The Forty-Third Midwest Undergraduate Computational Chemistry Consortium (MU3C) Conference
July 22-23, 2024
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Monday, July 22, 2024
All talks will be in Pancoe Auditorium, 1st floor- Pancoe Building 2200 Campus Drive.
8:45 a.m. Cookies and Coffee
9:00 a.m. Daniela Kohen, Carleton College. Conference welcome
9:10 a.m. Aidan Khan and Claire Lee-Zacheis, Carleton College. Computational Explorations of the Role of Sterics in Silicon-Metal Cooperative Chemistry
9:35 a.m. Shannon Duggan and Kevin Neff, University of Portland. Selectivity in ruthenium-catalyzed olefin metathesis with ethylene
10:00 a.m. Daniel K. Creuzer, Highland Community College – Illinois. Frustrated Lewis Acid-Base Pair Boron-Nitrogen Heteroarene Aromaticity and Structure Computations in an Organic Chemistry Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience
10:20 a.m. Todd Gingrich, Northwestern University. Simulating Reactions and Diffusion: Lessons from Toy Models
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. Clarence Pan, Joe Madell and Renee Nicholson, Macalester College. Computational Studies of Chemical Reactions in the Troposphere.
11:47 a.m. Siri Overturf, University of Minnesota, Morris. Mechanistic Study of Magnesium Catalyzed Evans anti-Aldol Reactions
12:05 p.m. Lunch at Ryan Hall common area 4th floor, 2190 Campus Drive (paid for by Northwestern Chemistry Department)
1:40 p.m. Kaci Granroth, Esther Lankow, Cassie Christian, University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Oxidation Reactions of Pinene Derivatives
2:15 pm. George Schatz, Northwestern University. Theory and Computational Studies of Nanoscale Processes.
3:00 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Roel Tempelar, Northwestern University. Stretching the quantum–classical boundary in nonadiabatic dynamics
4:00 p.m. MU3C faculty business meeting in Chemistry Building, Ryan 4026; Northwestern Chemistry Department Tour for MU3C students
6:00 p.m. Conference dinner at Reza’s Restaurant. 1557 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
All talks will be in Ryan 4003.
9:00 a.m. Lizzy Arnell, Nathan Wang, and Henry Wolters, Carleton College. Using Zeolites to isolate Ammonia
9:32 a.m. Kyle Koss and Molly Johannes, Ripon College. Modeling Osmolyte Properties of Various Glucose Disaccharides
9:57 a.m. Anh Lan Nguyen, Grand Valley State University. Reactions of HCl and H2O with Molten Alkali Carbonates
10:14 a.m. Gabriel Seaver, Hope College. Molecular dynamics simulations of the cystine/glutamate antiporter system xc–
10:31 a.m. Owen Hauber, Nate Litts and John Nabors, Wabash College. Tethered Electron Donor-Acceptor Complexes as Molecular Switches
11:00 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. Christine Morales, University of Mount Union. Using a Jupyter notebook to explore Savistsky-Golay smoothing of spectral data
11:47 a.m. Daniel Dahmen University of Minnesota, Morris Computational Investigation of the Tautomerization of Carbamoyl Derivatives of Troger’s Base
12:05 p.m. Snigdha Bhattarai, University of Saint Thomas. DFT Analysis of the Polymerization of Ɛ-Caprolactone.
12:21 p.m. Gabriel Morrow, University of Portland. Single-benzene fluorophores based on substituted 1,4-hydroquinones.
12:45 p.m. Lunch.
(paid for by individual MU3C faculty)
3:00 p.m. MU3C faculty lead a panel on working at primarily undergraduate institutions.
Groups Attending 2024 Conference:
Prof. Dutmer, Highland Community College – Illinois
Prof. Kohen, Carleton College
Prof. Krueger, Hope College
Prof. Kuwata, Macalester College
Prof. Layfield, University of Saint Thomas
Prof. Nell, Ripon College
Prof. Morales, University of Mount Union
Prof. Scanlon, Wabash College
Prof. Stoffregen, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Prof. Taylor, University of Portland
Prof. Willoughby, Ripon College
Prof. Winikoff, University of Minnesota, Morris
