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Past Invited Seminar Speakers – Academic Years
Seminar Archives
Seminar Series for Academic 2009-2010 Calendar Year
Fall 2009
September 18, 2009
Prof. John Herbert, The Ohio State University
Title: "Excited-state quantum chemistry for macromolecules, with applications to DNA"
October 16, 2009
Dr. Man Xu, Wright State University
Title: TBA
October 23, 2009
Prof. Rebecca Whelan, Oberlin College
Title: TBA
October 30, 2009
Brian Brumfield, University of Illinois
Title: "Development Of A Quantum Cascade Laser Based Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer For C60 Vibrational Spectroscopy"
November 6, 2009
Angela Campo, Graduate Student, Wright State University
Title: TBATimothy Tomashuk, Graduate Student, Wright State University
Title: TBA
Novemer 13, 2009
Rachel Kingdom, Graduate Student, Wright State University
Title: 'Toxicity of the Sea Urchin Toxopneustes pileolus"Quentin Buquoi, Graduate Student, Wright State University
Title: "Platinum Stilbazoles: Ring-Walking Coupled with Aryl-Halide Bond Activation"Jennifer Monahan, Graduate Student, Wright State University
Title: TBA
Winter 2010
January 15, 2010
Prof. Diana Aga, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Title: "Fate and Transport of Emerging Contaminants and Endocrine
Disrupting Chemicals"
January 22, 2010
Amber Rumple, Graduate Student, Wright State University
"The Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction"Jared Duncan,Graduate Student, Wright State University
"An Introduction to Monte Carlo Simulations"
January 29, 2010
Dr. Padkamar Kichambare, Wright Patterson Air Force Laboratory
Title: "Spectacular Carbon Based Nanostructured Materials"
February 5, 2010
Prof. Hong Wang, Miami University
Title: "Extended Porphyrins for Solar Energy Conversion"
February 19, 2010
Amanda Balaguer, Graduate Student, Wright State University
"Michael Additions"Erik Dihrkop, Graduate Student,Wright State University
"The Aza-Wittig Reaction"
Februaury 26, 2010
Raghavendhar Kotha, Graduate Student, Wright State University
TBAStephen Skidmore, Graduate Student, Wright State University
TBA
March 5, 2010
Prof. Cora Lind, The University of Toledo
Title: "Shrinking From the Heat: Negative Thermal Expansion Materials"
March 12, 2010
Prof. George Stan, University of Cincinnati
TBA
Spring 2010
April 9, 2010
Virgil Solomon, Ph.D. (Materials Science & Engineering), Youngstown State University, Ohio
Title: " Nanoscale investigation of inorganic materials using electron scattering and imaging"
April 16, 2010
Sarah Schmidtke, Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry), College of Wooster, Ohio
Title: "Environmental Impact on Charge Transfer in Para-Aminobenzoic Acid Derivatives. "
April 23, 2010
Edur Basha Boyini Palli, Graduate Student (M.S. in Chemistry), Wright State University, Ohio
Title: "Agent Based Models for the Complex Systems"Michael Mante, Graduate Student (M.S. in Chemistry), Wright State University, Ohio
Title: "Cantilever as an analytical tool"
April 30, 2010
Andre J. Sommer, Ph.D. (Analytical Chemistry), Miami University, Ohio
Title: "New Developments in Inji-ared Microspectroscopy: Pushing the limits of Diffraction and Time"
May 7, 2010
Joseph A. Caruso, Ph.D. (Analytical Chemistry), University of Cincinnati, Ohio
Title: "From Selenospecies in Plants to Biomarkers for Hemorrhagic Stroke"
May 14, 2010
David Rueda, Ph.D. (Physical, Biochemistry), Wayne State University, Michigan
Title: "Single Molecule Studies of Spliceosomal RNAs and DNA polymerase"
May 21, 2010
Zofia Gagnon, Ph.D. (Environmental Science), Marist College, New York
Title: "Toxicological Effects of Platinum Group Metals Exposure in the Brain Tissue of Developing Chick Embryos"Hagar Abdallah, Graduate Student (M.S. in Chemistry), Wright State University, Ohio
Title: "Small Molecule Caspase Inhibitors
May 28, 2010
Sara E. Skrabalak, Ph.D. (Materials Chemistry), Indiana University - Bloomington, Indiana
Title: "From Silver Nanocubes to Gold Nanostars: the Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles with Controlled Shapes"
