2009

January 16
Title: Mimicking the Structure and Function of DNA (Abstract)
Speaker: Professor Eric T. Kool (Department of Chemistry, Stanford University)

October 5
Title: X-Ray Probing of Atomic and Molecular Dynamics, Toward the Attosecond Limit (Abstract)
Speaker: Professor Stephen Leone (Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

November 12
Title: Design of Catalysts for Asymmetric Synthesis (Abstract)
Speaker: Professor Hisashi Yamamoto (Chemistry, University of Chicago)

2008

February 4
Title: Excited Electronic States in Carbon Nanotubes (Abstract)
Speaker: Professor Louis Brus (Chemistry Department, Columbia University)

April 28
Title: Block Copolymer-Based Nanolithographic Processes (Abstract)
Speaker: Professor Thomas P. Russell (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst)

November 10
Title: Caspases: Nature's Cellular Demolition Experts (Abstract)
Speaker: Professor James A. Wells (UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco)

2007

February 12
Title: Magic Nanobullets: Nanophotonicsensors and Cancer Nanomedicine (Abstract)
Speaker: Professor Raoul Kopelman (Department of Chemistry, The University of Michigan)

March 5
Title: Tolerance and Intolerance in Protein Structure and Function
Speaker: Professor Brian Matthews (Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon)

April 9
Title: Chemical and Biological Studies of Platinum Anticancer Drugs (Abstract)
Speaker: Professor Steve Lippard (Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology )

April 30

Title: Charge and Spin Transport Dynmics in Bio-inspired Molecules: From Photosynthesis to Organic Electronics (Abstract)
Speaker: Professor Michael R. Wasielewski (Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University)

October 8
Title: The Mechanism of mRNA-tRNA Translocation as Inferred by Cryo-EM (Abstract)
Speaker: Dr. Joachim Frank (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, HRI, Wadsworth Center, Empire State Plaza)

2006

January 23
Title: Molecular Junction Transport: Phenomenology and Interpretation
Speaker: Dr. Mark Ratner (Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University)

March 6
Title: The Mechanisms of the Therapeutic Strategies Against Misfolding Diseases
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey W. Kelly (Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute)

April 24
Title: Blind, Deaf and Tough -- Having Fun with Periodic Polymers
Speaker: Dr. Edwin Thomas (Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

September 11
Title: Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins by NMR Spectroscopy (Abstract)
Speaker: Professor Stan Opella (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego)

November 6
Title: Proteins: Energy Landscape, Fluctuations, and Function (Abstract)
Speaker: Dr. Hans Frauenfelder (Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL))

December 4
Title: Designing, Measuring and Controlling Molecular- and Supramolecular-Scale Properties for Molecular Devices (Abstract)
Speaker: Professor Paul S. Weiss (Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University)

2005

May 2
Title: The surprising electronic energy landscape of conjugated polymers
Speaker: Dr. Paul Barbara (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin)

2004

December 6
Title: Computational Modeling of Organic Reactions: Mechanisms, Dynamics, and Selectivities
Speaker: Dr. Kendall N. Houk (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles)