Past Seminars & Talks
February 2011
Department Seminar
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 10:30
Exploring the mechanisms of metal-based pharmacological agents via an integrated approach
| Speaker: | Dr. Angela Casini |
| EPFL, Lausanne | |
| Location: | Room 313 |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | Presents for SNSF professorship |
Fribourg Chemical Society
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 17:15
From precision oligomers to supramolecular polymers
| Speaker: | Prof. Andreas Kilbinger |
| Université de Fribourg | |
| Location: | Main auditorium |
| Contact: | M. Allan |
| More info: | http://www.kilbinger.net/ |
March 2011
Fribourg Chemical Society
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 17:15
Mythology in Organic Chemistry: A Kinetic Analysis
| Speaker: | Prof. Herbert Mayr |
| Department Chemie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München | |
| Location: | Main auditorium |
| Contact: | M. Allan |
| More info: | http://www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/oc/mayr/CDmayrcv.html |
Department Seminar
Friday, March 4, 2011 - 14:15
New Organic Chemistry of Sulfur Dioxide and Mechanistic Insights in Ir-Catalyzed Allylic Substituti
| Speaker: | Dean Markovic |
| Lausanne | |
| Location: | Room 418 |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | Presents for SNSF professor |
Department Seminar
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 16:00
Calculation of Electronic Spectra from Model Hamiltonians based on Coupled-Cluster Calculations
| Speaker: | Prof. John Stanton |
| University of Texas, Austin | |
| Location: | seminar room 418 |
| Contact: | Thomas Bally |
3 Cycle Lecture
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 17:15
Synthetic Approach for Artificial Photosynthesis and Solar Energy Conversion
| Speaker: | Prof. Hiroshi Imahori |
| Kyoto University, Japan | |
| Location: | Big auditorium |
| Contact: | C. Bochet |
| More info: | http://www.moleng.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~moleng_05/index_e.html |
Department Seminar
Monday, March 21, 2011 - 17:15
The Amazing Ribosome: its tiny enemies and hints about its evolution
| Speaker: | Prof. Ada Yonath (Nobel Prize Winner) |
| Weizmann Institute, Israel | |
| Location: | Big Auditorium |
| Contact: | K. Fromm / A. Crochet |
| Comment: | Chaim Weizmann Lecture |
April 2011
3 Cycle Lecture
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 17:15
Contributions of Chemistry in Future Energy Systems
| Speaker: | Prof. Ferdi Schüth |
| MPI Müllheim | |
| Location: | Big auditorium |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
Department event
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 20:15
Die Menschheit auf dem Weg zur Drei-Welten-Zivilisation
| Speaker: | Dr. Bruno Stanek |
| CH-6415 Arth | |
| Location: | Main auditorium |
| Contact: | P. Belser |
| Comment: | Paul Rhyner-Vortrag |
| More info: | http://www.stanek.ch |
Fribourg Chemical Society
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 17:15
Challenges and Opportunities for Crop Protection Chemistry in the 21st Century
| Speaker: | Dr. Andrew Plant |
| Head Research Chemistry, Syngenta Crop Protection, Stein, Switzerland | |
| Location: | Main auditorium |
| Contact: | Frib. Chem. Soc. (M. Allan) |
| More info: | http://www.syngenta.com/global/corporate/en/Pages/home.aspx |
3 Cycle Lecture
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 15:00
Probing transient neutral species by dissociative photodetachment: fast beams and ion traps
| Speaker: | Prof. Robert E. Continetti |
| University of California, San Diego | |
| Location: | Petit auditoire |
| Contact: | M. Allan |
| More info: | http://checont6.ucsd.edu/ |
Fribourg Chemical Society
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 17:15
Photochemical Experiments and Basic Concepts - Curriculum Modernization in Chemical Education
| Speaker: | Prof. Michael W. Tausch |
| Bergische Universität, Wuppertal | |
| Location: | Main auditorium |
| Contact: | M. Allan |
| More info: | http://www.chemiedidaktik.uni-wuppertal.de |
May 2011
Department Seminar
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 15:00
Organic chemistry put to work: Molecular sheets and cylindrical objects
| Speaker: | Prof. A.-D. Schlüter |
| ETH Zürich | |
| Location: | Main auditorium |
| Contact: | A. Kilbinger |
Student seminar
Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 17:00
Rotational Spectra in Supersonic Jets of Alcohols, Ethers, Carboxylic Acids and their adducts
| Speaker: | Mr. Roberto Rizzato |
| University of Bologna, Italy | |
| Location: | Room 418 |
| Contact: | M. Allan |
| Comment: | presents for PhD position |
Student seminar
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 11:00
Coordination compounds of copper and cobalt with ligands based on hydrazide and oxime groups
| Speaker: | Ms. Khrystyna Regeta |
| Taras Schevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine | |
| Location: | Room 418 |
| Contact: | M. Allan |
| Comment: | presents for PhD position |
Department Seminar
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 17:15
The Innocent, the Not-so-Innocent and the Guilty
| Speaker: | Prof. Hansjürg Grützmacher |
| ETH Zürich | |
| Location: | grand auditoire |
| Contact: | Thomas Bally |
| More info: | http://www.gruetzmacher.ethz.ch/ |
Fribourg Chemical Society
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 17:15
Is the future black? - The Search for Graphene and Carbon Materials
| Speaker: | Prof. Klaus Müllen |
| Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research | |
| Location: | Main auditorium |
| Contact: | M. Allan |
| More info: | http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/groups/muellen/director |
Department Seminar
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 17:15
Studies in asymmetric catalysis: new catalysts, substrates and screening methods
| Speaker: | Prof. Andreas Pfaltz |
| University of Basel | |
| Location: | Big lecture hall |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
June 2011
Fribourg Chemical Society
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 17:15
Mein Weg zur Chemie und darüber hinaus Mon chemin vers la chimie et plus loin
| Speaker: | Nobel Prize Winner Prof. Richard R. Ernst |
| ETHZ | |
| Location: | Big lecture hall |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | Opening of the Week of Chemistry 2011 |
Department Seminar
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 17:15
Die Chemie des Alterns / La chimie du vieillissement
| Speaker: | Bernd Giese |
| Université de Fribourg | |
| Location: | Big lecture hall |
| Contact: | Katharina Fromm |
| Comment: | Talk organized for the big public |
Department Seminar
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 17:15
Wasser = Leben : Stimmt diese Gleichung? L\'eau = la vie, cette équation est-elle correcte?
| Speaker: | Dr. Dr. h. c. Mario Slongo |
| Tafers | |
| Location: | Big lecture hall |
| Contact: | Katharina Fromm |
| Comment: | Lecture organized for the year of chemistry, big public |
Department Seminar
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 17:15
Le secret du chocolat / Das Geheimnis der Schokolade
| Speaker: | Alexandre Sacerdoti |
| Chocolats Villars | |
| Location: | Big lecture hall |
| Contact: | Katharina Fromm |
| Comment: | Lecture for the year of Chemistry, open to public |
Department Seminar
Saturday, June 18, 2011 - 14:00
To be announced
| Speaker: | Whole department of chemistry |
| Université de Fribourg | |
| Location: | Whole department |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | Journée portes ouvertes du département de chimie à l\'occasion de l\'année internationale de chimie. |
Student seminar
Monday, June 20, 2011 - 10:30
Laboratory spectroscopic studies of reactive intermediates relevant to the combustion
| Speaker: | Ms. Radmila Janeckova, MSc. |
| Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic | |
| Location: | Room 418 |
| Contact: | Dusan Kubala |
| Comment: | Ms. Janeckova is candidate for PhD. studies at our department. |
September 2011
Fribourg Chemical Society
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 17:15
Seeking for the optimal solid-state form
| Speaker: | Dr. Timo Rager |
| Solvias AG, Kaiseraugst | |
| Location: | Grande auditoire |
| Contact: | M Allan |
| More info: | http://www.solvias.com/english/company/about-us/index.html |
3 Cycle Lecture
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 15:30
Organometallic Routes to Fe-S Clusters – Challenge to Model the Active Sites of Reductases
| Speaker: | Prof. Kazuyuki Tatsumi |
| Nagoya University, Japan | |
| Location: | small lecture hall |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
Department Seminar
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 17:15
Interactions between ions and proteins in water: The Hofmeister series
| Speaker: | Prof. Pavel Jungwirth |
| Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic | |
| Location: | petit auditoire |
| Contact: | Thomas Bally |
| More info: | http://marge.uochb.cas.cz/~jungwirt/ |
October 2011
Department Seminar
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 11:30
Announcement of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011
| Speaker: | Nobel Prize Committee, Stockholm |
| Université de Fribourg | |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | All members of the department are welcome |
Department Seminar
Monday, October 10, 2011 - 16:00
tba (Minisymposium on photoremovable protecting groups)
| Speaker: | Petr Klan |
| Masaryk University Brno | |
| Location: | petit auditoire |
| Contact: | Thomas Bally |
Department Seminar
Monday, October 10, 2011 - 17:00
tba (Minisymposium on photoremovable protecting groups)
| Speaker: | Prof. Dan Falvey |
| University of Maryland | |
| Location: | petit auditoire |
| Contact: | Thomas Bally |
Fribourg Chemical Society
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 17:15
Fuel Cell Technology for Automotive Applications
| Speaker: | Dr. Günther G. Scherer, Head Electrochemistry Laboratory |
| Paul Scherrer Institut, Research Department General Energy (ENE), Villigen | |
| Location: | main auditorium |
| Contact: | M Allan |
| More info: | http://ecl.web.psi.ch/contact.html |
Department event
Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 14:00
Metal-catalyzed “living” polymerizations: from mechanisms to macromolecular engineering
| Speaker: | Dr. Fabio di Lena |
| Department of Advanced Materials and Structures, Public Research Center “Henri Tudor”, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. | |
| Location: | Small lecture hall |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | Postulates for SNSF-professorship |
Department Seminar
Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 15:00
Tales from old and new epoxides: a versatile class of monomers for applications from \"bio\" to \"battery\"
| Speaker: | Prof. Holger Frey |
| Universität Mainz | |
| Location: | Small lecture hall |
| Contact: | A. Kilbinger |
| Comment: | Minisymposium in polymer chemistry |
Fribourg Chemical Society
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 17:15
The Importance of weak interactions in molecular thermochemistry: Spotlight on a novel DFT scheme
| Speaker: | Prof. Clemence Corminboeuf |
| EPFL, Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design | |
| Location: | main auditorium |
| Contact: | M Allan |
| More info: | http://lcmd.epfl.ch/corminboeuf |
November 2011
Department Seminar
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 10:00
Quantum dots - application in safety and security
| Speaker: | ing. chem. Jan Suchanek |
| VSB - Technical University Ostrava, Czech Rep. | |
| Location: | 418 |
| Contact: | M Allan |
3 Cycle Lecture
Friday, November 4, 2011 - 14:15
Abiological Self-Assembly : Predesigned 2D Metallacycles via Coordination
| Speaker: | Prof. Peter Stang |
| University of Utah | |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | This conference takes exceptionally place on Friday due to the holiday on November 1st. |
Department Seminar
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 17:15
Progress in the Asymmetric Synthesis of Bioactive Octahedral Metal Complexes
| Speaker: | Prof. Dr. Eric Meggers |
| Uni Marburg, D | |
| Location: | Big lecture hall |
| Contact: | Katharina Fromm |
| Comment: | General methods for the stereocontrolled synthesis of octahedral metal complexes are in demand in order to fully exploit the structural opportunities offered by octahedral coordination spheres in the areas of materials sciences and life sciences. For example, octahedral metal complexes play an increasingly important role for the design of nucleic acid probes and enzyme inhibitors due to their rich stereochemistry which permits to construct sophisticated globular and often rigid structures with distinct biol |
3 Cycle Lecture
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 -
Combining experimental and computational approaches: is it worth it?
| Speaker: | Dr. Marco Stenta |
| EPFL | |
| Location: | Small lecture hall |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | Selected examples in the field of organic chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics are used to explain how a multidisciplinary approach can provide bright solutions to difficult problems. |
| More info: | Will run for Ambizione |
Faculty event
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 16:15
What can Chemistry do for Society?
| Speaker: | Prof. Andreas Kilbinger |
| Dept of Chemistry, Fribourg | |
| Location: | Grand Auditoire de Chimie |
| Contact: | C. Bochet |
Department event
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 17:00
What theatre can do for Science and vice versa
| Speaker: | Prof. Carl Djerassi |
| Stanford University | |
| Location: | Grand Auditoire de Chimie |
| Contact: | C. Bochet |
3 Cycle Lecture
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 16:00
N-Heterocycle Formation via Cycloaddition Strategies
| Speaker: | Prof. Tomislav Rovis |
| Colorado State University | |
| Location: | Main Auditorium |
| Contact: | C. Bochet |
| More info: | http://www.chm.colostate.edu/rovis/Rovis_Group_Website/Home_Page.html |
3 Cycle Lecture
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 17:15
Metal Anti-Diabetic Drugs and Supplements
| Speaker: | Prof. Peter Lay |
| University of Sydney | |
| Location: | Big lecture hall |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
Fribourg Chemical Society
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 17:15
Drug discovery chemistry at Actelion - some case studies
| Speaker: | Dr. Thomas Weller, Head of Drug Discovery |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd | |
| Location: | Grande auditoire |
| Contact: | M Allan |
| More info: | http://www.actelion.com/en/index.page |
December 2011
3 Cycle Lecture
Friday, December 16, 2011 - 16:30
Dynamics of excess electrons in clusters
| Speaker: | Dan Neumark |
| Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkley | |
| Location: | Small auditorium |
| Contact: | Michael Allan |
| More info: | http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/dmngrp/ |
February 2012
3 Cycle Lecture
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 17:15
Synthesis, assembly and applications of plasmonic nanoparticles
| Speaker: | Prof. Luis Liz-Marzan |
| Colloid Chemistry Group, Universida de Viga, Spain | |
| Location: | Grand auditoire , Université de Fribourg, Departement de chimie, ch. du Musée 9 |
| Contact: | Prof. Claude Daul e-mail: claude.daul@unifr.ch |
3 Cycle Lecture
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 17:15
Total Synthesis of “Non” Nitrogen-Containing Natural Products
| Speaker: | Prof. Tohru Fukuyama |
| University of Tokyo | |
| Location: | Main Auditorium |
| Contact: | C. Bochet |
| More info: | http://www.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~fukuyama/index-e.htm |
Department Seminar
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 14:15
Combining DFT theory and surface sensitive experimental methods in understanding the mechanism of catalytic reactions at atomic scale
| Speaker: | Dr. Izabela Czekaj |
| PSI | |
| Location: | 313 |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | She presents herself for an SNF-professorship. |
March 2012
Department event
Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 14:15
Optical and Electronic Carbon-based Materials
| Speaker: | Dr. Stéphane Suarez |
| EPFL | |
| Location: | 313 |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | Candidate for SNSF-Professorship |
Department Seminar
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 14:15
Intramolecular processes and high-resolution cavity ring-down in supersonic jet expansions
| Speaker: | Carina Manca Tanner |
| ETH Zürich | |
| Location: | 313 |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | Dr. Manca applies for an SNSF-professorship |
Department event
Friday, March 9, 2012 - 14:15
Spins in Molecular Clusters and Colloidal Quantum Dots – Magnetism and Spectroscopy
| Speaker: | Dr Stefan Ochsenbein |
| PSI | |
| Location: | 313 |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | Candidate for SNSF Professorship |
Department event
Monday, March 12, 2012 -
\"Exploring the thermodynamics and kinetics of complex systems with computer experiments: chemical reactions, nanostructures, and biomolecules\"
| Speaker: | Dr. Fabio Petrucci |
| EPFL | |
| Location: | room 313 |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | Dr. Petrucci applies for SNSF professor |
Department Seminar
Friday, March 16, 2012 - 10:00
From Computational Photobiology to the Development of Biomimetic Molecular Devices
| Speaker: | Prof. Massimo Olivucci |
| Università di Siena /Bowling Green State Univ. | |
| Location: | Seminar Room 313 |
| Contact: | Thomas Bally |
Department Seminar
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 17:15
Fribourg Chaim Weizmann Lecture: The Pill: from its Birth in 1951 to its Future in 2051
| Speaker: | Prof. Carl Djerassi |
| Stanford University | |
| Location: | Big lecture hall |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
| Comment: | Chaim Weizmann Lecture 2012 |
Department event
Thursday, March 29, 2012 -
Rede auf dem Parnass: Ein Vorspiel (Vortrag & Lesung)
| Speaker: | Carl Djerassi & Isabella Gregor |
| Stanford University & Vienna | |
| Location: | Salle de Musicologie, Miséricorde |
| Contact: | K. Fromm |
Department Seminar
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 20:15
Mensch und Klima
| Speaker: | Prof. Dr. Gerald Haug |
| ETH - Zürich | |
| Location: | Big auditorium of Chemistry Department, |
| Contact: | Prof. Peter Belser |
April 2012
Fribourg Chemical Society
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 17:15
Ultrafast excited-state dynamics of multichromophoric systems: from DNA sensing to artificial photosynthesis
| Speaker: | Prof. Eric Vauthey |
| University of Geneva | |
| Location: | Big lecture hall, Chemistry department, chemin du Musée 9, Fribourg |
| Contact: | Prof. Andreas Kilbinger |
Fribourg Chemical Society
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 17:15
Moderns Strategies for Hit & Lead Identification
| Speaker: | Dr. Konrad Bleicher |
| Discovery Chemistry, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel | |
| Location: | Big lecture hall |
| Contact: | Prof. Andreas Kilbinger |
Department Seminar
Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 17:15
Heilbronner-Hückel lecture 2012: C-H bond activation by metal oxides in the gas phase and on solid surfaces
| Speaker: | Prof. Joachim Sauer |
| Humboldt-Universität Berlin | |
| Location: | grand auditoire |
| Contact: | Thomas Bally |
3 Cycle Lecture
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 16:30
Some basic concepts in chemical dynamics
| Speaker: | Prof. Kopin Liu |
| Academia Sinica, Taiwan | |
| Location: | Main Auditorium |
| Contact: | M Allan |
| Comment: | http://kliu.iams.sinica.edu.tw/ |
Faculty event
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 16:15
to be announced
| Speaker: | Horst Vogel |
| EPFL | |
| Location: | Adolphe Merkle Institute |
| Contact: | Alke Fink |
| Comment: | This event is co-organized by AMI and the Fribourg Chemical Society |
May 2012
Department Seminar
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 17:15
Photoredox catalysis: Enabling chemical synthesis with visible light
| Speaker: | Prof. Corey Stephenson |
| Boston University | |
| Location: | Main Auditorium |
| Contact: | C. Bochet |
| More info: | http://people.bu.edu/crjsteph/ |