Seminars

All seminars are held in Abbott Hall Room 138 at 12 p.m. (noon) unless otherwise noted.

Friday, April 5, 2019

Dr. David Delene
Atmospheric Sciences
University of North Dakota

"Nucleation of Water Droplets and Ice Particles in the Earth's Atmosphere"

Friday, April 12, 2019

Dr. Dongmei Wang
Geological Engineering 
University of North Dakota

"Maximizing Oil Production Using Surfactant EOR"

Thursday, April 25, 2019 | 4:00 p.m.

Yuqian Xing
UND Chemistry, Analytical Graduate Student
Student Adviser: Dr. Julia Zhao

"Development of DNA-based Biosensors and Antibacterial Additive"

Friday, April 26, 2019

Dr. Aaron Kennedy
Atmospheric Sciences 
University of North Dakota

"Using Neural networks to address questions within the atmospheric sciences"

Abbott Lecture

Dr. Christopher Cummins
Department of Chemistry
MIT

"Phosphorus: from the Stars to Land and Sea"

• Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 7 p.m.
  • Abbott Hall 101

"Phosphorus-Element Bond-Forming Reactions"

• Friday, May 3, 2019
  • Abbott Hall 138

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