Our seminars take place every Monday afternoon during the academic year. This is our opportunity to promote other professionals in our field, network, and expose our students to cutting-edge research. The seminars are open to everyone.
Fall 2023
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
8/21/2023
Qiang Zhang
Washington State University
Advancing Functional Materials: From Novel Synthesis to Sustainable Applications
8/28/2023
Gerald T. Seidler
University of Washington
The Laboratory ZAS Renaissance: Status and Trajectory
9/11/2023
Liyanagamage Dias
University of Rochester
Towards Amient Superconductivity
9/18/2023
Thomas Albrecht-Schoenzart
Colorado School of Mines
Chemistry Beyond Plutonium: How Relativity Alters Electronic Structure in Heavy Elements
10/2/2023
Fernando J. Uribe-Romo
University of Central Florida
Topology Guided Design of Multivariate Frameworks: Making Crystals With Predictable Structure, Variable Composition, and Turnable Solid-State Properties
10/16/2023
Kris Waynant
University of Idaho
Ligand Design Towards Metal Dissolution, Catalysis, and Recovery
10/30/2023
Sakun Duwal
Sandia National Lab
Multi-Platform Experiments Studying Materials Under Extreme Compression
11/6/2023
Sachin Handa
University of Missouri
Telescoping Sustainable Catalysis: Technologies Impactful to Organic Synthesis in Industry
11/13/2023
Skye Fortier
University of Texas El Paso
Molecules to Materials: Examining the Properties of Early Metal and Actinide Complexes
11/27/2023
Cory Windorff
New Mexico State University
Pursuing f-d Heterometallic Complexes
12/4/2023
Nic Uhnak
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nuclear Forensics at PNNL: A Multidisciplinary Examination of Nuclear Data
Spring 2024
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
1/22/2024
Gaurav Sahay
Oregon State University
The Quest for Next Generation Lipid Nanoparticles for Cell-specific Delivery of mRNA
2/12/2024
Qian Wang
University of South Carolina
Virus Engineering—a crosstalk of bioconjugation chemistry and biomaterials science
3/4/2024
Erin Baker
University of North Carolina, Chappel Hill
Using Multidimensional Analytical Measurements to Assess Chemical Exposure and Lipidomic Alterations
3/25/2024
Scott Daly
University of Iowa
Assessing Metal-Ligand Covalency in Actinide and Transition Metal Complexes Containing Hydride and Phosphorus Ligands
4/1/2024
Paul Bagus
University of North Texas
Extracting Chemistry From X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
4/8/2024
Lei Fang
Texas A&M University
Conjugated Ladder Polymers and Polymer Networks: Fusing Rings for Materials Functions
4/15/2024
Shelley Minteer
University of Utah
Enzymatic Bioelectrocatalysis for Electrosynthesis
4/22/2024
Lingfeng He
North Carolina State University
Advanced Characterization of Irradiated Nuclear Fuels