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Seminars(2006)

Seminars(2007)

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Date

Topic

Speaker

 1.

16.01.07

Combustion Chemistry: The Mysterious Ortho-Benzyne.

Prof. Henry F Schaefer

Director, Center for Computational Chemistry
University of Georgia, Athens, USA

 2.

17.01.07

Porphyrin Arene: Ruthenium Complexes - The "perfect" anticancer drug

Dr. Bruno Therrien

University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

 3.

18.01.07

Opportunities in new drug discovery & development. My 'Nicholas Piramal' experience.

Dr. Ramani Aiyer

Vice President,
Strategic planning,
R & D at Nicholas Piramal (I) Ltd

 4.

22-01-07

Chemistry of Dimeric Pt. compounds in their (I), (II), (II,III) and (III) oxidation states. Electronic communication through Pt-Pt bonds.

Prof. Suresh Bhargava

FRACI HBS
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

 5.

29-01-07

Investigation the mechanism of antibiotic biosynthesis

Dr. Champak Chatterjee

Rockefeller University, NY

 6.

6-02-07

Chemical glycobiology - application to cell adhesion, stem cell differentiation, cancer drug development and synthetic conjugate vaccines.

Dr. S Gopalan Sampathkumar

Post Doctoral Fellow,
Dept. Of Biomedical Eng.
John Hopkins University, Baltimore MD

 7.

12-02-07

New generation organic material for NLO application

Prof T.K Chandrashekharan

Director, RRL - Thiruvananthapuram

 8.

15-02-07

Synthesis of natural products and other biologically active hetrocycles.

Prof. Dr. Uwe Beifuss

Bio-organic Chemistry,University of Hohenheim

 9.

23-02-07

Nanotubes application to catalysis, fuel cells, sensors and thermal stabilization

Prof. K.S.V. Santhanam

Director,Centre for Material Science & Engineering
Rochester,NY

 10.

28-02-07

Nanotechnology - Impact on society

Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy

Chief Technology Officer,
RKR Group,Inc

 11.

5-03-07

Ionic liquids - new solvents and electrolytes for electro-chemistry, medicinal chemistry and biological chemistry.

Dr. D Merc Farlane

School of Chemistry
Monash University, Australia

 12.

13-3-07

Translational biology in India: From smallpox to stem

Prof. D. Balasubramanian

Director of Research,
LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad

 13a.

21-03-07

Mass Spectrometry

Dr. M Vairamani

Head, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
Hyderabad

 13b.

21-03-07

Transition metal chemistry of phosphorus ligands base on the P-N-P motif

Prof. S.S. Krishnamurthy

IISc, Bangalore

 14.

23-03-07

Phosphorus functionalized calix [4] arenes: conformations and transition metal chemistry.

Prof. S.S Krishnamurthy

Hon Prof. & INSA senior scientist,
IISc Bangalore

 15a.

26-03-07

Asymmetric catalysis of C-C bond forming reactions

Prof. T.V. Rajanbabu

Dept. Of Chemistry
Ohio State University, USA

 15b.

26-03-07

Mass Spectrometry

Dr. M Vairamani

Head,
Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad

 16.

28-03-07

Biotechnology of DNA cleaving, photo dynamic

Dr. Nethaji

Dept. Of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry,
IISc Bangalore

 17.

23-04-07

Chemistry of co-related electrons

Prof. S. Ramasesha

Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit.

 18.

26-04-07

Fun with Acetylene

Prof. S Sankaraman

Dept. Of Chemistry, IIT-M

 19.

30-05-07

A toxin fed Drosophila Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Parkinsonism Dementia Complex (ALS/PDC)

Joy J Goto, Ph.D

California State University,
Beckman Research Institute

 20.

30-05-07

Protective properties of Ionic manganese in oxidative stress and aging

Chandra Srinivasan

Dept. Of Chemistry, California State University,
Fullerton, CA

 21.

31-05-07

Enantioselective total synthesis of biologically active natural products

Dr. Pradeep Kumar

National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

 22.

05-06-07

Nanomaterial Based FRET for Environmental Protection ucts

Prof. Paresh C. Ray

Department of Chemistry
Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA

 23.

11-06-07

Beyond Born - Oppenheimer treatment and the Curl equations for non - adiabatic coupling elements around conical intersection(s)

Satrajit Adhikari

Department of Physical Chemistry
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science,
Jadavpur, Kolkata

 24.

12-06-07

Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Electronic Structure,optical properties and applications

Dr. Sameer Sapra

TU, Dresden

 25.

13-06-07

Development of single photon sources from single molecules of conjugated polymers for quantum information processing.

Dr Pradeep Kumar K.K.

Hewlett Packard
San Diego CA, USA

 26.

22-06-07

Photosensitization of titaniumdioxide nanoparticles by the excited states of dyes loaded on the micro and mesoporous silicate host materials.

Prof. P. Natarajan, FNA, FASc.

DST Ramanna Fellow
National Centre for Ultrafast Processes
University of Madras

 27.

25-06-07

Fluorescent Ribonucleoside Probe:Synthesis and Application.

Dr. Srivatsan G Seergazh .

University of California

 28.

04-07-07

How do functional groups interact? What one can learn from [2.2]paracyclophanes.

Prof. Henning Hopf

Institte of Organic Chemistry
University of Braunschweig, Germany

 29.

11-07-07

Advances in Transition Metal Lewis Acid Mediated and Catalyzed Reactions.

Professor Peter E. Kundig

Department of Organic Chemistry
University of Geneva, Switzerland

 30.

12-07-07

Electro spinning of polymeric Nanofabres using Microfluidics manifolds.

Dr. Yasmin Srivastava

Dept. of Mechanical Engg., MIT
Cambridge, MA

 31.

17-07-07

Green Oxidation Chemistry Using Fe-TAML.

Dr. Anindya Ghosh

2406, Country Club
Duncan, OK 73533 USA

 32.

01-08-07

The Hunt For A Better Drug: The Case of Squalene Synthase Inhibitors.

Dr. Kasim A. Mookhtiar

Advinus Therapeutics Pvt Ltd, Pune

 33.

16-08-07

Synthetically Engineered Materials for Catalysis and Nano-scale Device Applications.

Dr. Nandita Madhavan

School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA

 34.

20-08-07

NMR Analysis of Partially Folded States and Persistent Structure in a 29kDa TIM Barrel protein: Back to BASiCs..

Dr. Vadrevu Ramakrishna

University of Pennsylvania.

 35.

22-08-07

A quest for a practical synthesis of commercially important molecules.

Dr S. P. Chavan

National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.

 36.

03-09-07

Transition metal catalyzed organic transformations & Atroposelective Biaryl Coupling..

Dr Malati Raghunath

University of California
Santa Barbara.

 37.

10-09-07

Organometallic Compounds for Catalysis

Prof. Fritz Kuehn

Technical University of Munich.

 38.

13-09-07

Advances in Fluorous Chemistry : a strategy for efficient separations and self assembly in organic synthesis.

Prof. Roger W. Read

School of Chemistry
The University of New South Wales
NSW 2051, Australia..

 38.

09-10-07

Oxygen and amine transfer reactions mediated by biomimetic diiron complexes

Prof. J.M. Latour

Laboratoire de Chimie et Biologie des Métaux
UMR 5249 CEA - CNRS - UJF
38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.

 39.

10-10-07

Local Complex Potential Based Time Dependent Wave Packet Approach to Calculation of Vibrational Excitation Cross-sections in e-N2, e-H2 and e-CO scattering.

Prof. M. K. Mishra

Department of Chemistry
IIT Bombay.

 40.

15-10-07

Nucleic Acid Analogs: Synthesis and Applications

Dr. Moneesha Fernandes

Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.

 41.

17-10-07

Solid State NMR - where Physics meets Chemistry and Biology

Dr. Rameksh Ramachandran

Department of Chemistry,
Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge.

 42.

19-10-07

Co-operativity in catalysis by multivalent systems: Reality or chimera ?

Dr. Paolo Scrimin

University of Padova
Department of Chemical Sciences
Padova, Italy.

 43.

23-10-07

Nanostructure thermoelectric materials synthesis, characterization and thermoelectric properties

Prof. Arup Purkayastha

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY-12180.

 44.

01-11-07

Development of a Hightly Efficient and Instant Catalyst for Alkyne and Alkyne/Nitrile [2+2+2]-Cycloaddition Reactions

Dr. Avijit Goswami

Kanagawa University, Japan.

 45.

05-11-07

Ions in Mass Spectrometry: What, Why and How?

Dr. Yamadagni

Director, Instrumentation Facility
Department of Chemistry
University of Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2N 1N4.

 46.

06-11-07

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: The LC connection

Dr. Yamadagni

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 47.

21-11-07

Leading Technologies for the 21st Century - Innovation at the GE India Technology Centre

Dr. Adil M. Dhalla

Technical Director,
Chemistry and Characterization,
GE India Technology Centre.

 48.

28-11-07

Synthetic strategy to construct C3v-symmetric buckybowls, bowl-shaped aromatic compounds

Prof. Hidehiro Sakurai

Research Center for Molecular Scale Nanoscience
Institute for Molecular Science
Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8787, Japan.

 49.

03-12-07

Nanoencapsulation of therapeutically active plant flavonoids: Insights from spectroscopic studies.

Prof. Pradeep K. Sengupta

Biophysics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics,
1/AF Bidhannagar,
Kolkata 700064.

 50.

04-12-07

A systematic chemistry of metallaboranes.From Early to late transition metals.

Prof. Thomas P. Fehlner

Grace-Rupley Professor Emeritus
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame.

 51.

14-12-07

A Quantum Classical appraoch to the Photoabsorption spectrum of Pyrazine and Butatriene .

Dr.Satrajit Adhikari

Department of Physical Chemistry,
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science,
Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032 INDIA.

 52.

10-12-07

Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry : New methods for Life Science and Trace Organic Analysis .

Prof. R. Graham Cooks

Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University,
West Lafayette,
Indiana, USA.

 53.

14-12-07

Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Optical Biosensors for Genotoxic Agents.

Daniel A. Heller

Prof. Michael Strano Group,
Department of Chemistry/Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, USA).

 54.

24-12-07

The Electron Propagator Theory of Chemical Bonding.

Prof. J.V. Ortiz

Ruth W. Molette Professor and Chairman
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Auburn University, AL, USA.

 55.

26-12-07

Nanostructured Organic Solar Cells.

Dr. K. Krishnamoorthy

Department of Chemistry,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.