The Department of Chemistry

Current Foster Chemistry Colloquium

(Held in the FALL and SPRING semesters)



SPRING SEMESTER 2013

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FRIDAYS at 4:00 PM

(in Room 222, Natural Sciences Complex)

Refreshments @ 3:30 PM in NSC 222


 

Fri., February 1, 2013 (in NSC 222)

Professor Oleg V. Prezhdo
Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester

Quantum Dots - Artificial Atoms, Molecules, or Small Pieces of Bulk? Insights from Time-Domain Ab initio Simulations

Fri., February 8, 2013(in NSC 222)

Professor Laura Gagliardi
Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
Bridging the Gap Between Quantum Chemistry and Classical Simulations for CO2 Capture (Abstract)

Fri., February 15, 2013 (in NSC 222)

Professor Emily A. Weiss
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
A Multiplexed Charge Transfer Complex of a PbS Quantum Dot and TCNQ

Fri., April 5, 2013 (in NSC 222)

Professor Mas Subramanian
Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University
Discovering New Functional Metal Oxides: Expecting the Unexpected (Abstract)

CANCELLED

Fri., April 12, 2013 (in NSC 222)

Professor Claudia Turro
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Control of Excited States of Transition Metal Complexes for Biological Applications

CANCELLED

Fri., April 19, 2013 (in NSC 222)

Professor Hung-wen (Ben) Liu
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The Univ. of Texas at Austin
Exploring Nature’s Strategies for Making Unusual Sugars: Biosynthesis of 2-Thiosugar in BE-7585A


5th Annual HOWARD TIECKELMANN LECTURE SERIES

Monday, April 22, 2013

4:00 PM

in 201 Natural Sciences Complex, UB North Campus

 

Guest Lecturer: Professor Richard N. Zare

Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

“Desorption Electrospray Ionization for Imaging and for Detection of Reaction Intermediates”


Fri., April 26, 2013 (in NSC 222)

Professor Karl T. Mueller
Department of Chemistry, Penn State University
A Combined Attack on Problems in Environmental and Materials Sciences Using Solid-State NMR and Computational Chemistry

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