Chemistry / Biochemistry
Contact
Department Chairs:
Manish A. Mehta
Office Hrs: TR 9-10 am Office: A264

Administrative Assistant:
Patricia West

Department Email:


Phone: (440) 775-8300
Fax: (440) 775-6682

Location:
Science Center A263
119 Woodland St.
Oberlin, OH, 44074

Contact

Seminars

Seminars

Fall 2011

All seminars begin at 4:45 pm in room A255 and are preceded by refreshments at 4:30 in the Love Lounge unless otherwise specified.

The student/speaker lunch is from Noon- 1:30
The sign-up sheet to have lunch with the speaker will be posted on the
Chemistry Bulletin Board.  Seats are limited to five students per speaker.

 
Speaker                                              
Date           
Title

Chris Cappa
UC Davis

9/21/11
"Connections Between Chemical Composition, Light Scattering and Water Uptake by Atmospheric Particles"

Paul Edmiston
College of Wooster

9/28/11
"Advanced Materials for Water Treatment"

Patrick Walsh
University of Pennsylvania

10/12/11
"New Methods for C-C, C-O, and C-N Bond Formation with Zinc and Palladium"

Linda Hsieh-Wilson
Caltech

11/9/11

"Decoding the Roles of Carbohydrates in the Brain"
  (4:45 pm)  Room A255

"The Tangled Web: Unraveling the Molecular Basis
for Communication in the Brain"  (8:00 pm)  Craig Lecture Hall N292

Rob Thompson
Oberlin College

11/30/11
"HMLICPIDMSSPESRMNFSDMA:  Code for a Research Leave at NIST"

Spring 2012 Seminar Schedule
All seminars begin at 4:45 pm in room A255 and are preceded by refreshments at 4:30 in the Love Lounge unless otherwise specified.
 
 Speaker Date
 Title

Matt Elrod
Oberlin College

2/22/12 "To React of Not to React: Classifying Atmospheric Compounds as Air Pollutants and Greenhouse Gases"

Jonathan Steckel,
OC '01   QD Vision

2/29/12

"The Synthesis and Manufacture of Semiconductor Nanoparticles for Displays and Lighting"

Ram Seshadri,
UC Santa Barbara

4/4/12 "Solid State Lighting with Light Emitting Diodes: How is it Achieved and What are the Challenges"
Mary Kay Pflum            Wayne State University 4/11/12 "Kinase Cosubstrate Promiscuity: Chemical Approaches to Characterize Protein Phosphorylation"