Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science

Visiting Speakers Seminars

2019/20 Schedule

All seminars are held in Chemistry room 226 unless otherwise indicated.

Date/time	Speaker/Institution	Title/Sponsorship	Host
Cancelled Friday September 6 1:30pm	Professor Charles Sykes Department of Chemistry Tufts University	Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested in Reactors, and Understood In Silico	P. Zhang
Friday September 13 1:30 pm	Dr. Jeffrey Albert IntelliSyn Pharma Inc Montreal	Successful Drug Discovery: Combining Excellence in Design and Excellence in Synthesis	A. Speed
Friday September 20 1:30 pm	Professor Arend G. Dijkstra School of Chemistry University of Leeds	Shining Light on Large Molecular Complexes	A. Kelly
Friday September 27 1:30 pm	Dr. Jason Burch Ventus Therapeutics	Discovery of Doravirine: a Non-nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor for the Treatment of HIV	D.L. Jakeman
Monday September 30 1:30 pm	Professor Alex Speed Department of Chemistry Dalhousie University	The Evolution of Asymmetric Reduction Catalysts with Active Phosphorus Hydrogen Bonds	N.P. Schepp
Friday October 4 1:30 pm	Professor P. Andrew Evans Department of Chemistry Queen’s University	Stereoselective Construction of Challenging C-C Bonds: Total Synthesis of Complex Bioactive Agents	A. Speed
Friday October 11 1:30 pm	Professor David J. Nelson Department of Chemistry University of Strathclyde	Understanding Reaction Mechanisms and Structure/Reactivity Relationships in Oxidative Addition to Nickel(0): Implications for Cross-Coupling Catalysis	M. Stradiotto
Friday October 18 1:30 pm	Professor Laura Turculet Department of Chemistry Dalhousie University	Si in Ligand Design: Novel Structure and Reactivity Involving Transition Metal silyl Pincer Complexes	N.P. Schepp
Friday October 25 1:30 pm	Dr. Kimberly A. McManus Partner/Patent Agent Aird McBurney	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Process for Making a Patent Agent: Step 1- Obtain a Dalhousie Chemistry Degree	N.P. Schepp
Friday November 1 1:30 pm	Professor Eric Rivard Department of Chemistry University of Alberta	FLPs, Silylenes, and Polymers Containing Heavy Main Group Elements	S. Chitnis
Friday November 8 1:30 pm	Professor Joseph A. Schwarcz Department of Chemistry McGill University	Walter J. Chute Research Lecture The Challenge Of Separating Sense From Nonsense	N.P. Schepp
Friday November 8 5:30 pm Scotiabank Auditorium	Professor Joseph A. Schwarcz Department of Chemistry McGill University	Walter J. Chute Public Lecture Nutritional Advice-Is There a Solution to The Confusion?	N.P. Schepp
Friday November 15 1:30 pm	Professor Johanna M. Blacquiere Department of Chemistry Western University	Proton- and Structurally-Responsive Ligands for Catalysis	M. Stradiotto
Friday November 22 1:30 pm	Professor Cathleen Crudden Department of Chemistry Queen’s University	Metal catalysts, clusters and surfaces: Catalytic preparation of chiral bio-molecules and the chemistry of carbon-based monolayers	M. Stradiotto
Monday November 25 1:30 pm	Professor David Zechel Department of Chemistry Queen's University	Genomics Driven Discovery of New Enzyme Reactions and Molecules	D. Jakeman
Cancelled Friday November 29 1:30 pm	Professor Robert A. Britton Department of Chemistry Simon Fraser University	New Strategies for the Synthesis of Carbohydrate and Nucleoside Analogues and a New Family of 18F-Labelled Amino Acids for Oncological PET Imaging	A. Thompson
Friday December 6 1:30 pm	Professor Adrian L. Schwan Department of Chemistry University of Guelph	Stereoselection, Synthesis and Computation in the Evaluation of Sulfenic Acid Anion Chemistry	A. Thompson
Monday December 9 1:30 pm	Professor Peter de B. Harrington Department of Chemistry Ohio University	Chemometrics for the Masses: How to Painlessly Improve Your Science	P. Wentzell
Friday January 17 1:30 pm	Professor Kathryn E. Preuss Department of Chemistry University of Guelph	Dimers are a Girl's Best Friend: How Dimerization of Organic Radicals Leads to Interesting Magnetic Behaviour	E. Johnson
Friday January 24 1:30 pm	Professor Francesca M. Kerton Department of Chemistry Memorial University	Chemistry of Renewable Carbon	Tina Taskovic
Monday January 27 1:30 pm	Professor Tim Storr Department of Chemistry Simon Fraser University	Advances in Ligand Design for Bioinorganic Chemistry Applications	M. Stradiotto
Friday January 31 1:30 pm	Professor Betar M. Gallant Department of Mechanical Engineering MIT	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Series co-sponsored by Clean Technologies Research Institute Lithium Batteries: A Trajectory From Metal-Gas Reactions to Design of Improved Interfaces	M. Dasog
Friday February 14 1:30 pm	Professor Mary Anne White Department of Chemistry Dalhousie University	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Series Thermodynamic Stability of Carbon Allotropes: Repeating Lavoisier’s experiment, but with a happier ending	N.P. Schepp
Friday February 21 1:30 pm	Professor Brett McCollum Department of Chemistry Mount Royal University	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Series Representational Competencies and the Flipped Classroom: Redesigning the Learning Experience in Chemistry	A. Crane & M. Whalen
Friday February 28 1:30 pm	Professor M. Vicki Meli Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry Mount Allison University	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Series Developing Insight and Intuition for the Interfacial Behaviour of Nanoparticles	M. Dasog
Friday March 6 1:30 pm	Professor Richard K. Brow Materials Science & Engineering Missouri University of Science & Technology	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Series Structure, Properties, and Biomedical Opportunities for Borophosphate Glasses	J.W. Zwanziger
Friday March 13 1:30 pm	Professor Jean-Francois Masson Department of Chemistry University of Montreal	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Series Plasmonic Nanobiosensors: From Therapeutic Drug and Environmental Monitoring to Optophysiology of Living Cells	P.D. Wentzell
Cancelled Friday March 20 1:30 pm	Professor Prashant K. Jain Department of Chemistry University of Illinois	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Series co-sponsored by Clean Technologies Research Institute Harnessing Chemical Potential from Light	M. Dasog
Cancelled Wednesday March 25 1:30 pm	Professor Sophie Rousseaux Department of Chemistry University of Toronto	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Series Strategies for Selective C–C and C–O Bond Cleavage in Cyclopropanols and Nitriles	M. Stradiotto
Cancelled Friday March 27 1:30 pm	Professor Sarah L. Price Chemistry Department University College London	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Series The crystallisation of organic molecules – a challenge to theory and experiment	Grad Students
Cancelled Friday April 3 1:30 pm	Professor Christina M. Woo Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Harvard University	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Series TBA	A. Speed
Monday April 6 1:30 pm	Professor Drew Marquardt Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Windsor	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Series co-sponsored by Clean Technologies Research Institute Vitamin E and Bilayer Asymmetry: Neutrons Probing Different Membrane Problems	J.W. Zwanziger
Cancelled Wednesday April 15 1:30 pm	Professor Tomislav Rovis Department of Chemistry Columbia University	Carl C. Coffin Lecture Series TBA	A. Speed

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