ChemformationChemformation
Volume 15, Number 4
Friday, January 29, 1999
Chemformation is published by the Office of the Department Chairman. Please convey items of interest (or mailing list changes) to Linda Earle, Room 18-390, 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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Wednesday, February 3, 1999 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120 Seminar in Inorganic Chemistry Refreshments @ 3:30 p.m. |
Katherine Franz Lippard Group "The Disproportionation of Nitric Oxide Promoted by Mn and Fe Tropocoronand Complexes" |
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Thursday, February 4, 1999 4:00 p.m in Room 2-105 Seminar in Physical Chemistry Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in Amdur Room, 6-233 |
Prof. Andrew Rappe University of Pennsylvania "Molecule-Surface Properties by Design" |
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Thursday, February 4, 1999 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120 Seminar in Biological Chemistry Refreshments @ 3:45 p.m. |
Dr. Michael Gilson National Institute of Standards and Technology "Direct Calculation of Free Energies: Method and Application" |
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Wednesday, February 10, 1999 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120 Seminar in Inorganic Chemistry Refreshments @ 3:30 p.m. |
Professor Malcolm H. Chisholm Indiana University "The Chop-Chop Reaction (a la Schrock and Cummins): Further Studies Aimed at Elucidating Mechanisms" |
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Thursday, February 11, 1999 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120 Seminar in Organic Chemistry Refreshments @ 3:30 p.m. in 18-490 |
Professor Craig Wilcox University of Pittsburgh "A Personal View of Contemporary Challenges in Organic Chemical Science" |
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Thursday, February 11, 1999 5:00 p.m. in MB23 Harvard/MIT Seminar in Physical Chemistry @ Harvard Refreshments in MB23 at 4:30 p.m. |
Professor Michael L. Klein University of Pennsylvania "Weak Acids, Strong Acids, and Super Acids: Some Insights into the Behavior of the Liquids, Solids, and Gasphase Clusters from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics" |
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Wednesday, February 17, 1999 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120 Harvard/MIT Inorganic Seminars @ MIT Refreshments @ 3:30 p.m |
Dr. Karen I. Goldberg University of Washington "Reductive Elimination and Oxidative Addition Reactions Involving C-C, C-H and C-X Bonds at Pt (IV)/Pt(II)" |
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Thursday, February 18, 1999 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lectures in Organic Synthesis Refreshments @ 3:30 p.m. |
Joanne Bronson Bristol-Myers Squibb "Discovery of New Antibacterial Agents: Traditional and Novel Approaches"
Barry M. Trost |
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Monday, February 22, 1999 Tuesday, February 23, 1999 The Arthur D. Little Seminar Series in Physical Chemistry and Thursday, February 25, 1999 Joint Arthur D. Little - Harvard/MIT Seminar @ MIT Room TBA |
Professor Richard Friesner Columbia University Titles TBA |
Erja Kajosalo the chemistry librarian is pleased to announce that they have now online access to the following Elsevier journals:
Tetrahedron
Tetrahedron Letters
Tetrahedron Asymmetry
Bio-organic and Medicinal Chemistry
Bio-organic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
They get this access free with their print package subscription, but Elsevier requests that you must register as a user to be able to access them. You only register as a user the very first time you access one of these journals. Please follow the instruction given on the first page as you click on one of these journals from the following web pages:
http://libraries.mit.edu/science/Subjects/Chemistry/top.html
http://libraries.mit.edu/lists/ejrnls-short.html
If you have any problems or need any help with the registration, please contact the chemistry librarian Erja Kajosalo (kajosalo@mit.edu).
LeukoSite, Inc., Cambridge, MA, has several positions available for PhD and M.S. chemists with synthetic organic training. Company literature available in Headquarters (Room 18-390). Please submit application and r»sum» directly to Dr. Jay R. Luly, Vice President, Drug Discovery, 215 First Street, Cambridge, MA 02142.
Information on companies' salary offers by areas of chemistry is available in Headquarters (Rm 18-390). Figures were reported by graduate students and postdocs who participated in the 1997 Recruiting Season and left during 1998.
Applications are solicited for the Greenlaw Fellowship. This fellowship provides full stipend and tuition for the period 9/1/98-8/31/99, and is funded by the Graduate School Office. Eligibility: Any graduate student in good standing. Submit application to Professor D. Seyferth, Room 4-382A. Deadline: Friday, February 12, 1999.
Call Ed Udas at 253-4505 or stop by room 6-026 if students, faculty, or staff need help in organizing their MIT space.
Bob DiGiacomo will be coming in on Wednesdays or Thursdays to pick up any glass blowing work that you may have available. Please bring any work to room 6-031 or call Ed Udas or John Annese at 3-4505. Bob will do the work on a first-come, first-served basis
Please note, unless otherwise specified, most faculty positions require a resume, short description of research plans and to arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent directly to the specific university or college
Clarkson University: The Chemistry Department at Clarkson University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in organic/polymer chemistry. A Ph.D. with research complementing departmental programs and those at the Center for Advanced Material Processing is required; postdoctoral experience is preferred. Promotion requires a productive extramurally-funded research program and excellence in teaching undergraduate and graduate students. Applicants with especially prominent resumes can apply to the Distinguished University Scholar Program where they will receive a 3-yr appointment and salary increase of up to 25%. Please submit vitae, research plans, teaching philosophy and 3 letters of recommendation to Professor Yuzhuo Li, Faculty Search Committee Chair, Department of Chemistry, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699-5810. Initial application via e-mail is strongly encouraged (yuzhuoli@clarkson.edu). Position starts 8/15/99. Yuzhuo Li, Associate Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry, 221 Science Center Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699-5810- (315) 268-2355 (office), -6610 (fax), -3806 (lab) http://www.clarkson.edu/chemistry/newfaculty.html yuzhuoli@clarkson.edu or yzl@usa.net
http://www.clarkson.edu/~yuzhuoli (homepage)
Pomona College, Sabbatical-leave replacement: Two-year position as assistant professor to teach physical chemistry and group therapy beginning July 0f 1999. Submit materials to Professor C. Sellassie, Chairperson, Seaver Chemistry Laboratory, Pomona College, Claremont, CA 91711-6338.
Postdoctoral position in surface science at the Physics Department of Iowa State University/Ames Lab Department of Energy is available starting January 1999 for one year with the option to renew for a second year.The group is currently using STM and SPALEED for the characterization of epitaxial growth and dynamic processes on surfaces.Recent work involve surface diffusion measurements on H/Si(111)in real time with the STM and the role of quantum size effects in metal/semiconductor growth,Pb/Si(111) from LEED spot profile analysis. Background in surface science and familiarity with the above techniques are great advantages. Send CV with the names of three references to Prof. M. C.Tringides Department of Physics, Iowa State University Ames IA 50011( email adress:tringides @ameslab.gov) review their website at: http://www.umt.edu/chemistry for more information.
Postgraduate position in Surface Simulation Computational Materials Science, Daresbury Laboratory, and Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester. This three year research position leading to a PhD has been funded within the Total Technology programme by the EPSRC, University of Manchester and CCLRC. The successful candidate will work at Daresbury Laboratory, under the co-supervision of Dr NM Harrison and Prof. G Thornton, on fundamental studies of the electronic structure of oxide surfaces through first principles simulations. The project is a part of a well established research programme involving groups throughout Europe, in South Africa and the USA. The combination of simulation and a wide variety of experimental techniques will be used to study problems of relevance to industrial catalysis, environmental science and device physics. Financial support will vary according to qualification for CASE sponsorship and for the receipt of funding from UK research councils but will be in the range =A36,500 - =A312,000 per annum. Please send your applications by 1st April 1999 to; D M Harrison, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury Warrington, WA4 4AD. United Kingdom. Phone: +44 1925 603 334 Fax:+44 1925 603 634. E-Mail: n.harrison@dl.ac.uk
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