesis, characterization, biodistribution and stability of Ultra-small Gadolinium Oxide Nanoparticles Coated with Poly(ethylene oxide)-block-Poly(glutamic acid)

April 25

Room 327 Harris

Ms. Christa Simmers

MS Thesis Seminar