Seminar Schedule

unt chemistry

Fall 2024 seminar schedule

Course: CHEM 4940/5940 (Chemistry Seminar)

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Thursdays from 3:30-4:20 p.m. in CHEM 109

All seminars are free and open to the public


  • 8/22 -UNT Chemistry Chair, Prof. LeGrande Slaughter
    Title: Chair’s Welcome

  • 8/29 - Chris Erickson, Todd Germain, Anthony Romain - UNT
    Title: Safety Seminar

  • 9/5 - Jon Marc-Gregory Rodriguez, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Title: Investigating Academic Integrity in Undergraduate Chemistry Courses: What Counts as Cheating?
    Hosts: Molly Atkinson, PhD & Aleena Moon, PhD

  • 9/12 - Pinyung Feng, UCR 
    Title: High-Performance MOF Materials Based on Pore Space Partition Strategy
    Host: Shengqian Ma, PhD

  • 9/19 - Jakoah Brgoch, UH
    Title: Data-Driven Development of Phosphors for LED Lighting
    Host: Hao Yan, PhD

  • 9/26 - William Noid, Penn State
    Title: Coarse-graining entropy, information, and thermodynamics
    Host: Omar Valsson

  • 10/3 – Mario Wriedt, UT-Dallas
    Title: Crystal Engineering of Programmable Sponges for Energy, Environmental and Medicinal Applications
    Host: Shengqian Ma, PhD

  • 10/10 - Jarad Mason, Harvard
    Title: Manipulating Phase Transitions and Free Volume: From Solid Refrigerants to Microporous Water
    Host: Hao Yan, PhD

  • 10/18, Friday  - Geoff Coates, Cornell
    Title: New Methods for the Synthesis of Sustainable Polymers: Advances in Catalysis
    Host: LeGrande Slaughter, PhD

  • 10/24 - Amy Rosenzweig, Northwestern
    Title: Biosynthesis of copper-binding natural products by multi-iron enzymes

  • 10/31 - Yongming Deng, IUPUI
    Title: New Avenue for Single-Electron Chemistry of Pyridine N-oxides in Synthesis and Catalysis
    Host: Hong Wang, PhD

  • 11/7 - James Batteas, TAMU 
    Title: Mechanochemistry of 2D Materials: Using the Force to Direct Chemical Functionalization
    Host: Cooper Kimbrough

  • 11/14 - Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, MIT 
    Title: Fusing machine learning and simulations for materials design
    Host: David Hamilton

  • 11/21 - Tendai Gadzikwa, KSU
    Title: Uniform, Covalent Multifunctionalization of MOFs: Strategies & Surprising Discoveries
    Host: Bisola Adeyemi

  • 11/28 - Thanksgiving & Fall Break

  • 12/5 - Kami Hull, UT
    Title: Development of Transition-Metal Catalyzed Olefin Amination
    Host: Tom Cundari, PhD

  • 12/12 - Final exams

For Spring 2024 seminar schedule click here
For Fall 2023 seminar schedule click here
For Spring 2022 Seminar Schedule click here
For Fall 2021 Seminar Schedule click here
For Spring 2021 Seminar Schedule click here
For Fall 2020 Seminar Schedule click here