Symposium in honor of George Whitesides, Harvard

April 22, 2009 @ 8:00am- 12 Noon
Location: Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall
Categories: Organic

2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry Symposium
at the University of Pennsylvania

The Caroline Lynch Lecture Hall New Chemistry Building
34th and Spruce Street

George Whitesides
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachussets, USA

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 8:00 AM - 12:00 noon

Bonds; Interactions; Function
Laureate Lecture - George Whitesides, Harvard University

Guest Speakers

Is There a Difference Between Science and Engineering?
John Deutch, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Materials and Mechanics for Stretchable Electronics -- Electronic Eyeball Cameras and Conformal Brain Monitors
John Rogers, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

Complex Chemical Networks
Rustem Ismagilov, University of Chicago

Dissecting the Origins of Emergent Behavior in Populations of Bacteria
Doug Weibel, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Organic Seminars are held in the Carolyn Lynch Room (1st Floor, Chemistry Building, 231 S. 34th St.). If you have any questions, contact Robert Wertz at 215-573-7887 (rwertz@sas.upenn.edu)