Chemistry Graduate Seminar Series

GUEST SPEAKER
December 9

Jahan Dawlaty

University of Southern California

TOPIC

Spectroscopic Explorations of Electric Fields and Light Driven Acid/Base Chemistry

December 2

GUEST SPEAKER

Silvana Andreescu

Clarkson University

Potsdam, NY

TOPIC

Nanomaterials Sorbents for Environmental Sensing and Remediation

November 25

No seminar (Thanksgiving Holiday)

GUEST SPEAKER
November 18

Aaron Walsh

Imperial College London, UK

TOPIC

Computer-Accelerated Materials Design

GUEST SPEAKER
November 11

Anne McNeil

University of Michigan

Ann Harbor, Michigan

TOPIC

Making Large Undergraduate Laboratory Courses More Like Research

GUEST SPEAKER
November 4

Cathleen Crudden

Queen’s University, Canada

TOPIC

The chemistry of carbon-based monolayers

GUEST SPEAKER
October 28

Assistant Professor, Katherine A. Mirica

Department of Chemistry

Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire

TOPIC

Molecular Engineering of Materials for Chemical Sensing and Microelectronics

GUEST SPEAKER
October 21

Student Research Seminars

Short Talks by Chemistry and Environmental Science
Graduate Students Representing All Tracks

GUEST SPEAKER
October 14

Professor Oleg V. Prezhdo

Department of Chemistry

University of Southern California

 Los Angeles, CA

TOPIC

Quantum Dynamics on the Nanoscale

September 30

GUEST SPEAKER

Assistant Professor Byron Farnum

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama

TOPIC

Mechanistic Understanding of 1e- vs 2e- Redox Reactions with Nickel Coordination Compounds

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

GUEST SPEAKER

Professor Lee Kerkhoff

Department of Marine and Coastal Services

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ

TOPIC

Using the Oxford Nanopore MinION

(A portable DNA sequencer)

For Microbial Ecology

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

GUEST SPEAKER

Alexei Khalizov

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry & Environmental Science

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Newark, NJ

TOPIC

The Chemistry of Atmospheric Mercury