Seminars will be held at 4:30 p.m. each Thursday. The specific meeting room for each seminar is listed along with the speaker information for each date. Be on time! Changes in topic, location or date will be announced at the previous seminar and posted at the Chemistry Department office in Science & Tech I, Room 343.
All graduate students are expected to attend all seminars, whether registered or not.
CHEM 690 is an "attendance based course". To receive credit for CHEM 690 you must attend at least 3/4 of all seminars in order to pass the course and will receive a "B" if you miss more than 2 seminars during a semester and a "C" if more than 3 seminars are missed. It is your responsibility to sign the attendance sheet. Students who need to present a seminar, as required before graduation, should schedule a date.
January 25
Cancelled
Research -1 Room 202
January 29
Dr
. Paul Cooper
Physical Chemistry Candidate
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD
"The production of oxidants in irradiated H2O ices and its relevance to
the search for non-Earth originating life on icy planetary bodies"
Abstract
JC 3rd Floor Meeting Room G
February 1
Dr. Tao Ye
Faculty Candidate
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
"Nanoscale assembly and machinery"
Abstract
Research -1 Room 202
February 8
Dr. Henry Woodcock
Physical Chemistry Candidate
Research -1 Room 202
February 15
Dr. Petros Zamartzis
Physical Chemistry Candidate
"Photolytic production of cyclic-N 3"
Abstract
Research -1 Room 202
February 22
Dr. Gregory Foster
George Mason University
"Surficial Sediment Geochemistry of PAHs and PCBs in the Potomac River basin"
Research -1 Room 202
March 1
Dr. Thomas H. Jordan
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Edgewater, MD
http://www.si.edu
"Transport and Transformation of Phosphorus from Land to Sea "
Research -1 Room 202
March 8
Dr. Albert Davydov
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD
"Catalyst Selection for ZnO Nanowire Growth"
Research -1 Room 202
March 15
Spring Break
March 22
Dr. John Fetzer
Career Management for Chemists (Book)
Fetzpahs Consulting
STI Room 131
1:30 p.m.
Regular Seminar
Dr. Abul Hussam
http://cos.gmu.edu/
Node/501
Research I - Room 163 and Atrium
March 29
Research -1 Room 202
4:30 p.m.
April 5
Dr. Jonathan Dattelbaum
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA
"Design of Luminescent Biosensors for Maltose and Glucose"
Research -1 Room 202
April 12
Dr. Carol Parish
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA
"Molecular Studies of HIV and Anti-Cancer Warhead Drugs"
Research -1 Room 202
April 19
Mr. Anthony Pasquale
M.S. Candidate
George Mason University
"
Refined Middle Distillate Fuel Nitrogen Compound Distribution"
Research -1 Room 202
April 26
Dr. Lesley Greene
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
"Computational Approaches to Study Protein Structure and Folding: The union of bioinformatics and network science"
Research -1 Room 202
Last But Not Least!
May 3
Dr. Matthew B. Harney
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Research -1 Room 202
