Past seminars

2012-2013

• High-Pressure Phase Diagram of Carbon Dioxide From First Principles
  Brian Boates, PhD candidate, Dalhousie University (November 23, 2012).
• Towards the Lambertian Limit in Thin Films Silicon Solar Cells
  Dr. Marco Liscidini, University of Pavia (Italy) (November 22, 2012).
• Synthesis of TiO2/CNTs Photocatalysts Using Supercritical CO2
  Donald McGillivray, Materials Science MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (November 6, 2012).
• Development of High Efficiency, Low Cost Electrocatalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Applications
  Christopher Odetola, Materials Science PhD candidate (October 23, 2012).
• Electrochemical Studies of Ceramic Carbon Electrodes Prepared with Sulfonated Organosilane Precursors 
  Jennie Eastcott, Materials Science PhD candidate (October 9, 2012).
• Fabrication of Novel Carbon Composite Electrodes for Biosensors and Biofuel Cells
  Dr. Farhana S. Saleh, Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Science, Ontario Tech University (March 30, 2012).
• Solid-State NMR Studies of Ion Dynamics in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
  Dr. Gillian R. Goward, Department of Chemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (March 23, 2012).
• Recipes for cooking modern materials. Ingredients: ab-initio molecular dynamics, supercomputer, dozens of CPUs and some physics
  Dr. A.I. Shkrebtii/Chkrebtii (March 16, 2012).
• Medicinal chemistry strategies for modulating protein (mis)folding pathways associated with human diseases
  Dr. Steven Johnson, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (March 12, 2012).
• Nanotechnology and its applications from medicine to construction
  Dr. S. C. Mojumdar, Department of Chemical Technologies and Environment, Faculty of Industrial Technologies, Trencin University of A. Dubcek, Púchov, Slovakia. Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Ontario (March 9, 2012).
• Creative Synthetic chemistry approaches to probe and drug discovery
  Dr. Christopher Dockendorff, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts (March 8, 2012).
• Development of methodology for the synthesis of enamides and studies on a chemical probe for epigenetic protein WDR5
  Dr. Yuri Bolshan, University of Toronto, Ontario (March 6, 2012).
• Introduction to high-performance computing on SHARCNET
  Dr. Alex Razoumov, HPC Technical Specialist, Ontario Tech University and SHARCNET (March 2, 2012).
• Molecular interactions of lipid systems: Gelling oil and understanding the effects of pollutants
  Dr. Thamara Laredo, Assistant Professor, Lakehead University, Orillia, Ontario (February 17, 2012)
• Acid Ionization Constants, Electrostriction and Ionic Transport in D2O at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures
  Dr. Peter Tremaine, Professor, FCIC, University of Guelph, Ontario (February 7, 2012).