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Colloquium Schedule | Upcoming Events


For further information, please contact 416-978-3564 and read the following link concerning Colloquium Policies.
Note: Please fill out a speaker proposal form and submit to LM 151 to reserve a spot for colloquium guests.

Colloquium Schedule

Fridays in the Davenport Seminar Rooms, 3rd Floor, Lash Miller Bldg, at 10:00 a.m., unless otherwise noted.

DateSpeaker, University, Department
September 07, 2009 Labour Day

September 25, 2009

David Farrar Lecture -- Room 158, Lash Miller
Professor Robert Morris, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
“Replacing Expensive Metals with Iron in Asymmetric Reduction Catalysts for the Production of Valuable Alcohols.”

October 02, 2009 Professor Qing Lin, Department of Chemistry, SUNY at Buffalo

"Photoinducible Bioorthogonal Chemistry: A New Tool for Chemical Biology"

October 09, 2009

CANCELLED
Professor Andrew Ellington, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin "Living systems without cells"

October 12, 2009 Thanksgiving Day

October 16, 2009

Professor Rigoberto Hernandez, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Shake, rattle and rip: The far-from-equilibrium dynamics of colloids"

October 23, 2009

Professor Jin Cha, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University
"Cyclopropane-mediated Organic Synthesis"

October 30, 2009 J. Bryan Jones Lecture - NEW LOCATION: Room 158, Lash Miller

Professor Ben Davis, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
"Sugars and Proteins"

November 06, 2009

Dr. Steven S. Brown, Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, "Heterogeneous chemistry after dark: Do we understand atmospheric budgets for reactive nitrogen and halogens?"

November 13, 2009

NEW LOCATION: Room 159, Lash Miller
Dr. Joseph Pignatello, Department of Soil & Water, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
"Interactions of Anthropogenic Organic Compounds with Environmental Black Carbon"

November 20, 2009

Professor Christopher Cummins, Department of Chemistry, MIT

November 27, 2009

John Polanyi Lecture - LOCATION: Room 158, Lash Miller
Professor John Polanyi, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
"Choreography of Surface Reaction: Solo, Pas--De-Deux and Corps-De-Ballet"

December 04, 2009

Professor Andrei Tokmakoff, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

December 11, 2009

Professor Peter Andreana, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University

December 17, 2009

Eli Lilly Lecture - NEW LOCATION: Room 158, Lash Miller
Professor Samuel Gellman, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin
"Structure and Function in Peptidic Foldamers"

December 21, 2009 Winter Break - December 19 - January 3 (inclusive)

January 08, 2010

Professor Vy Dong, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto

January 15, 2010

Professor Nicholas Mosey, Department of Chemistry, Queen's University

January 22, 2010

Ates Tanin Lecture
Dr. David Stone, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto

January 29, 2010

Adrian Brook Symposium
Professor Mark Lautens, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Professor Michael Brook, Department of Chemistry, McMaster University
Professor Jeffrey Johnson, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

February 05, 2010

Professor Michael Baird, Department of Chemistry, Queen's University
"Transition metal catalysis for organic synthesis and alkene polymerization: New Tricks"

February 12, 2010 Alex Harrison Lecture

Professor Aaron Wheeler, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto

February 15, 2010 Reading Week - February 15-19

February 26, 2010

Professor Evan R. Williams, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

March 12, 2010

Dr. Lori Jones, Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph

March 26, 2010

Alphora Research Inc. Lecture
Professor Magnus Rueping, Institute of Organic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University
"Bio-Inspired Catalysis: From Concepts to Applications"

April 02, 2010 Good Friday

April 16, 2010

Boehringer Ingelheim Lecture
Professor Tamejiro Hiyama, Department of Material Chemistry, Kyoto University
"Invention of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon–Carbon Bond Forming Reactions for Organic Synthesis"

May 07, 2010 3:00PM

Organic Synthesis Lecture - NOTE TIME: 3:00 p.m.
Professor Gregory Fu, Department of Chemistry, MIT
"Palladium- and Nickel-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions of Alkyl Electrophiles"

May 20, 2010

Professor Arthur Edison - NOTE: This is a Thursday
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida
"Understanding the chemical language used by walking stick insects"

May 24, 2010 Victoria Day