9:00 Introductory
Remarks: Prof. Bassam Z. Shakhashiri and
Prof. John Wright
9:15 “Where
Did Oxygen Come From?” – Prof. Patricia Kiley, Professor, UW-Madison Dept. of
Biomolecular Chemistry.
9:45 Demonstration
1: Peroxides, oxygen, and
combustion.
9:55 “The
Birth of Oxygen: Untangling the Web” –
Prof. Alan Rocke, Dept. of History,
Case Western Reserve University.
10:25 Demonstration
2: Reactions
of oxygen with glucose and dyes.
10:50 “Marvelous
Biological Control of the Reactivity of Molecular Oxygen”
–
Prof. Brian Fox, UW-Madison Dept. of Biochemistry.
11:20 Demonstration
3: Prof. Marc Fink and members of the Pro
Arte Quartet perform the first movement of Quartet for Oboe and Strings, K. 370,
by Mozart, a contemporary of Lavoisier.
11:35 “Madame
Lavoisier” –
Prof. Roald Hoffmann, Cornell
University.
1:30 “Toward
an Environmentally Friendly Chemical Industry: Selective Chemical Oxidation with
Molecular Oxygen” –
Prof.
Shannon Stahl, UW-Madison Dept. of Chemistry.
2:00 Demonstration
4:
Reactions
of oxygen with metals.
2:10 “The
Unmaking and the Making of Chemical Elements: The Chemistry of Salts in the
18th Century” – Prof.
Thomas Broman, UW-Madison Dept of History of Science.
2:40 Demonstration
5: Unusual
properties of molecular oxygen.
3:05 “Oxygen
and the Aging Process” – Prof.
Richard Weindruch, University of Wisconsin
Medical
School.
3:35 Demonstration
6: Measuring
oxygen inside and outside the body.
3:45 “How
to Smuggle Science to the Public” –
Prof.
Carl Djerassi, Dept. of Chemistry, Stanford
University.
4:15 Concluding
General Discussion
4:25
Demonstration
7:
The
thermite reaction –
extracting molten iron from rust.
