Seminars will be held at 5:55 pm each Thursday. The specific meeting room for each seminar is listed along with the speaker information on the web site and on the paper announcement. Be on time! Changes in topic, location or date will be announced at the previous seminar and posted at the Chem & Biochem Department office, S&T I Room 343, and on the seminar web site: http://chemistry.gmu.edu/seminar/seminar_fall2009.html
All graduate students are expected to attend all seminars, whether registered or not.
CHEM 790/490 is an attendance/participation based course. It is your responsibility to sign the attendance sheet. In addition, you must turn in a hard copy one paragraph summary of each seminar you attend. The hard copy summary is due during the next seminar. It is expected that you will demonstrate your interest in each talk by asking questions. You will receive a “B” if you miss 3 seminars during a semester. You will receive a “C” if you miss 4 seminars. You will receive an “F” if you miss 5 or more seminars.
Students who need to present a seminar as a requirement for the MS or PhD should schedule a date one semester in advance since the schedule fills quickly.
September 3
Kathleen Housman
“Investigating the Tidal Influence of PCB Distribution at the Turbidity Maximum Zone of the Potomac River”
GMU MS Candidate
S&T II Room 15
September 10
Diann Stedman
“Safety Check Off”
George Mason University
Environmental Health & Safety
Fairfax, VA
S&T II Room 15
September 17
Dr. Sad Ahamed
“Dynamics of Arsenic Removal by Composite Iron Matrix”
George Mason University
Center for Clean Water and Sustainable Technologies
Fairfax, VA
S&T II Room 15
September 24
Dr. Shahamat Khan
“Bound (Nonextractable) Pesticide Residues in the Environment and Food Commodities”
George Mason University
Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Fairfax, VA
S&T II Room 15
September 29 Tuesday
Special Joint Seminar
GMU Depts of Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry & Biochemistry
Dr. Igor Sokolov
“On the Cross of Nano and Bio with Atomic Force Microscopy”
Clarkson University
Dept of Physics
Potsdam, NY
Johnson Center Room F 3rd Floor
Special day and time Tuesday Sept 29, 2009 at 4:30 pm
October 1
Today’s special seminar is joint with the Department of Physics and Astronomy and will be held on Sept 29, 2009
October 8
Diann Stedman & Stephanie Ford
“Safety Check Off”
George Mason University
Environmental Health & Safety
Fairfax, VA
S&T II Room 15
Please note: If you did this check off on Sept 10, 2009, please do not come to the October 8 session, as we will need as many seats as possible.
October 15
Dr. Patrick Hatcher
“Towards a Non-invasive Molecular Characterization of Macromolecular Compounds in Organic Geochemistry”
Old Dominion University
Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Norfolk, VA
S&T II Room 15
October 22
Emilios Papanastasiou
"Applications of Antimicrobial Peptides"
GMU MS Candidate
S&T II Room 15
October 29
Dr. Mike Xiao Huang
“The Maximum of Phosphate Adsorption at pH 4.0: Why It Appears on Al Oxides but not on Fe Oxides”
George Mason University
Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Fairfax, VA
S&T II Room 15
November 5
Dr. John Tovar
"Regulating charge transport through plastics"
Johns Hopkins University
Dept of Chemistry
Baltimore, MD
S&T II Room 15
November 12
Dr. Riccardo Casalini
“Dynamics of Glass-Forming Liquids and Polymer under Hydrostatic Pressure"
Naval Research Laboratory
Materials Chemistry Branch
Washington, DC
S&T II Room 15
November 19
Dr. Sung Kyoung Kim
"AAO Template-Synthesized Silica Nanotubes for Multiplexed Bioassay"
University of Maryland
Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry
College Park, MD
S&T II Room 15
November 26
Thanks Giving
December 3
Dr. Celia Arnaud
“Chronicling Chemistry: My Life as a C&EN Reporter”
Chemical & Engineering News
Senior Editor, Science/Technology/Education
Washington, DC
STII, Rm 15
December 10
Kevin Dove
“The Occurrence and Distribution of PCBs, PAHs and EDCs in the Potomac River”
GMU MS Candidate
S&T II Room 15
