Colloquium

The department hosts regular Colloquia meetings to introduce students to a broad range of topics currently being explored by scientists in labs at Swarthmore and other institutions.
FALL 2022
Thursday, September 22
Koop Lammertsma, Cornell Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College
Title: Organophosphorous Chemistry
Thursday, October 27
Dr. Sara Sohail, Laboratory of Chemical Physics (NIDDK/NIH)
Title: Assessing the assembly of Amyloid-β fibrils using single molecule FRET imaging and deep learning analysis
Thursday, November 3
Professor Mark Hendricks, Whitman College
Title: The importance of precursor chemistry in semiconducting and metallic nanocrystal synthesis
Thursday, November 10
Professor Dr. Remi Beaulac, Swarthmore College
Title: Imperfect, Therefore Ideal: Engineering Efficient Energy Processes by Exploiting Defects and Disorder in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
SPRING 2023
Thursday, February 9
Dr. Krisna Duong-Ly ’05, Merck
Title: Surface plasmon resonance (SPR): an informative characterization tool for biotherapeutic drug development
Thursday, February 16
Professor Kathryn Riley ’10, Swarthmore College
Title: Developing Analytical Tools to Probe the Biomolecule-Mediated Reactivity of Silver Nanoparticles
Thursday, March 2
Professor Laura Dassama, Stanford University
Title: Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms of Lipid Trafficking in Bacteria
Thursday, March 16
Professor Eric Schelter, University of Penn
Title: Advancing Fundamental Inorganic Chemistry to Address Problems in Critical Metals Sustainability