Program Lectures for the 2007-2008 Academic Year

Fall 2007

Sep 12-14

Miquel Salmeron
Lawrence Berkeley Nat’l Laboratory
The Science of Surfaces: From Chemistry and Catalysis, to Friction, Wetting and Atomic Scale Manipulation
Nov 5-7 Heinz Gaeggeler
University of Berne
Chemistry with Single Atoms of Superheavy Elements
Nov 12-14 Hagan Bayley
University of Oxford
Engineered Protein Nanopores in Basic Science and Biotechnology
Nov 26-28 Karen Wooley
University of Washington, St. Louis
Synthetic Methodologies and Materials for Nanomedicine

Spring 2008


Feb 11-13 Vern Schramm
Albert Einstein School of Medicine
Enzymatic Transition States and Transition State Analogues
Feb 18-20 John Hartwig
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Catalyst Deisgn

Feb 25-27 Martin Jansen
Max Planck Institute
Solid State Chemistry, Challenges in Synthesis and Special Structure-Property Relations
Mar 17-19 David Chandler
University of California, Berkeley
Trying to make sense of complicated dynamics
Mar 31-Apr 2 Vivian Yam
University of Hong Kong
Luminescent Metal-Based Molecular Materials
Apr 21-23 Fleming Crim
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Chemical Reaction Dynamics in Gases and Liquids