Chemistry

Seminars and Colloquia

The Chemistry Department offers seminars and colloquia on a regular basis. Speakers for the current semester will be posted here as the information becomes available.


Spring 2013

Department of Chemistry Colloquium Schedule

Date Time/Location Speaker

Friday, Feb. 1

3 p.m. 
Olney 218 

Prof. Vladimir Torchilin, Northeastern University
"Next Step in Drug Delivery: Smart Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers Bring Drugs Inside Cells and Beyond"
Friday, Feb.15 3 p.m.
Olney 218
Prof. Tom Mccarthy, University of Massachusetts Amherst 
"A New View of Wetting"
Friday, March 1 3 p.m. 
Olney 218  
Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus, MIT
"Nanocarbons from a Historical Perspective"
Friday, March 29 3 p.m.  
Olney 218
Prof. Matthew Shoulders, MIT
"Deciphering and Dictating Cellular Protein Folding"
Friday, April 12 3 p.m.
Olney 218
Prof. Marcin Hoffmann; Prof. Henryk Koroniak, University of Adam Mickiewicz (UAM) 
"Chemistry in Poznan"
Friday, April 26 3 p.m.
Olney 218
Prof. David Shuster, New York University
"Electron Transfer Processes in Supramolecular Artificial Photosynthetic Systems Incorporating Fullerenes"
Friday, May 3 3 p.m. 
Olney 218
Prof. Tom Laue, University of Hampshire
"Measurement of Protein Charge-Why, What, and How"

UMass Lowell Polymer Seminar Series, Spring 2013

Date              Time/Location Speaker                                      
Thursday, 
March 7
3:30 p.m.
Olney 218
Prof. Germano S. Lannacchione, WPI
"Liquid Crystal and Carbon-Nanotube Nanocomposites: How Random Surfaces Can Have Non-Random Effects"
Thursday, 
March 21
3:30 p.m.
Olney 218
Prof. Xinqiao Jia, University of Delaware
"From Soft Hydrogel Particles to Elastomeric Scaffolds: Functional Biomaterials by Design"
Thursday, 
April 4

3:30 p.m.
Olney 218

Prof. Mu-Ping Nieh, University of Connecticut 
"Self-Assembled Lipid-Based Nanodiscs and Nanovesicles-Fundamental Understanding, Applications and Manufacturing"

Thursday,  
April 18

3:30 p.m.
Olney 218

Prof. Stephen Cheng, University of Akron 
"TBA"