Seminar archive

Archive page of the seminar program from recent years.

 

Fall 2011

Unless specified, Fall 2011 seminars will be held at 11:30 am in ECS 116.
Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

Date	Speaker
Thur Sept 8	Matthew Cook, Queens' University, Belfast Sigmatropic Rearrangements to Build Molecular Complexity
Mon Sept 12	Allan East, University of Regina Two Recent Theoretical Chemistry Projects: Molten BiCl3 and Carbocations
Thurs Sept 15	Travis Williams, University of Southern California Toward a Bifunctional Catalyst for Hydride Manipulation
Mon Sept 19	Colin Nuckolls, Columbia University Reaction Chemistry, Self-Assembly and Properties of Nano-structured Forms of Carbon
Mon Sept 26	Brian Wilson, University Health Network, Toronto Advances in the Applications of Optical Sciences and Technologies to Biomedical and Clinical Medicine, with Focus on Cancer
Mon Oct 3	Jan Weigand, University of Muenster, Germany Phosphorus Cations as Synthetic Targets - From Fundamentals to Application
Thur Oct 6	Makoto Fujita, The University of Tokyo The Structure and Function of Self-assembled Coordination Architectures: Lessons from Nature
Mon Oct 17	Jothir Pichaandi, UVic student Synthesis and Surface Modification of Luminescent Nanocrystals: Their Performance and Potential as Prospective Biolabels
Mon Oct 24	Kevin Smith, UBC Okanagan Exploring Reversible Chromium-Alkyl Bond Homolysis with Well-Defined CpCr(Nacnac)(R) Complexes
Mon Oct 31	Katherine Davies, UVic student Iterative Synthesis of Oligo-Vinyl Ethers
Mon Nov 7	Richard J. Saykally, UC Berkeley cancelled
Thur Nov 10	Joe Wang, UVic student Flow-directed self-assembly of block copolymer micelles in microfluidic devices
Mon Nov 14	Derek Pratt, Univeristy of Ottawa The Chemistry of Radical-Trapping Antioxidants: Are Phenols Really Best?
Tues Nov 15 10:30am CLE  C115	Mark Taylor, University of Toronto Noncovalent and Reversible Covalent Interactions: Fundamental Studies and Applications in Catalysis
Mon Nov 21	David Milstein, Weizmann Institute, Israel Design of Metal-catalyzed Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry
Mon Nov 28	Sam Minaker, UVic student cancelled
Tues Dec 13 11am COR B112	Benoît Moreau, Boehringer-Ingelheim Asymmetric Snthesis of Cyclopropane Amino Acids (with application to the synthesis of corontine) and Discovery of New Iron-Catalyzed Reactions

Fall 2010

Unless specified, Fall 2010 seminars will be held at 11:30 am in ECS-116
Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

Date	Speaker
Thurs Sept 9	Christopher Rowan, UVic student DFT interband optical properties of Ag/PVDF nanocomposites
Mon Sept 13	Michael Marletta, University of California, Berkeley Building Selective Diatomic Gas Sensors: Nature’s Way
Mon Sept 20	Jennifer Pape, UVic student From Super-hydrated Ions to Emerging Contaminants
Mon Sept 27	Lloyd Smith  , University of Wisconsin-Madison New Technologies for the Genome Age
Mon Oct 4	Robert Sacci, UVic student Electrooxidation of Carbon Monoxide and Formic acid on Palladium
Thur Oct 7	Aaron Massari, University of Minnesota  Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Organic Electronic Materials
Mon Oct 18	Stan Brown, Queen's University, ON Development of metal ion-catalyzed alcoholysis as a rapid methodology for the destruction of organophosphorus chemical weapons, their simulants and pesticides.
Mon Oct 25	Dan Gamelin, University of Washington Unusual Photoluminescence Phenomena in Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Mon Nov 1	Shih-Yuan Liu, University of Oregon  Developing the basic science and applications of boron(B)-nitrogen(N)-containing heterocycles
Mon Nov 8	Floyd Romesberg, Scripps  Expansion of the Genetic Alphabet
Mon Nov 15	Mitchell Winnik, University of Toronto Novel Nanostructures via BlockCopolymer Self Assembly
Mon Nov 22	Phillip Jessop, Queen's University Fizzy Liquids and Dispersible Powders: Unexpected Consequences of Simple CO2 Chemistry

Spring 2011

Unless specified, Spring 2011 seminars will be held at 11:30 am in COR B135
Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

Date	Speaker
Mon Jan 10	Trevor Hayton, University of California, Santa Barbara Oxo ligand functionalization in the uranyl ion
Thurs Jan 13	Robert J. McMahon, University of Wisconsin, Madison Synthesis and Characterization of Organic Glassy Materials with Exceptional Stability
Mon Jan 17	Shaun Hall, UVic student Orientation of molecules at surfaces from nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy and molecular simulations
Mon Jan 24	Joanne Moszynski, UVic student The synthesis and characterization of diphenylacetylene containing ion channels
Mon Feb 7	Raymond Kapral, University of Toronto Chemically-Powered Synthetic Self-Propelled Nanomotors
Wed Feb 9 ECS 125	Robert Young, Simon Fraser University - Disinguished Alumni A Good Drug is Hard To Find: A Perfect One is Even Harder - The Discovery of Singulair
Mon Feb 14	Xiaoqiang Zhang, UVic student Surface enhanced Raman scattering from bow tie and cross bow tie apertures
Thurs Feb 17	James McCusker, Michigan State University Zero-field Spin Polarization Effects on the Physical and Photophysical Properties of Molecules
Mon Feb 21	Teri Odom, Northwestern University All Things Pyramids: New Platforms for Imaging and Sensing
Mon Feb 28	Gerhard Erker, University of Münster Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Metal-free Hydrogen Activation and More
Mon Mar 7	Jun Ye, University of Colorado Polar molecules in the quantum regime
Mon Mar 14	Keith Abel, UVic student Colloidal lead chalcogenide quantum dots: efforts towards developing a single photon source
Thurs Mar 17	Saman Harirchian Saei, UVic student Surface-Directed Patterning of Polymer-Nanoparticle Assemblies on Microcontact-Printed Substrates
Mon Mar 21	Christopher Cummins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Phosphorus:  From the Element to Compounds Containing it
Thur Mar 24	Benoît Moreau, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Discovery of BI 201335: A Potent and Specific Inhibitor of the Hepatitis C Virus NS3/4A Protease with Proven Antiviral Effect in Humans
Mon Mar 28	Todd Martinez, Stanford University Controlling Chemistry with Light and Force
Thurs Mar 31	Krista Vikse, UVic student ESI-MS as a Mechanistic Probe of Catalytic Organometallic Reactions
Mon Apr 4	Louis Barriault, University of Ottawa New Directions in Catalysis by Gold (I) and Synthesis of Natural Products
Thurs Apr 7	Noah Johnson, UVic student TBA
Thurs Apr 14	Jean-François Masson, University of Montreal SPR and SERS Sensors Based on Hole Arrays
Mon Apr 18	Cerize Santos, UVic student Photochromism in Bile Salts
Thurs Apr 21	Mark Zsombor, UVic student An Investigation of the Effect of Structure on Magnetoconducting Properties of Stable Radicals
Thurs Apr 28	Tim McCinnis, UVic student TBA
Mon May 2	Cindy Wang, UVic student TBA

 

 

Fall 2009

 

Unless specified, Fall 2009 seminars will be held at 11:30 am in ECS-125
Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

Date	Speaker
Thurs Sept 10	Nikola Basaric, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia Photoinitiated Domino Reactions of Adamantyl-phthalimides
Mon Sept 14	Jean-François Carpentier, Université de Rennes, France Discrete Complexes of Oxophilic Metals for Catalytic Polymerization Processes
Thurs Sept 17	Niloufar Behin Aein, UVic student Photochemical and Photophysical Studies of Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) in Biphenyl Compounds
Mon Sept 21	Ekkehardt Hahn, Universität Münster, Germany Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry with Poly-NHC Ligands
Mon Sept 28	Kirk Schanze, University of Florida, Gainesville FL Photophysics of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Fundamental Studies and Biosensor Applications
Thurs Oct 8 4pm SCI A104	Hansjörg Grützmacher, ETH Zürich Straight Forward Routes to "Exotic" Phosphorus Compounds
Thurs Oct 15	Yunjie Xu, University of Alberta Spectroscopy of chiral molecules: from the gas phase to solution
Mon Oct 19	Kathryn Uhrich, Rutgers University, NJ Polymer Therapeutics: from PolymerDrugs to Polymeric Micelles
Mon Oct 26	Tim Giesbrecht, UVic student Determination of Aluminum in the Arctic Ocean and its use as a geochemical tracer
Mon Nov 2	Robert Cava, Princeton University, NJ Solid State Chemistry of the new Chalcogenide and Pnictide Superconductors
Mon Nov 9	Travis Trudeau, UVic student Molecular Simulation of Adsorption at Solid-Aqueous Interfaces
Thurs Nov 12	Tom Livinghouse, Montana State University, MT New Cationic and Metal Mediated Cyclization Reactions for the Synthesis of Naturally Occurring Ring Systems
Mon Nov 16	David Schriemer, University of Calgary Structural Biology with a Mass Spectrometer
Thurs Nov 19	Hao Tang, UVic student Host-Guest Dynamics for Three Different Host Systems: beta-Cyclodextrin, Cucurbit[7]uril and an Octa Acid Capsule
Mon Nov 23	Didier Bourissou, Université Paul Sabatier, France Transition Metals and Lewis Acids: A Multi-facet Association
Mon Nov 30	Thomas Huser, University of California, Davis CA Ultra-Sensitive Imaging of Cells and Cellular Organelles by Doubly-Resonant Four-Wave Mixing Microscopy
Mon Dec 7 SCI A104	Alan Heyduk, University of California, Irvine CA Bond-Activation Reactivity of Tantalum (V) Complexes with Redox-Active Ligands
Thurs Dec 10 1 pm ELL 167	Nick Oakley, UVic student Synthesis and Properties of Triazinyl Radical Systems for Multifunctional Materials Applications
Mon Dec 14 SCI A104	Gregory Scholes, University of Toronto Feynman's space-time quantum mechanics in photosynthesis

Spring 2010

 

Unless specified, Spring 2010 seminars will be held at 11:30 am in SSM-A110
Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

Date	Speaker
Mon Jan 4	Danielle Chisholm, UVic student Charged ligands for direct ESI-MS analysis of catalytic reactions
Mon Jan 11 cancelled	Olga Sarycheva
Thurs Jan 14	Paul Ortiz de Montellano, UCSF, CA Mycobacterium tuberculosis hemoproteins and therapeutic approaches
Mon Jan 18	Michel Gravel, University of Saskatchewan Discovery of New Reactions Catalyzed by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
Thurs Jan 21	Hui Ting Zhang, UVic student Study of asphaltene aggregation by fluorescence technique
Mon Jan 25	Dmitrii Makarov, UT Austin, TX Dynamics of biomolecules at the single-molecule level: lessons from theory and computer simulations
Thurs Jan 28	Mark Lautens, University of Toronto The Synthesis of Heterocycles via Ring Forming and Ring Cleaving Reactions
Mon Feb 1 2:30pm SCI A104	Jonathan Chui, UVic student Structure-Activity Relationships of Cyclodextrin Ion Channels
Mon Feb 15	Brynn Dooley, UVic student The Incorporation of Benzonitronyl Nitroxide Radicals into Organic Open-Shell Donor-Acceptor Systems
Mon Feb 22	Dean Amantea, UVic student Synthesis and Characterization of Ion Channels: Green Metrics Analysis
Mon Mar 1	Ulrich Krull, UofT Mississauga Optical biosensing at the nanoscale - polymer brushes on planar surfaces and quantum dots for control of nucleic acid hybridization
Mon Mar 8	Peter Caravan, Harvard Medical School, MA Coordination Chemistry, Dynamics, and Biomedical MRI
Mon Mar 15	Bart Nowak, UVic student Synthesis, Redox Activity, and Chemical Utility of Second-Generation Metal-Verdazyl Complexes
Thurs Mar 18	David Vocadlo, Simon Fraser University Chemical biology tools to study protein O-glycosylation in cells and tissues
Thurs Mar 25 11:30am SSM A110	Lansdowne Chemistry Lecture: Jonathan Sessler, UT Austin, TX Synthesis and applications of expanded porphyrins
Thurs Mar 25 7:30pm SCI A104	Lansdowne Public Lecture: Jonathan Sessler, UT Austin, TX Receptors for potentially hazardous materials
Mon Mar 29	Brad Moore, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD Genomics-inspired discovery and engineering of natural products
Thurs Apr 8	Olga Sarycheva, UVic student Investigation of phenanthroline linked dihydropyrenes as photochromes
Mon Apr 12 SCI A104	Michelle Paquette, UVic student Designing Optically Switchable Multifunctional Materials Based on Photochromic Spirooxazine Ligands
Thurs Apr 15 SCI A104	Andrew Chou, UVic student Development of nanoholes-based sensors for early detection of ovarian cancer
Mon Apr 19 SCI A104	Liang Li, University of Alberta Development and Applications of Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry for Comprehensive Proteome and Metabolome Profiling of Biological Systems
Thurs Apr 22 SCI A104	Chris Chapman, UVic student Mean Field and Quantum Studies of Mixed Azobenzene-Alkylthiol Monolayers
Mon Apr 26 SCI A104	Jin Zou, UVic student The synthesis, characterization and reactivity of Lanthanide complexes with Carbazole bisoxazoline ligands
Thurs Apr 29 SCI A104	Dirk Guldi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Nanotubes See the Light
Mon May 3 cancelled	Chris Rowan
Thurs May 6	Steve Hansen, UVic student Electrodialysis using supported liquid membranes
Mon May 10 SCI A104	Paul Chirik, Cornell University, NY Modern Alchemy: Catalysis with Iron and Cobalt

 

Fall 2008

 

Unless otherwise noted, all Fall 2008 seminars will be held on
Mondays at 11:30 in the Elliott Bldg. Room 062

Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

15 Sep	Khurshid Ayub, University of Victoria "The Metacyclophanediene to Dihydropyrene Rearrangement - The Nature of the Transition State"
29 Sep	Professor Scott Prosser, University of Toronto "Approaches to the Study of Protein Action by 19F NMR - Mutagenesis Free Approaches to Assignment and 19F-Edited Schemes for Structure Studies"
06 Oct	Simon Birnie-Lefcovitch, University of Victoria "In Situ Spectroscopic Studies of Cysteine Adsorbed on Silver Electrodes"
THURS 16 Oct	Professor Steven Holdcroft, Simon Fraser University "Model Polymers for Morphological Studies of Fuel Cell Membranes"
20 Oct	Professor Stephen Withers, UBC Merck-Frosst Lecture "Engineering and evolution of old enzymes for new tasks: glycoside assembly"
27 Oct	Professor Paula Diaconescu, University of California, Los Angeles "Reactivity of inert bonds with electrophilic ferrocene diamide complexes"
03 Nov	Jason Anema,University of Victoria "Enhanced Raman Scattering from Nanostructured Surfaces"
10 Nov	Marie-Pascale Manseau, University of Victoria "Upconverting Biolabels for the Near-Infrared"
20 Nov	Professor Tom Ziegler, University of Calgary "Approaching Chemistry from First Principles with the Help of Density Functional Theory"
24 Nov	Professor Michael Sailor, University of California, San Diego "Chemistry and Materials Science of Porous Silicon Applied to Sensing, Microfluidics, and Medicine"
01 Dec	Dr. Deepak Shukla, Kodak Research Laboratories, N.Y. "Structural Effects in Naphthalene Diimide Based Organic Thin Film Transistors: Effect of Configurational control on Charge Mobility"
08 Dec	Jakub Drnec, University of Victoria "Ionic layers on Platinum Surfaces: How tasty can platinum be?"

Spring 2009

 

Unless otherwise noted, all Spring 2009 seminars will be held on
Mondays at 11:30 in Elliott Bldg. Room 062

Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

05 Jan	Professor Nancy Levinger, Colorado State University "Exploring the impact of confinement on chemistry: a multifaceted approach"
12 Jan	Professor Heather Maynard, UCLA "Synthesis of Well-Defined Polymers by Controlled Radical Polymerizations for Site-Specific Conjugation to Proteins"
19 Jan	Professor Karine Auclair, McGill University "Our Fight Against Aminoglycoside Antibiotic Resistance"
26 Jan	Dr. Richard Tillyer, Merck Research Laboratories, NY "Platform Technologies in Process Research and Development"
02 Feb	Yunyong Guo, University of Victoria "Synthesis, Characterization and Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Quantum Dots with Mixed Polymer Brush Layers"
05 Feb	Dr. Byron Gates, Simon Fraser University "Investigations into the Surface Chemistry of Nanoscale Materials"
09 Feb	Meikun Fan, University of Victoria "Metallic nanoparticles as SERS substrates"
Thurs 12 Feb	Dr. Rich Carter, Oregon State University "Development of Novel Approaches to the Synthesis of Structurally Complex Natural Products and Non-natural Compounds"
16 Feb	Tyler Trefz, University of Victoria "Redox and Coordination Chemistry of disubstituted 1, 4-Quinones"
23 Feb	Kevin Anderson, University of Victoria "Electronic communication in verdazyl-based metal-radical complexes"
Thurs 26 Feb	Dr. Dustin Maly, University of Washington, Seattle "Affinity- and Activity-Based Probes for Analyzing Protein Kinase Function"
02 Mar	Professor William Evans, UC Irvine "The Importance of Questioning Scientific Assumptions: Lessons from Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry"
09 Mar	Professor Laren Tolbert, Georgia Institute of Technology "The green fluorescent protein: Taking it apart and putting it back together"
16 Mar	Professor Barney Ellison, University of Colorado at Boulder "Marine Aerosols, Organic Radicals, and a Molecular View of Cloud Formation"
Thurs 19 Mar	Matt Henderson, University of Victoria "Method development and catalyst discovery by ESI-MS"
26 Mar	Professor Andre Charette, University of Montreal "Recent Advances in Stereoselective Synthesis and Catalysis"
30 Mar	Professor Barry Trost, Stanford University "On Inventing Reactions for Atom Economy"
06 Apr	Professor Brian Stoltz, California Institute of Technology CANCELLED
Thurs 09 Apr	Yunyan Hou, University of Victoria "New Photochemistry with Anthraquinones"
Thurs 16 Apr	Pengrong Zhang, University of Victoria "Photochromic and aromatic properties of selected dimethyldihydropyrene derivatives"
20 Apr	Steve McKinnon, University of Victoria title TBA
23 Apr	Professor Edward Solomon, Stanford University "Spectroscopic Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry: Blue to Green to Red Copper Sites"
27 Apr	Cunhai Dong, University of Victoria "Synthesis and Reactivity of Lanthanide Fluoride Nanoparticles and their Application as MRI Contrast Agents"
30 Apr	Bin Yan, University of Victoria "Magnetic conducting polymers: synthesis and properties of triazinyl open-shell polymers"

 

 

Fall 2007

 

Unless otherwise noted, all Fall 2007 seminars will be held on
Mondays at 11:30 in the Elliott Bldg. Room 060

Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

17 Sep	Dr. Madeleine Jouillé, University of Pennsylvania "Synthetic Studies of Heterocyclic Natural Products"
27 Sep Thurs ECS 116	Dr. Ulrich Fekl, University of Toronto - Mississauga "Intriguing reactivity at co-ordinated ligands: Facile formation of carbon-sulfur bonds during alkene reactions of nickel and molybdenum dithiolenes"
04 Oct Thurs ECS 116	Dr. Heiko Ihmels, Universitat Siegen "Variations on aromatic azonia- and diazoniapolycyclic derivatives: From intercalation into duplex DNA to selective association with triplex- and quadruplex-DNA and topoisomerase inhibition"
11 Oct Thurs ECS 116	Dr. William Lubell, University of Montreal "Pyrroles, peptide mimics and the teaching of under-represented populations: New challenges in chemistry and education:
18 Oct Thurs ECS 116	Dr. Aurora Clark, Washington State University "The Unique Photophysical Properties of Organic Aggregates"
22 Oct	Dr. Julius Rebek Jr., Scripps Research Institute "The Inner Space of Molecules"
05 Nov	Dr. Richard McCreery, University of Alberta "Building Functional Electronic Devices from Molecular Components"
15 Nov Thurs ECS 116	Horace Luong,University of Victoria "Solid-Phase Synthesis of Ion Channels"
19 Nov	Dr. Mary-Anne White, Dalhousie University "Thermoelectrics: New Materials by Design?"
29 Nov Thurs ECS 116	Dr. Deryn Fogg, University of Ottawa "Shining Light into a Black Box: Perspectives on Transfomations in Catalysis"
03 Dec	Dr. Gary Drobny, University of Washington "Solid State NMR Studies of Proteins at Biomaterial Interfaces"
13 Dec Thurs CLE A - 311	Dr. Colin Nuckolls, Columbia University "Reaction Chemistry meets Lithography"

 

Spring 2008

 

Unless otherwise noted, all Spring 2008 seminars will be held on
Mondays at 11:30 in the Clearihue Bldg. Room A-311

Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

07 Jan	Joe Gilroy, University of Victoria "The Chemistry of Formazans"
14 Jan	Dr. Michael Blades, University of British Columbia "Applications of Raman Spectroscopy in the Life Sciences"
21 Jan	Dr. Gregory Jerkiewicz, Queen's University "Interfacial Electrochemistry of Platinum: Something Old, Something New, and Something Unexpected"
28 Jan	Timothy Connolly, Bristol-Myers Squibb "Water Soluble Prodrugs of Ravuconazole"
04 Feb	Dr. Graham George, University of Saskatchewan "From Functional to Fatal - Probing the Chemistry of Metals in Biology using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy"
11 Feb	Dr. Robert Waymouth, Stanford University "Organocatalysis: Strategies for Controlled Polymerization Reactions"
18 Feb	Dr. Mark Andrews, McGill University " Guided Wave Self-Inscription in Photosensitive Network Glasses"
28 Feb Thurs 11am MEDS 160	Dr. Edward Yeung, Ames National Laboratory "Detection and Characterization of Single Biomolecules"
03 Mar	Eric Derrah, University of Victoria "A Ruthenium Phosphido Complex and Advances Toward Hydrophosphination"
10 Mar	Tamara Pace, University of Victoria "Dynamics of Guests Bound to Biomolecules"
13 Mar Thurs MEDS 160	Dr. Darren Johnson, University of Oregon "Main Group Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry"
17 Mar	Dr. Klaus Muellen, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research "Structural Hierarchies in Materials Chemistry"
27 Mar Thurs MEDS 160	Dr. Robert Britton, Simon Fraser University "Old Reactions, New Applications"
31 Mar	Dr. Shana Kelly, University of Toronto "Nanostructured Materials as Ultrasensitive Cellular and Molecular Sensors"
07 Apr COR A-229	Dr. Andrew Hamilton, Yale University Merck-Frosst Lecture "Synthetic approaches to the disruption of protein-protein interactions"
14 Apr COR A-229	Dr. Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology Lansdowne Lecturer "The Currents of Life: Electron Flow through Proteins"
15 Apr TUES 7:30 pm DSB - C-103	Dr. Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology LANSDOWNE PUBLIC LECTURE "Powering the Planet with Solar Energy"
17 Apr Thurs CLE A-311	Dr. William Tolman, University of Minnesota "Using synthetic chemistry to understand copper and iron protein active sites"
24 Apr Thurs ELL 061	Keri McQuinn, University of Victoria "Water Clusters - ESI-MS Investigation of Nanodroplets in the Gas Phase"
28 Apr Mon ELL 061	Simon Oakley, University of Victoria "Novel Derivatives of Indigo as a Bridging Ligand"

 

Fall 2006

 

Unless otherwise noted, all Fall 2006 seminars will be held on
Mondays at 11:30 in the Elliott Bldg. Room 061

Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

18 Sep	Dr. Hugh Cartwright, University of Oxford TBA
25 Sep	Dr. Dan Wayner, National Research Council Canada TBA
02 Oct	Dr. Ann English, Concordia University TBA
12 Oct Thurs	Dr. James Boncella, Los Alamos National Laboratory TBA
16 Oct	Dr. Michel Gagné, University of N. Carolina Chapel Hill TBA
19 Oct Thurs	Dr. David Tierney, University of New Mexico TBA
23 Oct	Dr. Patrick Holland, University of Rochester TBA
30 Oct	Dr. David Walba, University of Colorado, Boulder TBA
06 Nov	Dr. Clifford Leznoff, York University "Strategies for the Synthesis of Phthalocyanines: Past, Present and Future"
20 Nov	Dr. Garry Hanan, University of Montreal TBA
04 Dec	Dr. Paul Corkum, National Research Council Canada TBA
14 Dec	Dr. Michael Gelb, University of Washington TBA

 

Spring 2007

 

Unless otherwise noted, all Spring 2007 seminars will be held on
Mondays at 11:30 in the Elliott Bldg. Room 061

Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

22 Jan	Dr. Molly Shoichet, University of Toronto TBA
05 Feb	Dr. Anna Ritcey, Université Laval TBA
12 Feb	Dr. M.G. Finn, Scripps Research Institute TBA
26 Feb	Dr. Sunney Xie, Harvard University TBA
12 Mar	Dr. Thomas Moore, Arizona State University TBA
26 Mar	Dr.Michael Georges, University of Toronto TBA
10 Apr	Dr. Michael Haley, University of Oregon TBA
23 Apr	Dr. John Simon, Duke University TBA

 

 

Spring 2006

 

Unless otherwise noted, all Spring 2006 seminars will be held on
Mondays at 11:30 in the Elliott Bldg. Room 162

Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

09 Jan	Dr. Nongjian Tao, Arizona State University "Controlling electron transport in single molecules"
16 Jan	Dr. Derek Gates, University of British Columbia "Putting P into Polymers: Synthetic Approaches to Functional Phosphorus Macromolecules"
23 Jan	Dr. Teri Odom, Northwestern University "Manipulating light in nanohole arrays and nanoparticles"
30 Jan	Dr. Robert Schurko, University of Windsor "Observing the "Invisible" Nucleus: NMR of unreceptive nuclei in inorganic, organometallic and other solid materials"
06 Feb	Dr.Bruce Arndtsen, McGill University "Palladium catalyzed multicomponent reactions: New routes to heterocycle and amino acid synthesis"
13 Feb	Dr. Vicki Colvin, Rice University "Safe Nanotechnology: Implications and Applications of Nanomaterials"
27 Feb	Dr. Francois Gabbai, Texas A&M University   "Fluoride complexation by polydentate Lewis acids"
06 Mar	Dr. Andrew Gewirth, University of Illinois "Studies of Metal Surface-Molecular Interactions Relevant to Fuel Cell Catalysis"
13 Mar	Dr.Maurice Brookhart, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Catalytic Transformations based on Transition Metal Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation Reactions"
20 Mar	Dr. Richard Crooks, University of Texas at Austin "Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Applications of 1-3 nm-Diameter Dendrimer-Encapsulated Nanoparticles"
27 Mar	Dr. Robert Lipson, University of Western Ontario "Fabricating Photonic Crystals with Light, for Light Applications"
30 Mar Thurs ELL 162	Sri Sivakumar, University of Victoria "Lanthanide-Based Nanophotonic Materials"
03 Apr	Dr. Wilson Ho, University of California, Irvine "The Interior of Single Molecules"
10 Apr CLE. A-201	Dr. Royce Murray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Size-Dependent Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Monolayer Protected Gold Clusters"
13 Apr Thurs. ELL 162	Dr. Nelaine Mora-Diez, Thompson Rivers University "Computational calculations of equilibrium constants of organic compounds"
18 Apr Tues. ELL 062	Dr.Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto "Microfluidic reactors for polymer particles"
24 Apr ELL 062	Sharon Caldwell, University of Victoria "Synthesis and Characterization of Bis-bidentate para-Dioxolenes Towards Molecular Magnets"
04 May Thurs. HSD A-240	Dr. Victor Snieckus, Queen's University Merck-Frosst Lecturer "Lithium as a Conduit to Synthetic Aromatic Chemistry"
08 May DSB C-112	Tao Wang, University of Victoria "Mechanism Elucidation using the Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance (EQCM)"

 

 

Spring 2005

 

Unless otherwise noted, all Spring 2005 seminars will be held on
Mondays at 11:30 in Elliott 168

Links to speakers' web pages are provided where available

10 Jan	Dr. Sylvie Morin, York University "Study of Low-Dimensional, Electrodeposited Metal Nanostructures and Thin Films"
17 Jan	Bryan Koivisto, University of Victoria "Metal-Verdazyl Radical Interactions: Towards Molecular-Based Magnets"
24 Jan	Dan Myles, University of Victoria "Synthesis and Electronic Properties of Sulfur-Bridged Thiophene Oligomers"
31 Jan	Dr. Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz, University of Saskatchewan "Bio-organometallic Peptide Conjugates: Adventures in Electron Transfer"
07 Feb	Dr. Neil Branda, Simon Fraser University "Molecular switching to control structure and function"
14 Feb	Dr. George Christou, University of Florida "Single-molecule magnets: A molecular approach to nanoscale magnetic materials"
21 Feb	Dr. Robert E. Campbell, University of Alberta "Expanding the fluorescent protein tool kit: new colors, sensors, and FRET pairs"
28 Feb	Dr. Harald Stöver, McMaster University "Study of structured microspheres: Towards tiny onions"
07 Mar	Professor Dr. Joel C. Rubim, Universidade de Brasília "Analysis of Biodiesel and Diesel by Fourier Transform Infrared, Near Infrared, and Raman Spectroscopy"
14 Mar	Dr. Seth Marder, Georgia Institute of Technology "Recent advances in two-photon absorbing materials"
21 Mar	Dr. Younan Xia, University of Washington "Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials"
31 Mar THUR ELL 168	Dr. Vincent Rotello, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Nanoparticles: scaffolds and building blocks"
04 Apr	Dr. John Hartwig, Yale University MERCK FROSST LECTURE "A synergy between synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry"
11 Apr CUNN 146	Christine Tong, University of Victoria "A model for the self-assembly of palladium bipyridine complexes"
18 Apr	Dr. Christopher Chidsey, Stanford University "Interfacial assembly and control of electron transfer using the 'click' reaction"
22 Apr FRI ELL 160	Dr. Andrew Weller, University of Bath "The transition metal chemistry of "greasy ball anions": from pseudo alkane complexes to high-hydride content clusters"
25 Apr	Wei Fan, University of Victoria "The syntheses and photochromism of cyclopent[e]dimethyldihydropyrene anion and its metal complexes"
26 Apr TUES 10:30 AM ELL 060	Dr. Heiko Ihmels, University of Siegen "Can old dogs learn new tricks? - Fluorescence detection of cations, anions and biomacromolecules with anthracene and quinolizinium derivatives"
28 Apr THUR	Rob Cheyne, University of Victoria "Hierarchical block co-polymer/quantum dot surface features via self-assembly at the air-water interface"
02 May	Dr. Michael Rubner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Bio-inspired polyelectrolyte multilayers: From pH-gated Bragg reflectors to patterned superhydrophobic surfaces"
09 May Clearihue C-110	Karen Button, University of Victoria "Divalent and trivalent lanthanide amido-oxazoline complexes"

Fall 2004

 

20 Sep	Dr. Hogan Yu, Simon Fraser University "New chemistry on old CD's"
30 Sep THURS Cornett B-145	Dr. Paul S. Pregosin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland "PGSE (Diffusion) and 1H,19F HOESY NMR studies on homogeneous catalysts: Ion pairing and learning about anions"
18 Oct	Dr. Ernest McEachern, AnorMed "AMD3100: The evolution of AnorMed's first clinical CXCR4 receptor antagonist"
20 Oct WED MacLaurin D-111	Jo Wang, University of Victoria
25 Oct	Sierra Rayne, University of Victoria "Solution-phase photochemistry of dibenzo[1,4]dioxins"
01 Nov	Dr. Hélène Perreault, University of Manitoba "Glycoproteins in virology, immunology, etc., and mass spectrometry"
08 Nov	Dr. Masad J. Damha, McGill University "Development of oligonucleotide-based probes and therapeutics"
15 Nov	Dr. G. Andrew Woolley, University of Toronto "Designing photo-controlled peptides and proteins"
22 Nov	Catrin Hughes, University of Victoria
29 Nov	Dr. Douglas W. Stephan, University of Windsor "Highly active homogeneous catalysts for olefin polymerization: Molecular design, optimization and utilization"
06 Dec	Peter Diamente, University of Victoria
13 Dec	Dan Harrison, University of Victoria