Thursday, November 14, 2013
2:30 p.m. Professor Jon Owen
Columbia University
The Coordination Chemistry of Metal Chalcogenide Nanocrystals
4:00 p.m.
Professor Vicki Wysocki
Ohio State University
TBA
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Chemistry
Thursday, November 21, 2013
27th Annual
FREDERICK KAUFMAN MEMORIAL
LECTURE SERIES
Professor Geri Richmond
University of Oregon
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
4:00 p.m. At the Water’s Edge: Understanding Environmentally Important
Processes at Aqueous Surfaces
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
2:30 p.m.
Line ‘Em All Up: Macromolecular and Nanoparticle Assembly
At Liquid Interfaces
2:30 p.m.
Professor Isaac Krauss
4:00 p.m.
Professor Peter Griffiths
Brandeis University
Combining Organic Synthesis and Directed Evolution to Design
HIV Vaccines
University of Idaho
Open-Path Atmospheric Monitoring by FT-IR Spectroscopy under
Pastoral and Simulated Battlefield Conditions
4th Annual
HENRY FRANK LECTURE SERIES
Professor Fred Manby
Ohio University
Monday, December 9, 2013
4:00 p.m.
Embedding Quantum Chemistry in Quantum Chemistry
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
2:30 p.m. Antisymmetry and Molecular Dissociation in Coupled-Cluster Theory
Changes in seminar dates, times and location are not unusual. Before visiting
the University of Pittsburgh Department of Chemistry for a seminar, please
call 412-624-8200 or check www.pitt.edu for up-to-date information
CHEMISTRY COLLOQUIA
September through December
2013
CHEVRON SCIENCE CENTER
Ashe Auditorium 150
Monday, September 2, 2013
2:30 p.m. Professor Magnus Rueping
RWTH-Aachen University
Asymmetric Counterion Pair Catalysis-Concepts and Applications
Thursday, September 5, 2013
2:30 p.m. Professor Emily Weiss
Thursday, October 17, 2013
2:30 p.m. Professor Michael Pollastri
Northeastern University
Target Repurposing Accelerates Drug Discovery for Neglected Tropical Diseases
4:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New Concepts in Molecular and Energy Transport within Carbon Nanotubes and
Graphene: Optical Sensors, Resonant Ion Channels, and Thermopower Waves
Northwestern University
Strongly Coupled Quantum Dot-Ligand Complexes
4:00 p.m.
Professor Tadhg Begley
Texas A&M University
Radical SAM Enzymes in Cofactor Biosynthesis
Thursday, October 24, 2013
2:30 p.m. Professor Anne McCoy
Ohio State University
Spectral Signatures of Large Amplitude Vibrations: What information is encoded
in the Intensities?
Thursday, September 19, 2013
2:30 p.m. Professor Yue Wu
Purdue University
Advanced Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials for Waste
Heat Recovery
Thursday, September 26, 2013
2:30 p.m. Professor Geoffrey Hutchison
University of Pittsburgh
Rational Design of Molecular Materials: Molecular Springs,
Solar Cells & More
35th Annual
BAYER
LECTURE SERIES
Professor Tobin Marks
Northwestern University
Monday, September 23, 2013
4:00 p.m.
Themodynamic Strategies for Designing New Catalytic Processes. Coupling
Methane to Ethylene, and Biofuel Processing
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
2:30 p.m.
“Plastic” Solar Cells with Interface Engineering
33rd Annual
PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE LECTURES
Professor Michael Strano
4:00 p.m.
Professor Nicola Pohl
Indiana University
Methods Development for Automated Oligosaccharide Synthesis
Thursday, October 31, 2013
2:30 p.m. Professor Ben Shen
The Natural Products Library Initiative
Natural Product Discovery, Biosynthesis, and Engineering: Impacts on Drug
Discovery and Development
4:00 p.m.
Professor Michael Ward
New York University
Diversity among Similarity: Programmed Assembly of Organic Solid State
Frameworks
Thursday, November 7, 2013
2:30 p.m. Professor Xi Chen
University of California—Davis
Chemoenzymatic Synthesis and Applications of Carbohydrates
4:00 p.m.
Professor G. Andrés Cisneros
Wayne State University
Advances in the Development of Multipolar and Density-Based Polarizable
Force Fields
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
2:30 p.m. Professor Jennifer Schomaker
University of Wisconsin-Madison
New Transformations Mediated by Coinage Metals
Professor Paul Alvisatos
University of California—Berkeley
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
4:00 p.m. Nanoscience and the Future of the Global Carbon Cycle
Thursday, October 10, 2013
2:30 p.m. Design and Synthesis of Multi-Component Colloidal Nanocrystals for Catalysis
And Sensing
Front Page: Scanning electron microscope image of flat, triangular gold plates decorated with
pseudo-spherical platinum Nanoparticles. The linear arrangement of platinum Nanoparticles results
from the organization of small organic molecules absorbed to the surface of the plates, which act as a
template for platinum growth. These bimetallic nanostructures exhibit properties unique to both gold
and platinum, making them a promising substrate for applications such as light-enhanced catalysis.
(the triangular prisms in this image have an edge length of approximately 120nm which is about onetenth the size of a single bacterial cell) Jill Millstone Group