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Seminar Schedule - Fall 2019

Seminars are held in Foster Hall, Room 220 on Thursdays and Fridays at 3:30pm unless otherwise indicated. Please email Lisa Norsworthy at lnorsworthy@tntech.edu for more information. 

 

Date	Speaker	School/Program	Title
Friday, September 6	Dr. Dale Ensor	Tennessee Tech Emeritus Professor	Secrecy, Security, and Spies in the Manhattan Project
Friday, September 20	Dr. Larry Hill	Western Kentucky University	Two materials chemistry projects going on at WKU: 1) degradable vinyl polymers with antioxidant pendent groups, and 2) metal nanoparticle cocatalyst deposition using ionic liquids.
Friday,  September 27	Dr. Sharani Roy	University of Tennessee	A Mechanistic Study of Microstructure Modulation in Olefin Polymerizations using a Redox-Active Ni(II) α-Diimine Catalyst
Friday, October 4	Dr. John Bushweller	University of Virginia	Using chemistry to understand and inhibit transcription factor drivers in cancer
Friday, October 18	Dr. Mengliang Zhang	Middle Tennessee State University	Forensic Chemical Analysis in Complex Matrices by Using DART-MS and Chemometrics
Friday, October 25	Dr. Xuanzhi Zhan	Tennessee Tech	Tenure Seminar: Molecular Recognition in MAPK Cascades
Thursday, October 31	Florence Fabunmi	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Thesis Seminar: Computational studies of the interaction between human topoisomerase IIA and α-(N)-heterocyclic thiosemicarbazones with molecular dynamics simulations
Friday, November 1	Amanda Koch	Colorado State University (Tennessee Tech Alumni)	Single Molecule Imaging of Viral Protein Synthesis: A Journey from the Smokies to the Rockies
Tuesday, November 5 @ 4pm	Dylan Gardner	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Investigations of a Measure of Merit for Stereochemical Determinations by RDC NMR
Friday, November 8	Dr. David Lingerfelt	Oak Ridge National Lab	Matter-Beam Interactions: Photochemistry with Virtual Photons
Thursday, November 14	Megan Keane	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Literature Seminar: Rhenium(I) Tricarbonyl Complexes of Salicylaldehyde Semicarbazones
Thursday, November 14	Kari Lawson	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Literature Seminar: Trivalent lanthanide and actinide complexation with bis-triazinyl-bipyridines investigated by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
Friday, November 15	Dr. Gayan Wijeratne	University of Alabama, Birmingham	Mimicking Mechanistic Aspects of Tryptophan Oxidation in Biology
Friday, November 22	Will Graham	Tennessee Tech Master's Student	Thesis Seminar: Investigation of the structure of metal ligand complexes