James Franck Institute: Events

EVENTS
JFI Seminars - September 2009 - June 2010

This website will be updated as information becomes available.

The Seminars are held at the Gordon Center For Integrative Science (GCIS) in W301/W303, 929 E. 57th St. (unless indicated otherwise)

Tea is served at 3:45 during open discussion before the start of the talk. Persons with disabilities may request assistance in advance from Brenda Thomas: bthomas@uchicago.edu or 773-702-7156.

For more information contact our Colloquium Chair, Greg Engel Who can be reached via email

Dates	Speakers	Title
Sept. 29, 2009	Anatoly Kolomeisky Department of Chemistry Rice University Host: Aaron Dinner, 2-2330	"How Proteins Find and Recognize Their Targets on DNA"
Nov. 10, 2009 CLOSS LECTURE	Peter Wolynes Dept. of Chemistry& Biochemistry University of California-San Diego Host: Mark Maienschein-Cline, 2-7232	"Recent Successes of the Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding"
Nov. 17, 2009	Al-Amin Dhirani Department of Chemistry University of Toronto Host: Philippe Guyot-Sionnest, 2-7461	"Charge Transport in Nanostructured Artificial Materials Fundamentals and Applications"
December 8, 2009	Narayanan Menon Department of Physics University of Massachussetts Host: Sidney Nagel, 2-7190	"Wrinkling, Folding and Crumpling of Thin Elastic Films"
Jan. 26, 2010	Piotr Szymczak Department of Physics Warsaw University - Poland Host: Leo Kadanoff, 2-7189	"TBA"
March 30, 2010	Antje P. Almeida Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of North Carolina-Wilmington Host: Ka Yee Lee, 2-7068	"TBA"
April 20, 2010	David Jonas Dept. of Chemistry& Biochemistry University of Colorado-Boulder Host: Laurie Butler, 2-7206	"TBA"
April 27, 2010 CLOSS LECTURE	Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts Department of Chemistry University of California-Irvine Host: Kathleen Cao, 4-2793	"TBA"
May 25, 2010	John Ross Department of Chemistry Stanford University Host: Aaron Dinner, 2-2330	"TBA"