Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Hatice Gökcan

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Hatice Gökcan Title: Prediction of Protein pa with Representation Learning Speaker: Dr. Hatice Gökcan Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, United States Date: May 10th, 2022, Tuesday Time: 17:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Basic features and the behavior of proteins such as folding or ligand binding, heavily depend on […]

Ferdi Karadas Receives Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Georg Forster Research Award

Ferdi Karadas Receives Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Georg Forster Research Award Associate Professor Ferdi Karadas of Bilkent Chemistry Department has been selected to receive the prestigious Georg Forster Research Award of Humboldt Foundation, after a nomination from Friedrich Schiller University and Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technology in Germany. He was recognized for his pioneering work […]

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Onur Ergen

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Onur Ergen Title: Decoding the Batteries towards Energy and Electronics Revolution Speaker: Dr. Onur Ergen Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University Istanbul, Türkiye Date: April 19th, 2022, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Classical electrochemical principles have revolutionized battery technology and enabled a new era of electronic […]

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Mehmed Z. Ertem

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Mehmed Z. Ertem Title: Computational Modeling of Artificial Photosynthesis Components Speaker: Dr. Mehmed Z. Ertem Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, New York, United States Date: April 12, 2022, Tuesday Time: 17:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: The goal of our research at Artificial Photosynthesis Program at Brookhaven National Laboratory is […]

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Ezel Boyacı

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Ezel Boyacı Title: Targeted and Untargeted Metabolomics with Solid Phase Microextraction Speaker: Dr. Ezel Boyacı, Associate Professor Department of Chemistry, Middle East Technical University Ankara, Türkiye Date: April 5, 2022, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Understanding functions, various mechanisms, and the effect of stimuli on biological systems are […]

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Prof. Süleyman Gülcemal

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Prof. Süleyman Gülcemal Title: Iridium-Catalyzed Hydrogen Transfer Reactions Speaker: Prof. Süleyman Gülcemal Department of Chemistry, Ege University Izmir, Türkiye Date: March 29, 2022, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Recently, the use of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) iridium complexes as catalysts in many organic transformations has increased dramatically. These iridium complexes […]

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Çiğdem Toparlı

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Çiğdem Toparlı Title: Exploring Multicomponent Oxide Materials for Carbon-Free Energy Storage and Conversion Speaker: Dr. Çiğdem Toparlı Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Middle East Technical University Ankara, Türkiye Date: March 15, 2022, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Climate change and rapid increase in the demand for energy has […]

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Gündoğ Yücesan

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. Gündoğ Yücesan Title: Design and synthesis of conductive MOFs, COFs, and HOFs Speaker: Dr. Gündoğ Yücesan, Associate Professor Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Berlin Berlin, Germany Date: March 1, 2022, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Among the other metal organic framework (MOF) families, phosphonate MOFs provide the richest […]

Spring ’22 Department Seminars with Dr. E. Ercan Alp​

Spring ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. E. Ercan Alp Title: Synchrotron Mössbauer Spectroscopy: Implications in chemistry, geology and physics Speaker: Dr. E. Ercan Alp Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory Chicago, Illnois, United States Date: February 15, 2022, Tuesday Time: 17:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: It’s been 60 years since the Nobel Prize was given to […]

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Wonmi Ahn​

Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Wonmi Ahn Title: Strong Light-Matter Interactions Influencing Chemical Reactions: Plasmonic Photocatalysis and Polaritonic Chemistry Speaker: Dr. Wonmi Ahn Insitute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University Ankara, Türkiye Date: December 21, 2021, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss two different mechanisms of light-matter […]