Binghamton University

Department of Chemistry

Spring 2008 Colloquium Program

Science Library 212

Refreshments – 3:30 – 4:00 PM

Seminar – 4:00 pm

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

February 8

Available

 

 

February 15

Summer Fellowship

Recipients

1) Anthony Tomcykoski

 

2) Dickson Andala

1) Investigating the Structure and Photophysics of Hemilabile Coordination Complexes

2) Fabrication of  Metal Oxide Nanostructures as Gold Nanoparticle Support Matrices

Christof Grewer

February 22

Summer Fellowship

Recipients

1) Min-Hong Lee

Alkali cation exchanged zeolites’ reaction with halogenated hydro­carbons

Christof Grewer

February 29

 

 

 

March 7

Liliya A. Yatsunyk

Swarthmore College

Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetic Spectroscopies of Non-Planar Hemes as Models of the Cytochromes b Heme Centers

Wayne Jones

March 14

Mark Braiman

Syracuse University, Chemistry

Vitamin-A-based Solar Energy Conversion in the Biosphere.

 

Christof Grewer

March 21

Good Friday, no seminar

 

 

March 28

Spring break, no seminar

 

 

April 4

Graduate student posters (lobby)

 

Mike Starzak

April 11

Li Niu

SUNY Albany, Chemistry

RNA-based inhibitors of ion channels (tentative)

Christof Grewer

April 18

12:00 noon

Changhong Ke

SUNY Binghamton, Bioengineering

Nanomechanics and DNA (tentative), Joint with Materials Science

Christof Grewer

April 25

Dimiter Petsev

The University of New Mexico

TBA

Nikolay Dimitrov

May 2

Devon Shipp

Clarkson University

Novel Materials from Living Radical Polymerizations

Mark Poliks

May 9

Yury Gogotsi

Drexel University

Nanomaterials and Capacitors (SW), Joint with Materials Science

Stan Wittingham