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Archive of Chemistry Department Seminars
See also: recent Department seminars
Friday, July 27, 2012 "Precise Design of Donor-Acceptor Interface based on Microphase Segregated Nanostructure" Sadayuki Asaoka, Kyoto Institute of Technology Hosted by Dr. John Miller 11:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Thursday, April 26, 2012 "“NOx Catalysis from the Bottom Up”" Dr. William F. Schneider, Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame Hosted by Ping Liu 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, April 13, 2012 "High-energy resolution x-ray emission spectroscopy for catalysis and materials chemistry" Olga Safonova, Swiss Light Source & Energy Dept. at Paul Scherrer Institute Hosted by Dario Stacchiola 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, April 6, 2012 "Comparing the Primary Electron Transfer Process in Photosynthetic Reaction" Garry Rumbles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colorado, Hosted by John Miller 11:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Wednesday, April 4, 2012 "New catalysts and nanostructures for the production of solar fuels" Craig L. Hill, Emory University, Department of Chemistry Hosted by Dmitry Polyanskiy 10:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, February 9, 2012 "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: From Marcus Theory to Electrocatalysis to Nanoparticles" John M. Mayer, University of Michigan, Seattle, WA, Dept. of Chemistry Hosted by Dmitry Polyansky 10:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, January 26, 2012 "Gas Phase Inorganic Chemistry: Spectroscopy of Metal-Containing Molecules" Peter Bernath, Old Dominion University Hosted by Trevor Sears 10:00 AM, Chemistry Room 300 Thursday, January 26, 2012 "Gas Phase Inorganic Chemistry: Spectroscopy of Metal-Containing Molecules" Dr. Peter Bernath, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Hosted by Trevor Sears 10:00 AM, Room 300 - Chemistry Bldg. 555 Monday, December 19, 2011 ""Synthesis and Characterization of Conducting Doped Metal Oxide" Chinmayee Subban, Cornell University, Dept. of Chemistry Hosted by Peter Khalifah 2:00 PM, Room 300 - Chemistry Bldg. 555 Monday, December 12, 2011 "“Characterization and Surface Chemistry on Au-Based Bimetallic Clusters: Adsorbate-induced Diffusion and Reaction at Interfacial Sites”" Donna A. Chen, University of South Carolina, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry Hosted by Ping Liu 11:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Monday, December 5, 2011 "“High Resolution Optical spectroscopy of charge transfer doping and electrochemical processes in polymer semiconductor devices”" Riccardo Di Pietro, University of Cambridge Hosted by Matthew Bird 11:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 "Biomimetic Models of Radical Stress and Related Biomarkers" Dr. Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu, ISOF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Hosted by James Wishart 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, November 18, 2011 "Approach to Artificial Photosynthesis by Two Electron Activation of Water by Visible Light" Prof. Haruo Inoue, Tokyo Metropolitan University Hosted by Etsuko Fujita and Yasuo Matsubara 11:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Thursday, November 17, 2011 "Nanostructuring Electrochemical Interfaces: Synthesis of Fuel Cell Catalyst/Support Systems" Prof. Carlos R. Cabrera, Depart. of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras Hosted by Dario Stacchiola 11:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Monday, October 17, 2011 "Synthesis and Study of Nanostructured Electrocatalysts for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells" Dr. Fabio Lima, University of Sao Paulo Hosted by Miomir Vukmorovic 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, October 7, 2011 "Surface Modification to Control Electrocatalysis" Christopher Chidsey, Stanford University, Dept. of Chemistry Hosted by Alex Harris 10:00 AM, Room 300 - Chemistry Bldg. 555 Tuesday, September 27, 2011 "Pervasiveness of Surface Metal Oxide Phases in Mixed Oxide Catalysts" Israel E. Wachs, Lehigh University Hosted by Dario Stacchiola 10:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, August 1, 2011 "Model Compound Studies Towards The Catalytic Upgrade of Pyrolysis Oil In Vapor and Liquid Phases" Dr. Daniel E. Resasco, University of Oklahoma Hosted by Dario Stacchiola 10:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, April 28, 2011 "Synthesis and Characterization of Bi-Metallic Nanoparticles Using the Micro-emulsion Method" David Buceta, University Santiago de Compostela, Spain Hosted by Radoslav Adzic 11:00 AM, Room 300 - Chemistry Bldg. 555 Wednesday, April 27, 2011 "Imaging Brain Chemistry in Diseases of Addiction" Dr. Joanna Fowler, Brookhaven National Laboratory Hosted by Minfang Yeh 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, April 21, 2011 "The Surface Reactions and Photoreactions of TiO2 Single Crystals and Catalysts: The case of hydrogen production." Dr. Hicham Idriss, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, UK SABIC T&I, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Hosted by Dario Stacchiola 1:30 PM, Room 300 - Chemistry Bldg. 555 Tuesday, April 12, 2011 "From Oscillation to Modulation: Dynamic Structural Changes in Catalysts with Sub-Second XAS" Dr. Maarten Nachtegaal, Paul Scherrer Institute Hosted by Jose Rodriguez 10:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Monday, March 14, 2011 "Surface Coordination Chemistry Based On Redox-Active Complexes Toward Molecular Devices" Prof. Masa-aki Haga, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan Hosted by Etsuko Fujita 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, March 9, 2011 "Direct Imaging Studies of Atmospheric Photochemistry: From Energetics to Roaming Dynamics" Dr. Simon North, Chemistry Department, Texas A&M University Hosted by Greg Hall 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, February 22, 2011 "Lead in Water: Roles of Pb(II) and Pb(IV) Species and Formation of Intermediates and Radical Species in Electrochemical and Halogen-Driven Oxidations" Prof. Gregory V. Korshin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, WA Hosted by Kotaro Sasaki 10:30 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Wednesday, February 16, 2011 "Combining reaction kinetics, spectroscopy and DFT calculations for mechanistic studies in heterogeneous catalysis" Prof. Simon Podkolzin, Dept. of Chemistry Engineering & Materials Science, Stevens Institute of Technology Hosted by Dario Stacchiola 11:00 AM, Room 300 - Chemistry Bldg. 555 Thursday, January 27, 2011 "Electron Transfer Mechanisms at SAM-Modified Electrodes: Impact of Complex Environments (Protein and RTIL)" Prof. Dimitri Khostariya, Research Director, Institute for Biophysics and Bionanosciences, I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Hosted by James Wishart 2:30 PM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Monday, January 24, 2011 "Computational Modeling of Carbohydrate Recognition Process in Selection" Toyokazu Ishida, AIST Hosted by James Muckerman 1:30 PM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Friday, December 3, 2010 "Block Copolymer Membrane with Well Defined Transport Channels" Prof. Tomokazu Iyoda, Tokyo Institute of Technology Hosted by John Miller 11:00 AM, Bldg. 555, Room 300 Tuesday, November 9, 2010 "The Hunt for Advanced Electrolyte Materials: A case Study of Doped Ceria" Pratik Dholabhai, Arizona State University Hosted by Hua-Gen Yu 11:00 AM, Bldg. 555, Room 300 Friday, November 5, 2010 "Part 1: Solar hydrogen production from water using photocatalysts and photoelectrodes. Part 2: Development of new Ru dyes for dye sensitized solar cell. CO2 fixation: Interconversion between CO2/H2 and HCO2H) using Ir complexes" Drs. Kazuhiro Sayama & Yuichiro Himeda, NIAIS Hosted by Etsuko Fujita 10:00 AM, Chemistry Bldg. 555 - Room 300 Thursday, November 4, 2010 "Vibrationally Enhanced Associative Photodesorption of H2(D2) from Ru(0001): Quantum and Classical Approaches" Dr. Tijo Vazhappilly, University of South Carolina Hosted by Hua-Gen Yu 11:00 AM, Bldg. 555, Room 300 Friday, October 8, 2010 "ELECTROCHEMISTRY IN NANOFLUIDIC CHANNEL" Pradyumma S. Singh, Delft University of Technology Hosted by John Miller 11:00 AM, Chemistry Bldg. 555, Room 300 Tuesday, September 21, 2010 "Design of Bimetallic Catalysts for Hydrogenation and Reforming Reactions" Jingguang G. Chen, University of Delaware, Center for Catalytic Science and Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering Hosted by Alex Harris 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, September 15, 2010 "Photo-Induced Chemical Bond Formation In Fluid Solution and at Sensitized TIO2 Interfaces" Gerald J. Meyer, John Hopkins University Hosted by Dmitry Polyanskiy 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, September 9, 2010 "Controlling Clustering and Rheology in Attractive Nanoparticle Dispersions" Surita Bhatia, University of Massachusetts Amherst Hosted by Alex Harris 10:00 AM, CFN Building 735 - Room B Wednesday, August 18, 2010 "The AMFC: A Possible Key for Getting Platinum Out of the Fuel Cell" Dr. Shimshon Gottesfeld, Cellera, Inc. Hosted by Radoslav Adzic 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, June 11, 2010 "Sun, Water, Hydrogen: from micro-algae to nanostructured electrocatalytic nanomaterials" Vincent Artero, University of Grenoble Hosted by Etsuko Fujita 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 "Recent Developments in Electrochemistry Relevant to Ionic Liquids and Green Chemistry" Alan Bond, Monash University Hosted by John Miller 11:00 AM, Chemistry Bldg. 555, Room 300 Wednesday, April 28, 2010 "What Can Spectroscopy Tell Us About Nanoconfined Liquids" Ward H. Thompson, Chemistry Department, University of Kansas Hosted by Robert Crowell 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, November 24, 2009 "Tuning the Optical Properties of Single Gold Nanoparticles" Alison Funston, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Hosted by John Miller 10:30 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Thursday, October 1, 2009 "Chemical Engineering Applications of Electrochemistry at Columbia University" Alan West, Columbia University Hosted by Alex Harris 11:00 AM, Room 300, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, September 16, 2009 "Catalysis by Atomic Sized Centers" Dr. Horia Metiu, University of California, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry Hosted by Ping Liu 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, August 26, 2009 "Theories for Predicting Reversible Potentials of Reactions on Electrode Surfaces from Internal and Gibbs Energies: Applications to ORR" Dr. Alfred Anderson, Case Western Reserve University Hosted by Ping Liu 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, July 10, 2009 "Thermochemistry of the Metal Hydride Bond in Organometallic Tungsten Complexes, and Catalytic Oxidation of H2 by Ni Complexes" R. Morris Bullock, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Hosted by David Grills 11:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Wednesday, July 8, 2009 "New Ventures in Osmium, Rhodium, and Ruthenium Polypyridyl Chemistry" Elise Megeheee, St. John's College, Dept. of Chemistry Hosted by Jack Preses 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, June 17, 2009 "Cluster Size-dependent Correlations Between Electronic Structure and Activity of Model Supported Palladium Catalysts" Scott Anderson, University of Utah, Chemistry Department Hosted by Alex Harris 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, May 27, 2009 "The Dynamics of Hydroxide Ion Transport in Water" Professor Andrei Tokmakoff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry Hosted by Robert Crowell 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, April 29, 2009 "Acid Dissociation at the Surfaces of Salty Glycerol and Water:" Professor Gilbert Nathanson, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Chemistry Hosted by Gregory Hall 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, April 22, 2009 "Carbon Nanotubes as PEM Fuel Cell Catalyst Support" Dr. Yangchuan Xing, Missouri University of Science and Technology Hosted by Radoslav Adzic 11:00 AM, Room 300, Bldg. 555 Thursday, April 16, 2009 "Binding and Patterning of Organic Molecules on Silicon Surfaces" Gua-Qin Xu, Hosted by Jan Hrbek 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, April 14, 2009 "PEM-Based Water Electrolysis for Current and Future Hydrogen Markets: Research Advances and Challenges" Katherine Ayers, Proton Energy Systems Hosted by Alex Harris 10:30 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Wednesday, March 11, 2009 "Nano-Scale Environmental Effects on the Reactivity of Platinum Clusters" Ye Xu, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Hosted by Alex Harris 11:00 AM, Room 300, Bldg. 555 Thursday, March 5, 2009 "Structure and Dynamics of Molecules at the Air/Water Interface" Dr. Yi Rao, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University Hosted by Nicholas Camillone 11:00 AM, Room 300, Bldg.555 Wednesday, March 4, 2009 "Electrochemical Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)" Professor John Stickney, University of Georgia, Dept. of Chemistry Hosted by Miomir Vukmirovic 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, February 25, 2009 "A SINGLE MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY INVESTIGATION OF THE ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF CONJUGATED POLYMERS" Paul Barbara, University of Texas at Austin Hosted by John Miller 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, February 11, 2009 "Lithium Battery - Next Generation of Power Source for Electric Vehicles" Xiao-Qing Yang, Brookhaven National Laboratory Hosted by Dr. Radoslav Adzic 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, December 12, 2008 "Unlocking the Secrets of Light-Driven Water Oxidation: Snapshots of Biological Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Photosystem II*" Professor K. V. Lakshmi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Hosted by James Muckerman 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, November 20, 2008 "Applications of a Combined UHV and Electrochemistry System in Electrocatalysis" Weiping Zhou, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chemistry Dept. Hosted by Jan Hrbek 11:00 AM, Room 300, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, November 5, 2008 "SNOLAB and the Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Xenon" David Sinclair, Carleton University Hosted by Minfang Yeh 1:00 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, October 30, 2008 "Light and Metal: Surface Plasmon Devices and Circuitry" T.W. Ebbesen, ISIS, University Louis Pasteur and CNRS Hosted by John Miller 11:00 AM, Room 300, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, October 7, 2008 "The Effects of Particle Size, Coating and Reactivity on Cell Function" Miriam Rafailovich, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering Hosted by Miomir Vukmirovic 11:30 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, July 31, 2008 "Overall Water Splitting On Some Oxynitride-Based Photocatalysts" Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo Hosted by James Muckerman 10:00 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 Friday, July 18, 2008 "Nanostructures and nanomaterials fabricated by electron irradiation techniques and their applications" Sung Oh Cho, Korea Advaned Institute of Science and technology Hosted by Sergei Lymar 1:30 PM, Room 300, Building 555 Monday, July 14, 2008 "The Evoluation of Ionic Liquids - From Solvents and Separations to Advanced Materials and Pharmaceuticals: Examples from the Ionic Liquid Cookbook" 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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