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				GSF Seminars Student Seminar Series The student seminars are generally given on a Friday and give students an opportunity to present research, practice a talk for a defense or conference and obtain feedback on their work. Food and drink are provided to draw a crowd. If you are interested in taking advantage of this opportunity, contact Becky Shaner at rshaner3@mail.gatech.edu. Cherry Emerson Seminar Series Fall 2007: Royce Murray October 2, 2007 UNC Chapel Hill Melanie Sanford cancelled due to medical condition University of Michigan Nicholas Turro October 30,2006 Columbia University Spring 2008: GSF encourages all graduate students to meet with some or all Cherry Emerson speakers. These are excellent opportunities to find out about speakers, their work, or just finding about research life outside Georgia Tech. The sessions are usually very interesting & informative, without requiring any significant knowledge about the person's work (of course, research discussion is always welcome). Sherry Lecture Spring 2008: TBA The Sherry lecture is held annually in memory of Dr. Peter B. Sherry. Dr. Sherry devoted himself as an educator and as a friend to the students of Georgia Tech. This lecture provides students, both graduate and undergraduate, with exposure to the most innovative science and provides an oppurtunity for personal academic and research development. Students have the opportunity to meet with Sherry lecturers in an informal setting. Past GSF Seminars Student Seminar Series September 5, 2003: Jie Zheng - "Size-Dependent Emission from Dendrimer Encapsulated Nobel Metal Nanodots" September 19, 2003: Bryan White - "Synthesis of a Heterogeneous Polyrotaxane" October 17, 2003: KJ Dennison - "HTLV-I Protease and the C-Terminal 'Tail' Cleavage" October 24, 2003: Jack Eichler - "The Coordination Chemistry of Bis(trimethylstannyl)amine: Cousin of the Ubiquitous Hexamethyldisilazane" October 31, 2003: Christy Vestal - "Anisotropy Mechanisms in Spinel Ferrite Nanoparticles" November 14, 2003: Tae-hee Lee - "Single Molecule Optoelectronics" December 12, 2003: Michael Serpe - "Electrostatic Assembly of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-co-Acrylic Acid Microgels to Achieve Microstructured/Functional Thin Films" March 19, 2004: Christine Conwell - "Insights into factors that govern DNA Toroid formation" April 16, 2004: Mark Poggi - "Nanoscale Force Measurements: New Techniques that Aid in the Design of Next Generation Composites and Interpreting the Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes" May 28, 2004: Lynn Capadona - "Room-Temperature Optical Spectroscopy of Photoactivated Silver Nanoclusters" February 4, 2005: Lauren Schwimmer February 11, 2005: Christy Charlton - "Quantum Cascade Lasers for Mid-Infrared Chemical Sensing" March 25, 2005 - Greg Moakes April 9, 2005 - Susie Eustis - "Gold Nanoparticle formation from Photochemical Reduction of Au3+. A Proposed Molecular Mechanism" April 15, 2005 - Bahareh Azizi - "Chemical Complementation: A Genetic Selection System For Drug Discovery, Protein and Enzyme Engineering" Graduate Student Sponsored Speakers September 23, 2003 - Dr. Bruce Armitage, Carnegie Mellon University December 16, 2003 - Dr. Doug Rees, California Institute of Technology February 10, 2004 - Dr. Marcey Waters, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill February 17, 2004 - Dr. Doug Gilman, University of Tennessee - Knoxville February 24, 2004 - Dr. Steve Lippard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology March 2, 2004 - Dr. Dan Nocera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology March 9, 2004 - Dr. Steve Nolan, University of New Orleans March 16, 2004 - Dr. David Chandler, University of California - Berkeley March 23, 2004 - Dr. Michael Hecht, Princeton University April 6, 2004 - Dr. Alex Wlodawer, The National Cancer Institute April 13, 2004 - Dr. Paul Weiss, Pennsylvania State University September 21, 2004 - Dr. Ken Suslick, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign September 28, 2004 - Dr. Jeff Moore, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign October 5, 2004 - Dr. Craig Hawker, IBM October 12, 2004 - Dr. Milan Mrksich, University of Chicago November 9, 2004 - Dr. Andrea Liu, University of California - Los Angeles February 15, 2005 - Dr. John Anthony, University of Kentucky February 22, 2005 - Dr. Dr. Weihong Tan, University of Florida - Gainesville March 8, 2005 - Dr. Jon Ellman, University of California - Berkeley April 5, 2005 - Dr. Sandra Greer, University of Maryland February 13, 2007- Dr. George Schatz, Northwestern University February 27, 2007- Dr. Daniel Gamelin, University of Washington March 13, 2007- Dr. R. Graham Cooks, Purdue University April 24, 2007- Dr. Vincent Rotello, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Past Sherry Lecturers April 22, 2004 - Dr. Peter Dervan, California Institute of Technology: Molecular Recognition of DNA by Small Molecules April 7, 2005 - Dr. James R. Heath, California Institute of Technology: Molecular Mechanics and Electronics April 18, 2006 - Dr. Samuel Stupp, Northwestern University: