Visiting Speakers Seminars
2023/24 Schedule
Date/time |
Speaker/Institution |
Title/Sponsorship |
Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday July 21 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Sarah Burke Department of Chemistry & Department of Physics & Astronomy The University of British Columbia |
Mapping the Frontier: Imaging Molecules and their Electronic States by Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy | E. Johnson |
| Friday September 8 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Abhishek Chatterjee Department of Chemistry Boston College |
Genetically Encoded Chemistries to Read and Write Biology | A. Baker |
| Friday September 15 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Rachel Evans Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy University of Cambridge |
Photon Conversion Materials Based on Organic-Inorganic Hybrids for Photovoltaic and Imaging Technologies | Tyler Saunders, President of Grad Student Society |
| Friday September 22 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Penghao Xiao Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science Dalhousie University |
Reaction Rates under Applied Voltage/Electric-field -- Three levels of Theory | P. Zhang |
| Friday September 29 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Caterina Ramogida Department of Chemistry Simon Fraser University |
Production and Chelation of Exotic Radiometals for Theranostic Radiopharmaceuticals | C. Charron |
| Friday October 13 1:30 pm Via Zoom |
Professor Han Xiao Departments of Chemistry & Biosciences Rice University |
Bring the Power of Antibodies to the Bone | A. Baker |
| Friday October 20 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Scott Kroeker Department of Chemistry University of Manitoba |
Built To Last: How NMR Spectroscopy is Improving Nuclear Waste Glasses | J. Zwanziger |
| Friday October 27 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Zac Hudson Department of Chemistry University of British Columbia |
High-Performance Luminescent Materials Using Structural Constraint | S. Chitnis |
| Friday November 3 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Jean-Baptiste d’Espinose Department of Chemistry SIMM laboratory ESPCI Paris - PSL University |
The Chemistry of Low-CO2 Cements: the Role of the Activating Solution | J. Zwanziger |
| Friday November 10 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Len Luyt Department of Chemistry The University of Western Ontario |
Peptides: Transforming Natural Ligands into Therapeutics and Imaging Agents | C. Charron |
| Thursday November 16 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Bruce A. Arndtsen Department of Chemistry McGill University |
Alternative Energy Drivers in Palladium Catalyzed Coupling Reactions | M. Stradiotto |
| Friday November 17 1:30 pm Room 226 Cancelled |
Professor Hemamala Karunadasa Department of Chemistry Stanford University |
TBA | J. Zwanziger |
| Friday November 24 1:30 pm Room 226 Postponed |
Professor Joonho Lee Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Harvard University |
TBA | R. MacDonell |
| Friday December 1 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Erin Leitao Chemical Sciences University of Auckland |
Synthesizing a Circular Economy | S. Chitnis |
| Friday December 8 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Teresa Head-Gordon Departments of Chemistry, Bioengineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering University of California, Berkeley |
Role of Interfaces and Electrostatics for Chemical Transformations |
E. Johnson |
| Friday December 8 2:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Martin Head-Gordon College of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley | In Search of Numbers and Insight: Analyzing Bonds and Intermolecular Interactions using Electronic Structure Calculations | E. Johnson |
| Friday January 12 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Dr. Andrew Burnie Senior Scientist Paraza Pharma |
Paraza Pharma: Who We Are and What We Do |
M. Stradiotto |
| Friday January 19 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Peter Mahaffy Department of Chemistry The King’s University, Alberta |
Realizing the Role for Chemistry and Chemistry Education in the Emergence of Sustainability: A Systems Approach | M. Whalen |
| Friday January 26 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Elizabeth Gillies Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Western University |
Self-immolative Polymers: from Synthesis to Applications | A. Baker |
| Friday February 9 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Timothy A. Su Department of Chemistry University of California, Riverside |
Silicon Diamondoids: Atomically Precise Clusters of Crystalline Silicon | S. Chitnis |
| Friday February 16 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Joonho Lee Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Harvard University |
Recent Progress in AFQMC at the Intersection between Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Information Science | R. MacDonell |
| Friday February 23 1:30pm Virtual |
Professor Nathan Wiebe Department of Computer Science University of Toronto |
Efficient Simulations of Molecular Dynamics on Quantum Computers | R. MacDonell |
| Friday March 8 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Mike A. Robb Department of Chemistry Imperial College, London, UK | Controlling the Electrons in Excited State Chemistry (Attochemistry) | R. MacDonell |
| Friday March 15 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Bulent Mutus Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Windsor |
Development of Fluorescent Probes for Diverse Molecules | A. Thompson |
| Friday March 22 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor James A. Davey Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Dalhousie University |
Development of Computational and Experimental Tools for Protein Systems Engineering | C. Charron |
| Wednesday March 27 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Karen Waldron Department of Chemistry University of Montreal |
Crosslinked Proteolytic Enzymes for Microscale Proteomics Applications: A Two-Decade Journey | A. Doucette |
| Friday April 5 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Sophie Rousseaux Department of Chemistry University of Toronto |
New developments in Ni-catalyzed Transnitrilation | M. Stradiotto |
| Friday April 12 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Matthew J. Harrington Department of Chemistry McGill University |
Bio-inspired Materials Processing | A. Baker |