Chemistry Department Seminars
Spring 2008
All seminars are held on Thursdays in Chemistry 301 at 4:15 pm unless otherwise noted.
Seminar speakers and titles are posted here sometime after the start of the semester. A few speakers and titles are announced just a day or two before the seminar and cannot be posted on-line. Please call or email Kathy Kennedy (email: kkennedy@reed.edu, 503-777-7229) for up-to-date information.
- Jan 31 Dr. Dan Gerrity, Chemistry Dept., Reed College, "A Resonance Raman Study of Cr(CO)6: Is the Re-ordering of Ligand Field and Charge Transfer Transitions Prompted by Recent High-Level Quantum Calculations Correct?"
- Feb 7 Dr. Mingdi Yan, Chemistry Dept., Portland State University, "Surface Functionalization with Organic and Polymeric Materials"
- Feb 14 Attention Juniors - informational meeting about junior qualifying exam (April 10-13), student evaluations of faculty, and more (attendance is required)
- Feb 21 Dr. James Mayer, Chemistry Dept., University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, "Oxidations of O-H and C-H Bonds: From Hydrogen Atom Transfer to Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer"
- Feb 28 Dr. Phillip Garner, Chemistry Dept., Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, "Natural Products, Organic Synthesis, and Drug Development"
- Mar 6 Dr. Terry Lybrand, Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, "Cyclooxygenase reaction mechanism studies using combined quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics calculations"
- Mar 13 Dr. Juliane Fry, Chemistry Dept., University California - Berkeley, "Atmospheric Chemistry: From Pollution to Climate Change"
- Mar 20 No seminar (Spring Break)
- Mar 27 Senior theses: Thom Drane, Erin Weber, Ryan Cooper
- Apr 3 Senior theses: Hassan Ghani, Christine Deyo, Zach Schaeffer
- Apr 10 Senior theses: Fed Espinosa, Mandy McGuire, Emily Justusson
- Apr 17 Senior theses: Jade Bryant, Reiko Matsuda-Dunn, Bethy Johnstonbaugh
- Apr 24 Senior theses: Vito Spadavecchio, Michael Melesse
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