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Seminar Series - Academic Year 2011-2012

The Chemistry Department at Boston College presents dozens of speakers each year from leading universities, industrial corporations, and the private sector. All seminars are open to the public and are free of cost. We would like to express our appreciation to the following companies for their generous support of our seminar series: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Eli Lilly and Company, Novartis Corporation, Schering-Plough, Sigma- Aldrich, and Abbott Laboratories.


The Merkert Chemistry Center is pleased to present some of our distinguished lecturers on Front Row. Front Row is a service of Boston College’s Office of Marketing Communications.


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SPRING 2012

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SPRING 2012

January 27, 2012
Professor Tohru Fukuyama
, University of Tokyo
“Synthetic Studies on Marine Natural Products”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 1, 2012
Professor Kenichiro Itami
, Nagoya University
“Challenges in Arene-Assembling Chemistry”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 8, 2012
Professor Marco Rolandi, University of Washington, Seattle
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 9 & 10, 2012
Professor Paul Knochel, Universität München
Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecturer
TBA
Time: TBA

March 13, 2012
Professor Hubert Yin, University of Colorado
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 27, 2012
Professor Norito Takenaka, University of Miami
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 10, 2012
Professor Liming Zhang, University of California – Santa Barbara
“Accessing &alpha-Oxo/Imino Gold Carbenes via Gold-Catalyzed Alkyne Oxidation: A Non-Diazo Approach”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 12 & 13, 2012
O'Malley Lecturer
Professor Hongjie Dai, Stanford University
April 12:
“Carbon Nanotubes for Biological Detection, Imaging and Therapy”
April 13: “Graphene: from Nanoribbons to Hybrid Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 17, 2012
Professor Abigail Doyle, Princeton University
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 18, 19, & 20, 2012
University Lecturer
Professor Charles M. Lieber
, Harvard University

April 18, 2012
“Whither Nanotechnology?”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 19, 2012
“Nanowires: From Synthesis to Energy Applications”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 20, 2012
“Nanoelectronics Meets Biology”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 24, 2012
Professor Derek Pratt, Queen's University, Canada
“The Chemistry of Radical-Trapping Antioxidants: Are Phenols Really Best?”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127


April 27, 2012
O'Malley Lecturer
Professor Eric Kool
, Stanford University
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

May 1, 2012
Professor Julius Rebek, Jr., The Scripps Research Institute
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

June 11 & 12, 2012
Professor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol, UK
Boehringer-Ingelheim Lecturer
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130


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