The Mason Group meets together weekly during the fall, spring, and summer terms. At these meetings, group members present either current group research or relevant literature. Below are the dates, times, and speakers for group meetings during the 2023-2024 academic year. Meetings are held in Naito 307 unless otherwise noted. Talk titles will be added as they become available.
This schedule is subject to change.
August 29, 3pm – Patricia Izquierdo (research) - “Molecular Nanographenes”
September 5, 3pm - Joy Cho (research) - “Leveraging Metal–Organic Frameworks for Permanent Microporosity in Water”
September 8, 2pm - Ilbong Lee (literature) - “Ion pair frameworks formed by calix[4]pyrrole receptor”
September 12, 3pm - Qichen Song (literature) - “Role of bonding in thermal transport”
September 21, 1pm - Miranda Walter (research) - “Investigating Hydrophilicity, Biocompatibility, and Acoustic Responses in Microporous Water”
October 3, 1:30pm - Grant Stec (research) - “Supramolecular Assembly of Atomically Precise Nanoclusters:
From Metal Chalcogenide Surrogates to Metallic Superatoms”
October 10, 3pm - Dan Laorenza (literature) - “Advances in chip-scale thermal management”
October 17, 3pm - Rahil Ukani (research) - “Understanding and Modulating Thermal Transport Properties of Phase Change Materials”
October 23, 2pm - Hong Ki Kim (literature) - “Aromatic Micelles toward Aqueous Molecular Flasks”
October 30, 3pm - Jooyeun Chong (research) - “Assembly of polymer network through modulation of hydrogen bonding”
October 31, 3pm - Dan Erdosy (research) - “Using zeolites to create microporous water with high gas carrying capacities and their applications”
November 7, 3pm - Jason Calvin (literature) - “Quantum Dots as Platforms for Quantum Information Science”
November 14, 3pm - Faith Chen (research) - “Playing it Cool with Chemistry: Leveraging Phase Transitions in Organic Salts for Solid-State Refrigeration”
November 28, 12pm - Joanna Li (literature) - “Chiral perovskite for optoelectronics”
December 12, 3pm - Hyukhun Hong (research) - “Investigating polymer threading through microporous materials in water”
December 19, 3pm - Yukyung Moon (research) - “Examining Thermal Transport and Gas Adsorption in Metal–Organic Frameworks Through Pore Chemistry”
January 9, 3pm - Qichen Song (research) - “Dynamic control of heat flow via reversible spin transition”
January 11, 3pm - Vidhya Dev (literature) - “We Must Pay for Our Sins”
January 16, 2:30pm - Joy Cho (literature) - “Photoresponsive Hydrogels”
January 23, 11:30am - Hong Ki Kim (research) - “Architecting Nanospaces: Exploration and Transformation of Microporous Water”
January 30, 2:30pm - Miranda Walter (literature) - “The Intersection of Art Conservation & Materials Chemistry”
February 6, 2pm - Bryan Tang (literature) - “H-spillover”
February 9, 2:30pm - Rahil Ukani (literature) - “Static: from leaf to bean”
February 27, 2pm - Ilbong Lee (research) - “Instant Temperature Control with Microcapsules”
March 5, 2:45pm - Jason Calvin (research) - “Probing Defects in Silicalite-1 via Isothermal Titration Calorimetry and Thermal Conductivity Transition in a Spin-Crossover MOF”
March 12, 2pm - Dan Erdosy (literature) - “That which comes for us all: new understandings underpinning aging”
March 26, 2:30pm - Vidhya Dev (research) - “Tuning Spin-Crossover Transition Behavior”
April 2, 2pm - Faith Chen (literature) - “A Cornucopia of Captivating Cavitand Chemistry” - Room M217
April 9, 2pm - Joanna Li (research) - “Regulating the Nanocluster Assembly by Supramolecular Chemistry” - Room M217
May 3, 12pm - Daniel Laorenza (research) - "Barocalorics by design” - Room Naito 030
May 23, 2pm - Ilbong Lee (literature) - “Recent advances in metal–organic liquids and glasses” - Room M217
May 28, 2pm - Bryan Tang (research) - Room M217
June 4, 2pm - Hyukhun Hong (literature) - Room M217
June 11, 3pm - Yukyung Moon (literature) - Room M217