Fall Seminar Series

September 1

September 8

Speaker: Alex Brader, Middlebury College

Title: Synthesis and Electrochemical Reactivity of Precisely Tuned Nanoscale Platforms

A.A

September 15

Speaker: Professor Chuck Zercher

Title: Use of the DUCK Exam in Assessing Program Learning Objectives

A.L.

September 22

Sustainability Lecture Series

Speaker: Dr. Michael Mara, Argonne National Lab

Title: Deciphering Excited-State Pathways in Transition Metal Complexes by Ultrafast X-ray Spectroscopy and Scattering

G.L.

September 29

Speaker: Professor Diego Alzate-Sanchez, Northeastern University

Title: Frontal Polymerization: Empowering Soft Materials Manufacturing through a Low-Energy, Self-Sustained Technique.

October 6

Speaker: Michael T. Ruggiero, University of Rochester

Title: When Vibrations Become Chemistry: Terahertz Phonons Dictate Reactivity in Organic Materials

A.A

October 13

Speaker: Professor Minjung Son, Boston University

Title: Engineering chromophore energy landscapes with photonic and protein environments

G.M.

October 20

Speaker: Dr. Mara Kuenen, Hillmyer Group, University of Minnesota

Title: Ester containing polymers: from drug delivery to recyclable thermosets

E.B.

October 27

Speaker: Professor James Gaynor, Northwestern University

Title: Correlating Ultrafast Vibronic Dynamics with Spin, Charge, and Ions

S.E

November 3

Speaker: Metin Karayılan, Case Western Reserve University

Title: Beyond Linear Polymers: Harnessing Macromolecular Topology for Advanced Materials

N.O.

November 10

Speaker: Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, MIT

Title: Photocatalysis in a new light:  Bioinspired approaches for enhanced reactivity

C.C.

November 17

Speaker: Megan Kizer, Brown University

Title:

N.O.

November 24

Speaker: Magda Barecka, Northeastern

Title: Beyond Active Sites: Catalysis in Electrochemical Microenvironments

C.C

December 1

December 8

Speaker: Danielle Dube, Bowdoin College

Title:

B.W.