Departmental Events for 2009-2010

 
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
Thomas Meyer, Arey Distinguished Professor of Chemistry (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Solar Fuels from Sunlight"

Any new energy future with solar as a centerpiece must solve the problem of energy storage. The key is solar fuels, solar driven water splitting to hydrogen and oxygen or solar driven water reduction of CO2 to hydrocarbons.

Host: Warren Warren

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
Roman Boulatov, Assistant Professor (Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Chemistry)
"Chemical Insights from Molecular Force Probes"

Host: Steve Craig

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
Kay Brummond, Associate Professor (University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Chemistry)
"Exploiting Allenes in the Synthesis of Challenging Functional Motifs and Reaction Discovery"

Host: Don Coltart

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
Dr. Robert C. Reynolds, Director, Drug Discovery Technology (Southern Research Institute)
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Host: Barbara Ramsay Shaw

Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
Igor Rubtsov, Professor (Tulane Univ., Dept. of Chemistry)
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Host: Michael Therien

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
Thomas Livinghouse, Professor (Montana State Univ., Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
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Host: Ross Widenhoefer

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
Laura Kaufman, Assistant Professor (Columbia Univ., Dept. of Chemistry)
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Host: Steve Craig

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
Cecilia Clementi, Assoc. Professor (Rice Univ., Dept. of Chemistry)
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Host: David Beratan

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
Joseph M. DeSimone, Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept. of Chemistry)
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Host: Ben Wiley

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
Zhong-Lin Wang, Regents’ Professor and COE Distinguished Professor (Georgia Inst. of Tech., School of Materials Science and Engineering)
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Host: Ben Wiley

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
Shawn Burdette, Assistant Professor (Univ. of Connecticut, Dept. of Chemistry)
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Host: Kathy Franz

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010 8:00pm, Auditorium - French Family Science Center, Room 2231 Edit Dup
Fritz London Memorial Lecture
Anthony J. Leggett, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor
(Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Physics)
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Host: The Duke University Physics and Chemistry Departments
The Duke University Chapter of Sigma Xi

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:40am, Room 2231 - French Family Science Center Edit Dup
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