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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Plasmonic Nanobiosensors: From Therapeutic Drug and Environmental Monitoring to Optophysiology of Living Cells |
P.D. Wentzell |
| Friday March 20 1:30 pm |
Professor Prashant K. Jain Department of Chemistry University of Illinois |
Carl C. Coffin TBA |
M. Dasog |
| Wednesday March 25 1:30 pm |
Professor Sophie Rousseaux Department of Chemistry University of Toronto |
Carl C. Coffin Strategies for Selective C–C and C–O Bond Cleavage in Cyclopropanols and Nitriles |
M. Stradiotto |
| Friday March 27 1:30 pm |
Professor Sarah L. Price Chemistry Department University College London |
Carl C. Coffin The crystallisation of organic molecules – a challenge to theory and experiment |
Grad Students |
| Friday April 3 1:30 pm |
Professor Christina M. Woo Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Harvard University |
Carl C. Coffin TBA |
A. Speed |
| Monday April 6 1:30 pm |
Professor Drew Marquardt Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Windsor |
Carl C. Coffin TBA |
J.W. Zwanziger |
| Wednesday April 15 1:30 pm |
Professor Tomislav Rovis Department of Chemistry Columbia University |
Carl C. Coffin TBA |
A. Speed |