Department of chemistry
Inorganic Seminar Schedule
Fall 2009
Thursdays (unless otherwise noted*) at 3:00 PM, 2009 Science Hall
September 3 Elayaraja Muthuswamy Phase Control in Transition Metal Pnictide Nanoparticles (Fe & Ni) (Brock Group, Research)
September 10 No SeminarScheduled
September 17 Qinghong Yao Synthesis, Characterizations and Applications of Metal Chalcogenide Aerogels (Brock Group, Research)
*September 22 Frank Osterloh, University of California, Davis Making Fuel from Sunshine: Inorganic Nanomaterials for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production
September 24 Buddhima Mahanama TBA (Allen Group, Literature)
*September 28 Dean Sherry, University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas MRI Sensors of Metabolism (Host: Allen)
October 1 Lanka Wickramasinghe TBA (Verani Group, Literature)
October 8 David Piwnica-Worms, Washington University in St. Louis Dynamic Molecular Imaging with Activatable and Genetically-Encoded Reporters (Host: Allen)
October 15 Nicolai Lehnert, University of Michigan "Binding of Nitric Oxide to High-spin Ferrous Heme Protein Active Sites: Electronic Structures and Reactivities of the Coordinated NO" (Host: Allen)
*October 20 Michael Ward, New York University TBA
October 22 Chuck Macdonald, University of Windsor TBA (Host: Winter)
October 29 Mark Bussell, Western Washington University Synthesis and Properties of Metal Phosphide Hydrotreating Catalysts: Conventionally Prepared and Nanoparticle Model Materials (Host: Brock)
November 5 Lasantha Perera TBA (Brock Group, Literature)
November 12 Sashiprabha Vithanarachchi TBA (Allen Group, Literature)
*December 1 Charles Wilkie, Marquette University TBA
* Nano@Wayne seminars are held on Tuesdays from 2:30-4:00 PM in the Welcome Center auditorium;
Frontiers seminars are held on Mondays, 3:00-4:30 PM, 2009 Science Hall

Further information can be obtained from John Oliver, Dept of Chemistry, Wayne State University, .
Last updated: September 09, 2009