Week of February 10, 2013 to February 16, 2013

1. Monday, February 11, 2013

   1. 4:00 pmDr. Frederick Zecri
      Dr. Frederic Zecri, Novartis, "From Natural Product to the First Oral Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis: The Discovery of FTY720 (GilenyaTM)"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   2. 4:00 pm   Materials Sciences and EngineeringProf. Ali Khademhosseini, Harvard Medical School, "Microengineered Hydrogels for Stem Cell Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration"
      100 MSEB
   3. 5:00 pm   Organic Chemistry-Novartis LectureProfessor Guy Lloyd Jones, Novartis Lecture, University of Bristol, "Cats and Dogma"
      116 RAL

2. Tuesday, February 12, 2013

   1. 4:00 pmProf. Ian Fleming
      Prof. Ian Fleming, University of Cambridge, CHEM 530 'Molecular Orbitals in Organic Chemistry' Lecture Series 3 of 11
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   2. 4:00 pm   Inorganic ChemistryProfessor Seth Brown, Notre Dame University, "Nonclassical Redox Reactions"
      112 Chem Annex

3. Wednesday, February 13, 2013

   1. 12:00 pm - 12:45 pmBrown Bag: Just Lunch
      A414 CLSL
   2. 12:00 pmSharon Hammes-Schiffer
      CSE Seminar: Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Energy Conversion Processes: Insights from Theory and Computation
      2240 DCL
   3. 4:00 pmProf. Jon Camden, University of Tennessee Knoxville, "Application of STEM/EELS to Optical Plasmons and Surface Enhanced Nonlinear Spectroscopy"
      112 Chem Annex

4. Thursday, February 14, 2013

   1. 2:00 pmChBE 565 Seminar of Special Interest, Dr. Tracy He, Harvard University, "Warm-blooded Plastics: Bio-inspired Smart Soft Material Systems"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   2. 4:00 pmProfessor Erik Alexanian
      Professor Erik Alexanian, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "New synthetic transformations using alkenes: From transition metal catalysis to metal-free radical reactions"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory

5. Friday, February 15, 2013

   1. 8:00 am   Final Defense, Professor Ralph Nuzzo, AdvisorMr. Eric Brueckner, UIUC, "Fabrication and Transfer Assembly of Microscale, Solid-State Light Emitting Diodes and Solar Cells for Transparent and Flexible Electronics Applications"
      280 MRL