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
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