Literature Seminar B (Young Chemist Colloquium) is an introductory course that outlines an English seminar program to host doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers from Department of Chemistry to share their excellent research results. This will promote the culture of joint research within the department and help career development as next-generation chemists.

This special lecture series aims to provide graduate students and young researchers an access to cultivate international communication skills through active discussions. This will also encourage scientific interaction and facilitate the flow of ideas among graduate students and speakers to develop their skill sets required to build future professional relationships and new research opportunities.

Through this course, you will be given top-notch research talks by peer students and postdoctoral scientists. In an informal setting, you are encouraged to interact with speakers and develop skill sets required to comprehend research far off from your own and communicate with peers to create new research opportunities. This course aims at cultivating the communication and evaluation skills of the students by listening to the presentations given by postdoctoral researchers and peers. The students are encouraged to raise questions and comments.

No prerequisites. Note that this course can be a one-time substitute for CHEM809 course: the Colloquium (초청세미나). In case you cannot enroll because of the enrollment cap (20 students), please talk to Prof. Ryu by email.

A few more details of the course are as follows:
1. Course Name: Literature Seminar A & B (Young Chemist Colloquium), 문헌세미나 A & B (차세대 화학자 콜로키움).
2. Literature Seminar B will be given in the fall semester.
3. Speakers for Literature Seminar A and B
- Literature Seminar A: 15 groups of Kyung Hwan Kim, Sungjee Kim, Sunmin Ryu, Moon Jeong Park, Sarah Park, Soojin Park, Joon Won Park, Jongcheol Seo, Chang Yun Son, Seung Koo Shin, Jihoon Shim, In Su Lee, Taiha Joo, Hee Cheul Choi, Jong Hoon Hahn
- Literature Seminar B: 12 groups of Kimoon Kim, Wonjong Kim, Jaiwook Park, Changill Ban, Kyo Han Ahn, Young Ho Rhee, Eunsung Lee, Hyun-suk Lim, Young-Tae Chang, Seung Hwan Cho, Hyung Min Chi, Seung Jun Hwang

Participation, that is all.

Abstracts of presentations will be provided in advance.

One invited talk per week as follows:

09.07. Dr. Avinash Dhamija (Prof. Kimoon Kim group): Supramolecular Rotor and Catalysis
09.14. Mr. Anubhab Acharya (Prof. In Su Lee group): Plasmonically integrated nanoreactors for efficient catalysis
09.21. Mr. Sun Hyeok Lee (Prof. Young-Tae Chang group):Neutrophil Selective Fluorescent Probe Development through Metabolism-Oriented Live-cell Distinction
09.28. Mr. Chiwon Hwang (Prof. Seung Hwan Cho group): Diborylmethyl Group as a Transformable Building Block for the Diversification of Nitrogen-Containing Molecules
10.05. Mr. Hong Guen Lee (Prof. Kimoon Kim group): Contagious Aggregation: Transmittable Protein Aggregation in Cellular Communities Initiated by Synthetic Cells
10.12. Ms. Yun Jae Yang (Prof. Kyo Han Ahn group): Development of a Ratiometric NIR-emitting Probe and Its Bioimaging Application
11.02. Dr. Min Gao (Prof. Young-Tae Chang group): Lighting up the B cell
11.09. Mr. Sungho Choi (Prof. Soojin Park group): Structural Design of electro-active materials for next-generation energy storage systems
11.16. Mr. Sukhyun Lee (Prof. Young Ho Rhee group): Palladium-catalyzed asymmetric decarboxylative addition of β-keto acids to heteroatom-substituted allenes
11.23. Ms. Hee Myeong Wang (Prof. Hyun-Suk Lim group): Development of a Potent UBR1 Ligand for Targeted Protein Degradation Through the N-Degron Pathway
11.30. Ms. Hyeonjeong Choi (Prof. Eunsung Lee group): Redox Non-innocent Zwitterionic Cyclopentadienyl (ZCp) Ligands for Sandwich Complexes
12.07. Mr. Yeonsang Lee (Prof. Kimoon Kim group): Synthesis of conducting two-dimensional polymers and their exotic electronic properties

Covid-19 policy: As this course is formatted as an expanded group meeting that can be found in a typical chemistry research lab, the seminar will be given in a traditional on-site meeting at Room 400 in combination with on-line mode via Zoom meeting. To promote live discussion and exchange of ideas, students are encouraged to participate in on-site meeting. All participants are required to observe personal Covid-19 mitigation measures including wearing a mask.

This course will be run by three co-instructors: Dr. Jinrok Oh (Postdoctoral researcher, Email: jinrokoh@postech.ac.kr), Mr. Anubhab Acharya (PhD Candidate, Email: anubhab@postech.ac.kr), and Prof. Seung Jun Hwang. Each seminar session will be chaired by Dr. Oh or Mr. Acharya. Light lunch box will be provided before each session. Please feel free to contact the instructors for any inquiry.