Visiting Speakers Seminars
2022/23 Schedule
Date/time |
Speaker/Institution |
Title/Sponsorship |
Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday June 28 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Shuhui Sun The Center for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) Montréal, Canada |
Rational Design of Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Fuel Cells and Batteries | P. Zhang |
| Thursday July 28 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Erika Merschrod Department of Chemistry Memorial University |
Better Living Through Ungrading: practical approaches that improve instructor and student experience |
M. Dasog |
| Thursday August 4 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Paul Hayes Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Lethbridge |
Phosphazides: A New Functional Group for Ligand Design |
A. Speed |
| Wednesday August 17 11:30 am Room 226 |
Professor Marc-André Légaré Department of Chemistry McGill University |
Main Group Ambiphiles: Metal-Free Catalysis and Small Molecule Activation using Main Group Elements |
S. Chitnis |
| Friday September 9 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Rajendra S. Ghadwal Department of Chemistry Bielefeld University, Germany |
Stable Main-Group Radicals and Diradicals Based on Unconventional Carbon-Donor Frameworks |
S. Chitnis |
| Wednesday September 28 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Saurabh Chitnis Department of Chemistry Dalhousie University |
Novel Catalysts & Materials through Geometric Thinking | N.P. Schepp |
| Friday October 7 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Rebecca Davis Department of Chemistry University of Manitoba |
Exploring and Exploiting Reactive Intermediates in Aminocatalysis |
E. Johnson |
| Friday October 14 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor John P. Richard Department of Chemistry University at Buffalo |
The Enabling Role of Ligand-driven Conformational Changes in Enzyme Catalysis | S.L. Bearne |
| Friday October 21 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Dr. Beth Mason CEO Vershuren Centre Cape Breton University |
Analytical Chemistry Tools to Drive Functional Foods for Disease Mitigation | A.A. Doucette |
| Friday October 28 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Christopher Caputo Department of Chemistry York University |
Phosphines and Boranes and Dyes, Oh My! How Structure and Bonding Affect Properties | A. Speed |
| Friday November 4 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Vahid Adibnia Department of Applied Oral Sciences Dalhousie University |
Biosourced and Bioinspired Polymeric Biomaterials: Towards Sustainable Design of Medical Devices | N.P. Schepp |
| Friday November 18 1:30 pm Via Zoom |
Professor Brigitte Guerin Department of Nuclear Medicine & Radiobiology University of Sherbrooke |
New PET Tracers and Radioligands - From Production to Translation | C. Charron |
| Friday November 25 1:30 pm Via Zoom |
Professor Viola Ingrid Birss Department of Chemistry University of Calgary |
Novel Nanostructured Carbons for Electrochemical Energy Applications | H. Andreas |
| Friday December 2 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Gabriel Ménard Department of Chemistry University of Calgary |
Selective Electrochemical Capture and Release of Energy Metals Using Carboranes | S. Chitnis |
| Tuesday December 6 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor E. Bradley Easton Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Ontario Tech University |
Doped Metal Oxides for Carbon-free Fuel Cell Catalyst Layers | H. Andreas |
| CANCELLED Friday January 13 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 January 20 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Josef Zwanziger Department of Chemistry Director, Dalhousie University NMR-3 Centre | A New Way to Compute (and Interpret) NMR Chemical Shifts | E. Johnson |
| Friday January 27 1:30 pm Via Zoom |
Professor James P. Morken Department of Chemistry Boston College |
New Strategies in Enantioselective Catalytic Synthesis with Organoboron Reagents | A. Speed |
| Friday February 17 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Pengfei (Frank) Huo Department of Chemistry University of Rochester |
New Reactivities Enabled by Polariton Chemistry and Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics | Ryan MacDonell |
| Friday March 3 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Ashlee Howarth Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry Concordia University |
Exploring the Complex Structural Landscape and Potential Applications of Rare-Earth Metal–Organic Frameworks | M. Dasog |
| Friday March 10 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Scott Taylor Department of Chemistry University of Waterloo | Synthesis and Mechanism of Action Studies on the Cyclic Lipodepsipeptide Antibiotic Daptomycin | C. Charron |
| Friday March 17 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Nick Vukotic Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Windsor | Designing Crystalline Drug Release Matrix Materials via Coordination Chemistry | E. Johnson |
| Friday March 24 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Anna Klinkova Department of Chemistry University of Waterloo |
Structural Complexity in Synthetic Nanoscale Electrocatalysts | M. Dasog |
| Friday March 31 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Frank Wuest Department of Oncology University of Alberta |
Transition Metal-mediated Chemistry with Short-lived Positron Emitters 11C and 18F |
C. Charron |
| Friday April 14 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Basile Curchod Department of Chemistry University of Bristol |
Photochemistry from a Theoretical and Computational Perspective | Ryan MacDonell |
| Friday April 21 1:30 pm Room 226 |
Professor Georgii Nikonov Department of Chemistry Brock University |
Ge(0) Compound with Ambiphilic Reactivity | S. Chitnis |