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 […]
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Erol Yıldırım
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Erol Yıldırım Title: Applications of Multiscale Modeling Methods on Soft Matter Materials Speaker: Dr. Erol Yıldırım Department of Chemistry, Middle East Technical University Ankara, Türkiye Date: December 14, 2021, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Dr. Yıldırım’s research focuses on calculating how molecular structures and dynamics of soft matter […]
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Tülay Aygan Ateşin
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Tülay Aygan Ateşin Title: Supercomputing the ‘How’ of Palladium-Catalyzed Organometallic Reactions Speaker: Dr. Tülay Aygan Ateşin Department of Chemistry, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Edinburg, Texas, United States Date: December 7, 2021, Tuesday Time: 17:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs have been accidentally discovered. […]
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. John C. Warner
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. John C. Warner Title: Green Chemistry: Inventing a Circular Economy Speaker: Dr. John C. Warner Zymergen Corporation Emeryville, California, United States Date: November 30, 2021, Tuesday Time: 18:00 Place: Zoom Abstract: The natural world is a beautiful and intricate system of intertwined and overlapping materials ecosystems. As humans, our […]
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Murat Kaya Yapıcı
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Murat Kaya Yapıcı Title: Scalable Engineering of Micro/Nanoscale Devices and Systems Speaker: Dr. Murat Kaya Yapıcı Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabancı University Istanbul, Türkiye Date: November 16, 2021, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Around 1980s, following the advancements in semiconductor device fabrication technology, a new class […]
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Özge Akbulut
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Özge Akbulut Title: Ceramics 4.0 Speaker: Dr. Özge Akbulut, Associate Professor Department of Chemistry, Sabancı University Istanbul, Türkiye Date: November 2, 2021, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Compared to metals and polymers, the incorporation of ceramics into the framework of Industry 4.0 has been lagged due to the […]
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Alfredo Angeles-Boza
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Alfredo Angeles-Boza Title: CO2 Reduction Catalysis: Solving a Social Dilemma Speaker: Dr. Alfredo Angeles-Boza Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut, United States Date: October 26, 2021, Tuesday Time: 17:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Metal complexes are capable electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction. Particularly, the tunability of the first and […]
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Gökhan Çelik
Fall ’21 Department Seminars with Dr. Gökhan Çelik Title: Catalytic Upcycling of Single-Use Polyolefins into Lubricants: A Path Forward for Circular Economy Speaker: Dr. Gökhan Çelik Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory Chicago, Illinois, United States Date: October 12, 2021, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Polymers are ubiquitous, critical to the function […]
Spring ’20 Department Seminars with Dr. Çağatay Dengiz
Spring ’20 Department Seminars with Dr. Çağatay Dengiz Title: Expanding the Chemical Space of Carbon-Rich Materials by Click-Type Reactions Speaker: Dr. Çağatay Dengiz Department of Chemistry, Middle East Technical University Ankara, Türkiye Date: March 3, 2020, Tuesday Time: 12:40 Place: Departmental Seminar Room (SB-Z14) Abstract: Synthetic and natural dyes play a fundamental and indispensable role […]
Spring ’20 Department Seminars with Dr. Burak V. Kabasakal
Spring ’20 Department Seminars with Dr. Burak V. Kabasakal Title: Structural Studies of Membrane Proteins Involved in Quality Control Speaker: Dr. Burak V. Kabasakal Institute of Accelerator Technologies, Ankara University Ankara, Türkiye Date: February 18, 2020, Tuesday Time: 12:40 Place: Departmental Seminar Room (SB-Z14) Abstract: Membrane proteins constitute an important class of proteins for medical, […]