Fall 2021 seminar schedule

Syllabus

Course: CHEM 494/5940 (Chemistry Seminar)

Term: Fall 2021

Instructor: Prof. Tom Cundari (t@unt.edu); phone: 940-369-7753

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Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Thursdays, 3:30-4:20 PM in CHEM 109 or via Zoom All seminars are free and open to the public

• 9/1 LeGrande Slaughter, UNT Legrande.Slaughter@unt.edu
  Chair's Welcome
• 9/8 Nicole Graulich, Justis Liebig University - Giessen (Hosts: Atkinson, Collini, Corrales) Nicole.Graulich@didaktik.Chemie.uni-giessen.de
  The Iceberg Phenomenon - What does research tell us about teaching organic chemistry?
• 9/15 Gavin Williams, North Carolina State University (Host: Skellam) gjwillia@ncsu.edu
  Synthetic Biology Approach to New-to-Nature Natural Products
• 9/22 Adrian Roitberg, University of Florida (Host: Valsson) roitberg@ufl.edu
  Machine Learning for Accurate Energies and Forces in molecular systems. Uses in conformational searches and free energy calculations
• 9/29 Marilyne Stains, University of Virginia (Host: Atkinson) mstains@virginia.edu
  Variations in the Teaching of Resonance: An Exploration of Organic Chemistry Instructors' Enacted Pedagogical Content Knowledge
• 10/6 Kenneth Suslick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Host: Yan) ksuslick@illinois.edu
  Seeing Smells: An Adventure in Molecular Recognition
• 10/13 Bin Wang, The University of Oklahoma (Host: Ma)
  Role of Interfacial Charge Transfer and Excitation for Chemical Conversion
• 10/20 Changhee Lee, Kangwon National University (Host: Wang)
  Oligopyrrolic macrocycles; from pi-conjugated to molecular receptors
• 10/27 Alan Aspuru-Guzik, University of Toronto (Host: Cundari)
  TBA
• 11/3 Mark Thompson, University of Southern California (Host: Omary)
  21st Century Alchemy: Making Coinage Metals Act Like Platinum Group Metals
• 11/10 Ongjen Miljanic, University of Houston (Host: Ma)
  Greenhouse Capture in Porous Molecular Crystals
• 11/17 Douglas MacFarlane, Monash University (Hosts: Cundari, D'Souza and Kelber)
  Electrochemistry for Sustainable Ammonia Synthesis (Via Zoom)
• 11/24 Thanksgiving Holiday -- No Seminar
• 12/1 Nikita Burrows, Monmouth University (Host: Atkinson, Corrales)
  Alternative teaching methods and assessments in undergraduate chemistry courses