Spring 2024 seminar schedule

Welcome to the 23/24 academic year.

Note that we have an exciting schedule of seminars this Spring

Have a great first week of classes.

Course: CHEM 494/5940 (Chemistry Seminar)

Term: Spring 2024

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

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• 1/18 New Faculty interview
  

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• 1/25 New Faculty interview
  

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• 2/1 New Faculty interview
  

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• 2/8 Sarah E. O'Connor, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
  Host: Liz Skellam
  Seminar title: Harnessing Natural Product Pathways (Lyceum Theater)
  

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• 2/15 Jian Wang, Wichita State University
  Host: Hao Yan
  Seminar title: Facile Synthesis of Two-dimensional (2D) Materials to Discover New Compounds and Stabilize Metastable Modifications
  

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• 2/22 Fred Bonner II, Prairie View A&M University
  Host: Molly Atkinson
  Seminar title: The Role and Responsibility of Faculty Teaching STEM in the HBCU Context
  

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• 2/29 Will Dichtel, Northwestern University
  Host: Shengqian Ma
  Seminar title: Polymerization in Two Dimensions
  

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• 3/7 Jillian L. Dempsey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Host: Francis D'Souza
  Kinetic Barriers to Metal Hydric Complex Formation in Fuel-Forming Catalysis
  

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• 3/14 Spring break
  

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• 3/21 Mark A. Olson, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
  Host: Lee Slaughter
  Seminar title: Harnessing the Unforeseen Hydrochromism of Pyridinium-Based Charge Transfer Salts and Fluorophores
  

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• 3/28 Emily Que, UT Austin
  Graduate student invited
  Seminar title: Inorganic approaches to biosensing: Magnetic resonance imaging agents and metalloenzyme probes
  

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• 4/4 Kyle M. Lancaster, Cornell University
  Host: Hao Yan
  Seminar title: Ligand-Centric Perspectives on Inorganic Reactivity
  

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• 4/11 Daniel Zuckerman, Oregon Health & Science University
  Host: Omar Valsson
  Seminar title: Biophysical computations: Analyzing experiments and accelerating molecular simulations
  

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• 4/18 David B Berkowitz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Host: Francis D'Souza
  Seminar title: At the Nexus of Stereocontrolled Synthesis, Enzymology and Chemical Biology
  

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• 4/25 Zili Wu, Ork Ridge National Laboratory
  Host: Shengqian Ma
  Seminar title: Catalytic Insights into Hydrogen Production and Utilization via New Materials and Tools
  

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• 5/2 Qingsheng Wang , Texas A&M University
  Host: Hong Wang
  Seminar title: Development of Flame Retardant Technology for Plastics using Metal-Organic Frameworks
  

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