Lecture Schedules
Research in Chemical Sciences & Engineering II
Topical Lectures in Chemical Sciences & Engineering:
Notice;It is required to attend at least seven times.
To satisfy to get the course credit for one academic year, you must
1) submit at least one report in total.
2) write a report which summarizes a lecture onto one sheet of A4 paper.
3) send a report as an attached file by email to the “AGS Office” <ags@eng.hokudai.ac.jp> within two weeks
after each lecture presentation finishes.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------01. 09 April @Seminar Room 2, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof. Jae-Suk Lee (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea)“1D and 3D Photonic Crystals”
02. 16 May @MC526, Faculty of Engineering
Prof. Chunhong Zhang (Harbin Engineering University, China)“Synthesis of Helical Poly(phenylacetylene)s Bearing L-Amino Acid Derivatives
and Their Applications in Chiral Separation by HPLC”
03. 21 May @#7-219/220, Faculty of Science
Prof. Marek J. Wójcik (Jagiellonian University, Poland)“Quantum Mechanical and Molecular Dynamics Studies of Vibrational Spectra ofHydrogen-Bonded Systems”
04. 31 May @Seminar Room 2, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building“International Symposium on Electrochemical Materials Science and Technology”
05. 05 June @N-308, Faculty of Science
Prof. David A. Lewis (Flinders University, Australia)“The Engineering of Surfaces: from Particles to Solar Cells”
06. 07 June @MC030, Faculty of Engineering
Prof. Eunsung Lee (POSTECH, Korea)“Pushing the Limits of N-heterocyclic Carbenes”
07. 13 June @MC526, Faculty of Engineering
Dr. Saki Ichikawa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the U.S.A.)“Asymmetric Synthesis of N-Arylamines and Diamines by Copper-Catalyzed
Hydroamination of Alkenes”

08. 19 June @#7-219, Faculty of Science
Dr. Eri Ito (Menicon Co., Ltd. / Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)“Mystery of Gel Working on Contact Lenses ~Chance & Necessity~”
09. 20 June @N-308, Faculty of Science
Prof. Jianxin Li (Nanjing University, China)“Chinese Medicine Inspired Osteoporosis Research, Discovery of NJx-1 Protein
and Its Function on Bone”
10. 21 June @#5-201, Faculty of Science
Prof. Vivian Wing-Wah Yam (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)“Molecular Functional Materials – From Fundamentals to Energy, Materials andBiomedical Applications”
11. 24 June @N-308, Faculty of Science
Prof. Srihari Keshavamurthy (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)“Revisiting the Paradigm of Transition States and Reaction Mechanisms”
12. 27 June @Seminar Room 2, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof. Ben Shen (Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), the U.S.A.)“Challenges and Opportunities for Natural Products and Drug Discovery in
the Genomic Era”
13. 28 June @MC526, Faculty of Engineering
Dr. Wenhao Sun (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the U.S.A.)“Navigating Stability and Metastability in the Synthesis of Novel Functional Materials”
14. 01 July @MC102, Faculty of Engineering
Prof. Hsin-Lung Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)“How Chemistry Brings in New Physics Problems: Stabilizing OBDD Structure ofBlock Copolymers by Configurational Regularity”
15. 04 July @MC214, Faculty of Engineering
Prof. Byungjin Cho (Chungbuk National University, Korea)“Diverse Applications Using a Two Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide
Alloy Layer”
16. 11 July @Akira Suzuki Hall, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof. Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay (University of California, Los Angeles, the U.S.A.)“The Roles of Intrinsic Barriers and Crystal Fluidity in Molecular and SupramolecularAmphidynamic Crystals of Molecular Rotors”

17. 12 July @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof. Guey-Sheng Liou (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)“Novel Triphenylamine-based Polymers Towards Emergent Optoelectronic Applications”
18. 12 July @Seminar Room 2, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof. Li Lu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)“Sodium-ion Batteries – Post Li-ion Energy Storage System for Future”
19. 13 July @Pirka Kotan, Kogane-yu Hot Spring <The 10th CSE-ALP International Summer School>
Prof. Srihari Keshavamurthy (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)“What is Coherent About Coherent Control?”20. 14 July @Pirka Kotan, Kogane-yu Hot Spring <The 10th CSE-ALP International Summer School>
Prof. Qiuling Song (Huaqiao University, China)“Difluoroalkyl Reagents as Various Synthons in Organic Synthesis”
21. 19 July @Seminar Room 2, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building“CSE International Student Symposium 2019”22. 19 July @MC208, Faculty of Engineering
Dr. Nicolas Clément (LIMMS/CNRS-IIS and Institute of Industrial Science,
The University of Tokyo, Japan)“Quantum Transport and Chemistry for Smart Nanosensors”
23. 25 July @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof. Fei Chen (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
24. 25 July @#2-409, Faculty of Science
Prof. Tao Ye (Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, China)“Total Synthesis of Macrocyclic Natural Products”
25. 26 July @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Dr. G. Dan Pantos (University of Bath, the U.K.)“Chirality in Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry”
26. 29 July @Centennial Hall
“International Symposium on Biopolymer Synthesis and Degradation”
27. 31 July @N-308, Faculty of Science
Prof. Hua-Zhong Yu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)“Mobile Electronics as Quantitative Point-of-care Diagnostic Tools:
from Disc Player to Smartphone”

28. 02 August @MC527, Faculty of Engineering
Dr. Volker L. Deringer (University of Cambridge, the U.K.)“From Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials to Materials Chemistry”
29. 23 August @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof. Michael Turner (University of Manchester, the U.K.)“Conjugated Polymers of Many Shapes and Sizes: Rings, Chains and Nanoparticles”
30. 30 August @N-308, Faculty of Science
Prof. Kostas Sarakinos (Linköping University, Sweden)“Toward a Universal Understanding of Thin-Film and Nanostructure Growth
on Weakly-Interacting Substrates”
31. 25 September @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof. Dr. Jeung Gon Kim (Chonbuk National University, Korea)“Mechanochemical Polymer Synthesis”
32. 25 September @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof. Dr. Jun Hee Lee (Dongguk University, Korea)“Visible Light Photoredox-Catalyzed Deoxygenation of N-Heterocyclic N-Oxides”
33. 30 September @N-308, Faculty of Science
Prof. Gavin Chit Tsui (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)“A Three-Pronged Approach to the Development of New Trifluoromethylation Reactions”
34. 18 October @Lecture Hall, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Dr. John C. Mauro (Pennsylvania State University, the U.S.A.)“Relaxation is Everywhere”“Organic/Inorganic Solid Electrolytes for Solid-State Lithium Batteries”
35. 21 October @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof. Tomislav Friščić (McGill University, Canada)“Mechanochemistry: Beyond the Magic”
36. 23 October @#7-310, Faculty of Science
Dr. Henri-Pierre Jacquot de Rouville (Institut de Chimie de Strasbourg, CNRS, France)“Family of bis-Acridinium Tweezers: Supramolecular Self-Assemblies andSelf-Sorting Properties”
37. 23 October @MC526, Faculty of Engineering
Prof. James Neilson (Colorado State University, the U.S.A.)“Enabling Prescriptive Synthesis of Metastable Ternary Oxides with Mixed Anions”

38. 30 October @#7-310, Faculty of Science
Dr. Henri-Pierre Jacquot de Rouville (Institut de Chimie de Strasbourg, CNRS, France)“A Contest at the Single Moleule Scale”
39. 11 November @N-308, Faculty of Science
Prof. Hongli Bao (Chinese Academy of Science, China)“Reactions Enabled by Alkyl Peroxides”
40. 21 November @MC208, Faculty of EngineeringDr. Alex Yip (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)“Advanced Design of Zeolite as a Selective Catalyst and Adsorbent”
41. 03 December @MC102, Faculty of Engineering
Prof. Yu-Cheng Chiu (National University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)“From Functional Polymer to Intrinsically Stretchable and Healable Transistor”
42. 03 December @MC102, Faculty of Engineering
Prof. Chih-Jen Shih (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)“Two-Dimensional Colloidal Quantum Wells for Future Photonic Sources”
43. 09 December @N-308, Faculty of Science
Prof. James G. Omichinski (University of Montreal, Canada)“Structural Studies to Define the Role that Phosphorylation and Acetylation Playin Regulating Key SUMO-SIM Interactions Required for PML-Nuclear Body Formation”
44. 09 December @N-308, Faculty of Science
Prof. Stephen Michnick (University of Montreal, Canada)“A Molecular Spectrocsopy of Living Cells to Map Genetic and Environmental Origins ofDisease Traits to Molecular Mechanisms”
45. 11 December @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof. Dr. Xavier Bantreil (University of Montpellier, France)“Unraveling Organic and Coordination Chemistry Using Mechanochemistry”
46. 13 December @Seminar Room 2, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building“Hokkaido University – National Central University Joint Symposium on Materials andPhysics 2019”47. 17 December @Seminar Room 1, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof. Maria Olea (Teeside University and University of Cumbria, the U.K.)“Catalysts Scale-Up From Gram to Kilogram; Catalytic Reactors and Microreactors(Reactors Scale-Down)”

48. 07 February @Seminar Room 2, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof.Byeong-Su Kim (Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Korea)“Recent Progresses in Peptidomimetic Polyethers: Model Study with Mussel and Frog”
49. 07 February @Seminar Room 2, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building
Prof.Myungeun_Seo ( KAIST, Korea)“Linking Polymer Chains in Macromolecular Architecture:Control of Sequence, Segregation,
and Chemical Structure”