August 30, 2019
Dust, Health and Climate: Roles of Surface Chemistry and Heterogeneous Processes in Environmental Processes
Dr. Gayan Rubasinghege - New Mexico Tech University, Socorro, NM
July 23, 2019
Quantum state resolved dynamics of gas-surface reactions based on high dimensional potential energy surfaces
Dr. Bin Jiang from Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Chemical physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei
May 3, 2019
Total Synthesis, Absolute Stereochemistry, and Bioactivity of Cystargolides and Hortonones
Dr. Rodolfo Tello-Aburto - Associate Professor of Chemistry at New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM
April 26, 2019
Disarming The Virulence Arsenal of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa by Blocking Two-Component System Signaling
Dr. Erin E. Carlson - Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota
April 19, 2019
Probing Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics Inspired by the Rhythms of Fireflies
11th Annual Kahn Lecture Presents: Dr. Greg Scholes - William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
April 12, 2019
Actinium-225 in the Treatment of Metastatic Cancers
Dr. Benjamin Stein - Los Alamos National Laboratory - Inorganic, Isotope, and Actinide Chemistry Group (C-IIAC), Los Alamos, NM
April 5, 2019
Finding the Vibrations That Matter: Defining the Electron Transfer Coordinate in High-Dimensional Systems
Dr. Eric R. Bittner, FRSC from the University of Houston, Houston, TX
March 29, 2019
Nonlinear Optics and the Interplay Between Electronic Structure and Vibrations at Interfaces
Professor Luis Velarde, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
March 22, 2019
Reveal Mechanisms of Molecular Motors’ Motilities and Viral Capsids Assembly Using Multi-Scale Approach
Dr. Lin Li from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
March 8, 2019
Ultrafast Studies of Single Plasmonic Nanostructures
Professor Gregory Hartland of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
February 15, 2019
Development of Reverse Saturable Absorber (RSA) Materials at the Army Research Laboratory
Dr. Ryan O'Donnell - US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
February 8, 2019
Polymer/Inorganic Hybrid Materials: From Synthetic Chemistry to Catalysis
Dr. Jie He from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
January 24, 2019
Colloquium: 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions: The Perpetually Novel Pericyclic Reaction
Dr. Brian Gold - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
January 22, 2019
Transition Metal Catalysis Enabled Novel Organic Transformations
Dr. Tao Liang - Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
January 17, 2019
Colloquium: Mechanism-Driven Design of Catalytic Carbofunctionalization Reactions
Dr. Christine Le - University of California, Berkeley
January 10, 2019
Colloquium: Curiosity Driven New Reactivity Discovery -- In Clark Room 101
Dr. Xiaodong Michael Shi - Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida
December 7, 2018
Single Electron Processes Enabling Organic Synthesis
Dr. Gary A. Molander, Hirschmann-Makineni Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
November 30, 2018
Heterostructured Optical Nanomaterials From the Inside Out
Dr. Jennifer Ann Hollingsworth from the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) and Materials Physics & Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
November 16, 2018
Exploring Magnetic Bistability in Molecular Materials: Spin Crossover, Light-Induced Radical Trapping, and Plastic Phases
Professor Michael Shatruk of Florida State University, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
November 9, 2018
Spectroscopy in Inhomogeneous Electric Fields
Dr. Lasse Jensen, Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Penn State University
November 2, 2018
GOBLINS, BRIMSTONE AND CHIPS: UNCONVENTIONAL POLYMERS FOR ENERGY, DEFENSE AND SUSTAINABILITY
Dr. Jeffrey Pyun, Professor, Organic Chemistry Department at the University of Arizona
October 26, 2018
Conjugated Polymers in Redox Active Devices: Electrochromism and Charge Storage as Case Studies
Dr. John R. Reynolds, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech University
October 19, 2018
Beyond Watson & Crick: Roles for Alternative Bases and Folds in the Genome
SCHAEFER LECTURE: Dr. Cynthia J. Burrows, Distinguished Professor and Thatcher Presidential Endowed Chair of Biological Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah
October 5, 2018
Non-Canonical Heme Oxygenases: A New Chapter of Heme–Oxygen Chemistry
Dr. Matt Liptak, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont
September 28, 2018
MINIATURIZED TOOLS FOR BIO-ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS
Dr. Menake Piyasena, Assistant Professor of Chemistry from the New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
September 21, 2018
Tuning Reaction Kinetics and Thermodynamics to Control the Magnetic Properties of Nanoparticles
Dr. Dale L Huber Sandia National Laboratories - Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
September 7, 2018
New Vistas in the Asymmetric Construction of C-C Bonds: Total Synthesis of Complex Bioactive Agents
Dr. P. Andrew Evans, Professor and Alfred R. Bader Chair of Organic Chemistry of Queen's University, Kingston, ON
August 31, 2018
What is All the Fuss About Single Atom Catalysis?
Dr. Abhaya Datye of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Center for Micro-Engineered Materials at UNM
August 24, 2018
New Alkene Difunctionalization Reactions for Organic Synthesis
Dr. John Wolfe
July 17, 2018
Ultrafast X-Ray Scattering: Chemical Dynamics and Beyond - This is Room 166, Clark Hall
Dr. Adam Kirrander - School of Chemistry, University of Edinburg
May 4, 2018
Metastable Metal Complexes Supported by Guanidinate Ligands
Dr. Skye Fortier of University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
April 27, 2018
Complex Formation, Emergent States and Electronic Energy Transfer between Oppositely Charged Conjugated Polyelectrolytes
Dr. Alexander L. Ayzner of University of California Santa Cruz
April 20, 2018
CANCELED: Fragment Coupling and Constructing Quaternary-Carbon Stereocenters Using Carbon Radicals
Dr.Larry Overman of Department of Chemistry University of California, Irvine
April 13, 2018
Developing Controlled Polymerization Techniques to Synthesize Conjugated Polymers and Polyelectrolytes
Dr. Kevin Noonan of Carnegie Mellon University
April 6, 2018
Spying on Cellular Communication with Chemical Tools and Noninvasive Imaging
Dr. Jennifer A. Prescher of the University of California, Irvine
March 30, 2018
Understanding the Many Hues of RNSE P, an Ancient Enzyme Involved in tRNA Biogenesis
Dr. Venkat Gopalan of Ohio State University
March 23, 2018
Tailoring Biomolecular Interactions of Core-shell Nanoparticles and their Potential Application to Magnetoresponsive Drug Delivery Vehicles
Dr. Erik Reimhult from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
March 9, 2018
New Chemically Driven Strategies for Understanding and Controlling Epigenetic Processes in Mammalian Cells
Dr. Nate Hathaway from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
March 5, 2018
Computational Methods to Predict the Structure and Dynamics of Proteins and Their Complexes
Dr. Yi He from Department of Bioengineering, University of California Merced
March 2, 2018
The Spectrum of Niemann-Pick C1 Gene Metabolic Disorders
Dr. William Sherman Garver from Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UNM Health Sciences Center
February 15, 2018
Putting Synthetic in Biosynthetic Chemistry: Increasing the Diversity of Natural Product Space with Engineered Systems
Dr. Mark Walker from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
February 9, 2018
Innovative Strategies for Nonconventional Water Splitting and Beyond
Dr. Yujie Sun from the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Utah State University
February 7, 2018
Advanced Sequencing Technologies & Computational Genomics to investigate Biological Systems
Dr. Thiruvarangan Ramaraj from National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR)
February 5, 2018
Signaling across the plasma membrane and into cells via GPCRs and Ras
Dr. Chris Neale - Center for Nonlinear Studies Los Alamos National Laboratory
February 2, 2018
Nanoparticle Synthesis and Self- Assembly for Metasurfaces and Beyond
Dr. Andrea R. Tao - UC San Diego
January 26, 2018
Targeting NRF2 for Disease Prevention and Intervention
Dr. Donna Zhang of the University of Arizona
December 8, 2017
The convergence of nanooptics and surface chemistry
Dr. Terefe Habteyes, UNM
December 1, 2017
Proximity-Enabled Chemical Biology for Cell Engineering and MicroRNA Regulation
Dr. Fu-sen Liang, UNM
November 17, 2017
Cross Coupling as a Platform for Olefin Dicarbofunctionalization
Dr. Ramesh Giri, UNM
November 10, 2017
Harnessing Chemistry to Understand the Sweeter Side of Cell Signaling
Dr. Linda Hsieh-Wilson, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
November 3, 2017
TBD
Dr. Mathew Sigman, University of Utah
October 27, 2017
Molecular Imaging with Synthetic Glycans
Dr. Lina Cui, Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology University of New Mexico
October 20, 2017
The 10th Annual Riley O. Schaeffer: Assembly and Disassembly of Layered Materials
Dr. Tom Mallouk, Penn State
October 6, 2017
Effect of aggregation on electronic couping and spin conversion in conjugated organic semicondutors
Dr. John Grey, UNM
September 29, 2017
Mass Spec Meets FTIR: The Genesis of Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy (CIVP)
Dr. Mark Johnson, Yale University
September 22, 2017
Plasmon-assisted Artificial Photosynthesis
Dr. Martin Moskovits
September 15, 2017
Harnessing photochemistry and photophysics of metal complexes for responsive metallosupramolecular materials
Dr. Alexis Ostrowski, Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University
September 8, 2017
Total Synthesis via Tandem Catalysis
Dr. Mingji Dai, Purdue University
April 28, 2017
Development of Novel Theranostics for Protein Misfolding Diseases
Eva Y. Chi
April 21, 2017
Radical frontiers in catalysis
Theodore Betley
April 14, 2017
From Precision and Catalytic Polymer Syntheses to Supramolecular Stereocomplexes, Degradable Plastics and Recyclable Polymers
Eugene Chen
March 24, 2017
Novel Chemical Tools for Reactive Sulfur Species
Ming Xian
March 3, 2017
Discovering Chemistry with Advanced Computing and Machine Learning
Todd J. Martinez
February 24, 2017
Photoresponsive Layer-by-layer Films
Samuel W. Thomas
February 17, 2017
Searching for Simple! From Ultrafast Photoelectron Emission Studies of Plasmonic Nanstructures to Thermodynamics/Kinetics of RNA Folding at the Single Molecule Level
David J. Nesbitt
February 3, 2017
Unexplored Opportunities in the Human Druggable Genome
Tudor Oprea
January 27, 2017
New Isomorphic and Isofunctional Fluorescent Nucleosides
Yitzhak Tor
January 20, 2017
Developing a chemoenzymatic approach to prepare carbohydrate-based medicines
Jian Liu
November 11, 2016
Silicon-Based Cross-Coupling Reactions: Methodology, Total Synthesis And Mechanistic Studies
Scott Denmark
November 4, 2016
Prodrug Approaches to Target Tumor Acidosis and Counter Drug Resistance in Cancer Chemotherapy
Ming An
October 28, 2016
Isomorphic Fluorescent Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Oligonucleotides
Zhenqiang Wang
October 21, 2016
Changing the Drug Discovery Perspective
Eli Chapman
October 7, 2016
Toward the Computational Design or Iron-Based Chromophores
Elena Jakubikova
September 30, 2016
Billion-fold Enhancement of Reaction Rates, Using the Photothermal Effect of Nanoparticles
Benjamin Lear
September 23, 2016
Squeezing Light into Small Spaces
Teri Odom
September 16, 2016
Dynamic and Structural Characteristics of Heterogeneous Catalysts at the Atomic Scale
Phil Christopher
September 9, 2016
Progress and challenges in Polymer OPV solar cells.
Luping Yu
September 2, 2016
Cyclodextrin-Based Polyvalent Systems: From Design to Applications
Dr. Chang-Chun Ling
August 26, 2016
Novel Direct Arylation and Amination Reactions: Rapid Synthesis of Functionalized Biaryls, Arylamines and Heterocycles
Laszlo Kurti
May 6, 2016
Seeing is Believing: Some Coordination Chemistry of Molecular Imaging Probes
Thomas J Meade
April 29, 2016
Unified Strategy for theTotal Synthesis of Welwitindolinone Alkaloids
Viresh Rawal
April 22, 2016
CANCELLED
Sheng Ding
April 15, 2016
Dynamics and Reactivity of Complex Interfacial Systems
Steven J Sibener
April 8, 2016
Evolution of The Ynamide Chemistry.
RIchard Hsung
April 1, 2016
Transitioning Organic Synthesis from Organic Solvents to Water: Following Nature's Lead
Bruce Lipshutz
March 11, 2016
Biocompatible reactions and activatable probes for in vivo imaging of activity of enzymes
Jianghong Rao
March 4, 2016
Functional dendrimers, conjugated polymers and organic-inorganic hybrids
Zhongua Peng
February 26, 2016
Molecular Probes for Redox Signaling and Oxidative Stress
Huiwang Ai
February 19, 2016
Using Sharp Tips to Control Optical Properties of Single Emitters
Jordan Gerton
February 12, 2016
Structure, Dynamics, and Disorder in Excited States of Photoresponsive Conjugated Materials
Art Bragg
February 5, 2016
Challenges and Progress in Antigene Development
Danith Ly
January 29, 2016
Attosecond Dynamics: From Molecules to Semiconductor Solids
Milton Kahn Annual Lecturship: Steve Leone
January 22, 2016
Cross-Electrophile Coupling: Principles and New Reactions
Professor Daniel Weix
December 4, 2015
Extracting Electrons out of Colloidal Quantum Dots: Challenges and New Perspectives
Rumi Beaulac
November 20, 2015
Virtues of being single: a molecule and its golden nantenna
Vartkess Apkarian
November 13, 2015
New Ways to Discover, Investigate, and Detect Bacterial Natural Products and their Biosynthetic Pathways
Charles Melancon
November 6, 2015
Adventures in Oxidative Bond Forming Reactions: Development and Applications in Natural Product Synthesis
Marisa Kozlowski
October 30, 2015
Covalency Trends in Antinides
Stosh Kozimor
October 23, 2015
Finding the Way to Solar Fuels
Professor Thomas Meyer
October 16, 2015
Synthesis and Application of Functional Polymers with Highly Branched Nanostructures
Haifeng Gao
October 2, 2015
Artificial Photosynthesis.
Richard Watt
September 25, 2015
Seminar
Matthew Disney
September 18, 2015
Strong Interaction of SPP Field with Low-Dimensional Electron Gas and Hot Electron Transport
He Huang
September 11, 2015
Molecular design of ex vivo protein interactomes
Vikas Nanda
September 4, 2015
Atomistic Mechanisms for Gas Phase X- +CH3Y -----> XCH3 + Y- SN2 Reactions. Dynamics With and Without X- Solvation
William Hase
August 28, 2015
Chemical Tools for Investigating Biological H2S
Professor Mike Pluth
August 21, 2015
Block Copolymer Self Assembly for Device Manufacturing
Christopher Ellison
May 1, 2015
Surface Engineering of Gold Nanocrystals
Catherine Murpy
March 27, 2015
Hot Spot-Based Design of Small-Molecule Inhibitors for B-Catenin/T-Cell Factor and B-Catenin/B-Cell Lymphoma 9 Interactions
Haitao Ji
March 20, 2015
Chemical Reporters for Exploring Protein Modifications
Howard Hang
February 27, 2015
Nitrogen Fixation using Low-Coordinate Iron Complexes
Patrick Holland
February 20, 2015
Functionalization Based on Common Functional Groups
Guangbin Dong
February 13, 2015
Base Metal Catalysis for Organic Synthesis: The Interplay of Applications and Electronic Structure
Paul Chirik
February 6, 2015
The Taumycin A Macrocycle: Asymmetric Total Synthesis and Revision of Relative Stereochemistry
William Maio
January 30, 2015
Using Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy to Unravel Fundamental Properties of One-and-Two-Dimensional Nanostructures
Rohit Prasankumar
January 23, 2015
Chemical Dynamics Simulations of Atomic-Level Mechanisms for Organic and Bioorganic Reactions. Comparison with Experiment
William Hase
January 16, 2015
Toward total synthesis of cell functions: Deconstructing and constructing chemotaxis and phagocytosis
Takanari Inoue
December 12, 2014
Super-Resolution Near-Field Microscopy and Spectroscopy: Development and Application
Terefe Habteyes
December 5, 2014
Title: Copper-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings for Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation Abstract
Ramesh Giri
November 21, 2014
Chemical Approaches to Engineer Cell Signaling
Fu-sen Liang
November 14, 2014
Tuning Hsp70 Complexes with Small Molecules
Jason E. Gestwicki
November 7, 2014
Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis of Saturated Nitrogen and Oxygen Heterocycles
Sherry Chemler
October 31, 2014
[FeFe]-H2ase Enzyme Active Site Biomimetics for Proton Reduction
Prof. Marcetta Y. Darensbourg
October 24, 2014
Rapid block-copolymer ordering using photo-thermal gradients
Kevin Yager
October 17, 2014
A General and Robust Strategy to Monodisperse Nanocrystals with Unprecedented Control Over Dimensions, Compositions and Architectures
Zhiqun Lin
October 3, 2014
Transformations of Alcohols Derived from Renewable Biomass over Solid Catalysts
Robert Davis
September 19, 2014
Bridging the Size Gap: Convergence of Plasmonics and Catalysis on the Same Noble Metal Nanoparticles
Hui Wang
September 19, 2014
Marine Molecule Makers
Eric Schmidt
September 12, 2014
Underemployed and Looking for Action:
The Plight of Non-Bonding Electrons in Diradicals and Carbenes
Andrei Sanov
September 5, 2014
Nanomaterials under Stress: A New Opportunity for Tunable Structure and Property
Hangyou Fan
August 29, 2014
Teaching and old dog new tricks: Pushing the flowing afterglow to new frontiers in plasma chemistry kinetics
Nicholas S. Shuman
August 22, 2014
Use of the De Novo Synthesis in Natural Product Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry
George A. O'Doherty
August 22, 2014
Teaching an old dog new tricks: Pushing the flowing afterglow to new frontiers in plasma chemistry kinetics
Nicholas S. Shuman
May 2, 2014
A few of my favorite rings: Catalysis inspired by macrocycles
Vy M. Dong
April 25, 2014
Some Ins and Outs of Nickel Trafficking
Mike Maroney
April 11, 2014
Intra- and inter-molecular approaches to encourage energy transport in organic electronic materials
John Tovar
April 4, 2014
Designing Enzyme-Like Catalysts: A rhodium(II) metallopeptide case study
Zachary Ball
March 21, 2014
Direct observation of ultrafast long-range charge separation at polymer-fullerene heterojunctions
Carlos Silva
March 7, 2014
From Molecules to Satellites: A Physical Chemistry Approach to Next- Generation Spacecraft Technology
Jamie Stearns
February 28, 2014
Automated Construction of ab initio Potential Energy Surfaces for Spectroscopy and Dynamics
Richard Dawes
November 22, 2013
Bioorthogonal Chemistry-A Reaction Toolbox for Protein Labeling In Vivo
Presented by Qing Lin
August 23, 2013
The Role of Pd(I) Dimers with Bridging Allyl Ligands in Cross- Coupling and Carbon Dioxide Activation.
Nilay Hizari
August 21, 2013
TBA
Christopher Ellison
May 1, 2013
Interaction Betweem Chemistry and Dynamics in the Southern Ocean Region: A possible positive climate feedback
Dr. Oliver Wingenter presents:
May 1, 2013
TBA
TBA
May 1, 2013
"Bridging the Size Gap: Convergence of Plasmonics and Catalysis on the Same Noble Metal Nanoparticles
Hui Wang
May 1, 2013
Marine Molecule Makers
Eric Schmidt
May 1, 2013
Chemical Tools for Investigating Biological H2S
Mike Pluth
April 18, 2013
Exploration of the existing drug space for novel pharmacological activities
Jun Liu
March 14, 2013
Delocalization in Paramagnetic Organic Donor-Acceptor Molecules: Models for Electron Transfer/Transport and Novel Photophysics
Dave Shultz
February 15, 2013
Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics: Advances in Materials and Devices
Samson Jenekhe, University of Washington
February 1, 2013
Development of Transition Metal Catalysts for the Hydroarylation of Olefins
Brent Gunnoe, University of Virginia
January 25, 2013
Behavior of structurally simple acid gases or bases in molecular, polymeric, and ionic solvents: reactivity, spectroscopic, and structural studies
Jason Clyburne
