Department of Chemistry Calendar

Friday, September 21, 2018

• • 10:00 am
    
  • 171 Roger Adams Lab

  Final Defense - Mr. Aaron Petronico, UIUC, "Organic Materials for High Performance Battery Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Chang Lu, Virginia Tech, Title: "Epigenomic profiling with ultralow-input microfluidic assays: technology, biology, and medicine"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 24, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building

  Professor Mahesh Mahanthappa, University of Minnesota, "Molecular Frustration, Quasicrystal Approximants, and the Escape to Infinity"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Clare Leahy, UIUC, "Photoactivation of dinitrogen by molybdenum complexes"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Professor Robert Baker, The Ohio State University, "Visualizing Ultrafast Electron Dynamics at Catalytic Surfaces"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, September 27, 2018

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565, Prof. Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton University, "Evaporation Transitions of Water in Nano-Scale Confinement: Fundamentals and Biophysical Implications"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Todd Emrick, University of Massachusetts, "Materials Chemistry with Functional Polymers"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

• • 2:00 pm
    

  CHBE 565, Prof. April Kloxin, University of Delaware, "Designing and Utilizing Responsive Biomaterials in Tissue Regeneration and Disease"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Yisong (Alex) Guo, Carnegie Mellon University, "Spectroscopic and Kinetic Studies of Catalytically Versatile Non-Heme Iron Enzymes"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 4, 2018

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  Mr. Lucas Akin, UIUC, "Combinatorial Therapeutics: Synchronizing Drug Release and Activity for Cell Cycle Control"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Yogesh Surendranath, MIT, "Bridging Molecular and Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis Through Graphite Conjugation"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Prof. Helen Blackwell, University of Wisconsin, title "Chemical Interception of Bacterial Communication: New Languages, New Outcomes"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 5, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Mr. Alex Schrader, UIUC, Title: "Characterization of crude oil samples using MALDI mass Spectrometry"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Mr. Eduardo De La Toba, UIUC, Title: "Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for the Detection of Pesticides"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Prof. Myles Brown, Harvard University, title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565, Prof. Randy Snurr, Northwestern University, "Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable Platforms for Gas Storage, Chemical Separations, and Catalysis"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Gerald Meyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Dye-Sensitization for the Production of Electrical Power and Chemical Fuels from Sunlight"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B02 CLSL

  Professor Alexander Barnes, Washington University in St. Louis, "Dynamic Nuclear Polarization, Electron Spin Decoupling, and Magic Angle Spinning Spheres for HIV Cure Research"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 11, 2018

• • 12:05 pm
    
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  Ms. Kristen Muñoz, UIUC, "Drug Discovery and Development in the Era of Automation"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565, Prof. Thanos Panagiotopoulos, "Activities, Solubilities, and Nucleation Rates of Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Paul Voyles, University of Wisconsin, "Solving Structurally Complex Materials"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 12, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Mr. Kendrich Hatfield, UIUC, Title: "From Nanomedicine to Energy: The Wide Realm of NMR Diffusion Measurements"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Ms. Anne Marie Esposito, UIUC, Title: "In-situ Detection of Technetium-99 Species in Nuclear Waste Facilities"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 13, 2018

• • 12:30 pm
    
  • Grange Grove, just west of Memorial Stadium

  ChBE Alumni & Friends Homecoming Tailgate

  Please join us for the 2018 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Alumni Homecoming Tailgate on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018

  • Social/Informal Event

Thursday, October 18, 2018

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  Mr. Justin Miller, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565, Prof. Sangtae Kim, Purdue University, "Microhydrodynamics of Ellipsoidal Particles"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Libai Huang, Purdue University, "Ultrafast Dynamic Microscopy of Energy and Charge Transport"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 19, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Ms. Shannon Murphy, UIUC, Title: "Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols for Pollution Monitoring"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, October 20, 2018

• • 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
    
  • Spurlock Museum

  15th Biennial Senter Symposium on Frontiers in Organic Chemistry Speakers: Prof. Matthew S. Sigman, University of Utah; Prof. Karen Wooley, Texas A&M University; Prof. Tehshik Yoon, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Prof. Dean Toste, University of California, Berkeley; Prof. Floyd Romesberg, The Scripps Research Institute

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 22, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  R. C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Neil K. Garg, University of California, Los Angeles, "How Organic Chemistry Became One of UCLA's Most Popular Classes"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565, Prof. Jennifer Maynard, University of Texas, Austin, "Engineering Next Generation Therapeutics to Combat Infectious Diseases"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  R. C. Fuson Lecture: Professor Neil K. Garg, University of California, Los Angeles, "Recent Forays in Methods Development and Complex Molecule Synthesis"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 25, 2018

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  Ms. Lindsay Chatkewitz, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Conner Dykstra, UIUC, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Eric Thornburg, UIUC, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 29, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Amie Boal, Penn State University, "Watching Metalloenzymes at Work"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Mr. Sven Kaster, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 1, 2018

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  Mr. Lam Vo, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Christopher Bandas-Rivera, UIUC, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Kenneth Madsen, UIUC, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Noah Burns, Stanford University, "Selective Halogenation and the Study of Noncanonical Lipids"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, November 5, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Prof. Nathanael S. Gray, Harvard University, title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Alexander Kurzhals, UIUC, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Daniel Najera, UIUC, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Mr. William Darrow, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 8, 2018

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  Mr. Subhendu Pandit, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565, Prof. Rajamani Gounder, Purdue University, "Active Site Proximity and Mobility Effects in Zeolite Catalysis"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Morgan Cencer, UIUC, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Oleg Davydovich, UIUC, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Sean Meyer, UIUC, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Sigma-Aldrich Lecture, Professor Jeffrey Aubé, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Steroids: From Biology Back to Chemistry"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 pm
    
  • Illini Union South Lounge

  Investiture of Professor Hong Yang as Richard C. Alkire Chair in Chemical Engineering

  Ceremony at 4:30 pm, followed by reception.

  • Other

Monday, November 12, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology: Professor Catherine Drennan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Title: "TBA"

  • Lecture

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Mr. Tyler Smolczyk, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 15, 2018

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 217 Noyes Lab

  Mr. Tung Le, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  AbbVie Lecture: Dr. Brad Shotwell, AbbVie representative, "Novel Modes of Inhibition of Wild-Type Isocitrate Dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1): Direct Covalent Modification of His315"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Hanyang Zhao, UIUC, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Tianrui Xue, UIUC, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  AbbVie Lecture: Professor Cristina Nevado, University of Zurich, "Mechanistic Puzzles in Metal Catalyzed Reactions"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Christopher Caroff, UIUC, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Mr. Ian Rinehart, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Professor Gordana Dukovic, University of Colorado, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, November 29, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  C. S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Timothy M. Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 30, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  C. S. Marvel Lecture: Professor Timothy M. Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, December 3, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Merck Lecture, Merck representative: TBD, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Merck Lecture, Professor Seth Herzon, Yale University, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565, Prof. Edgar Goluch, Northeastern University, "Development and Translation of Microbial Tools: Electrochemical Sensors and Microfabricated Devices"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Ms. Sarah Bonson, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Dr. Brett McGuire, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, "Chirped pulse spectroscopy as an analytical tool for complex mixture analysis of small molecules"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:30 pm
    
  • Illini Union South Lounge

  Investiture of Paul Kenis as Elio Eliakim Tarika Chair in Chemical Engineering

  Investiture ceremony at 4:30 p.m., followed by reception.

  • Other

Monday, December 10, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Junichiro Yamaguchi, Waseda University, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  CHBE 565, Prof. Jeffrey Rimer, University of Houston, "Identifying New Paradigms in Crystal Engineering for Energy and Biomedical Applications"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    

  Mr. Jesse Panger, UIUC, Title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, December 13, 2018

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Dmitri Talapin, University of Chicago, "Engineering functionality in colloidal semiconductor nanomaterials"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, December 21, 2018

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 100 Noyes Laboratory

  2018 Winter Convocation-Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 24, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Nicholas Fitzkee, Mississippi State University, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, January 28, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Prof. Ronald Raines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 4, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Yimon Aye, Cornell University, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Professor Dana Dattelbaum, Los Alamos National Lab, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 7, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  3M Lecture, Representative: TBD, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  3M Lecture: Prof. Konrad Tiefenbacher, University of Basel, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 8, 2019

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Prof. Bradley Moore, University of California, title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 11, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Cynthia Burrows, University of Utah, "Title: TBD"

  • Lecture

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Professor Andrej Sali, University of California - San Francisco, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 18, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Thomas Snaddon, Indiana University, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Professor David Jonas, University of Colorado, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 21, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 RAL

  Dr. Squire Booker, PennState University, title "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 25, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Amanda Hargrove, Duke University, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 28, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Robert W. Huigens III, University of Florida, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 4, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Dan Weix, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Suslick-Sessler Lecture: Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    

  Professor Renee Frontiera, University of Minnesota, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 7, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Emily Sletten, University of California, Los Angeles, "TItle: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 11, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture, BMS representative: TBD, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture, Professor Eric Meggers, University of Marburg, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 14, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  C. S. Marvel Postdoc Symposium, Speakers: "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 25, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Fuson Student Talks, Speakers: "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Student Select Seminar, Prof. Roberto Car, Princeton University, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 28, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Novartis Lecture, Novartis representative: TBD, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Novartis Lecture, Professor Paul Knochel, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 5, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor Abraham Badu-Tawiah, The Ohio State University, Title: (TBA)

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 8, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Professor David Nagib, Ohio State University, "Title: TBD"

  • Lecture

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Dr. Younan Xia, Georgia Tech, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Prof. Sean Roberts, Univestiy of Texas - Austin, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 11, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Dr. Victor Klimov, Los Alamos National Lab, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 12, 2019

• • 12:00 - 6:00 pm
    

  CHBE Undergraduate Awards Ceremony and OXE Research Symposium

  • Other

Monday, April 15, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Amgen Lecture, Amgen representative: TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Amgen Lecture, Professor Nuno Maulide, University of Vienna, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Professor Birgit Whaley, University of California - Berkeley, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 18, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Prof. Sergey Pronin, University of California, Irvine, "Title: TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 22, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Organic Reactions Lecture: Professor Herbert Mayr, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Professor Wallace Marshall, University of California - San Francisco, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 29, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Genentech Lecture, Genentech representative: TBD, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 5:00 pm
    
  • 116 Roger Adams Lab

  Genentech Lecture: Professor Tomohisa Kuzuyama, University of Tokyo, "Title: TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • B102 CLSL

  Flygare Memorial Lecture, Professor Geraldine Richmond, University of Oregon, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 2, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • 1024 Chem Annex

  Professor Michael Nippe, Texas A&M University, "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium