Program Lectures for the 2002-2003 Academic Year Fall 2002 Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 Stephen L. Buchwald Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Development of Transition Metal Catalyzed Transformations for Organic Synthesis October 23 - 25 Mary J. Wirth University of Delaware Interactions of Biomolecules with chemically Modified surfaces Oct. 30 - Nov. 1 William Evans University of California, Irvine Advancing Chemical Frontiers with the ƒ Elements November 11 - 13 Michael T. Bowers University of California, Santa Barbara Conformations, Energetics and Stepwise Hydration of Macromolecular Systems: Applications in Biochemistry and Materials Science Spring 2003 February 3 - 5 Richard Armstrong Vanderbilt University Chemistry, Genomics and the Elucidation of enzyme Function February 17- 19 Carlos J. Bustamante University of California, Berkeley Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Studies of the Packaging of DNA by Single Phi 29 Particles Using Optical Tweezers February 24 - 26 Donald G. Truhlar University of Minnesota Computational Thermochemistry and Theoretical Reaction Dynamics Mar. 31 - Apr. 2 Jan-Erling Bäckvall University of California, Santa Barbara Transition Metal-Catalyzed Hydrogen Transfer Reactions