Chemistry Seminar Series 2012 - 2013

Fall 2012

Alam Hasson, CSU Fresno
"Sources and Atmospheric Chemistry of Selected Volatile Organic Compounds"
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Burns Lecture Hall (KGI)
http://www.fresnostate.edu/csm/geology/facstaff/hassonalam.html

Dan Savin, University of Southern Mississippi
"Interfacial Curvature Effects in the Self-Assembly and Responsiveness of Polypeptide-Based Block and Star Copolymers"
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium (HMC)
http://www.usm.edu/polymer/faculty/daniel-savin

T. Joseph Lin, TJ Lin Cosmetics
"Green Cosmetics and Serious Chemistry"
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium (HMC)

Emil Kakkis. M.D., Ph.D., EveryLife Foundation
"Entrepreneurship and Developing New Treatments for Rare Diseases"
Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)
http://www.everylifefoundation.org/aboutus/emilkakkis.aspx

Laurance Beauvais, San Diego State University
"One-Pot Wonders: Isostructural Series of Heterometallic Metal-Organic Frameworks Containing Open Metal Sites"
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)
http://www.chemistry.sdsu.edu/faculty/Beauvais/

Jennifer Lillig, Sonoma State University
Biomolecular NMR
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Burns Lecture Hall (JSD)
http://www.sonoma/users/w/whilesli/

Cynthia Larive, UC Riverside
"Metabolomics: A Discovery-Based Approach to Understanding Physiology"
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium (HMC)
http://www.chem.ucr.edu/index.php

A.J. Boydston, University of Washington
"Organocatalyzed Electro-Organic Synthesis"
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Burns Lecture Hall (JSD)
http://depts.washington.edu/chem/people/faculty/boydston.html

David Masiello, University of Washington
"Molecular-Electronic Structure in a Plasmonic Environment"
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Burns Lecture Hall (JSD)

Michelle Chang, UC Berkeley
"Building New Chemical Function in Living Organisms"
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)
http://chem.berkeley.edu/faculty/chang_m

Spring 2013  

Erik Sorensen, Princeton University
"Taking Risks in Complex Synthesis Design"
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 11:00 a.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium

Robbins Lecture Series
February 4-7, 2013

Susan Solomon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Exploring Our Atmosphere's Climate and Chemistry"
Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)
www.http://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/solos


Claire Knezevic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Development of Selective Poly (ADP-ribose) Glycohydrolase Inhibitors"
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 11:00 a.m., Burns Lecture Hall (JSD)

Andy Sappey, Zolo Technologies
"Wavelength-multiplexed TDLAS Tomography for Combustion Optimization"
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 11:00 a.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium (HMC)
www.http://zolotech.com

Gary Patterson, Carnegie Mellon University
"The Chemistry of Michael Faraday"
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 11:00 a.m., Galileo Pryne Auditorium (HMC)
www.http://chem.cmu.edu

Christine M. Isborn, University of California, Merced
"Accelerating the Computation of the Excited States with Graphical Processing Units"
Tuesday, March 5 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)

Peter M. Iovine, University of San Diego
"From Boron to Hybrid Natural-Synthetic Polymers: An Organic Chemist Turned Polymer Chemist"
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 11:00 a.m., Seaver North Auditorium (Pomona)

Gabe Rocklin, University of California, San Francisco
"Predicting Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 11:00 a.m., Burns Lecture Hall (JSD)

Greg Weiss, University of California, Irvine
"Exploring Chemistry and Biology with Nanometer-Scale Electronics"
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 11:00 a.m., Burns Lecture Hall (JSD)
www.http://chem.uci.edu

The location for Pomona seminars is Seaver Auditorium. The location for Harvey Mudd seminars is the Galileo Pryne Auditorium. The location for Joint Sciences seminars is the Burns Lecture Hall.

Students interested in having lunch with the seminar speakers should consult with the seminar coordinator of the hosting college:

Pomona College: Matthew Sazinsky (909) 607-1011
Harvey Mudd College: Dave Vosburg (x79701 or david_vosburg@hmc.edu)
Joint Sciences: Scott Williams (x71630 or swilliams@jsd.claremont.edu)