Chemistry Departmental Seminars

1154 GL/ISB on Fridays at 4:00PM [**unless otherwise noted].

August 22 - Amanda Jones (Wake Forest University) Host: Tunge/Jackson
"Mechanism and Phosphine Ligand Design in Homogeneous Gold (I) Catalysis"

August 29 - Joshua Buss (University of Michigan) Host: Blakemore/Shoshani
"Cartography with Clusters: Mapping Surface Science Mechanisms with Atomic Precision"

September 5 - Neal Mankad (University of Illinois Chicago) Host: Shoshani
"Radical and Bioinspired Approaches in Main Group and Transition Metal Catalysis"

September 12 - Werner Lecture: Martyn Boutelle (Imperial College of London); Host: Soper

September 19 - Brewster Lecture: Tom Albrecht (Colorado School of Mines); Host: Blakemore
"Chemistry Beyond Plutonium: How Relativity Alters Electronic Structure in Heavy Elements"

September 26 - Maher Lecture: Susan Kauzlarich (University of California, Davis); Host: Lind/Bowman-James
"From Zintl to Electride to Semiconductor: New Materials for Energy Conversion"

October 3 - Art Utz (Tufts University); Host: Farber

October 10 - No Seminar
First day of the Chemical Biology Symposium

October 17 - No Seminar
Week of Fall Break & ACS-Midwest Regional Meeting 2025

October 24 - Guest to be announced

October 31 - Chemistry Department Annual Safety Seminar Presented by Prof. James Blakemore and Facility Manager Laurie White

November 7 - Bin Dong (University of Arkansas); Host: Johnson

November 14 - Bob Dunn (University of Kansas)

November 21 - Dirk Trauner (University of Pennsylvania); Host: Hartley

November 28 - No Seminar
Thanksgiving Break

December 5 - No seminar (Stop Day)