| January 27 |
Susannah Scott, University of California – Santa Barbara
Understanding Active Sites and Activation Processes via the
Interaction of Organometallics with Surfaces: A Combined
Spectroscopic-Computational Approach
(Abstract)
Host: Stefan Vajda |
| February 3 |
James Dumesic,
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Catalytic Production of Liquid Fuels and Chemicals from
Biomass-derived Oxygenated Hydrocarbons (Abstract)
Host: Chris Marshall |
| February 10 |
Mark Ratner, Northwestern University
Transport in Molecular Junctions: Thoughts Coherent and
Incoherent (Abstract)
Host: Laura Skubal |
| February 24 |
Aurora Clark, Washington State University
Highly Accurate Force Fields for F-elements and Their Use in
Computational Environmental Chemistry
(Abstract)
Host: Paul Fenter |
| March 3 |
Dennis Papadias,
Argonne National Laboratory
Defining Hydrogen Quality (for Fuel Cell Vehicles) and Its
Impact on Cost
(Abstract)
Host: Paul Fenter |
| March 31 |
Johannes Lercher, Lerstuhl fuer Technische Chemie, Technische
Univ.
Transport and Catalysis of Hydrocarbons in Confined Spaces (Abstract)
Host: Stefan Vajda |
| April 7 |
Lanny Schmidt,
University of Minnesota
Catalytic Gasification of Biomass at Millisecond Times
(Abstract)
Host: Stefan Vajda |
| April 14 |
Robert Schloegl, Fritz-Haber Institute (Berlin)
Metals as Selective Catalysts (Abstract)
Host: Stefan Vajda |
| April 21 |
Greg Engel, University of Chicago
Quantum Mechanics in Biology: Using Spectroscopy to
Elucidate Design Principles in Photosynthesis
(Abstract)
Host: Robin Santra |
| April 28 |
Shaul Mukamel, University of California - Irvine
Coherent Ultrafast Multidimensional Spectroscopy of Chromophore
Aggregates; from NMR to X-Rays
(Abstract)
Host: Robin Santra |
| May 5 |
Kevin Rosso, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Electron Transfer Dynamics in the Biogeochemical Cycling of Iron
(Abstract)
Host: Paul Fenter |
| May 12 |
Gabor Somorjai, University of California, Berkeley
Molecular Foundations of Surface Chemistry and Catalytic
Selectivity by Metals (Abstract)
Host: Chris Marshall |
May 28, 9:30
a.m.
(note new date and special time) |
Emilio Bunel, Argonne National Laboratory
Adventures in Homogeneous Catalysis
(Abstract)
Host: Paul Fenter |
