Department Seminar
Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm. All are invited to attend.
Upcoming Seminar
Uncovering Iron Surface Chemistry and Mineral Film Growth at Complex Interfaces
Dr. Kathryn Perrine, Michigan Technological University
September 10, 2025
4:00pm-5:00pm via Zoom
Meeting ID: 859 4828 8058
The Perrine group uses a surface catalysis approach at the air/liquid/solid and gas/solid interface to connect chemistry at complex interfaces. Increased weathering events from rising CO2 levels have impacted infrastructure degradation, water quality, and constrained resources. In water systems, surface chemistry occurs on iron-based pipeline surfaces and mineral interfaces in the environmental. At these interfaces, chemistry is complex, where metals react with dissolves gases and aqueous species, resulting in redox processes and surface corrosion. This seminar will present the Perrine group's research on iron surface chemistry, oxidation, and film growth that shed light on mechanisms affiliated with water disinfection and CO2 capture.
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Seminar Coordinator
For information and suggestions about our Department Seminar series, please contact the seminar coordinator:
Dr. Michael Schramm
Michael.Schramm@csulb.edu
Schedule
The schedule for Fall 2025 is as follows. Additional details may be added as the semester progresses.
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| September 10, 2025 | Uncovering Iron Surface Chemistry and Mineral Film Growth at Complex Interfaces | Dr. Kathryn Perrine, Michigan Technological University |
| September 17, 2025 | Solvent Driven Cross-Coupling of Fluorenones for Dibenzo | Tetsuo Iwasawa, Ryukoku University, Shiga, Japan |
| September 24, 2025 | TBD | TBD |
| October 1, 2025 | (topic: organic / materials science) | Elias Picazo, USC |
| October 8, 2025 | TBD | TBD |
| October 15, 2025 | (topic: inorganic) | Lauren Benz, University of San Diego |
| October 22, 2025 | (topic: biophysics) | Zuzanna Siwy, UC Irvine |
| October 29, 2025 | TBD | Allon Hochbaum, UC Irvine |
| November 5, 2025 | (topic: physical) | David Mobley, UC Irvine |
| November 12, 2025 | (topic: engineering) | Haizhou Liu, UC Riverside |
| November 19, 2025 | (topic: biochemistry) | Zhixiang Tong, Genentech |
| December 3, 2025 | First Year Talks | Chemistry students, CSU Long Beach |
| December 10, 2025 | (topic: organic) | Osvaldo Gutierrez, UCLA |
Previous Seminars
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| September 3, 2025 | Building at the Nanoscale with Programmable Peptide-Based Building Blocks | Dr. Andrea Merg, UC Merced |
The Seminar Archive has Department Seminars from previous semesters.
The Department Seminar is supported by The Allergan Foundation.
