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The UW Madison Chemistry Department is hosting the ‘Supercool’ Symposium: Adventures in Liquids and Glasses March 1st and 2nd, 2024 1101 University Ave For more information, please visit our Symposium Website. Speaker Schedule:
Past Events
Inorganic Seminar- Prof. Akif Tezcan (University of California- San Diego)
1315 Seminar Hall @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Inorganic Chemical Design of Functional Protein Materials
Organic Sigma Seminar – Prof. Vy Dong (University of California-Irvine)
1315 Seminar Hall @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Prof. Vy Dong Title: Choose Your Own Adventures in Metal-Hydride Catalysis Abstract: Metal hydrides promote a wide-range of organic transformations that include both C-C bond making and C-C bond breaking processes. This lecture will highlight …
Physical-McElvain Seminar – Prof. Andrew Rappe (University of Pennsylvania)
@ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Title: New First-Principles Methods and Insights into Surface Catalysis: Reconstructions, Pathways, and Mechanochemistry Abstract: Theoretical understanding of chemical processes occurring at surfaces can enable new technological advances toward a future powered with renewable energy. In …
WIC Coffee Hour
Professor Vy Dong
Room 9341 @ 10:30 am
This coming Tuesday, 02/27/2024, Women in Chemistry (WIC) will be hosting a coffee hour from 10:30-11 am in Room 9341. Professor Vy Dong from UC Irvine, who will give a talk at the Organic seminar later that day, will also join us. …
Thesis Defense – Joseph Kim
Hybrid Event: Biochemical Sciences Room 1211 (440 Henry Mall) @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Zoom link, with monitoring by Paul Escalante from Biochem IT
Abstract: Fundamental understanding of neurons, the cellular unit of the central and peripheral nervous system, have been advanced by the advent of new microscopy techniques. In the past 20 years, cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) has emerged …
Materials Seminar – Prof. James Mayer (Yale University)
1315 Seminar Hall @ 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm
Title: Redox Reactions of Colloidal Nanoparticles: Atom Transfers and Surface Heterogeneity Abstract: The formation and cleavage of surface–H and surface–O chemical bonds are central to many processes at metal and semiconductor interfaces. This seminar will …
Chemistry Undergraduate Research Board Supergroup – Research Lab Tours
@ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Tour research labs with the Chemistry Undergraduate Research Board. Lab tours include the Boydston Group (polymer synthesis and 3D printing) and Schomaker Group (organic synthesis) Please meet in Chem 2344 at 4PM for a short …
Organic Seminar – Prof. Julian West (Rice University)
@ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Prof. Julian West Title: A Radical Approach to Organic Chemistry Abstract: Synthetic chemists need ever better tools to synthesize the molecules of modern life, from life-changing pharmaceuticals to next generation materials. Further, there is increasing …
IKA Seminar – Prof. Christo Sevov (Ohio State University)
@ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Prof. Christo Sevov Title: Electrochemical Methods for Reductive Cross-Coupling Reactions Abstract: The seminar will describe our efforts towards the development of robust methodologies for C–C(sp3) coupling that are of interest for both process chemists working …