Visiting Speakers Seminars
2016/17 Schedule
All seminars are held in Chemistry room 226 unless otherwise indicated.
Date/time |
Speaker/Institution |
Title/Sponsorship |
Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday August 15 3:00 pm |
Professor Jeffrey C. Smith Department of Chemistry and Institute of Biochemistry Carleton University |
Isotopically-labelled TrEnDi: New Technology to Increase the Sensitivity and Selectivity of MS-based Lipid Analysis of Complex Biological Samples | A.A. Doucette |
| Friday September 23 1:30 pm |
Professor Aicheng Chen Department of Chemistry Lakehead University |
Design and Electrochemical Study of Nanomaterials for Green Chemistry and Medical Applications | P. Zhang |
| Wednesday September 28 1:30 pm |
Professor Cathleen Crudden Department of Chemistry Queen’s University |
From Molecules to Materials: Asymmetric Catalysis and the Preparation of Carbon-based Monolayers on Gold | M. Stradiotto |
| Friday October 7 1:30 pm |
Professor Tomislav Friscic Department of Chemistry McGill University |
Chemistry of Stones: Development of Solid-state Routes to Molecules and Materials Co-sponsored by IRM |
A. Thompson |
| Friday October 14 1:30 pm |
Dr. Kevin P. Bateman Distinguished Scientist, Merck & Co. West Point, PA www.merck.com |
Drug Discovery and Development as Seen Through the Eyes of an Analytical Chemist Carl C. Coffin |
N.P. Schepp |
| Friday October 21 1:30 pm |
Professor Jaclyn Brusso Department of Chemistry University of Ottawa |
Thiatriazinyl Radicals: A New Spin On A Classic Framework Co-sponsored by IRM |
M. Dasog |
| Friday October 28 1:30 pm |
Professor James Brenan Department of Earth Sciences Dalhousie University |
Zircon Chemistry Reveals Conditions on the Early Earth Co-sponsored by IRM |
MA. White |
| Thursday November 3 8:00pm Chemistry Room 125 |
Professor Timothy M. Swager John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Molecular Electronics for Chemical Sensors Walter J. Chute |
N.P. Schepp |
| Friday November 4 1:30pm |
Professor Timothy M. Swager John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Dynamic Droplets Walter J. Chute |
N.P. Schepp |
| Friday November 18 1:30 pm |
Professor André Beauchemin Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences University of Ottawa |
New Reactivity Using Unusual Isocyanates / Studies on Potential Roles of Carbohydrates in “Origin-of-life" Chemistry |
A. Speed |
| Friday January 13 1:30 pm |
Dr. Michael A. Quilliam |
What’s Your Poison? - Thirty Years of Biotoxin Research at the NRC | A. Thompson |
| Friday January 20 1:30 pm |
Professor Timothy F. Jamison Department of Chemistry MIT |
Continuous Flow Multistep Synthesis | M. Stradiotto |
| Wednesday January 25 1:30 pm |
Professor Rylan Lundgren Department of Chemistry University of Alberta |
Copper-Mediated Oxidative Cross-Coupling Reactions of Carbon Nucleophiles | M. Stradiotto |
| Friday February 10 1:30 pm |
Professor Pavle V. Radovanovic Department of Chemistry University of Waterloo |
TBA Co-sponsored by IRM |
P. Zhang |
| Friday February 17 1:30 pm |
Professor Stephen L. Bearne Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Dalhousie University |
Designing Substrate-Product Analogue Inhibitors for Racemases and Epimerases | A. Thompson |
| Friday March 3 1:30 pm |
Professor Jason Masuda Department of Chemistry Saint Mary’s University |
New Main Group Chemistry Involving Carbon, Phosphorus and Aluminum | A. Speed |
| Friday March 10 1:30 pm |
Professor Volker W. Blum Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Duke University |
Scalable All-Electron Theory - from Molecular Spectroscopy to Materials for Energy Harvesting Co-sponsored by IRM |
E. Johnson & A. Kelly |
| Friday March 17 1:30 pm |
Dr. John Warner Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry |
Green Chemistry: The Missing Element Co-sponsored by IRM |
L. Ellis (Grad Student) |
| Friday March 24 1:30 pm |
Dr. Preston Chase Green Centre Canada |
Development and Commercial Application of Novel Catalyst and Green Solvent Technologies | M. Stradiotto |
| Friday March 31 1:30 pm |
Professor Jan K. Rainey Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Dalhousie University |
Unraveling the Nanoscale Basis of Spider Wrapping Silk Toughness | N.P. Schepp |
| Friday April 7 1:30 pm |
Professor Yvan Guindon Department of Chemistry University of Montreal |
Synthesis of Bio-Active Agents using Free Radical Chemistry | D.L. Jakeman |
| Monday April 10 1:30 pm |
Professor Andrew P. Dicks Department of Chemistry University of Toronto |
On being a Chemistry Teaching Faculty Member at the University of Toronto | Chemistry Instructors |
| Friday April 28 1:30 pm |
Professor Mohsen Kompany-Zareh Visiting Scientist Department of Chemistry Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Science Iran |
Multi-way Study of Nano-biochemical Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer | P.D. Wentzell |
| Friday June 9 1:30 pm |
Professor Michael Katz Department of Chemistry Memorial University |
From Synthesis to Applications, our Voyages Through the Pores of Metal-organic Frameworks | M. Dasog |
| Friday June 16 1:30 pm |
Professor Gonzalo Cosa Department of Chemistry McGill University |
Chemoselective Fluorescence Imaging of Nucleophiles, ROS and Redox Processes: from High Throughput to Single Particle to Single Molecule Events | A. Thompson |