Seminar Series in Photochemical Sciences
All seminars are held in Overman Hall 123 at 3:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Typically, the seminar speakers will be on campus on Wednesdays. They meet with faculty during the day and each lunch with students. The seminars are open to all students and faculty
Spring 2025
February 19, 2025
Joseph Reczek - Denison University
Title: TBA
February 26, 2025
Erin Stache - Princeton University
Title: TBA
March 5, 2025
Title: TBA
March 12, 2025
Shi-He Liu, University of Toledo Medical Center
Title: TBA
March 19, 2025
TBD
March 26, 2025
Junpeng Wang - University of Akron
Title: TBA
April 2, 2025
Julian Zhu - University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Title: TBA
April 9, 2025
TBD
April 16, 2025
TBD
April 23, 2025
Richard Robinson - Cornell University
Title: TBA
Fall 2024
September 18, 2024
Shaowei Li - University of California, San Diego
Title: TBA
September 25, 2024
Zachariah Page - University of Texas, Austin
Title: Light as a Chemical Tool to Access Next Generation Soft Materials
October 2, 2024
Ming Lee Tang, University of Utah
Title: Photon upconversion: getting molecules and nanocrystals to talk triplets
October 9, 2024
TBA
October 16, 2024
Matthew Allen - Wayne State University
Title: Lanthanide Chemistry in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Photocatalysis, and Recycling
October 23, 2024
James Eagan - University of Akron
Title: The Carbonization of Butadiene as a Platform for Circular Polymers
October 30, 2024
Alice Walker - Wayne State University
Title: Multiscale and excited state simulations of fluorescent and photoactive proteins for rational design
November 6, 2024
Vincenzo Carnevale - Temple University
Title: Lipid-induced Hydrophobic Gating in the BK Potassium Channel
November 13, 2024
Michal Marszewski, University of Toledo
Title: From Aqueous to Non-Hydrolytic Sol-Gel: Novel Approaches to Nanoporous Metal Oxides
November 20, 2024
No seminar
November 27, 2024
Thanksgiving break - no seminar
December 4, 2024
Babak Borhan, Michigan State
Title: TBA
Winter 2020
January 29, 2020
Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy - Scripps Research Institute
Title: TBA
February 5, 2020
Adam Urbach - Trinity University
Title: TBA
February 12, 2020
Priya Varadan - Wacker Chemical
Title: TBA
February 19, 2020
TBA
Title: TBA
February 26, 2020
TBA
Title: TBA
March 5, 2020
Gavin M. King - University of Missouri-Columbia
Title: TBA
March 11, 2020
Miguel Garcia-Garibay - UCLA
Title: TBA
March 18-25, 2020
No Seminar Session
April 1, 2020
Jim McCusker - Michigan State University
Title: TBA
April 8, 2020
Hedi Mattoussi - Florida State University
Title: TBA
April 15, 2020
Ana de Bettencourt-Dias - University of Nevada, Reno
Title: TBA
April 22, 2020
Terry Miller - The Ohio State University
Title: TBA
April 29, 2020
TBA
Title: TBA
Spring 2019
February 6, 2019
Title: Photodegradation of (E)- and (Z)-
Endoxifen: Kinetics, By-Products
Identification and Toxicity
Assessment
February 27, 2019
John Porco - Boston University
Title: Recent Studies Towards the Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products
March 6, 2019
Yoan Simon - The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Title: Damage Control and Light Management Through Polymer Chemistry
March 27, 2019
Title TBA
April 10, 2019
Jin He - Florida International University
Title: Developing Multifunctional Nanopipette for Single-entity Studies
April 17, 2019
Eric Anslyn - University of Texas
Title: Three Tales of Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry
April 23, 2019
Steffen Jockush - Columbia
Title: Mechanistic and Kinetic Studies of Reactive Intermediates in Photoinitiated
Processes: Photostabilization of Fluorophores and Photoinitiators for
Polymerization
April 24, 2019
Alexander Weiss - University of Texas - Arlington
Title: Applications of Antimatter in Surface Science
May 22, 2019
Se Ryeon Lee - PPG (Group Leader)
PPG Info Session
Fall 2019
September 16, 2019
Erin Chernick - University of Tubingen
Title: Design and Synthesis of Functional Organic Molecules – From Renewable Energy
Devices to Spintronic Applications
September 18, 2019
Benjamin Schwartz - UCLA
Title - Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Device and Structural Studies of Charge Carriers in Doped Conjugated Polymers
September 25, 2019
Pravas Deria - Southern Illinois University
Title: Towards Porous Light-Harvesting Frameworks: How Topology Controls the Critical Properties
October 2, 2019
Scott Hartley - Miami University
Title: Control of Molecular Geometry in Space and Time
October 16, 2019
Art van der Est - Brock Universty
Title: Spin Polarization in Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis
October 23, 2019
TBA
Title: TBA
October 30, 2019
TBA
Title: TBA
November 6, 2019
Shanlin Pan - University of Alabama
Title: Understanding Single Molecular and Single nanoparticle Electrochemistry with Combined Optical and Electrochemical Methods
November 13, 2019
TBA
Title: TBA
November 20, 2019
Arthur Winter - Iowa State University
Title: New Strategies to Achieve Photocaging Using Visible Light
November 29, 2019 - January 22, 2020
No Seminar Session
Fall
September 12, 2018
Alan Sellinger - Colorado School of Mines
Title - Organic Materials for Application in Radiation Detection and Solar Cells
September 19, 2018
Thai Thayumanavan - Umass Amherst
Title: Towards Autonomously Responding Artificial Molecular Assemblies
September 26, 2018
Binghe Wang - Georgia State University
Title TBA
October 10, 2018
Julia Chan - UT Dallas
Title TBA
October 24, 2018
Hien M. Nguyen - Wayne State University
Title TBA
November 7, 2018
Khalid Salaita - Emory University
Title TBA
December 5, 2018
Gary F Moore - Arizona State University
Title TBA
Spring Seminar 2015
January 30, 2015
TBA
February 11, 2015
Hedi Mattoussi-Florida State University
February 18, 2015
Christian Wolf- Georgetown University
February 25, 2015
Tara Meyer-Univeristy of Pittsburgh
March 18, 2015
Christopher Bardeen - University of California, Riverside
April 1, 2015
Patrick El-Khoury- Pacific Northwest National Lab
April 22, 2015
David Giovannucci- University of Toledo
FRIDAY May 1, 2015
Jeremiah Hanes-Pacific Biosciences
Fall Seminar 2014
October 15, 2014
Samuel Thomas-Tufts University
October 22, 2014
Jason Benedict- University of Buffalo
October 29, 2014
Jon Sprague-Ohio AG Center for Future of Forensic Science, BGSU
November 5, 2014
Katherine Franz-Duke University
November 21, 2014
Cassandra Fraser - University of Virginia
December 3, 2014
Ivan Aprahamian-Dartmouth
December 10, 2014
Stephen Maldonado-University of Michigan
Spring Semester 2014
January 15, 2014
Claudio Verani - Wayne State University
To be announced
January 22, 2014
cancelled
January 29, 2014
Andrei Federov - Pacific Biosciences
Photophysical and Photochemical Challenges of Single Molecule, Real-Time DNA Sequencing
February 12, 2014
Suljo Linic - University of Michigan
Conversion of solar into chemical energy on plasmonic metal nanostructures
February 14, 2014
Steve Bradforth - University of Southern California
Solvent role on surface hopping and mode-specific energy dissipation: connecting ultrafast reaction dynamics in the gas and liquid phase.
March 5, 2014
John Rogers - University of Illinois
Materials for Biodegradable Electronics
March 12, 2014
Spring break - No seminar
March 19, 2014
Nicola Brasch - Kent State University
Cobalamins and Oxidative Stress: Exploring a New, Novel Role for Vitamin B12
March 26, 2014
Eric Masson - Ohio University
Reactions and conformational changes in and around Cucurbiturils
April 2, 2014
Jim Imlay - University of Illinois
Molecular explanations for the toxicity of oxygen
April 4, 2014
Clemens Burda - Case Western University
Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy and Applications of Heterostructured Nanomaterials
April 9, 2014
Marcus Jones - University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Plasmonic enhancement of multi-exciton emission in colloidal quantum dots
April 16, 2014
Ken Merz - Michigan State University
Free Energies from a Molecular Printing Press
April 30, 2014
Marco Bonizzoni - University of Alabama
Polyelectrolytes as supramolecular hosts in water
Fall Semester 2013
September 4, 2013
Makoto Fujita - University of Tokyo
Crystallography without Crystals
September 13, 2013
Michito Yoshizawa - Tokyo Institute of Technology
Functional Supramolecular Capsules with Anthracene Shells
Luigi Fabbrizzi - Universita di Pavia
Caged Anions (Living in a Cage is a Restricted Privilege)
September 18, 2013
Dennis Stuehr - Cleveland Clinic
How do enzymes make nitric oxide, a moleculre used in biology and medicine?
October 2, 2013
Brian Crane - Cornell University
Structure and Mechanism of Circadian Clock Light Sensors
October 9, 2013
Steven Loeb - University of Windsor
Organizing Mechanically Interlocked Molecules to Function Inside Metal-Organic Frameworks
October 16, 2013
Carlos Crespo - Case Western University
DNA Under Attack: How UV Radiation Affects the Integrity of DNA
October 30, 2013
Adam Matzger - University of Michigan
From better health to improved lethality: Controlling crystallization of pharmaceuticals and explosives.
November 6, 2013
Lei Zhu - Florida State University
FRET-Based Indicators for Zinc Ions
November 20, 2013
Farida Selim - Bowling Green State University
Novel Luminescence Spectroscopic Techniques and Applications
November 27, 2013
Thanksgiving Break - No seminar
December 4, 2013
Ramakrishna Guda - Western Michigan University
Electron-phonon Interactions in Atomically Mono-dispersed Quantum-sized Gold Clusters
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