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Archive of Chemistry Department Seminars
See also: recent Department seminars
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
"TBA"
Profesor Paul F. Barbara, University of Texas at Austin
Hosted by John Miller
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, August 20, 2008
"TBA"
Professor David Sinclair, Carleton University, Director & Principal Investigator of SNOLAB
Hosted by Minfang Yeh
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, July 21, 2008
"MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDIES OF FAST REACTIONS IN GAS-PHASE"
Hua-Gen Yu, Brookhaven National Laboratory - Chemistry Department
Hosted by James Muckerman
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, July 14, 2008
"TBA"
Professor Robin D. Rogers, University of Alabama, Department of Chemistry
Hosted by James Wishart
1:30 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, June 18, 2008
"Metal-Loaded Liquid Scintillator for Neutrino Physics"
Minfang Yeh, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chemistry Department
Hosted by Richard Hahn
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, May 27, 2008
"The sigma-CAM mechanism: The dance of sigma-complexes that achieves metathesis at late transition metals"
Professor Robin Perutz, University of York, Dept. of Chemistry
Hosted by Etsuko Fujita
11:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg.555 Wednesday, May 14, 2008
"Discovery of Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials: An Atomic Scale Computational Approach"
Professor Christopher Wolverton, Northwestern University, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
Hosted by Ping Liu
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, April 16, 2008
"Structure and Sensitization of Titanium Dioxide Surfaces"
Professor Annabella Selloni, Princeton University
Hosted by Ping Liu
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, April 3, 2008
"The charge-lattice coupling at a photocatalytic interface"
Professor Hrvoje Petek, University of Pittsburgh, Dept, of Physics & Astronomy
Hosted by Nick Camillone
12:00 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, March 26, 2008
"Some Ways in which Surface Oxides Facilitate or Hinder Reactions"
Professor Talat Shahnaz-Rahman, University of Central Florida, Dept. of Physics
Hosted by James Muckerman
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, March 24, 2008
"Understanding gas-electrode interactions in solid oxide fuel cells using quantum chemical calculations"
YongMan Choi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Hosted by Ping Liu
1:30 PM, Room 300, Bldg. Thursday, February 28, 2008
"Nanoparticles and Nanowires: Preparation, Morphology and Synchrotron Spectroscopy"
Dr. Tsun-Kong Sham, University of Western Ontario
Hosted by Jan Hrbek
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, January 31, 2008
"Thermal Stability, Electronic, and Catalytic Properties of Supported Metal Clusters: Size, Interparticle Interactions, Oxidation and Support Effects"
Professor Beatriz Roldan-Cuenya, University of Central Florida
Hosted by Jose Rodriguez
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, January 30, 2008
"Tripping the Light Fantastic: Ultrafast Studies of Chromoproteins"
Professor Peter Tonge, Stony Brook University, Dept. of Chemistry
Hosted by Gregory Hall
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, December 4, 2007
"Controlling Molecular Fragmentation with Shaped Laser Pulses"
Thomas Weinacht, Dept. of Physics, Stony Brook University
Hosted by Trevor Sears
11:00 AM, Room 300, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, February 14, 2007
"High resolution REMPI spectroscopy of biological molecules and their water clusters: Conformeric structures and fragmentation"
Prof. Hans Juergen Neusser, TU Munchen - Dept. of Chemistry
Hosted by Dr. Michael White
1:30 PM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Friday, February 9, 2007
"Development of Bioinspired Electron-Transfer Systems for Energy Conversion"
Professor Shunichi Fukuzumi, Osaka University
Hosted by Dr. Etsuko Fujita
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, January 29, 2007
"Light-Induced Transient Bonding: A Way To Control Charge Separation?"
Julia A. Weinstein, University of Sheffield
Hosted by David Grills
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, January 17, 2007
"Spin States, Unsaturation, and Pi-Donation: Impact on Reactivity?"
Professor Kenneth Caulton, Indiana University
Hosted by David Grills
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, January 5, 2007
"Pi-Conjugated Organometallic Oligomers and Polymers: Triplet Exciton Structure, Dynamics and Materials Applications"
Dr. Kirk Schanze, University of Florida
Hosted by Dr. John Miller
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, December 1, 2006
"Rational Molecular Design for Photoelectrochemical Devices"
Professor Hiroshi Imahori, Department of Molecular Engineering, Kyoto University
Hosted by Etsuko Fujita
10:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, November 2, 2006
"Structure of Surfaces and Nanoclusters Characterized by In-Situ Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques"
Dr. Miguel Salmeron, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hosted by Jose Rodriguez
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, October 13, 2006
"Physicochemical Properties in Functional Genomics; or What Do Polyprotic Acid Equilibria Have To Do with Protein Function Annotation?"
Mary Jo Ondrechen, Northeastern University
Hosted by John Miller
10:30 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, September 6, 2006
"Two-Photon Photoemission Spectroscopy of Wet Electron State and Femtosecond Electron Dynamics on TiO2 Surfaces"
Dr. Bin Li, University of Pittsburgh
Hosted by Dr. John Miller
9:30 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Wednesday, September 6, 2006
"Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy of Several Transient Species""
Dr. Alexey Teslja, Columbia University
Hosted by Gregory Hall
11:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Monday, August 28, 2006
"Preparation and Application of Complex Nanostructures"
Jun Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Hosted by Alex Harris
11:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Friday, July 28, 2006
"Synthesis, Characterization and Magnetic Properties of Colloidal Nanoparticles"
Daniela Zanchet, Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory
Hosted by Jose Rodriguez
10:00 AM, Room 300 Thursday, July 27, 2006
"Molecules in Superfluid Helium: from quiescence to turbulence"
Professor Curt Wittig, University of Southern California
Hosted by Gregory Hall
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, July 26, 2006
"Photoinduced Electron Transfer Reactions Of Pt(II) Terpyridyl Complexes"
Russell Schmehl, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Hosted by David Grills
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, June 23, 2006
"Radiochemical Solar Neutrino Experiments"
Dr. Vladimir Gavrin, Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Hosted by Minfang Yeh
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, June 9, 2006
"Localized Nanorod Formation and Crystal Formation in CuTCNQ Systems"
Alan M. Bond, Monash University, School of Chemistry
Hosted by Steve Feldberg
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, May 23, 2006
"Metal Complexes and Fossil Fuel Upgrading"
Roberto Sanchez-Delgado, City University of NY
Hosted by Jose Rodriguez
11:00 AM, Room 300, Building 555 Monday, April 10, 2006
"Spectroscopy of mass-selected metal clusters: electronic structure controls reactivity"
Gerd Gantefor, University of Konstanz
Hosted by Jim Lighstone
1:00 PM, Room 300, Bldg. 555 Monday, April 3, 2006
"Structure of TiO2 (110)-(1x2): formation of Ti2O3 one dimensional chains and the growth of subnanometer Si overlayers"
Jose A. Gago, Institute of Materials Science
Hosted by Jose A. Rodriguez
4:00 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, March 15, 2006
"Photocatalysis on Model Ti02 Surfaces"
Dr. Michael Henderson, PNNL
Hosted by Dr. Etsuko Fujita
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, March 8, 2006
"Modelling transition metals deposition on a support from first principles Molecular Dynamics simulations."
Javier Fernandez-Sanz, University of Seville
Hosted by Dr. Jose Rodriguez
11:00 AM, Room 300, Bldg. 555 Friday, January 20, 2006
"Theory of nano-materials, spintronic materials, and nano-spintronic materials"
Dr. Leeor Kronik, Weizman Institute of Science
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, December 7, 2005
"An Atomic Scale View of Transition Metal Oxide Surfaces"
Ulrike Diebold, Tulane University
Hosted by Alex Harris
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, November 15, 2005
"Nanosecond Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy: A Valuable Tool for the Investigation of Photoinduced Small Molecular Activations and Hydrogen Atom Transfers"
David Grills, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hosted by John Miller
1:30 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, November 9, 2005
"Dynamics in hyper-rovibronic detail: Exploring the use of new commercial millimeter/sub-millimeter wavelength sources in traditional molecular reaction dynamics experiments."
Liam Duffy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Hosted by Gregory Hall
3:00 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, October 19, 2005
"Big Bang Chemistry - Exploring the Properties of Primordial Matter at RHIC"
Ralf Averbeck, Stony Brook University
Hosted by Mark Baker
11:00 AM, Bldg. 555, Room 300 Friday, September 16, 2005
"Designing Ligands to Capture the Sun"
Randolph Thummel, University of Houston
Hosted by Etsuko Fujita
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, July 18, 2005
"Ionic Hydrogenolysis Reactions of Polyols - Some Crazy Ideas for New Approaches to Biomass Conversion"
Marcel Schlaf, University of Guelph
Hosted by R. Morris Bullock
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, June 8, 2005
"The Hydricity of Transition-Metal Hydrides: Measurement, Controlling Factors, and Applications to Catalysis"
Daniel DuBois, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Hosted by R. Morris Bullock
11:00 AM, Chemistry Department Bldg. 555, Room 300 Friday, May 20, 2005
"RHIC Results on the Thermochemistry and Hydrodynamics of the Strong Interaction"
Peter Steinberg, Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hosted by Richard Hahn
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, May 4, 2005
"Conjugated Organic Materials with Unusual Ground - and Excited-State Electronic Properties"
Michael Therien, University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by John Miller
1:30 PM, Room 300, Chemistry Building 555 Wednesday, April 27, 2005
"Hybrization in Plants: Sex, drugs and resistance."
Colin Orians, Dept of Biology, Tufts University
Hosted by Richard Ferrieri
11:00 AM, Chemistry Bldg. Room 300 Friday, March 18, 2005
"Redox Behavior & Reactivity of Ru Complexes with Oxyl Radical Ligands"
Koji Tanaka, Institute for Molecular Science
Hosted by Etsuko Fujita
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, March 9, 2005
"Fundamental Concepts in Reactivity & Catalysis of Alloy Surfaces"
Bruce Koel, Depts of Chemistry & Materials Science & Lab for Molecular Robotics, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles
Hosted by Alexander Harris
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, March 8, 2005
"Some Aspects of Nanoelectrochemistry of Gold Nanoparticles and Their Derivatives"
Erkang Wang, Changchun Inst of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hosted by Alexander Harris
10:00 AM, Room 300, Chemsitry Bldg. 555 Tuesday, March 8, 2005
"Electrocatalysis at Electrode/Electrolyte Interface Based on Nanotechnology"
Shaojun Dong, Changahun Inst of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hosted by Alexander Harris
10:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Wednesday, March 2, 2005
"Density functional studies in heterogeneous catalysis and nanoscience"
Ping Liu, Chemistry Department, BNL
Hosted by Jon Hanson
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, February 17, 2005
"The possibility of a dramatic improvement to the experimental limit on the electron's electric dipole moment using cold PbF molecules"
Neil Shafer-Ray, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma
Hosted by Greg Hall
1:00 PM, Room 300, Building 555 Wednesday, November 24, 2004
"Molecular Secrets from High Resolution Spectroscopy in the Gas Phase"
David Pratt, Chemistry Department, University of Pittsburgh
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, November 3, 2004
"New Research Directions Enabled by Nanostructered Oxide Solids"
Suhas Bhandarkar, Materials Science & Engineering Department, Alfred University
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, October 6, 2004
"Molecular electronics based on conjugated diblock co-oligomers"
Luping Yu, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, September 27, 2004
"Interactions between prefrontal cortex and amygdala: Relevance to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia"
Anthony Grace, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
3:00 PM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg 555 Wednesday, September 22, 2004
"Ultrafast Electron Transfer Across the Molecule-Nanoparticle Junction"
Tim Lian, Emory University Chemistry Dept.
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, August 4, 2004
"Characterization of Novel Anode and Cathode Electrocatalysts"
Jingguang Chen, Department of Chemistry, University of Delaware
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, July 21, 2004
"Synthesis of Glucocorticoid Ligans as Potential PET Imaging Agents"
Robert Hoyte, Georgetown University
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, June 28, 2004
"International Symposium on Ultrafast Accelerators for Pulse Radiolysis"
James Wishart, BNL, Chemistry Department
8:30 AM, Chemistry, Room 300 Sunday, June 27, 2004
"International Symposium on Ultrafast Accelerators for Pulse Radiolysis"
James Wishart, BNL, Chemistry Department
8:30 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Saturday, June 26, 2004
"International Symposium on Ultrafast Accelerators for Pulse Radiolysis"
James Wishart, BNL Chemistry Department
8:30 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, June 25, 2004
"International Symposium on Utrafast Accelerators for Pulse Radiolysis"
James Wishart, BNL Chemistry Department
5:00 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, June 16, 2004
"Later, First Row Oxo, Imido, and Carbene Complexes: From Novel Structures to Catalytic Group Transfer"
Timothy Warren, Georgetown University
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, May 7, 2004
"Photoinduced Charge Carrier Generation"
Masanori Tachiya, National Institute of Materials Chemistry
1:30 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, April 28, 2004
"Carbonic Anhydrase & Isotope Effects"
David Silverman, University of Florida, Gainesville
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, April 22, 2004
"Static and Dynamical Solvation at Liquid Interfaces Probed by Second Nature Harmonic Generation"
Xiaoming Shang, Columbia University
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, April 21, 2004
"The Surface Reactions of TiO2 & UO2 single crystals: The role of surface defects."
Hicham Idriss, University of Auckland, New Zealand
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, April 8, 2004
"The Development of Strategies for the Preparation of Designed Supermolecular Structures"
William Fowler, State University of New York, Stony Brook
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, April 7, 2004
"Informational Workshop on Chemistry & Applications of Ionic Liquids"
James Wishart, Chemistry and Environmental Science Departments, BNL
10:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, March 25, 2004
"Probing Molecular Structure, Dynamics, and Intermolecular Interactions Using Photons and Electrons"
Gloria Florio, Columbia University, Department of Chemistry
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, March 24, 2004
"Condensed Matter Research at the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS)"
Raymond Teller, Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne National Laboratory
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, March 12, 2004
"Probing Reactions with Fast and Ultrafast Time-resolved IR Spectroscopy in Conventional & Supercritical Fluids: From Organometallic Alkane & Noble Gas Complexes to IR probes of DNA Damage"
Michael George, University of Nottingham
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, March 11, 2004
"Fluorescent Detection of Hazardous Materials: Light, Zeolites, and Sunlight"
Mark Spitler, President & Research Fellow, ChemMotif, Inc.
11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, January 21, 2004
"Structure & Reactivity of Open-Shell Complexes:A New Frontier in Atmospheric Chemistry"
Joseph Francisco, Purdue University
2:30 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, January 12, 2004
"Radiological Safety, Dosimetry and Protection Strategies"
Michael Ryan, Editor-in-Chief, Health Physics Journal
11:00 AM, Conference Room A/B, Bldg. 490
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