Frontiers in Chemical Research

The Frontiers in Chemical Research Lectureship in the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University is a Distinguished Lecture Series course devoted to In-depth presentations of current developments in important areas of contemporary chemistry.

In this program, the chemistry faculty selects and invites prominent chemists from all over the world to present three formal lectures that describe their most recent significant research results. In addition to the seminars, each Frontiers speaker will meet with graduate students in formal discussion sessions. The speaker would also be available for private conferences with departmental instructional and research staff. This year, the 38th of the Frontiers in Chemical Research program, five distinguished lecturers have been scheduled.

The Frontiers lectures are open to the public; the Chemistry Department welcomes all those interested.

2023-2024 Lectures

Spring 2023

Cathy Drennan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Christoph Düllmann
Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz

Amir Hoveyda
Boston College/University of Strasbourg

Omar Yaghi
University of California, Berkeley

Fall 2023

Justin DuBois
Stanford University (Host: Dr. Andy Thomas)
September 18-20, 2023

Tom Muir
Princeton University (Host: Dr. Wenshe Liu)
October 16-18, 2023

Catherine J. Murphy
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Host: Dr. Marcetta Darensbourg)
October 25-27, 2023

Spring 2024

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Yale University (Host: Dr. Daniel Tabor)
February 26-28, 2024

Past Lecturers

2022-2023

Fall 2022

Dr. Joshua Coon
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. James Mayer
Yale University

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2021-2022

Spring 2022

Dr. Evan Williams
University of California, Berkeley

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2019-2020

Fall 2019

October 21-23

Dr. Geoffrey W. Coates
Cornell University

Spring 2020

March 16-18	Dr. James Mayer Yale University
April 13-15	Dr. Cynthia Friend Harvard University
April 27-29	Dr. Alanna Schepartz University of California, Berkeley

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2018-2019

Fall 2018

September 17-19

Jonas Peters
California Institute of Technology

Fe-Mediated Nitrogen Fixation, and Other Opportunities for Reductive Redox Catalysis

Spring 2019

February 18-20	Véronique Gouverneur University of Oxford	Late Stage Fluorination for Applications in Medicine and Imaging
March 4-6	Vicki Grassian University of California, San Diego	Physical Chemistry of Environmental Interfaces

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2017-2018

Fall 2017

Oct 9-11

Clifford Kubiak
University of California, San Diego

Inorganic Charge Transfer and the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

Nov 27-29

Mark Johnson
Yale University

Mass Spec Meets FTIR: The Genesis and Promise of Cryogenic Ion Chemistry and Spectroscopy

Spring 2018

Jan 29-31	Squire Booker Pennsylvania State University	Diverse Roles for S-adenosylmethionine in the Anaerobic Functionalization of Unactivated C-H Bonds
Feb 5-7	Cherie Kagan University of Pennsylvania	Colloidal Nanocrystal Building Blocks of Optical Electronic Materials and Devices
Feb 19-21	David Tirrell California Institute of Technology	Some New Uses for the Genetic Code

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2016-2017

Nov 7-9	Peidong Yang University of California, Berkeley	Semiconductor Nanowires
Nov 28-30	Laura Kiessling University of Wisconsin, Madison	Exploiting the Cell's Carbohydrate Coat in Health and Disease
Jan 30 - Feb 1	Martin Gruebele Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Illuminating Complex Chemical Systems: From Single Molecules to Organisms
Apr 10-12	Todd Martinez Stanford University	Molecular Motion and Reactivity from First Principles
Apr 17-19	Shannon Stahl University of Wisconsin, Madison	Aerobic Oxidation Catalysis: From Chemical Synthesis to Fuel Cells

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2015-2016

Nov 7-9	Peidong Yang University of California, Berkeley	Semiconductor Nanowires
Nov 28-30	Laura Kiessling University of Wisconsin, Madison	Exploiting the Cell's Carbohydrate Coat in Health and Disease
Jan 30 - Feb 1	Martin Gruebele Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Illuminating Complex Chemical Systems: From Single Molecules to Organisms
Apr 10-12	Todd Martinez Stanford University	Molecular Motion and Reactivity from First Principles
Apr 17-19	Shannon Stahl University of Wisconsin, Madison	Aerobic Oxidation Catalysis: From Chemical Synthesis to Fuel Cells

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2014-2015

Nov 7-9	Peidong Yang University of California, Berkeley	Semiconductor Nanowires
Nov 28-30	Laura Kiessling University of Wisconsin, Madison	Exploiting the Cell's Carbohydrate Coat in Health and Disease
Jan 30 - Feb 1	Martin Gruebele Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Illuminating Complex Chemical Systems: From Single Molecules to Organisms
Apr 10-12	Todd Martinez Stanford University	Molecular Motion and Reactivity from First Principles
Apr 17-19	Shannon Stahl University of Wisconsin, Madison	Aerobic Oxidation Catalysis: From Chemical Synthesis to Fuel Cells

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2013-2014

Nov 7-9	Peidong Yang University of California, Berkeley	Semiconductor Nanowires
Nov 28-30	Laura Kiessling University of Wisconsin, Madison	Exploiting the Cell's Carbohydrate Coat in Health and Disease
Jan 30 - Feb 1	Martin Gruebele Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Illuminating Complex Chemical Systems: From Single Molecules to Organisms
Apr 10-12	Todd Martinez Stanford University	Molecular Motion and Reactivity from First Principles
Apr 17-19	Shannon Stahl University of Wisconsin, Madison	Aerobic Oxidation Catalysis: From Chemical Synthesis to Fuel Cells

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Oct 5-7	Thomas O'Halloran Northwestern University	Inorganic Chemistry in Control of Cellular Decision-Making Events
Oct 12-14	Jonathan Sweedler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Analytical Neurochemistry: Measuring the Chemistry Occurring in the Brain
Feb 22-24	Holger Braunschweig Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg	New Boron-Containing Molecules for Materials, Catalysis and Synthesis
Mar 21-23	Sir Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University	Emergent and Integrated Systems in Chemistry
Apr 18-19	Jun Ye University of Colorado - Boulder	Cold Molecules and Novel Spectroscopy

Sep 1-3	Ray Schaak Pennsylvania State University	Adventures in Synthetic Inorganic Nanochemistry
Oct 6-8	Makoto Fujita University of Tokyo	Coordination Self-Assembly: from Principle to Applications
Apr 6-8	Wilfred van der Donk University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Enzyme Reaction Mechanisms Involved in Natural Product Biosynthesis
Apr 13-15	Paul Mulvaney University of Melbourne	Nanocrystals - Synthesis, Forces and Spectroscopy

Oct 14-16	Naomi Halas Rice University	Plasmonics: Nanoparticles Putting Light To Work
Nov 11-13	Martin Head-Gordon University of California - Berkeley	Advances in Computational Quantum Chemistry: From Theory to Applications and Back Again
Feb 24-26	Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Carnegie Melon University	Macromolecular Engineering by Controlled Radical Polymerization
Mar 24-26	Thomas Rauchfuss University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Advances in Bio-organometallic Chemistry
Apr 7-9	Chris Chang University of California - Berkeley	Inorganic Chemistry in Neuroscience and Sustainable Energy