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Past Events & Seminars

Apr 12
Kenneth A. Dill - Stony Brook University

This lecture will be hosted at Carnegie Mellon University, Wean Hall 7316.

Title: Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics: The principle of Maximum Caliber

See more of Dr. Dill's... View »

11:00am
Apr 11
Henry Frank Lecture - Kenneth A. Dill - Stony Brook University

Title:  The Origins of Life:  An uncanny resemblance to the old Protein Folding Problem

Abstract:  How did the first living cells come into being from the earth’s molecular soup 3.5... View »

4:00pm
Apr 09
Zhixiang Yu - Peking University

Title: Transition Metal Catalyzed Cycloaddition Reactions to Synthesize Seven- and Eight-Membered Rings

Abstract: Many natural products and pharmaceutical compounds have complex skeletons... View »

2:30pm
Apr 03
Covestro Lectures (Day 2) - Samuel I. Stupp - Northwestern University

Title: Extending Functional Design of Supramolecular Assemblies into a Fourth Dimension

See more of Dr. Stupp's research on his website: https://... View »

2:00pm
Apr 02
Covestro Lectures (Day 1) - Samuel I. Stupp - Northwestern University

Title: New Frontiers in Materials Design to Mimic Living Systems

See more of Dr. Stupp's research on his website: https://stupp.northwestern.edu... View »

4:00pm
Mar 28
Angela M. Gronenborn - University of Pittsburgh Medical School

"The awesome power of fluorine NMR - from drugs to cells"

See more of Dr. Gronenborn's research on her website: https://amg.structbio.pitt.edu/... View »

2:30pm
Mar 26
Viresh Rawal - University of Chicago

"Methods and Strategies for the Synthesis of Intricate Bioactive Natural Products"

Abstract : Abstract: The process of chemical synthesis involves a sequence of reactions that... View »

2:30pm
Mar 26
Melanie Reber - University of Georgia

"Frequency combs as the route to the spectroscopic trifecta: high time resolution, high frequency resolution, and high sensitivity"

Abstract : Many consequential chemical processes take... View »

11:00am
Mar 22
Doug Frantz - University of Texas San Antonio

Title: “Lessons in Chemistry: A Story of Success, Failure, and Hope at the Interface of Academic and Industrial Research”

Abstract: For the past two decades, my research group has pursued... View »

3:00pm
Mar 14
Dowd Lecture - Tim Cernak - University of Michigan

Title: Chemical Synthesis Enabled by Information

Abstract: "Advancing the synthesis of small molecules is critical to the advent of new medicines, materials, and agrochemicals. Our lab has... View »

4:00pm
Mar 11
Safety Seminar

CSC 152

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1:00pm
Mar 08
Safety Seminar

CSC 152

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12:00pm
Mar 07
Safety Seminar

CSC 152

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3:00pm
Mar 06
Phillips Lectures (Day 2) - James Fraser - University of California San Francisco

Title: "Creating new inhibitors to SARS-CoV-2 Macrodomain using Fragments, Neutrons, and Entropy!"

Abstract: SARS-CoV-2  counteracts the immune response through the action of the nsp3... View »

2:00pm
Mar 05
Phillips Lectures (Day 1) - James Fraser - University of California San Francisco

Title: "Generating enzymatically active artificial proteins using large language models"

Abstract: AI models like AlphaFold have enabled us to "read" the genome and produce predictions of... View »

2:30pm