Chemistry Department Colloquium, Spring 2019
Coordinated by Prof. Michelle Personick, Professor of Chemistry
Seminars are held in room 84, Hall-Atwater Laboratories at 3:30 p.m.
Coffee is served outside room 84 before the seminar and
refreshments are served afterwards in the Chemistry Lounge (Hall-Atwater Laboratory, Room 6).
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Host |
| February 1 | Lan Cheng | Johns Hopkins University Lab | New advances in excited state theories: Actinides and X-Ray spectroscopy. | Prof. Stewart Novick |
| February 8 | Jason Lam | Wesleyan University | Connecting Renewable Energy with Sustainable Chemical Production: How to Turn Industrial Wastes into Valuable Platform Chemicals Through Electrocatalysis. | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| February 15 | Rene Buell | Wesleyan University | Effects of prior knowledgeon reading to learn concepts in chemistry. | TBD |
| February 22 | Dr. Robert Volkmann | BioPharma Works | CNS Drug Discovery: Relating Molecular Structure to Biological Function | Prof. Mike Calter |
| March 1 | Dr. Rachel Austin | Barnard College | C-O Bond breaking and bond forming strategies: Lessons from biology and heterogenous catalysts | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| March 8 | Dr. Brandi Hudson | Relay Therapeutics | Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Dynamic Visualization of Proteins | Prof. Colin Smith |
| March 15 | Spring Break | -- | -- | -- |
| March 22 | Spring Break | -- | -- | -- |
| March 29 | Prof. Sara Skrabalak | Indiana University | Strain Engineered Multimetallic Nanocatalysts | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| April 5 | Dr. Willie Vann | Food and Drug Administration | Characterization of Initiation and Polymerization of Polysialic Acid in Pathogenic Bacteria | Prof. Erika Taylor |
| April 12 | Prof. Jie "Jay" He | University of Connecticut | Polymer/Inorganic Hybrid Materials: From Synthetic Chemistry to Catalysis. | TBD |
| April 19 | Prof. Severin Schneebeli | University of Vermont | Bending Polymers into Well-Defined Nanoscale Shapes with Increasing Complexity | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| April 26 | Dr. Jian Zhang | The Molecular Foundry | A Toolbox Approach to Construct Metal-Free Catalysts for Photoredox Catalysis: From Organic Synthesis to Artificial Photosynthesis | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| May 3 | Dr. Abhinav Nath | University of Washington | Canceled | Prof. Erika Taylor |