INVITED LECTURES

Tantalum-Based Metallocene Catalysts, International Business Forum on Specialty Polyolefins, September 1994

Progress in Catalyst Design, Exxon Corporation, November 1994

Metallocene Mimics Using Dianionic Ligands, Union Carbide, March 1995

Metallocene Mimics Using Dianionic Ligands, Amoco, March 1995

Paracyclophane Route to PPV, The Society for Imaging Science and Technology, May 1995

Metallocene Mimics Using Dianionic Ligands, Guelph University, May 1995

Ambivalent Complexes with Borollide Ligands, Workshop on Organometallic Chemistry, June 1995

Borollide and TBM Complexes of Tantalum, National ACS Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 1995

Boron Heterocycles:  New Ligands for Early Transition Metal Catalysts, International Business Forum on Specialty Polyolefins, September 1995

Metallocene Mimics Using Dianionic Ligands, University of Western Ontario, October 1995

Paracyclophene Route to PPV, NSF Workshop on Materials Science, October 1995

Synthesis and Photophysics of Poly(paracyclophenes), NERM Meeting, "Polymer Science in Electrophotography," Rochester, October 1995

Photophysics of Main-Chain Polychromophores and Conjugated Polymers, University of British Columbia, November 1995

Photophysics of Main-Chain Polychromophores and Conjugated Polymers, Xerox Corporation (Missassanga, Canada), November 1995

Boron Heterocycles:  New Ligands for Early Transition Metal Catalysts, University of British Columbia, January 1996

Photophysics of Main-Chain Polychromophores and Conjugated Polymers, University of Ottawa, February 1996

Boron Heterocycles:  New Ligands for Early Transition Metal Catalysts, University of Syracuse, February 1996

Photophysics of Main-Chain Polychromophores and Conjugated Polymers, University of Connecticut, March 1996

Photophysics of Main-Chain Polychromophores and Conjugated Polymers, Mount Holyoke College, March 1996

Boratabenzene Frameworks:  New Supports for Polymerization Catalysts, ACS Meeting, New Orleans, March 1996

Boron Heterocycles:  New Ligands for Early Transition Metal Catalysts, Exxon Chemical Company, Baytown, Texas, April 1996

Boron Heterocycles:  New Ligands for Early Transition Metal Catalysts, DuPont Central Research and Development Station, May 1996

Boron Heterocycles:  New Ligands for Early Transition Metal Catalysts, University of Pennsylvania, May 1996

Photophysics of Main-Chain Polychromophores and Conjugated Polymers, Office of Naval Research Review Session, May 1996

Boratabenzene Frameworks:  New Supports for Polymerization Catalysts, NSF Workshop on Organometallic Chemistry, June 1996

New Ligands in Early Transition Metal Chemistry, Organometallic Gordon Conference, July 1996

Boratabenzene Frameworks:  New Supports for Polymerization Catalysts, Union Carbide, Houston, September 1966

Boratabenzene Frameworks:  New Supports for Polymerization Catalysts, Shell Corporation, Houston, September 1996

New Lithographic Methods for Conjugated Emissive Polymers, International Electroluminescence Conference, Rochester, September 1996

New Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization, SUNY-Geneseo, October 1996

Boratabenzene Frameworks:  New Supports for Polymerization Catalysts, University of Vermont, October 1996

Boratabenzene Frameworks:  New Supports for Polymerization Catalysts, University of Michigan, December 1996

Boratabenzene Frameworks:  New Supports for Polymerization Catalysts, University of Pittsburgh, December 1996

Boratabenzene Frameworks:  New Supports for Polymerization Catalysts, University of Buffalo, December 1996

Photophysics of Main-Chain Polychromophores and Conjugated Polymers, SUNY-Binghamton, March 1997

Interchromophore Delocalization in Organic Polymers, Closs Lecturer, University of Chicago, April 1997

Microlithography Using Poly(paracyclophenes), ACS Meeting Symposium on "Colloid and Surface Chemistry of Advanced Materials:  Chemistry of Photoluminescent and Electroluminescent Polymers and Semiconductors," San Francisco, April 1997

a-Olefin Production Using Boratabenzene Catalysts, Meeting Symposium on "Colloid and Surface Chemistry of Advanced Materials:  Chemistry of Photoluminescent and Electroluminescent Polymers and Semiconductors," San Francisco, April 1997

Boratabenzene Frameworks:  New Supports for Polymerization Catalysts, Canadian Society of Chemistry Conference, Windsor, June 1997

Boratabenzene Frameworks:  New Supports for Polymerization Catalysts, New York Academy of Science, New York, June 1997

Interchromophore Delocalization in Organic Polymers, Gordon Conference on Organic Photochemistry, Newport, RI, July 1997

a-Olefin Production Using Boratabenzene Catalysts, Shell Corporation, West Hollow, Texas, September 1997

a-Olefin Production Using Boratabenzene Catalysts, Dow Chemical, Freeport, Texas, September 1997

a-Olefin Production Using Boratabenzene Catalysts, Chevron Chemical Corporation, Kingswood, Texas, September 1997

a-Olefin Production Using Boratabenzene Catalysts, UOP, Chicago, October 1997

a-Olefin Production Using Boratabenzene Catalysts, The Catalysis Group, Madrid, Spain, April 1998

a-Olefin Production Using Boratabenzene Catalysts, Schotland’s Advances on Metallocene Catalysis, Dusseldorf, Germany, April 1998

a-Olefin Production Using Boratabenzene Catalysts, Amoco Co., Chicago, Ill, July 1998

Hydrogenation Mechanisms of Borollide-Tantalum Complexes, Caltech, November 1998

Hydrogenation Mechanisms of Borollide-Tantalum Complexes, Harvey Mudd College, November 1998

Concepts in Ordered/Disordered Organic Materials, Los Alamos National Laboratory, ICAM Workshop, December 1998

Early Transition Metal-Boratabenzene Catalysts, Wayne State University, February 1999

Early Transition Metal-Boratabenzene Catalysts, University of Windsor, February 1999

Early Transition Metal-Boratabenzene Catalysts, Akzo-Nobel Research Center, Dobbs Ferry, New York, February 1999

Intramolecular Nucleophilic Attack on Coordinated Arenes: A New Route Into Boratabenzene Complexes, Equistar Corporation, Cincinnati, March 1999

Concepts in Ordered/Disordered Organic Materials, Rohm and Haas, March 1999

Molecular Topology as a Means to Control Sample Morphology, Conference on Complex Adaptive Matter, Santa Fe, June 1999

Design Principles for Optoelectronic Organic Materials, Science and Technology Center Conference, Rochester, NY, July 1999

Branched Polyolefin Architectures by Tandem Catalysis, University of California, Berkeley, November 1999

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, University of California, Santa Cruz, November 1999

Branched Polyolefin Architectures by Tandem Catalysis, Dow Chemical, Freeport, Texas, December 1999

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, University of California, Los Angeles, January 2000

Modeling Chromophore-Chromophore Interactions Using Paracyclophane Derivatives, Conference on Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers and Fullerenes, Salt Lake City, February 2000

New Boratabenzene Chromium(III) Catalysts for Ethylene Polymerization, American Chemical Society Convention, San Francisco, April 2000

Water Soluble Conjugated Polymers for Biosensor Applications, QTL Diagnostics, Santa Fe, NM, May 2000

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, Universite de Cachan, Paris, France, June 2000

Tandem Catalysis: Coordinating the Action of Single Site Catalysts for the Production of Branched Polyethylene, Plenary Lecture at the Conference on Olefin Polymerization, Oslo, Norway, June 2000

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, Genencor Workshop, Santa Barbara, July 2000.

Novel Nickel Complexes for Olefin Polymerization and Tandem Catalysis, University of California at Irvine, March 2001

Novel Nickel Complexes for Olefin Polymerization and Tandem Catalysis, Exxon Chemicals, Baytown, Texas, June 2001.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, September 2001.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, Ciba Chemicals, New York, New York, November 2001.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, December 2001.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, American Dye Source, Montreal, Canada, December 2001.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, Materials Outreach Program, University of California at Santa Barbara, February 2002.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 2002.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 2002.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, International Materials Workshop, Santiago, Chile, May 2002.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 2002.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, September 2002.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, Optical Probes Conference, Venice, Italy, February 2003.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, University of California, San Diego, February 2003.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 2003.

Tandem Catalysis for the Production of Branched Polyethylene, American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 2003.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, Indiana University, April 2003.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, University of Washington, April 2003.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, Materials Research Society Meeting, San Francisco, April 2003.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, University of Calgary, April 2003.

Tandem Catalysis for the Production of Branched Polyethylene, METCON Conference, Houston, May 2003.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, University of Muenster, Germany, June 2003.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, Symposium on Molecular Synchronization, Yokahama, Japan.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, Eastman Kodak, October 2003.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, International Workshop on LED Materials, Taipei, 2003.

Design Principles for Organic Materials with Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance, Symposium on Molecular Synchronization, Academia Sinica, Taipei, November 2003.

Biosensor Strategies using Light Harvesting Conjugated Polymers, Max-Planck Institute/UCSB Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA, February 2004.

Biosensor Strategies using Light Harvesting Conjugated Polymers, American Chemical Society National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 2004.

Biosensor Strategies using Light Harvesting Conjugated Polymers, Sixth International Symposium on Functional Pi-Electron Systems, Ithaca, NY, June 2004.

Biosensor Strategies using Light Harvesting Conjugated Polymers, Yokahama Research Center, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Yokahama, Japan, September 2004.

Biosensor Strategies using Light Harvesting Conjugated Polymers, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, October 2004.

Biosensor Strategies using Light Harvesting Conjugated Polymers, Whittier College, California, December 2004.

Biosensor Strategies using Light Harvesting Conjugated Polymers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, California, February 2005.

Biosensor Strategies using Light Harvesting Conjugated Polymers, Materials Research Laboratories, California, February 2005.

Tandem Catalysis for the Production of Branched Polyethylene, German/American Organometallic Symposium, California, February 2005.

Biosensor Strategies using Light Harvesting Conjugated Polymers, Stanford, California, March 2005.

Biosensor Strategies using Light Harvesting Conjugated Polymers, American Physical Society Meeting, April 2005.

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