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Each year, invited speakers are welcomed to our Department to present their research to our community. Please join us in these engaging research talks on an exciting array of topics. 

Campus maps are available, and for visitors driving to campus we suggest using the University Hospital visitor parking garage.

Invited Speakers

2024-2025 Speakers 

02/04/2025
Gan Ong  from Academia Sinica, Taiwan 
Topic Area: SYNTHESIS
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115
Host: Prof. Johanna Blacquiere

19/03/2025
Russ Algar from UBC
Topic Area: MATERIALS
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115
Host: Prof. Zhifeng Ding

12/03/2025
Alex Brolo from UVic
Topic Area: MATERIALS
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115
Host: Prof. Zhifeng Ding

22/01/2025
Audrey Moores from McGill University
Topic Area: MATERIALS
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115
Host: Prof. Elizabeth Gillies

04/12/2024
Todd Hoare  from McMaster University
Topic Area: Chem. Biology
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115
Host: Prof. Arghya Paul

27/11/2024
Ian Burgess from University of Saskatchewan
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115

20/11/2023
Titel Jurca  from University of Central Florida  
Topic Area: Synthesis
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115
Host: Prof. Joe Gilroy

13/11/2024
Kirsty Ng  from Western University
2024 Bancroft Award Recipient lecture
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115

6/11/2024
Danny Leznoff from Simon Fraser University
Topic Area: SYNTHESIS/MATERIALS
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115
Host: Prof. Yining Huang

30/10/2024
Benoit Couturaud (CNRS) 
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115
Host: Prof. Elizabeth Gillies

23/10/2024
Paul Boyle from Western University 
Topic Area: single crystal X-ray how to
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115

09/10/2024
Toby Zheng  from York University 
Topic Area: THEORETICAL
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115
Host: Prof. Viktor Staroverov
 
25/09/2024
Saurabh Chitnis  from Dalhousie University 
Topic Area: SYNTHESIS
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115
Host: Prof. Paul Ragogna
 
11/09/2024
Thomas Gungor and Daniel Dang from Tosoh/PolyAnalytik
Topic Area: Advanced Polymer Characterization Workshop
Time: 1:30pm
Location: ChB 115
Host: Prof. Elizabeth Gillies

Previous Talks, by academic year can be found here.