1:00-4:00 p.m.
Beckman Auditorium

Welcome

Professor Thomas B. Rauchfuss, Director of the School of Chemical Sciences

Comments on Professor Drickamer

Professor Jiri Jonas, Emeritus of Chemistry, Former Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Former Director of the School of Chemical Sciences, Professor of Center for Advanced Study

Introduction of First Speaker

Dr. John H. Sinfelt, Senior Scientific Advisor Emeritus of Exxon

Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas
Former Professor of Chemistry, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London

"Molecular Design of New Nanoporous Catalysts for an Environmentally Conscious Age"

Intermission with Refreshments

1005 Beckman Institute

Introduction of Second Speaker

Dr. George A. Samara, Sandia National Laboratories

Professor Ahmed Zewail
Linus Pauling Chair of Chemistry and Physics, Director of the NSF Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, 1999 Nobel Laureate at the California Institute of Technology

"Crystallography and Diffraction at New Limits"

A reception for faculty, alumni, and friends of Harry Drickamer will be held at 6:30 in the Beckman Atrium

Beckman Institute Atrium
Master of Ceremony, Walter R. Robb, President and Management Consultant of Vantage Management, Inc., former Senior Vice President for Corporate Research and Development, GE, member of GE’s Corporate Executive Council

Related Events

Sir John Meurig Thomas will present a MillerComm 2004 lecture on Tuesday, March 16 at 4:00 p.m., third floor, Levis Faculty Center. The title of the talk is, "The Unpredictability of Science and Its Consequences".

He will also be interviewed on WILL (AM580) on Tuesday at 11:00 a.m.

Wednesday, March 17, Professor Kurt Drickamer will give a Cell and Structural Biology lecture, "Carbohydrate Recognition in Innate Immunity and Cell Adhesion: A Structural and Genomic Approach," in the CLSL Auditorium (B102) at 12:00 p.m..