Yale Chemistry Symposium 2024

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We invite you to join us for the 2024 Yale Chemistry Symposium, the annual department event to start the academic year. Join us in welcoming the incoming cohort of graduate students into our community and research! The symposium will include a faculty keynote speaker, graduate student presentations, teaching and research award announcements, and a poster session.

Location: Sterling Chemistry Laboratory (SCL) Room 110

Schedule of Events

1:00 p.m.    Welcome by Profs. Nilay Hazari, Department Chair and Pat Loria, Director of Graduate Studies,  (SCL 110) 
1:30 p.m.    Teaching awards, research awards, first years introduce themselves (SCL 110)

2:00 p.m.    Grad student speaker presentations (SCL 110)

Jinchan Liu, Theoretical Chemistry, Batista Lab

“Water Ligands Regulate the Redox Leveling Mechanism of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of the Photosystem II”

2:15 p.m.    María Vargas-Rivera, Organic Chemistry, Ellman Lab

“Visible Light-Mediated, Diastereoselective Epimerization of Endocyclic and Exocyclic Amines to More Stable Isomers”

2:30 p.m.    Christian Venturella, Theoretical Chemistry, Zhu Group

“Unified Deep Learning Framework for Many-Body Quantum Chemistry via Green’s Functions”

2:45 p.m.    Prof. Stacy Malaker, Keynote speaker presentation (SCL 110) 
3:30 p.m.    Coffee break (great hall 2nd floor) 

4:00 p.m.    Grad student speaker presentations (SCL 110) 
Alexa Williams,  Inorganic Chemistry, Mayer Lab
“Preliminary Studies on the Hydride Transfer Reactivity of Si-H Nanoparticles”
4:15 p.m.    Nicolò Tampellini, Organic Chemistry, Miller Group
“Stereocontrolled Cyclization of Inherently Chiral Medium-Sized Rings”
4:30 p.m.    Rinco Wang, Biophysical Chemistry, Spiegel Lab
“Transferrin Receptor-Targeting TransMoDEs Facilitate Extracellular Protein Degradation and Transcytosis in Human CNS Cells”
4:45 p.m.    John Huang, Inorganic Chemistry, Hazari Group
“Effect of 6,6′-Substituents on Bipyridine-Ligated Ni Catalysts for Cross-Electrophile Coupling”

5:10 p.m.    Poster session, wine and cheese (great hall 2nd floor)
6:30 p.m.    Dinner/Social in CRB courtyard (rain location is SCL main hallway 1st floor)

If you plan to attend, or are interested in giving a grad student speaker presentation or a poster presentation, please RSVP through this survey before August 9 .

RSVP

For questions, please contact this year’s YCS co-chairs: Maria Guerrero (maria.guerrero@yale.edu) and Shane Finn (shane.finn@yale.edu).