Lectures:

Wednesday, October 23:
"Probing Diffusion and Adsorption of Single Molecules at Chromatographic Interfaces"

Thursday, October 24:
"Chromatographic Peak Tailing and its Relation to Strong Adsorption"

Friday, October 25:
"Chemical Modification of Surfaces with Polymers for Minimizing Strong Adsorption"

Mary J. Wirth is currently C. Eugene Bennett Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Delaware. Her research interests are in the surface science of engineered materials, particularly those used for chromatographic, bioanalytical and microfluidic separations. She earned a B.S. degree in chemistry form Northern Illinois University in 1974, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Purdue University in 1978. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and then a research chemist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before joining the faculty as Associate Professor at the University of Delaware in 1986. She was promoted to Professor in 1990. She earned a Creativity Award from the National Science Foundation in 1994. She served as the Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Analytical Chemistry in 1995. She is currently Director for the Multidisciplinary Graduate Program in Biotechnology at the University of Delaware, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation's program on Integrative Graduate Education, Research and Training (IGERT).