The Department of Chemistry

Fall 2009: Schedule of Seminars & Events

Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:30 AM - Angell B112

Coffee at 11:15 AM in Cook A229

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

DATE

Shawn Burdette

University of Connecticut

Design and Synthesis of Caged Complexes for Zn²⁺

RW

9/03/09

Faculty meeting

9/22/09

Rory Waterman

University of Vermont

NSF Fellowship Information Session

9/24/09

Humphrey Symposium

Saturday 9/26/09

Faculty talks to 1^st year graduate students (A229)

10/6/09

Jonas Peters

MIT

Exploring the Feasibility of N₂ Fixation at Single and Multiple Iron Sites

RW

10/08/09

Kevin Moeller

Washington Univ. in St. Louis

Organic Electrochemistry:  New Umpolung Reactions for Solving Synthetic Challenges of Structure and Location

WEG

10/08/09

4PM L207 Lafayette

Faculty talks to 1^st year graduate students (A229)

10/13/09

Jeff Rogers

UVM ESF

Laboratory Emergency Prevention and Response at UVM

10/15/2009

Faculty meeting

10/20/09

Prof. Klaus Pörschke

Max Planck Institute für

Kohlenforschung

Plastic Crystals in Organometallic Chemistry: The Muetterties Complexes

RW

10/22/09

Jeff Rogers

UVM ESF

Keeping Your Lab Safe

11/05/09

Faculty meeting

11/17/09

Faculty meeting

12/15/09

The Department of Chemistry

Spring 2010: Schedule of Seminars & Events

Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:30 AM - Angell B112

Coffee at 11:15 AM in Cook A229

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

DATE

Jeremy Steinbacher

UVM

Talking up Chemistry: Lessons from the Chemical Communications Leadership Institute

1/05/10

Faculty candidate seminar

1/07/10

Faculty candidate seminar

1/14/10

Faculty candidate seminar

1/19/10

Cora MacBeth

Emory Univ

Bioinspired Ligand Platforms for Small Molecule Binding and Activation

RW

1/21/10

Faculty candidate seminar

1/26/10

Faculty candidate seminar

1/28/10

Faculty candidate seminar

2/02/10

John Vederas

Univ of Alberta

Synthesis, Structure and Activity of Unusual Sulfur-Containing Peptides From Bacteria

SF

2/04/10

Faculty candidate seminar

2/09/10

Faculty meeting

2/16/10

Andrew Phillips

Univ of Colorado

Chemistry and Biology with Natural Products and Other Small Molecules

SPW

2/18/10

Paul Anderson

Merck (retired)

Dan and Carole Burack UVM President's Distinguished Lecture:

Life Long Learning In The Pharmaceutical Industry

3/03/10 4:00 pm

Billings North Lounge

Paul Anderson

Merck (retired)

A Retrospective Look at Drug Discovery

DEM

3/04/10

Faculty meeting

3/16/10

Marc Snapper

Boston College

New Reactions, Reagents, and Catalysts: Introducing New Tools to Improve Synthetic Efficiency

JSM

4/01/10

Daniel Mindiola

Indiana Univ

Titanium Alkylidynes: From Synthetic and Mechanistic Organometallic Chemistry to Global Applications

RW

4/06/10

Ralph Stuart

UVM ESF

Laboratory Risk Assessments

(mandatory for all department members)

4/08/10

Geoffrey Smith

Univ of Georgia

Climate Change in a Flowtube: Lessons Learned from Laboratory Studies of Aerosol Kinetics

GAP

4/15/10

Faculty meeting

4/20/10

Department Awards Ceremony

4/22/10

Brad Nilsson

Univ of Rochester

Peptide Self-Assembly from Amyloid to Engineered Biomaterials

MB

4/29/10

Gordon Gribble

Dartmouth Univ

Novel Indole Chemistry in the Synthesis of Heterocycles

MB

5/4/10

Faculty retreat

5/19/10