CHEMISTRY SEMINARS

Presentations:

September 6, 2000 1:00 PM

Welcoming Reception

September 13, 2000 2:00 PM

Dr. Andrew V. Teplyakov, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Delaware,

" Coverage Dependent Selectivity and a New Approach to Tailoring Nanostructures on Single Crystal Surfaces"

September 20, 2000 2:00 PM

Dr. George Flynn, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University

"Chiral and Achiral Self Assembly at the Liquid-Solid Interface; The View from One Billionth of an Inch"

September 27, 2000 2:00 PM

Dr. Luis Garfias, Senior Scientist, Lucent Corporation, Murray Hill, NJ

"In-situ High Resolution Imaging Using a Modified Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope"

October 4, 2000 1:30 PM

Dr. Stanislaus S. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook

"Manipulation of Nanotubes and Nanocrystals with an Atomic Force Microscope: Applications in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology"

October 11, 2000 1:30 PM

Dr. Charles Michael Drain, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Hunter College of CUNY

TBA

October 18, 2000 1:30 PM

Dr. Irene Rabin, Senior Scientist, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany

"Light emission in the agglomeration of Silver Clusters"

October 25, 2000 1:30 PM

Dr. Wayne Jones, Professor, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton

"Molecular Wires and Devices: New Materials for Chemosensors and Nanoscale Molecular Electronics"

November 1, 2000

1:30 PM

Dr. Ljubisa R. Radovic, Professor, Department of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

"Surface chemistry of carbon materials: the known, the unknown and the

misunderstood... and who cares!?"

November 8, 2000

1:30 PM

Dr. Michael Williams, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga

"Growth and Characterization of III-IV Semiconductors for Device Application"

November 15, 2000, 1:30 PM

Robert Bloomquist, MA, Senior Scientist, Corning, Somerset, NJ,

"Polyurethanes: Their chemistry and properties"

November 29, 2000, 1:30 PM

Dr. William Jackson, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Davis

"Visualizing Chemical Reactions Using Velocity Imaging"

December 6, 2000, 1:30 PM

Dr. Richard Weiss, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

"Photochemical and Photophysical Processes in Polymer Films"


Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
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CHEMISTRY SEMINARS

(Spring 2002 | Fall 2000)

Spring 2002 Chemistry Seminars
Chemistry Department
City College of New York


February 20 Dr. Giacinto Scoles Princeton University Structure and Properties of Organic Thin Films and their relevance to Molecular Electronic
February 27 Dr. Bretislav Friedrich Harvard University Manipulating Cold Molecules with Non-resonant Fields
March 6 Dr. Linda Peteanu Carnegie Mellon University Electronic Properties of Supra-Molecular Aggregates
March 13 Dr. Jian Liu University of Miami Metal Nanoparticles with a knack for Molecular recognition
March 20 Dr. Jerry Percus New York University The Gaussian-mean spherical strategy in Many-body Theory
March 27 Dr. Qingrong Huang Stanford University Challenging Moore's Law: New Materials for Advanced Integrated Circuits
April 3 Dr. Andreas Kornath Dortmund University TBA
April 24 Dr. Raymond Vazquez Amedd Immortalized Human Keratinocytes: An in vitro model system used to study the efficacy of therapeutic agents in cells exposed to toxic chemicals
May 1 Dr. Alex Pevsner Princeton University Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Main Cellular Components: The Effect of Hydration on Protein and Nucleic Acid Spectra
May 8 Dr. Paul Weiss Pennsylvania State University TBA

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 1:00 PM.

Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Comments to: Chemistry Dept;  Comments to: webmaster.
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SPRING 2005 CHEMISTRY SEMINARS

( Past Seminars )

Feb 28 Christian Kloc Bell Labs Organic Single Crystal Field Effect Transistors; materials, technology, properties
Mar 7 TBA
Mar 14 Lisa Totten Rutgers Importance of atmospheric interactions to PCB cycling in the Hudson and Delaware River Estuaries
Mar 21 John Lombardi CCNY Experimental Bond order
Apr 4 Thomas Autrey Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Research Challenges for the Hydrogen Economy; Hydrogen Storage
Apr 11 David Lemal Dartmouth Chemistry of Highly Strained Fluorocarbons
Apr 18 D. Venkataraman U Mass Amherst Copper-Catalyzed Cross-coupling Reactions
May 2 Martin Gorbaty ExxonMobil Organic chemistry of petroleum and petroleum refining
May 9 Laura Kaufman Columbia Matrix Stiffness Influences Growth and Invasion In Glioblastoma Multiforme
May 16 Mike Steigerwald Columbia Low-Temperature Routes to Metal and Metal-Oxide Nanostructures
May 23 Hui Yang CCNY (CASI) TBA

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Comments to: Chemistry Dept;  Comments to: webmaster.
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Fall 2005 CHEMISTRY SEMINARS

( Past Seminars )

Sep 12 Stephen Koch SUNY Stony Brook Dr Frankenstein, the Lye of Blood and the Bioinorganic Chemistry of Hydrogenase Enzymes
Sep 19 John Lombardi CCNY Toward an Experimental Bond Order
Sep 22 (Thursday) Edward Rosenberg U Montana Silica Polyamine Composites: Novel Materials for Cation and Anion Recovery
Sep 26 Lisa Totten Rutgers Importance of Atmospheric Interactions to PCB Cycling in the Hudson and Delaware River Estuaries
Oct 3 Sergey Bezrukov NIH Physics of Diffusion and Molecular Sieving by Protein Channels
Oct 11 (Tue) Siu-Wai Chan Columbia The Cubic Phase (C.) in Ce1-xZrxO2-y Nanocrystals
Oct 17 Christopher Murray IBM Nanocrystal Superlattices: Building with Artificial Atoms
Oct 24 Paramjit Arora NYU Biomolecular Recognition with Artificial Alpha-Helices
Oct 31 Lara Estroff Cornell Bio-Inspired Growth of Crystals: Gels and SAMs
Nov 7 Teri W. Odom Northwestern Nanoscale Materials: Synthesis, Patterning, and Photonics
Nov 14 Yoke Khin Yap Michigan Tech Atomic Bond Control of Frontier Carbon Materials: Thin films, Nanotubes, and Nanostructures
Nov 21 Pulickel Ajayan RPI Building Carbon Nanotube Architectures for Applications
Nov 28 Mark Kobrak Brooklyn College Solvation Phenomena in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: The Need for a New Cartoon
Dec 5 Nathaniel Brese Rohm Haas Getting the Lead Out: Green Chemistry in the Electronics Industry
Dec 12 Juan Carlos Rojo Suny Stony Brook Control of CVD-grown GaN nanostructures morphology via substrate engineering
Dec 19 Student seminars

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Comments to: Chemistry Dept;  Comments to: webmaster.
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Spring 2006 CHEMISTRY SEMINARS

( Past Seminars )

Jan 30 Colin Nuckolls Columbia Reaction Chemistry meets Lithography
Feb 6 Bonnie Gersten Queens College Nanomaterials for Biosensors
Feb 21 S. "Thai" Thayumanavan U Massachusetts Amherst Amphiphilic Molecular Assemblies
Feb 27 (Tue) Marco Leona Metropolitan Museum of Arts Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering in Art and Archaeology
Mar 6 James Canary NYU Redox-Triggered Molecular Switches
Mar 13 Ilona Kretzschmar CCNY Preparation and Application of Surface Asymmetric Particles
Mar 20 Claire Gmachl Princeton Recent Developments in Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers
Mar 27 Rebecca Kissling SUNY Binghamton A Red Route to "Green Chemistry": Chiral Ferrocenyl Polymers as Scaffolds for Recyclable Catalysts
Apr 3 Joseph Dinnocenzo Rochester New Materials for Optical Information Storage
Apr 10 Nicholas Turro Columbia Supramolecular Photochemistry @ 119 St. & Broadway: From Radical Pairs to Molecular Beacons to H2@C60
Apr 24 Amy Howell U Conn Unusual Oxetanes as Intermediates in Organic Synthesis
May 1 Julia Chan Louisiana State U Crystal Growth of Heavy Fermion Intermetallics Using Metal Fluxes
May 8 Naresh Dalal Florida State TBA
May 15 Yves Chabal Rutgers Growing Film One Layer at A Time

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Comments to: Chemistry Dept;  Comments to: webmaster.
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Fall 2006 CHEMISTRY SEMINARS

( Past Seminars )

Sep 20 (Wed) Tim Fitzsimmons DOE Funding Opportunities in the Division of Materials Science and Engineering
Oct 3 (Tue) Louis Brus Columbia Optical Spectroscopy of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (cancelled)
Oct 16 Seogjoo Jang Queens College Theories of Energy and Charge Transfer Dynamics in Complex Environments
Oct 23 Oleg Gang Brookhaven National Lab DNA Mediated Assembling of Meso- and Nano-Objects
Oct 30 Bruce Brownawell SUNY Stony Brook HPLC-MS Analysis and Fate of Pharmaceutically Active Compounds in Wastewater Impacted Surface and Groundwater Environments
Nov 6 Dinesh Vyas Bristol Myers Squibb Taxane Research Towards Discovery of Clinical Development Candidates
Nov 13 Stuart Soled Exxon Mobile Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Catalytic Materials
Nov 20 Chuan-Jian Zhong SUNY Binghamton Nanostructured Materials for Chemical/Biological Sensors and Fuel Cells
Nov 27 Kent Kirshenbaum NYU TBA
Dec 4 Oleg Maksimov Penn State University Pulsed Laser Deposition and Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Multifunctional Oxides
Dec 11 Vivian Stojanoff Brookhaven National Lab TBA

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place on Mondays in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Comments to: Chemistry Dept;  Comments to: webmaster.
Last modified: September 2000.
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Spring 2007 CHEMISTRY SEMINARS

( Past Seminars )

Feb 5 Larry Romsted Rutgers A New View on the Balance of Forces Controlling Micellar Morphologies of Ionic Surfactants
Feb 26 Cherice Evans Queens College TBA
Mar 19 Louis Brus Columbia Optical Spectroscopy of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Mar 26 Alec Greer Brooklyn College Biomimetic Synthesis of Polysulfanes. Molecules that Serve as Defense Chemicals in Tunicates
Apr 16 Richard Carbonaro Manhattan College TBA
Apr 30 Jana Pika Firmenich What's that Smell? Chemical Analysis at Firmenich
May 7 Kenneth Laali Kent State Univ. TBA

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place on Mondays in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Comments to: Chemistry Dept;  Comments to: webmaster.
Last modified: September 2000.
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Fall 2007 CHEMISTRY SEMINARS

( Past Seminars )

Sep 10 Richard Gross Polytechnic University Enzyme-Catalyzed Polymer Synthesis and Modification Reactions
Oct 17 (Wed) George Christou Univ Florida Chemical and Physical Properties of Molecular Magnets
Oct 22 Enrique Garcia-Hernandez Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Energetics of protein self-association: Effects of water sequestering on the formation of N2-lactoglobulin homodimer
Oct 29 Shi Jin College of Staten Island Nano-Structuring of Semiconducting pi-Stacks
Nov 5 Bertram Fraser-Reid North Carolina State Complex Sugars and "Third World" Infectious Diseases
Nov 12 Joseph Fox University of Delaware TBA
Dec 10 Harold Mastalerz Bristol-Myers Squibb The Discovery and Optimization of Pyrrolotriazine Dual EGFR/HER2 Kinase Inhibitors as Antitumor Agents

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place on Mondays in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Comments to: Chemistry Dept;  Comments to: webmaster.
Last modified: September 2000.
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SPRING 2008 CHEMISTRY SEMINARS

( Past Seminars )

Jan 28 Song Jin U Wisconsin-Madison How to Make a Christmas Tree: General Chemical Synthesis of Silicide Nanowires and Complex Nanowire Structures
Feb 4 Lucia G. Quagliano Institute for Nanostructured Materials, Rome Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy from Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Feb 11 Jing Li Rutgers Hybrid Semiconductor Crystals, Structure-Induced Quantum Confinement and Property Tunability
Feb 25 Richard Carbonaro Manhattan College TBA
Mar 3 Benjamin Chu SUNY Stony Brook Is Water Our Next Challenge?
Mar 10 Bertram Fraser-Reid North Carolina State U Complex Sugars and "Third World" Infectious Diseases
Mar 17 Latha Venkataraman Columbia University Molecular Electronics
Mar 31 Billy Day University of Pittsburgh TBA
Apr 7 Elsa Yan Yale University Photoactivation Mechanism of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin
Apr 14 William Hagmann Merck Cannabinoid-1 Receptor Blockade for the Treatment of Obesity
Apr 28 Mihaly Mezei Mt Sinai Open-Ensemble Simulations in Biomolecular Systems
May 5 Rastislav Levicky Polytechnic University Genetic Diagnostics at Interfaces: From Self-Assembled Monolayers to Integrated Devices
May 12 Victor Marquez National Cancer Institute TBA

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place on Mondays in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Comments to: Chemistry Dept;  Comments to: webmaster.
Last modified: September 2000.
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