Department of Chemistry 
Seminar Schedule for Spring 2008

All seminars are at 3:30 PM in BL 306B

 

Date

Speaker/Title

January 28

Physical Chemistry Candidate Seminar

February 4

Departmental Curriculum Meeting

February 11

William Chance, Graduate Literature Seminar

Title: Green and Efficient Grubb's Catalyst Synthesis

February 18

Vidyasagar Kummarikunta, Graduate Literature Seminar

Title:New Organic Derivatives of C60 Fullerenes

February 25

Nalini Sathyanarayan, Graduate Literature Seminar

Title:One Pot Glycosylation Reactions for Synthesis of Branched Oligosaccharides

March 3

Brian Barnes, Graduate Literature Seminar

Title: New Techniques in Forensic Chemistry for Analyzing Methamphetamine

March 10

No Seminar—Dean Candidate Forum

March 17

No Seminar—SPRING BREAK

March 24

Departmental Faculty Meeting

March 31

Dr. Everett Weber, Department of Biological Sciences

Title: Quantifying student learning: significant type I and type II errors of learning gains and possible solutions

April 7

Ryan Coppage, Graduate Research Seminar

Title: UV-Curable Polymer Coatings

April 14

Sateesh Paladugu, Graduate Research Seminar

Title: Fundamentals of Free Radical Polymerization in Environmentally Friendly Coating Applications

April 21

Widchuda Meeim, Graduate Literature Seminar

Title: Enzyme Transformations of Organic Compounds

April 28

Leah Blackketter, Graduate Research Seminar

Title: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment of Arsenic Metal in Groundwater Samples from Graves, Ballard, and Carlisle Counties, Kentucky