Academics

Beyond the Classroom

Colloquium Series

Colloquia are held in the chemistry conference room, S-1-089, Wednesdays 12:00-1:00 PM, unless otherwise noted.

Graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to attend.

Spring 2011

  • February 9 (rescheduled)
    Dr. Mindy Levine, Department of Chemistry, University of Rhode Island
    "Chiral Amines: From Outer Space to Cellular Delivery"
  • February 16
    Dr. Bob Nairn, Aurora SFC
    "Superfluid Chromatography"
  • February 25 (Friday)
    Dr. Deng Li, Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University
    "Asymmetric reactions with cooperative and multifunctional catalysis”
  • March 9
    Dr. Jonathan Rochford, Department of Chemistry, UMass Boston
    "Molecular Paradigms for Energy Conversion”
  • March 23
    Dr. Jesse Kroll, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT
    "Laboratory studies of the photochemical aging of atmospheric organic aerosol"
  • March 30
    Dr. José Argüello, Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    TBA
  • April 6
    Dr. Corey Stephenson, Department of Chemistry, Boston University
    "Photoredox Catalysis: Enabling Chemical Synthesis with Visible Light”
  • May 4
    Dr. Scott Handy, Department of Chemistry, Middle Tennessee State University
    "Building a Better Reaction:  The Polycoupling Approach to Substituted Heteroaromatics”
  • May 6 (Friday)
    Dr. Lorenzo Caggiano, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath
    "From Daffodils to Drugs and Branching Out”
  • May 11 (11 am)
    Dr. George John, Department of Chemistry, The City College of the City University of New York
    "Green Chemistry and Engineering - A Design Tool for Chemicals, Soft Matter and Nanoscale Hybrid Materials”
  • May 23 (Monday, 1:30 pm)
    Dr. Alvise Perosa, Department of Molecular Science and Nanosystems, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Dorsoduro
    "Understanding Catalysis by Ionic Liquids & Upgrading Bio-Based Chemicals”

Fall 2010

  • November 10
    Dr. Sivaraman Dandapani, Chemical Biology Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    “Diversity-oriented synthesis of macrolactams by ring-closing metathesis: Towards selective HDAC inhibitors”
  • November 17
    Dr. Bin Sui, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
    “Flourous Mixture Synthesis and Structure Assignment of Petrocortyne A and Its Stereoisomers”
  • December 8
    Dr. Alan Christian, Department of Biology, UMass Boston
    “Physical and Chemical Analysis and Classification of Lake Azuei, Haiti”