Departmental Seminar Schedule | Student Seminar Schedule
** Held in Hunter 100 on Thursdays at 4:00pm. **
Departmental Seminar Schedule for Spring 2018
January
| Day | Speaker | Topic | Sponsor |
| 10 | Classes Begin | ||
| 11 | Joe Kolis | "My Roadmap to a Wildly Successful Career in Chemistry with Absolutely No Potholes Along the Way" | |
| 18 | Yuri Freeman - KEMET | "Inorganic and Organic Tantalum Capacitors: Science, Technology, and Applications" | George Chumanov |
| 25 | Kristin Bowman-James - University of Kansas | "Anion Coordination Chemistry" | Sourav Saha |
February
| Day | Speaker | Topic | Sponsor |
| 1 | Robert Huigens - University of Florida Gainesville | "Phenazine Antibiotics and Indole Alkaloids: New Platforms for Discovery" | Dan Whitehead |
| 8 | Micke Nilsson - University of California Irvine | "Synergy, Microemulsions and Aggregation Formation in Extraction Processes for Used Nuclear Fuel" | Julia Brumaghim |
| 15 | Melanie Cooper - Michigan State University | "Evidence-Based Approaches to Curriculum Reform and Assessment" | Ken Marcus |
| 22 | |||
March
| Day | Speaker | Topic | Sponsor |
| 1 | Jeffrey Rack - University of New Mexico | "Photochromism and Photonastism in Ruthenium Sulfoxide Complexes and Materials" | Joe Thrasher |
| 8 | Gregory Drake - Army Redstone Arsenal | "Workhorse Chemistry for Solid Tactical Propellants" | Joe Kolis |
| 15 | Herman Sintim - Purdue University | "Small Molecule Inhibitors of Bacterial Quorum Sensing and Cyclic Dinucleotide Signaling" | Dan Whitehead |
| 16 |
Special Seminar Ion Halalay - General Motors |
"Multifunctional Materials: a Promising Approach for Improving the Durability and Performance of Li-Ion Batteries" | Olt Geiculescu |
| 19-23 | Spring Break | ||
| 29 | David C. Baker - University of Tennessee Knoxville | "Carbohydrates: More Than Just Sweet Stuff" |
Dev Arya Joe Thrasher |
April
| Day | Speaker | Topic | Sponsor |
| 5 | Brent Iverson - University of Texas at Austin | "NDI: Versatile Stacking Molecule with a Split Personality" | Sourav Saha |
| 12 | Rob Schurko - University of Windsor, Canada | "NMR Across the Periodic Table: Observing "Invisible" Nuclides in Solid Materials" | Leah Casabianca |
| 19 | Shengqian Ma - University of South Florida | "Advanced Porous Organic Polymers: Task-Specific Design and Functionalization" | Sourav Saha |
| 26 | Rex Gerald - Ozark Technical College - Table Rock Campus | "Advanced Applications of Quantitative NMR Using Toroid Cavity Detectors" | Leah Casabianca |
| April 30-May 4 | Exam Week |
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These seminars are open to anyone interested and will be held in the Hunter Laboratories Auditorium Room 100 on Thursdays at 4:00pm.. For any further information, please contact George Chumanov (gchumak@clemson.edu) or telephone (864) 656-2339.
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Student Seminar Schedule For Fall 2017
Physical and Analytical Chemistry Student Seminar Program
CH851 (section 2) Analytical/Physical Student Seminar:
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| October 10 | ||
| October 24 | Wenxing Zhang | TBA |
| November 7 | Muskendol Novoa Delgado | TBA |
| November 14 | Ed Hoegg | TBA |
| December 5 | Paige Reed | TBA |
Organic/Inorganic Chemistry Student Seminar Program
CH 851 Organic-Inorganic Seminar:
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| September 1 | Dr. Joe Thrasher | Kickoff Meeting |
| September 8 | Khadijatul Kobra - Literature (Pennington group) | "Halogentated flame retardants-potential risks and remedy" |
| September 15 | Daniel Vinton - Literature (Kolis group) | "Investigation into Materials for Actinide Speciation and Environmental Remediation" |
| September 22 | No Seminar | |
| September 29 | Catherine A. Conrad - Literature (Smith group) | "Use of Main Group Elements as Starting Materials" |
| October 6 | Cassi Hager - Literature (Thrasher/Creager Groups) | "Materials Used in Oil Remediation" |
| October 13 | No Seminar | |
| October 20 | Ashley A. Dickey - Proposal (Whitehead group) | "Synthesis of Scintillating Nanoparticles for use in the Field of Optogenetics" |
| October 27 | Chandima Narangoda - Proposal (Whitehead group) | "Synthesis of diazetine and oxadiazinone derivatives using azodicarboxylates and electron-rich alkynes" |
| November 3 | Fan Yang - Research (Sun group) | "Preparation and Studies of Carbon Dots as Nano-probes" |
| November 10 | No Seminar - SERMACS 2017 | |
| November 17 | Steven P. Belina - Research (Thrasher group) | "The Synthesis of Novel Pentafluorosulfanyl-Containing Herterocycles, and the Synthesis and Characterization of Pentafluorosulfanyldifluoromethane" |
| November 24 | No Seminar - Thanksgiving | |
| December 1 | Chen Liu - Research (Thrasher group) | "Synthesis and characterization of fluorinated ethers and related polymers" |
| December 8 | Justin Talbert - Proposal (Hwu/Dominy group) | "Computational Crystal Growth Analysis of Simple and Complex Ionic Salts" |
| December | No Seminar |
Student Seminar Schedule For Spring 2018
Physical and Analytical Chemistry Student Seminar Program
CH851 (section 2) Analytical/Physical Student Seminar:
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Feb 6 | Htoo Paing | "Three-Dimensional Imaging Utilizing Laser Ablation: A Complete Elemental Picture" |
| Feb 13 | Hung Trang | TBA |
| March 6 | Sisi Huang | TBA |
| March 13 | Tatiana Estrada-Mendoza | TBA |
| March 20-24 | Spring Break | |
| March 27 | Hui Xu | TBA |
| April 3 | Katja Hall | TBA |
| April 10 | Chathurika Kosgallana | TBA |
| April 17 | Meenakshi Ranasinghe | TBA |
| April 24 | Tyler Williams | TBA |
Organic/Inorganic Chemistry Student Seminar Program
CH 851 Organic-Inorganic Seminar:
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| February | Dr. Joseph Thrasher - Kickoff Meeting | |
| February 23 | Catherine Conrad - Literature (Smith) | "Direct P-C Bond Formation from Elemental Phosphorus to Access Discrete Phosphorus Clusters" |
| March 2 | Monica Gordillo - Literature (Saha) | "Functional Metallosupramolecular Grid Complexes: From Design to Potential Technological Applications" |
| March 9 | Zhuomin Lu - Literature (Tennyson) | "Recent Advances of Nanomedicine in Cancer Therapy" |
| March 16 | Ion C. Halalay - Departmental Seminar Speaker (General Motors) | "Multifunctional Materials: A Promising Approach for Improving the Durability and Performance of Li-Ion Batteries" |
| March 23 | No Seminar - Spring Break | Spring ACS National Meeting |
| March 30 | Krishnendu Maity - Literature (Saha) | "Advances in Domino Radical Cascade Reactions in Organic Synthesis" |
| April 6 | Bryan Bill - Literature (Creager) | "Examining DNA/RNA-Mediated Hepatitis C Therapies" |
| April 13 | Kirstin Sockwell - Final Research (Wetzler) | "Ethylene Diamine Tetrahydroxamic Acid-containing Ligands for Selective Metal Coordination" |
| April 20 | Jaime Murphy - Final Research (Brumaghim) | "Complexation of Copper and Iron by Biorelevant Sulfur- and Selenium-small Molecules" |
| April 27 | Soham Panda - Literature (Whitehead) | "Progress in Development of Drugs for Treatment of HIV" |
| May 4 | No Seminar - Final Exams |
Proposal Seminars
Date, Seminar Speaker:
Dates reserved for candidate final seminar
Date, Seminar Speaker:
The Physical/Analytical seminars are held on Tuesdays from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM in Hunter100.
The Inorganic/Organic seminars are held on Fridays from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM in
Hunter 100.
Attendance of all graduate students is required.
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