Program Lectures for the 2005-2006 Academic Year

Fall 2005

Oct 3-5

Dr. Karl Wieghardt
Max-Planck-Institut
The Coordination Chemistry of the Essential Transition Metal Ions in Biology
Oct 10-12 Dr. William H. Miller
University of California, Berkeley
Quantum Dynamics of Chemical Reactions
Oct 31-
Nov 2
Dr. Héctor D. Abruña
Cornell University
The Electrochemistry of Fuel Cell Materials and Molecular Electronics

Nov 7-9 Dr. James L. Hedrick
IBM Almaden Research Center
Using Organic Catalysts to Prepare Functional Polymers, Complex Macromolecular Architectures and Nanostructured Materials
Nov 28-30 Dr. Erin O'Shea
Harvard University
Signaling, Gene Regulation, and the Proteome: Insights from Budding Yeast

Spring 2006


Jan 23-25 Dr. XiaoLiang Sunney Xie
Harvard University
Single Molecule Dynamics
Feb 6-8 Dr. A. Paul Alivisatos
University of California, Berkeley
Physical Chemistry of Colloidal Nanocrystals

Mar 29-31 Dr. Richard N. Zare
Stanford University
Reaction Dynamics
Apr 3-5 Dr. Richard V. Wolfenden
University of North Carolina
Enzyme Action and the Depth of Chemical Time

Apr 24-26 Dr. Erick M. Carreira
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
Synthesis Studies