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