Colloquium and Seminar Schedule

Monday Graduate Colloquium Schedule

Spring/Summer 2004

Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are funded in part by the NIU Graduate Colloquium Committee and will be held at 4 p.m. in Faraday West 201. For more information, contact the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at (815) 753-1133.

Tentative Schedule

Date	Speaker	Topic
February 2	Professor Daniel Armstrong Department of Chemistry Iowa State University	Characterization and Use of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids in Chemical Analysis
February 9	University Professor Richard C. Larock Department of Chemistry Iowa State University	Synthesis of Carbocycles and Heterocycles by Iodine- and Palladium-Promoted Cyclization and Annulation
February 16	Dr. Hong-Yu Li Discovery Chemistry Research Eli Lilly & Company	Methylene Covalently Cross-Linked DNA, TGF- R1 Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy
February 23	Assistant Professor Prakash Reddy Department of Chemistry University of Missouri, Rolla	Recent Studies of Long-Lived Carbocations and Carbodications
March 15	Professor Gregory Hillhouse Department of Chemistry University of Chicago	TBA
April 5	Professor Joseph S. Francisco Department of Chemistry Purdue University	Structure and Reactivity of Open-Shell Complexes: New Frontiers in Atmospheric Chemistry
April 12	Alan Cowley, Robert A. Welch Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Texas at Austin	Main Group Chemistry of Group 13 Elements
April 26	William H. and Janet Lycan Professor Ralph Nuzzo School of Chemical Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Applications of Additive Fabrication via Soft Lithography
May 17	Professor Zuowei Xie Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Chinese University of Hong Kong	TBA
July 6	Prof. Dr. Marcel Gielen Department of Polymer Science and Structural Chemistry Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Water-Soluble Organotin Polyoxacarboxylates: Heterotopic Cation/Anion Sensors with Antitumor Activities

Original source: NIU-Chemistry and Biochemistry page dated 26 January 2004