Past Events

"From Lab to Lamp: Revealing How Crystal Chemistry Shapes Luminescent Performance."

Prof. Jakoah Brgoch

University of Houston 

"Synthesis and Application of Bimetallic Nanoparticles for Catalysis"

"Extending Sampling in Molecular Dynamics with Two Case Studies: Membrane Permeation and Bimolecular Collision."

Prof. Rui Sun

University of Hawaii

"Toward Next-Generation Quantum Chemistry: Scalable and Accurate Frameworks Based on Grassmannians, Fragmentation, and Quantum-Informed Machine Learning.”

Prof. Ka Un Lao

"Measuring molecules near surfaces: Saving the world one monolayer at a time."

Dr. Scott Shaw

University of Iowa

Host: Jared Anderson

Coursework ends for the Fall 2025 semester.

Final exams for the Fall 2025 semester are held December 15th - 18th. 

"From Disorder to (Dys)Function: Simulating the Multiscale Dynamics of Biomolecular Condensates"

Dr. Jeetain Mittal

Texas A&M, Dept of Chemical Engineering

University offices are closed.

"Synergistic Catalysis: An Experimental and Spectroscopic Investigation"

Dr. Mukund Sibi

North Dakota State University, Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry

"Advanced ionic liquid-derived gas chromatography stationary phases for the temperature dependent separation of olefins and polyfluoroalkyl substances"
 

Bridging Solid-State Chemistry and Electrocatalysis: Electronic Structure, Surface Dynamics, and Descriptor Discovery in Transition Metal Phosphides for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

"Synthesis-enabled discovery and crystal chemistry of rare earth silicon pnictides"

Virtual Link: https://iastate.webex.com/meet/gayatriv

“Skeletal Editing of Lactone Derivatives and Conformational Studies of Macrocyclic Metacyclophanes”

"Design, Synthesis, and Structural Studies of Chiral and Topologically Complex Macrocycles"

"The synthesis, characterization, and properties of metal tetrel pnictide materials"

Virtual link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/j.php?MTID=mb82f29a0fd8bbbe63484ac42326030f8

"Computational Chemistry for Molecular Design at Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research"

Dr. Joseph Ivanic

"Hydrogenic Defects in Metal–Organic Frameworks"

Christopher H. Hendon

Associate Professor of Chemistry

University of Oregon, Chemistry and Biochemistry

"Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Studies of Selected Water-Assisted Reactions and Insight Into Their Reaction Mechanisms"

David Lee Phillips, Chair of Physical Chemistry

University of Hong Kong, Department of Chemistry

"Amidines as Amide Surrogates: Unlocking New Opportunities in Peptide Chemistry"