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December 25, 2018 Merry Christmas!
December 2018 Welcome to Yang Gao, our new postdoc! Yang joins us from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Chengdu); he got his Ph.D. from Jilin University. Yang is working on actinide chemistry.
Fall 2018
Georg has bee invited to join the Center for Actinide Science & Technology (CAST).  
October 2018 Welcome to Monica Sharma who joins us as an undergraduate student! Monica will work with Payal on 2D materials.
September 20, 2018
Georg gives a talk at the Universität zu Köln (Cologne). (Advertising poster here.)  
September 2018 Congratulations to Thaneshwor who started a new position as Staff Scientist at CNL in Ontario. Welcome back to Canada, Thaneshwor and family!
August 16, 2018 It is with great sadness that I hear about the passing of our colleague Phil Hultin on August 15, 2018. Phil had been battling cancer for the last year or so. (Link to obituary.)
August 2018 Congratulations to Abu on starting a new position as Assistant Professor at Penn State Harrisburg! All the best, to you and the family!
July 2018 Welcome to Prof. Seifollah Jalili! Seifollah is visiting us from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran, although he has most recently spent time in as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto.
June 2018 Parker Communications, the summer 2018 edition of the Departmental Newsletter, has now been published. Have a look!
June 2018 Another good article on predatory journals and conferences.
May 2018 !! NEW !! Looking for up to two postdocs!
See here for the detailed ad; or see here for the CCL.net version.
Positions now filled (06/2018).
April 2018 Welcome to our summer students, Laura Ferch and Tyler (Anh) Tran! Laura and Tyler will both work on 2D materials.
April 12, 13, 2018 We had a very successful and inspiring Betts Lectureship with Prof. Michael Grätzel visiting us from EPFL Switzerland. Thank you to all who helped make this a success, and to Prof. Grätzel for taking the time to visit us!
Some pictures to come a bit later ...
March 2018 Congratulations to Craig who has been accepted into the graduate program at the University of Alberta! Craig plans to join the group of Dr. Gabriel Hanna.
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Interesting article on fake (predatory) conferences, very much in the same malicious spirit as the (by now pretty well known) predatory journals. In fact, I get invitations to such "conferences" pretty much nightly − this is "scientific spam", and it needs to be treated as such.
February 28, 2018
  Congratulations to Gurpreet who successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis today! All the best to you and your family for your new adventures on the other side of the world!

February 2, 2018 / January 4, 2018

Thaneshwor's and Pat's review on polythiophene is among the most read papers in Chemistry of Materials for the months of December and January!
 
January 2018 Happy New Year to all, and a warm welcome to our newest group member, Payal Grover! Payal joins us from Panjab University in India.
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An interview on our research and my recent NSERC Discovery Grant, published by the Faculty of Science.


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