Seminar Schedule

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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
    Linda Truitt Creagh Lectureship
    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

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