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News
Fall 2023 Teaching Assistant Excellence Awards
Congratulations on the outstanding efforts and achievements of the Fall 2023 Graduate TA Award winners!
Rodney Smith receives Strem Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Rodney Smith honoured with 2024 Strem Chemicals Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry.
Chemistry lab gets eco-friendly design
Lab instructor Leanne Racicot's passion for sustainability reflected in lab renovation.
Events
Master's Seminar - Xinning Wang
Impact of noise on a variational quantum eigensolver implemented with spin qubits
Supervisor: J. Baugh
Committee members: M. Nooijen. G. Sciaini
Thursday, March 21, 2024
1:30 pm
C2-361
Master's Seminar - Dakota Chen
Aptamer-based Sensing for Guanosine and Its Adducts
Supervisor: J. Liu
Committee members: S. Tang, J. Honek
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
2:30 pm
C2-361
Master's Seminar - Xander Gouws
Computational methods for amorphous solid-state electrolytes
Supervisor: C. Tetsassi Feugmo
Committee members: L. Nazar, P.N. Roy
Thursday, March 28, 2024
3:00 pm
C2-361