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