Events at Physics |
Events on Tuesday, March 25th, 2014
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar
- Managing complexity at the molecular scale
- Time: 12:05 pm
- Place: 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Speaker: Tehshik Yoon, UW Department of Chemistry
- Abstract: Chemical synthesis inflects every aspect of modern life. Everything from the clothes we wear to the food we eat to the medicines that so many of us take on a daily basis benefit from the products of chemical synthesis. Chemistry has been able to have such a profound impact on human life because of chemist's ability to construct complex organic molecules with precisely defined three-dimensional shapes. In this talk, I will attempt to explain what some of the most interesting challenges and opportunities are in contemporary organic synthesis.
- Host: Clint Sprott