Seminars
All seminars are held in Abbott Hall Room 138 at 12 p.m. (noon) unless otherwise noted.
Spring 2020 Schedule
Students look on during a UND seminar.
February 7, 2020
Mr. Joseph Musongong (Ph.D. Defense)
Chemistry
University of North Dakota
'Substitution and Oxidation Reactions on Cyclodiphosph(III)azane Compounds of Group 15 Elements'
February 14, 2020
Dr. Ali S. Alshami
Chemical Engineering
University of North Dakota
'Towards Optimal Trade-off between Permeability and Selectivity in Polymeric Membranes for Gas Separation'
February 21, 2020
Purna Chandra Rao Vasireddy
Organic Chemistry
University of North Dakota
'Significance and Strategies for Developing of New Synthetic Routes to Natural Products'
February 28, 2020
Solene Bechelli
Physical Chemistry
University of North Dakota
'Investigation of the Crystallization Process of Posiphen and its Potential Polymorphs'
March 13, 2020
Dr. Melissa Maurer-Jones
University of Minnesota Duluth
Presentation TBD
March 27, 2020
Dr. X Chris Le
University of Alberta, Canada
Presentation TBD
April 3, 2020
Dr. Mukund Sibi
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, NDSU
Presentation TBD
April 17, 2020
Dr. Stephanie Vivod
Chemical Engineer, NASA Glenn Research Center
'Polymer Aerogels for Aeronautic and Aerospace Applications'
April 24, 2020
Dr. Qianli 'Rick' Chu
Organic Chemistry
University of North Dakota
'Construction of Organic Materials Using Supramolecular Principles: From Chiral Helix to Sustainable Polycyclobutane'
May 1, 2020
Dr. Chad Ulven
Mechanical Engineering
North Dakota State University
'Challenges for Biocomposite Materials Technology Growth'
Previous Seminars
Dr. Jie He | Polymer/Inorganic Hybrid Materials: From Synthetic Chemistry to Catalysis
Department of Chemistry
University of Connecticut
Srikanth Vijjamarri | Three Minute Thesis
UND Chemistry, Inorganic Graduate Student
Student Advisor: Dr. Guodong Du
Purna Chandra Rao Vasireddy | Ligand/Directing Group Enabled Regioselective sp3 C–H Activation Using Pd Catalysts
UND Chemistry, Organic Graduate Student
Student Advisor: Dr. Irina Smoliakova
Jigna Parmar | Microencapsulation of Epoxy resins: From Self-healing to Fire-retardant
UND Chemistry, Inorganic Graduate Student
Student Advisor: Dr. Guodong Du
Samuel Nambile Njie | Synthesis, Applications and Recycling of Polycarbonates
UND Chemistry, Inorganic Graduate Student
Student Advisor: Dr. Guodong Du
Audrey LaVallie | The Quest for Nitrogen: Environmental Strategies Revisited
UND Chemistry, Analytical Graduate Student
Student Advisor: Dr. Alena Kubatova
Dr. Farnaz Shakib | Novel Quantum Dynamics Methods for Excited-State Non-adiabatic Dynamics
University of California, San Diego
Steve Groven | Mission to Titan: The Exploration of Saturn’s Moon for Prebiotic Chemicals
UND Chemistry, Physical Graduate Student
Student Adviser: Dr. Jerome Delhommelle
Dr. Mirza Galib | Ab initio modeling and machine learning of complex chemical phenomena in aqueous solution
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Jinsong Duan
Air Force Research Laboratory and DoD Supercomputing Resource Center
Dr. Tao Yu | Charge, Energy, Hydride, and Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions in Protein
and Material Systems
Tennessee Tech University
Ali Sepehri | Flow-Equation (Similarity Renormalization Group) approach and Magnus
Expansion
UND Chemistry, Physical Graduate Student
Student Adviser: Dr. Mark Hoffmann
Dr. David Delene | Nucleation of Water Droplets and Ice Particles in the Earth's Atmosphere
Atmospheric Sciences
University of North Dakota
Dr. Dongmei Wang | "Maximizing Oil Production Using Surfactant EOR"
Geological Engineering
University of North Dakota
Yuqian Xing | "Development of DNA-based Biosensors and Antibacterial Additive"
UND Chemistry, Analytical Graduate Student
Student Adviser: Dr. Julia Zhao