Chemistry Departmental Seminars

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

Chemistry Dept. Seminars - Fall 2024

August 30 - Dmitry Peryshkov (University of South Carolina)  Host: Barybin
"Carborane Clusters for Metal-Free Bond Activation"

September 6 - Andy Thomas (Texas A&M University)  Host: Tunge
"Reimagining Ancient Reactions for the 21st Century"

September 13 - Valeria Molinero (University of Utah); Host: Laird
"Towards the Elucidation of the Mechanisms of Synthesis of Zeolites"

September 20 - A.J. Boydston (University of Wisconsin - Madison)  Host: Teator
"Metal-Free Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization"

September 27 - Brewster Lecture:  Oleg Ozerov (Texas A&M University); Host: Shoshani
"New Modes of Transition Metal Reactivity with Boryl and Aluminyl Pincers"

October 4 - Annual Department / Gray-Little Safety Seminar
Coordinated by the Safety Committee

October 11 - Kristin Bowman-James (Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas)
"Supramolecular Anion Coordination and Water Patterns"

October 18 - Chemistry Inaugural 3-MT Contest
Contact the Chemistry GSO for more information

October 25 - CANCELLED Parry Hashemi (Imperial College of London)  Host: Johnson
"Ex Vivo Electrochemical Platform for Antidepressant Screening"                 

November 1 - Laura McCaslin (Sandia National Lab); Host: Caricato
"Unraveling the Photodynamics of Donor-Acceptor Co-Crystals with Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics" 

November 8 - 3:30 pm in 3020 Pharmacy
Adams Lecture:  David Walt 
(Harvard University);  Host: Lunte/Dunn
"Why Ultrasensitivity Matters for Clinical Diagnosis"

November 15 - Spencer Pitre (Oklahoma State University);  Host: Tunge
"Nucleophilic Cobalt Photocatalysis and Organic Photoreductants: Two Enabling Approaches to Organic Synthesis"

November 22 - Maher Lecture:  Suzanne Bart (Purdue); Host: Alex Ervin/Blakemore
"Adventures in Synthesis at the Bottom of the Periodic Table"

November 29 - No Seminar (Thanksgiving Break)

December 6 - Lingjun Li (University of Wisconsin); Host: Hartley
"TBA"

December 13 - No seminar (Stop Day)