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Monday, Apr 15
3:30 pm - 4:20 pm
Room: BRWN 4102		Biochemistry Seminar
“Cellular pH Dynamics: The Pluses and Minuses of Protein Electrostatics”   by Professor Katharine White (University of Notre Dame).
Tuesday, Apr 16
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Room: BRWN 4102		Inorganic Seminar
"Nanoscale Imaging of Chemical Reactivity Using Single-Particle Fluorescence Microscopy"  by Professor Bryce Sadtler (Washington University in St. Louis).
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Room: BRWN 2106		Dissertation
"Deciphering Soil Nitrogen Biogeochemical Processes Using Nitrogen and Oxygen Stable Isotopes"  by Benjamin Wilkins (Michalski Group).
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Room: 4102 BRWN		Dissertation
"The UV Spectroscopy of 3-Phenyl-2-Propynenitrile and its Methylated Derivatives" by Khadija Jawad (Zwier Group).
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Room: WTHR 320		Analytical Seminar
“The Interfacial Chemistry of Organic Aerosols and Cloud Droplets”   by Dr. Kevin Wilson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).
Wednesday, Apr 17
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Room: BRWN 4102		Physical Chemistry Seminar
"Quantum Computers for Chemistry" by Professor Kenneth Brown (Duke University).
Thursday, Apr 18
8:55 am - 6:30 pm
Room: STEW 214		The 36th Herbert C. Brown Lectures in Organic Chemistry
https://www.chem.purdue.edu/hcbrownlectures

                                              
8:55 – 9:00 a.m.    Opening Remarks by Jean Chmielewski, Chair, H.C. Brown Lectures, Dept. of Chemistry, Purdue University.

9:00 – 10:00 a.m.   Gregory C. Fu, California Institute of Technology, Recipient of the 2018 ACS Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods,  “Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to SN1 and SN2 Reactions”.

11:00 – 12:00 p.m. Sarah E. Reisman, California Institute of Technology, “Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry They Inspire”. 

1:30 – 2:30 p.m.    Peter H. Seeberger, Max-Planck Institute, “Preventing and Fighting Infectious Disease: Carbohydrate Vaccines and Continuous Production of Medicines”.

2:45 – 3:00 p.m.    Aristide Gumyusenge, Purdue University,  H.C. Brown Graduate Student Research Award Winner, “High Temperature Organic Semiconductors”.

3:00 – 3:15 p.m.    Jacob Werth, Purdue University, H.C. Brown Graduate Student Research Award Winner,  “Transition Metal Catalyzed Simmons–Smith Type Cyclopropanations”.

4:00 – 5:00 p.m.    Benjamin List, Max-Planck Institute, “Designing Extremely Reactive Acid Catalysts to Solve Challenging Problems in Chemical Synthesis”.

5:15 – 6:30 p.m.    Reception and Announcement of Poster Award Winners, West Faculty Lounge, Purdue Memorial Union.