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SPC will kick off the year with a Lunch & Learn event sponsored by Exponent. Dr. Lyons and Dr. Vargas from Exponent will talk about scientific consulting as another career opportunity for researchers. Have you wondered what consulting is about? These two Stanford alumni are here to discuss about their own experience as consultants and answer your questions about consulting as a career choice. As always, we will have lunch catered at the event.
On Thursday, September 28th, Stanford Polymer Collective (SPC) will be partnering with the Materials Research Society (MRS) and Exponent to run a resume and interviewing workshop. The purpose of this workshop will be to interact with recruiters from Exponent and learn how to refine your resume and interviewing skills. Expect to share your resume, meet your colleagues, and discuss general job-searching skills with scientists and engineers from Exponent.
Where: 4th floor conference room of the Durand Building
When: Thursday, September 28th
Who: Anyone interested in improving their resume and interview skills with expertise from Exponent.
Come learn more about what we do! Stop by our table at the student activities fair for information and free goodies.
For our Fall kick-off talk, Dr. Ronald Zuckermann from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will be giving a talk on sequence-controlled peptoid polymers. After the talk, we will have an interdepartmental poster session showcasing soft matter research from various lab groups around campus. Dinner will be provided!
Interested in outreach? Come to this informational session! We will discuss outreach during the year, and prepare for an upcoming event called “SLAC Kids Night” at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Abstract:
Two-dimensional covalent polymers and organic frameworks are a class of crystalline polymers that enable the incorporation of organic building blocks into periodically aligned structures. In recent years, we have explored the design principle, synthetic reactions, structural diversity, functional design and materials applications. One significant feature is that the merge of covalent bonds and noncovalent interactions enables the precise control over primary and high-order structures. The geometry-directed covalent bonding enables the growth of two-dimensional atomic layer in which the primary-order structures are precisely controlled. The noncovalent π-π interactions guided by the total crystal stacking energy encode the ordered primary-order structure into high-order structures to construct periodically aligned polymer skeletons and nanosized unidirectional channels. In this seminar, I will discuss the chemistry, opportunity and challenges of COFs.
About the Speaker:
Donglin Jiang obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University and his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1998. He began his academic carrier as an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo, and was involved in developing functional polymers based on dendritic architectures until 2000, when he was appointed as the group leader of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) project on AIDA Nanospace. In 2005, he moved to the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Science as an associate professor to start his independent laboratory. In 2016, he moved to Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) as a full professor. In 2018, he joined the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore as a tenured full professor. His current research interests include two-dimensional covalent polymers and frameworks, including their chemistry, physics, and materials.
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Light refreshments will be provided!
