News & Events
Department Seminar: Thursday 21 April, 2022
Our final speaker of the year is Prof. Jean-Denys Hamel, a CRC Tier II chair at the University of Lethbridge. Prof. Hamel received his Ph.D. in 2018 from Université Laval under the supervision of Prof. Jean-François Paquin and went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley before joining the faculty at Lethbridge. He earned...
CHEM4710 Oral Presentation Day!
We invite you to our CHEM 4710 “Research Project in Chemistry or Biochemistry” oral presentation day. The event will be held on Saturday, April 9 from 9:30 am – 2:30 pm in 205 Armes Bldg. A booklet with the program and presentations’ abstracts is available here.
Department Seminar: Thursday April 7, 2022
Our next speaker, Prof. Cory Widdifield, from University of Regina will present a talk titled “NMR Crystallography: Structure Refinements, Verifications, and Determinations”. Dr. Widdifield is combining NMR with computational analyses to achieve structural refinements that are comparable to methods such as X-ray crystallography, hence the description “NMR Crystallography”. The seminar will be held on Zoom...
Department Seminar: Thursday March 31, 2022
Our speaker this week is Prof. Rohith Reddy, from the University of Texas at Houston. While his appointment is in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, you will see from the abstract that his research focus is in the application of biodiagnostic spectroscopy (usually infrared imaging) to understand disease. The two specific areas he...
Department Seminar: Wednesday March 23, 2022
We invite you to our Department’s 2022 seminar. Professor Maryam Ebrahimi from Lakehead University will be presenting a talk titled “Rational design and characterization of molecular-based low-dimensional nanomaterials on surfaces”. Please note: Owing to a schedule conflict, she is unable to present during our usual seminar slot on Thursday. She has kindly agreed to give...
Department Seminar: Thursday March 17, 2022
Our seminar speaker for next Thursday, March 17, is Prof. James Gauld from University of Windsor. Prof. Gauld studies catalysis, and is presently working in the field of computational enzymology. In addition to this challenging research, he is actively involved in finding ways to make STEM more inclusive for the LGBTQ+ community. Prof. Gauld will...
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR: THURSDAY March 3, 2022
Professor Amy Stevens from University of Saskatchewan will be presenting a talk titled “The ultrafast dynamics of azulene derivatives”. The seminar will be held on Thursday, March 3 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. via Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99911619724.
Department Seminar: Thursday February 17, 2022
We invite you to our Department’s 2022 seminar. Professor Eden E. L. Tanner from University of Mississippi will give a talk titled “Ionic Liquids as Antifouling Polymeric Nanoparticle Coatings”. The seminar will be held on Zoom on Thursday February 17 from 3-4pm. You can join the meeting using the following link: https://zoom.us/j/94652934767
Department Seminar: Thursday February 3, 2022
Mark your calendars for our Department’s second 2022 seminar speaker who will be presenting to us from the other side of the world: Professor Bayden R Wood from Monash University and a talk titled “Spectroscopy goes viral: Application of portable based infrared spectroscopic devices for point-of-site disease diagnosis”. The seminar will be held on Zoom...
Department Seminar: Thursday January 27
Dr. Erin Chernick from the University of Victoria will be presenting a talk titled, “Tailored Synthesis of Organic Molecules to Study Quantum Information Science”