Chemformation

The Weekly Newsletter of the MIT Chemistry Department

Volume 12, Number 3
Friday, January 19, 1996

Next Issue: January 26, 1996. Chemformation is published by the Office of the Department Chairman. The deadline for the next issue is Tuesday, January 23. Please convey items of interest (or mailing list changes) to Linda Earle, Room 18-393, Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, 617/253-4080; 617/258-7500 (fax) or e-mail to lkn@mit.edu. Back issues of Chemformation can be accessed via the Chemistry Department Website.

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SEMINAR CALENDAR

Dr. Barry Stoddard

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

"Stalking and Capturing Catalytic Enzyme Intermediates with Laue Crystallography"

Thursday, January 25, 1996

4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120

Refreshments @ 3:45 (at 6-120)

Professor Jonathan Ellman

University of California at Berkeley

"Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Small Molecule Libraries"

Thursday, February 1, 1996

4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120

Refreshments @ 3:30 (Norris Room)

Dr. Donald M. Kurtz, Jr

University of Georgia, Athens, GA

"Structure and Functions of Bacterial Non-heme Iron Proteins"

Wednesday, February 7, 1996

5:00 p.m. in MB-23 at Harvard

Harvard/MIT Inorganic Seminar Series

Refreshments @ 4:30 PM in MB-9

Graduate Research Symposium in Organic And Bioorganic Chemistry

Tuesday, January 30, 1996, 2:30 PM, Room 66-110

Andy Peat

Buchwald Lab

Novel Syntheses of Tetrahydropyrroloquinolines: Applications to Alkaloid Synthesis

David Hays

Fu Lab

New Reactions of Tributyltin Hydride

Robert Grotzfeld

Rebek Lab

Self-Assembling Host Systems for Small Molecule Guests

Brenda Palucki

Danheiser Lab

Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles via Intramolecular Cycloadditions of Conjugated Enynes

Linda Szabo Shimizu

Kemp Lab

Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Templates for Peptide Synthesis

Dan Allen

Virgil Lab

Studies Toward the Synthesis of Lactiflorin and Paeoniflorin

Faculty Positions

• University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada: Invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Physical Chemistry or related areas, effective on or after July 1, 1996. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct an active and innovative research program and to teach at both the undergradate and graduate levels.
  
  
• The University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL: invites applications for a tenure-track position beginning fall 1996, Qualifications include a Ph.D. in chemistry with an emphasis or training in analytical chemistry, evidence of commitment to excellent undergraduate teaching, and demonstrated ability to conduct research. Primary teaching will include quantitative analysis and instrumental analytical chemistry, and may include general chemistry and other courses at all levels.
  
  

Positions

• Feinstein Partners, Inc, Cambridge, MA: is accepting applications for their client, a south Florida Biotech Company who seeks an Investor Relations Contact. Minimum B.A./B.S., life sciences studies desirable. Good oral and written communications skills with 1-2 years communications and corporate staff experience desirable or 1-2 years bench experience. Responsibilities include maintaining orderly flow of written communications to shareholders via mailings of press releases, letters and annual reports; responding to investor inquries; arranging logistics for annual meeting; and assisting in the production of corporate presentations. Position reports to CEO of firm.
  
  
• Tufts University, Experimental College, Medford, MA: Visiting Lectureships available, undergraduate elective courses, contemporary issues and ideas, via the Web at http://www.tufts.edu/as/exc
  
  

Postdoctoral Positions

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA: The Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program anticipates one or two postdoctral positions in the area of Polymer Science to support the development of polymer-based target components for current and future ICF experiments. Looking for experimentalists with strong backgrounds in areas such as polymer characterization, rheology, surface and coating science, or polymer processing, as well as the use of standard laboratory analytical tools such as CG-MS, FTIR, UV-Vis, DSC, and TGA.
  
  
• Kansas State University, Department of Physics: Applications are invited from experiementalists for two postdoctoral positions in materials science. A Ph.D. in physics, chemistry, material science or a related discipline is required. One position will be responsible for the operation of a Philips CM12 STEM, and the other for operation of surface science equipment (two X-ray photoelectron spectrometers (one of which has multichannel detection and monochromatized X-ray dection).
  
  
• University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada: A postdoctoral position is available in Professor Brumer's Physical Theory Group which is engaged in theoritical work on coherent control of molecular processes, light-matter interactions, semiclassical methods of propagation, quantum and classical analysis of laser induced intramolecular energy redistribution, classical-quantum correspondence, quantum chaos, and semiclassical corrections to RRKM theory. Applicants may send their cv to the internet (pbrumer@tikva.chem.utoronto.ca) or regular mail.
  
  

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