Previous Visiting Seminar Speakers 2006-07

Dr. Doug Heitkemper, FDA
"FDA's Forensic Chemistry Center - Chemical Detectives in the Pet Food Crisis and Others" (Awards Day Seminar)

Professor Yan Zhao, Iowa State University
"Learning from Nature: A Conformational Approach to Responsive Supramolecular Hosts, Catalysts, and Sensors"

Dr. Ryszard Lobinski, French National Council for Scientific Research
"From Speciation to Metallomics: The Mass Spectrometry-driven Evolution of Concepts and Methods"

Professor Chad A. Mirkin, Northwestern University
"Nanochemistry Driving Nanotechnology: From High Resolution Lithographic Methods to Powerful New Biodiagnostic Tools"

Dr. Petra Potschke, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany
"Hybrid Systems of Expanded Graphite with Different Thermoplastic Polymers Prepared by Melt Mixing"

Professor Sizhu Wu, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, College of Materials Science & Engineering
"Electrospinning of Nanofibers of Poly(Lactic Acid)/Hydroxyapatite/Carbon Nanotubes and Polyacryloinitrile/Carbon Nanotubes"

Professor Sherwin Singer, Ohio State University
"Tackling the Problem of Hydrogen Bond Order and Disorder in the Phases of Ice and Water Clusters"

Professor Mark von Itzstein, Griffith University (Gold Coast Campus), Queensland, Australia
"Pandemic Influenza - The Re-emergence of an Old Threat" (5th Zimmer International Scholar)

Professor Lawrence Pratt, Fisk University
"Mixed Aggregates of Lithium Carbenoids"

Professor David Tierney, University of New Mexico
"Integrated Paramagnetic Resonance of High-spin CO(II): Models to Maquettes to Metalloenzymes"

Dr. Suzanne Seleem, Central State University
"Changing the Face of History"

Dr. Pratul K. Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"Protein Vibrations Promote Enzyme Catalysis"

Dr. Hairong Guan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Mechanistic Studies on Ruthenium and Iron Catalyzed Hydrogen Reactions" (Faculty Candidate for the Inorganic Chemistry Position)

Professor Jeff Gildersleeve, National Cancer Institute
"Carbohydrate Microarrays for Basic Translational Cancer Research"

Professor Claudio Verani, Wayne State University
"Asymmetry, Clusters, and Modules: New Synthetic Strategies for Metal-containing Soft Materials"

Professor Srini Iyengar, Indiana University
"Quantum/Classical Dynamics of Electrons and Nuclei: Three Pieces of a Larger Puzzle"

Professor Richard Gross, Polytechnic University
"Enzyme-Catalyzed Polymer Synthesis and Modification Reactions"

Dunwei Wang, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
"Scientific and Technological Opportunities of Ultra-high Density Nanowire Arrays" (Faculty Candidate for the Inorganic Chemistry Position)

Professor Maria Gomez, Mount Holyoke College
"The Elusive Proton: Finding Conduction Pathways in Solid and Liquid Phases"

Professor Punit Boolchand, UC/Department of ECECS and Physics
"Discovery of Intermediate Phases in Glassy Networks"

Professor Toni Kazic, University of Missouri, Columbia
"Why bother with Bioinformatics?"

Christian Goldsmith, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Development of Functional Lipoxygenase Mimics and the Application of Zinc Sensors in Single Synapse Imaging"
(Faculty Candidate for the Inorganic Chemistry position)

Professor Hendrik Emons, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM) Geel, Belgium
"The Chemical Kilogram-Fiction or Reality?"

Professor Martin Jarrold, Indiana University
"Melting and Freezing in Small Particles: How many atoms are needed to make liquid?"

John Magyer, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
"Electron Transfer and Protein Dynamics in Cytochrome c" (Faculty Candidate for the Inorganic Chemistry position)

Richard L. Brutchey, Ph.D., Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies University of California-Santa Barbara
"Bio-inspired Routes to Nanostructured Perovskite and Perovskite-like Materials" (Faculty Candidate for the Inorganic Chemistry position)

Richard N. Zare, Stanford University
"Make it Count"

Dennis Jacobs, University of Notre Dame
"The iLife of Professor Zare: Inquiry, Imagination, Insight and Ingenuity" (Oesper Banquet Speaker)

Saswati Datta, Proctor and Gamble, Miami Valley Innovation Center
"Plasma Surface Modification-From Computers to Diapers" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Rebecca Whelan, Oberlin College
"Development of Assays for Biomarkers of Ovarian Cancer" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Luis Colon, University of Buffalo-The State University of New York
"Silica Hybrid Materials for Liquid Chromatography" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Jonathan Sweedler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Understanding Neurochemistry Neuron by Neuron: New Measurement Technologies for Neuroscience Research" (Oesper Symposium Speaker)

Richard N. Zare, Stanford University
"Adventures in Chemical Analysis" (OESPER AWARD LECTURE)

Professor Dragan Uskokovic, Institute of Technical Sciences/Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
"Synthesis and Processing of Fine Particles"

Professor S. Mark Cybulski, Miami University, Ohio
"Challenges and Difficulties in Theoretical Treatment of Intermolecular Interactions"