Northern Illinois University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Fall 2003 Graduate Colloquium Schedule

Northern Illinois University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Fall 2003
Graduate Colloquium Schedule

All seminars will be held in Room 201, Faraday West at 16:00. (20 August 2003)

August 25	Pradeep Mathur, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay	Reactivity of Some Acetylenic Moieties on Some Chalcogen-Bridged Metal Carbonyl Complexes
September 1	Prakash Reddy, University of Missouri - Rolla Apparent error. This would be Labor Day	Organic Chemistry of Superoxides
September 8	Viola Birss, University of Calgary	The oxygen electrode in fuel cells: It's not just hot air!
September 15	John Belot, University of Nebraska - Lincoln	Alternative Ligand Frameworks for Lanthanides lons From Clusters to Catalysis
September 22	Arlene Lennox, Fermilab	Research Opportunities at NIU Institute for Neutron Therapy
September 29	Robert West, University of Wisconsin - Madison ¹	Stable Silylenes: The Chemistry of Divalent Silicon
October 6	Christopher Cummins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology¹	Organometallic Chemistry of Lanthanides and Applications to Catalysis
October 13	Joseph Bausch, Villanova University1	Theoretical Chemistry of Boron Hydrides and Derivatives
October 20	Keith Pannell, University of Texas - El Paso	Organometallic Chemistry of Silicon Compounds
October 27	Joseph Loo, University of California at Los Angeles	Mass Spectrometry of Macroscale Protein Complexes
November 3	Rathindra Bose, NIU	Cellular and molecular mechanisms of ovarian and testicular cancer drug, Cisplatin
November 10	S. Ramaswamy, University of Iowa	Structural Enzymology
November 17	Herbert Schumann, Technische Universität Berlin	Metal/organic Chemistry of Group 13 and f-Block Elements
December 1	Peter Lee, Argonne National Laboratory	In-Situ Dynamic Studies Employing Synchrotron X-Ray Techniques

¹ Funded by the NIU Graduate Colloquium Committee