Department of Chemistry
S
EMINAR SERIES
SPRING 2000


 

Date

Speaker Affiliation Title
January 31 Prof. Gerard Parkin Columbia University
Department of Chemistry
"The 'Ansa-Effect' in Metallocene Chemistry"
February 7
* 11:00 AM
Prof. Long Chiang National Taiwan University, Center
for Condensed Matter Sciences
"Starburst Conjugated Polymers and Oligomers Using C60 as a Molecular Core"
February 7 Prof. Alice Haddy UNC Greensboro
Department of Chemistry
"Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Studies of Oxygen Evolution by Higher Plants"
February 14 Dr. David Schiraldi KoSa
 
"The Synthesis and Properties of Bibenzoic Acid Monomers and Polymers"
February 21
* 11:00 AM
Prof. Kenneth Gonsalves University of Connecticut
Department of Chemistry
"Nanotechnology: A Polymer Chemist's Perspective"
February 21 Prof. Greg Grant UT Chattanooga
Department of Chemistry
"How Does a C-O Bond Differ From a C-S Bond? Transition Metal Complexes with Crown Thioethers and Oxathioethers"
February 28 Prof. Patricia Metz University of Georgia
Department of Chemistry
"Student-Centered Activities for Higher-Level Learning"
March 13 Dr. Jorge Farber FMC Corporation
Lithium Division
"Aspects of Process R&D and Safety"
March 20 Dr. Robert Hettich ORNL Center for Structural
and Molecular Biology
"The Interface of Mass Spectrometry with Biology"
April 3 Prof. Michael Fitzgerald Duke University
Department of Chemistry
"Chemical Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry-Based Approaches to Understanding Protein Folding and Stability"
April 10 Prof. C. Michael Elliott Colorado State University
Department of Chemistry
"The Chemistry of Light: From Artificial Photosynthesis to Light Emitting Polymers"
April 17 Prof. Karen Goldberg University of Washington
Department of Chemistry
"Making and Breaking Carbon-Hydrogen, Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bonds using Platinum Complexes"
April 24
Canceled
Prof. Colby Foss Georgetown University
Department of Chemistry
"Second Harmonic Generation from Nanoscopic Gold Particles"
Canceled
May 1
Canceled
Dr. Victor Monroy Dow Chemical "Challenges in Elastomeric Composites Research"
Canceled

Unless indicated (*) otherwise, all seminars are Mondays at 4:00 PM in Burson 115; refreshments will be served fifteen minutes beforehand.
For further information, please contact Dr. Brian Cooper at (704) 547-2526 or btcooper@uncc.edu.