Chemistry Department Colloquium - Fall 2017
Seminars are held in ESC58 unless noted on the flyer at 3:30 p.m. |
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| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
| September 15 | Quanli Gu, Ph.D. | Wesleyan University, 2009 | "Quantitative probing of subtle interactions among H-bonds in acid-water and acid-acid complexes" | Prof. Joseph Knee |
| September 22 | Dr. Michael LeVine Wesleyan 2011 |
Cornell University Weill Cornell Medical College |
"Thermodynamic coupling in neurotransmitter reuptake" | Prof. Erika Taylor |
| September 28 Thursday |
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Arthur Palmer |
Columbia University Medical Center | 18th Annual Biophysics Retreat Wadsworth Mansion |
Prof. Ishita Mukerji |
| September 29 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| October 6 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| October 13 | Prof. Tomo Mani | University of Connecticut | “Radical Ions and Triplet Excited States of Organic-Conjugated Molecules” | Prof. Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos |
| October 20 | Dr. Jose Rodriguez | Brookhaven National Laboratory | "Novel Catalysts for C1 Chemistry" | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| October 27 | Prof. Maria Gomez | Mount Holyoke College | ”The influence of acceptor dopant and other defects on proton conduction pathways in barium zirconate” | Prof. Erika Taylor and Prof. Caros Jimenez-Hoyos |
| November 3 | Prof. Jingyi Chen | Univ. of Arkansas | “Shaping Bimetallic Nanostructures for Catalysis” | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| November 10 | Prof. Scott Laughlin | Stony Brook University | “Small Molecule Control of Instinctive Fear” | Prof. Michelle Personick |
Chemistry Department Colloquium - Spring 2018
Coordinated by Prof. Michelle L. Personick, Professor of Chemistry
Seminars are held in room 84, Hall-Atwater Laboratories at 3:30 p.m.
Coffee is served outside room 84 before the seminar and
refreshments are served afterwards in the Chemistry Lounge (Hall-Atwater Laboratory, Room 6).
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Host |
| February 9 | Dr. Ken Waterman | FreeThinkTechnologies | "Accelerated Stability Assessment Program (ASAP): Using Science to Set Expiry Dating" | Prof. Brian Northrop |
| February 16 | Dr. Zhibo Yang | University of Oklahoma | “Mass Spectrometry for Microscale Bioanalysis: Single Cells, Tissues, and Multicellular Spheroids”. | Prof. Joe Knee |
| February 23 | Prof. Eric Altman | Yale University | “Two Dimensional Tetrahedral Oxides: Expanding the Toolkit of Two Dimensional van der Waals Layers.” | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| March 2 | Prof. Michael Maroney | UMass Amherst | "Nickel-dependent Superoxide Dismutase: Reinventing the Wheel" | Prof. Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos |
| March 9 | Dr. Mark Langille | The Dow Chemical Company | "Dispersant Technologies for More Durable Economy Paints" | Prof. Michelle Personick |
| March 30 | Prof. Tanya L. Schneider | Connecticut College | "Inhibition of bacterial quorum sensing regulator proteins" | Prof. Erika Taylor |
| April 6 | Prof. Annabel Edwards | Denison University | "Over, under and all the way through: using water to probe the structure of thick and thin film organic mixtures" | Prof. Stewart Novick |
| April 13 | Prof. AL Fry Emeritus |
Wesleyan University Chemistry Department | "Some Electrochemistry from the Fry Group – A Retrospective” | Prof. David Beveridge |
| April 20 | Prof. Stuart Licht | George Washington University | "Facile electrochemical conversion of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to valuable and useful products". | Prof. Stewart Novick |
| April 27 | Prof. David Beveridge Emeritus |
Wesleyan University Chemistry Department | "Molecules to Medicine" |
Prof. Al Fry |