Fall 2010
All seminars held on Friday at 1 p.m. in AYRS 120 unless indicated otherwise. Refreshments served just prior to the presentation.
September 3
Dr. Mike Bartl - Department of Chemistry - University of Utah
"Bioinspiration in Materials Chemistry"
September 17
Sam Allen - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - CSU, Chico
"Summer Research at NIST: Prediction and Standardization of Fire Debris Evaporation Patterns with the Advanced Distillation Curve”
Nina McCulley - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - CSU, Chico
"Summer Research in the REU at Humboldt State University: A Computational Investigation into Phallotoxins and the Organic Conductor TCNQ"
September 17
4:00pm in HOLT 170
College of Natural Sciences Convocation
October 8
Dr. Vincent Remcho - Department of Chemistry - Oregon State University
"Expanding the microfluidic toolkit: biological and environmental analysis"
October 15
Dr. J.P. Lumb - Department of Chemistry - Stanford University
"Exploiting Isomerizations: Biomimetic and Atom Economic Synthesis"
October 22
Dr. Andrew Fisher - Department of Chemistry - UC Davis
"Radical structures reveal water dynamics in the bilin reductase mechanism"
November 5
Dr. Ben King - Department of Chemistry - Univ of Nevada, Reno
"New Circulenes: Quadrannulene to Septulene"
Thursday, December 2
6–8 p.m. in BMU 210: NorCal ACS Subsection Meeting
6 p.m. Dinner
7 p.m. Presentation by Dr. Jim Postma - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - CSU, Chico
"The Electric Car; Murder Victim, Suicide, or Still a Gleam in Its Parents' Eyes"
December 3
Lukas Kennedy - Red Bluff High School
"Who, What, Where, When and Why I Became a High School Science Teacher"