Visiting Speakers Seminars
2021/22 Schedule
All seminars will be held online via Zoom for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Date/time |
Speaker/Institution |
Title/Sponsorship |
Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday September 10 1:30 pm |
Professor Mita Dasog Department of Chemistry Dalhousie University |
Refractory Plasmonic Nanostructures: Exploring Uncharted Territory | N. Schepp |
| Friday September 17 1:30 pm |
Professor Zachary K. Wickens Department of Chemistry University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Selective Synthesis using Light and Electricity | A. Speed |
| Friday September 24 1:30 pm |
Professor David Herbert Department of Chemistry University of Manitoba |
Benzannulated Aromatic N-Heterocycles and their Coordination Complexes | L. Turculet |
| Friday October 1 1:30 pm |
Professor Scott C. Warren Department of Chemistry University of North Carolina |
Electron Transfer without Redox: A New Paradigm for Energy Storage | E. Johnson |
| Friday October 8 1:30 pm |
Professor Simon Aldridge Department of Chemistry University of Oxford |
Making and Breaking Chemical Bonds with Electron-rich Main Group Compounds | S. Chitnis |
| Friday October 15 1:30 pm |
Professor E. Charles Sykes Department of Chemistry Tufts University |
Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested in Reactors, and Understood In Silicon | P. Zhang |
| Friday October 22 1:30 pm |
Professor Etienne Caron Department of Pathology & Cell Biology University of Montreal |
Deciphering the Immunopeptidomic Landscape of COVID-19 Disease | A.A. Doucette |
| Friday October 29 1:30 pm |
Professor Suzanne Bart Department of Chemistry Purdue University |
Building Unprecedented Uranium-Nitrogen Multiple Bonds | A. Speed |
| Friday November 5 1:30 pm |
Professor Michelle Adams School for Resource & Environmental Studies Dalhousie University |
Mitigating the Socio-environmental Trade-offs of Clean Tech Development | M. Freund |
| Friday November 12 1:30 pm |
Professor David M. Perrin Department of Chemistry The University of British Columbia |
From Curiosity to Need: The First Total Synthesis of Alpha-amanitin and Related Challenges to Creating Order in Bioactive Peptides |
D. Jakeman |
| Friday November 19 1:30 pm |
Professor Mark E. Tuckerman Department of Chemistry & Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University |
Topology, Molecular Simulation, and Machine Learning as Routes to Prediction of Structure and Phase Behavior in Atomic and Molecular Crystals | E. Johnson |
| Friday November 26 1:30 pm |
Professor Sophie Rousseaux Department of Chemistry University of Toronto |
New Strategies for the Synthesis of Small Rings and Nitriles | M. Stradiotto |
| Friday December 3 1:30 pm |
Professor Alison Scott Department of Process Engineering & Applied Science Dalhousie University |
The Power of Statistical Design and Analysis in the Pursuit of Tailor-Made Polymeric Materials | M. Stradiotto |
| Friday December 10 1:30 pm |
Professor Chongyin Yang Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science Dalhousie University |
High-energy Aqueous Li-ion Battery Enabled by “Water-in-salt” Electrolyte | A. Thompson |
| Friday December 17 1:30 pm |
Professor Robert A. DiStasio Jr. Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Cornell University |
How Dimensionality, Topology, and Void Space Influence the van der Waals Scaling Landscape across the Nanoscale | E. Johnson |
| Friday January 7 1:30 pm |
Professor Stephen Newman Department of Chemistry University of Ottawa |
Engaging Esters, Aldehydes, and Alcohols in Cross-coupling Reactions | M. Stradiotto |
| Friday January 14 1:30 pm |
Professor Paul J. Chirik Department of Chemistry Princeton University | The Organometallic Chemistry of Chemically Recyclable Plastics | Erin Welsh Grad Student |
| Friday January 21 1:30 pm |
Professor David Palmer Department of Chemistry University of Saskatchewan | Practical Synthetic Applications of a Versatile Aldolase (Biocatalysis for Beginners) | D.L. Jakeman |
| Friday January 28 1:30 pm |
Professor Joan Brennecke McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin |
Ionic Liquids for Lower Energy Chemical Separations | Sarah Martell Grad Student & President of the Green Chemistry Institute |
| Friday February 11 1:30 pm |
Professor Christine Caputo Department of Chemistry University of New Hampshire |
TBA | M. Dasog |
| Friday March 11 1:30 pm |
John Riley Director, Process Development BioVectra |
TBA | Erin Welsh |
| Friday March 18 1:30 pm |
Professor Jean-Francois Paquin Department of Chemistry Laval University |
TBA | A. Speed |