General Information
Recurring conferences of interest include ACS and CSC (Canadian Society for Chemistry) meetings here in North America, Gordon Research Conferences (which are on the East and West Coasts, as well as overseas), as well as overseas (bio)inorganic chemistry meetings such as ICBIC, Eurobic, ICCC, ICPP, and BMIC (Brazilian Meeting on Inorganic Chemistry). Magnetism and magnetic resonance meetings are also of interest, such as the ICMM and ISMAR.
Poster presentation at Eurobic-6 (Sixth European Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry), Lund, Sweden, July 2002. The weather was unusually hot for Sweden, and no air conditioning.
CSC 89th Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS, May 2006. Dinner for participants in symposium on paramagnetic inorganic complexes organized by Prof. Daniel B. Leznoff (Simon Fraser U., Burnaby, BC, Canada). The lobsters are on their way.
Latin American Conferences
Conference picture from the XV Brazilian Meeting on Inorganic Chemistry, Angra dos Reis, RJ, Brazil in 2010.
This is a biannual meeting; it was in Florianopolis, SC, Brazil in 2012 (BMIC XVI), was in Minas Gerais state in 2014 (see below). I missed the one in 2016 due to wishing to avoid Brazil in the Olympics year, but attended BMIC XIXin 2018 in Fortaleza, CE. That in 2020 was postponed to 2022, which I unfortunately missed.
I visited Uruguay in 2013, and spoke at the 12th International Symposium on Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine, in Punta del Este, the famous resort town.
I also attended the 18th International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR) meeting (my first), which was held in Rio de Janeiro (São Conrado), RJ, Brazil in May 2013. The following is a photo kindly taken by Prof. R. David Britt, University of California-Davis. Note that the wind sock was not attached to my head.
I returned to Brazil for the 17th Brazilian Meeting on Inorganic Chemistry (BMIC XVII), held in Araxá, MG. This was an excellent meeting featuring inorganic chemists from over a dozen countries and including leading US-based inorganic chemists such as Prof. Seth M. Cohen, University of California-San Diego, Prof. Vincent L. Pecoraro, U. of Michigan, and Prof. Hongcai (Joe) Zhou, Texas A & M University.
The (boreal) summer of 2017 there were two conferences of interest in Brazil:
IUPAC-17 46th World Chemistry Congress
40ª Reunião Anual da Sociedade Brasileira de Química
July 9 to 14, 2017 – São Paulo, SP – Brazil
and ICBIC-18, where I was an invited speaker
18th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry
July 31st to August 4th – 2017 – Florianopólis, SC – Brazil
Departmental Seminars
I am also available for Departmental/Divisional seminars. I have given talks at a number of institutions including here in Chicago, such as at Loyola University Chicago; across the USA, such as at Indiana University, Bloomington; the University of Kansas, Lawrence; North Dakota State University, Fargo; and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as well as in other countries, such as at the University of Bonn, Germany. Photo at UTK with my host, Prof. Ziling (Ben) Xue.
In November 2019, I gave a seminar at the University of Idaho, hosted by Prof. Sebastian A. Stoian. Photo near Lewiston, ID
I also hosted at Roosevelt (Chicago Campus) in November 2015 the 3rd annual Chicago Regional Inorganic Colloquium (CRIC), initiated by Prof. Neal Mankad, UIC). This meeting has been resurrected at will be at UChicago in September 2023, hosted by Prof. John Anderson.
I attended the reception hosted by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the Chemistry Department at Northwestern University on 28 November 2016 in honor of Prof. Sir Fraser Stoddart‘s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
For photos of this event see: Stoddart Nobel Reception.
ACS National Meetings
ACS National Meetings are always a good scientific and social experience.
Together with Prof. Victoria J. DeRose, (U. of Oregon), I organized a Symposium at the 253rd ACS National Meeting, in San Francisco, CA, 02 – 05 April 2017, on: “Spectroscopic Elucidation of Metalloenzyme Mechanism: Current Successes & Future Challenges”. There were 27 speakers on many areas of bioinorganic chemistry. The Symposium was even mentioned in C&EN: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cen-09515-scicon005.
A good time was had by all at the Symposium dinner:
The 255th American Chemical Society National Meeting in New Orleans, LA, 17 – 22 March 2018 was an excellent gathering of inorganic chemists. 
From left to right are: Prof. Victoria J. DeRose (U. of Oregon), myself, Prof. Joan B. Broderick (Montana State U.), Prof. Brian M. Hoffman (Northwestern U.), Prof. Eric D. A. Stemp (Mount St. Mary’s U.), Prof. Sarah L. J. Michel (U. of Maryland, Baltimore), Prof. David P. Goldberg (Johns Hopkins U.).
In March 2019, I visited Germany – Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and TU-Kaiserslautern (now Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau). At the latter is an original reactor used to convert nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia via the Haber-Bosch process.
Related to the above, I helped organize the 70th birthday symposium for Prof. Brian M. Hoffman, Northwestern University, which was held immediately prior to ICBIC-15, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2011 and his 80th birthday celebration at Northwestern U. in Evanston, in June 2022 – postponed 10 months due to COVID.
In March 2020, I planned to participate in the 259th ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia to honor Prof. Daniel J. Mindiola (U. of Pennsylvania), but that was cancelled due to COVID and no in-person seminars or conferences in the rest of 2020 or in any of 2021.
In August 2022, the 264th ACS National Meeting finally returned to Chicago. A belated celebratory dinner for Prof. Mindiola was held at Topolobampo restaurant.
In March 2024, the 267th ACS National Meeting was held in New Orleans, LA. Prof. Dr. Frank Neese, MPI-KoFo, creator of ORCA quantum chemistry software, was the much deserved winner of the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry, and a dinner was held in his honor.
Recent Meetings
The Tenth International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-10) took place in Munich, Germany, July 1 – 6, 2018. This was an excellent specialized conference in this important area that covers organic and inorganic chemistry, biology, medicine, and materials science. In this photo I am with Prof. Hiroshi Fujii, Nara Women’s University, Japan. Each of us is thousands of km from home (7280 km for me; 9250 km for Hiroshi; see: https://www.airmilescalculator.com/).
In August 2019 the 19th International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry (ICBIC-19) was held in Interlaken, BE, Switzerland, with 700 participants from all over the world. Photos from the conference can be seen at: ICBIC-19 photos. One of me giving my talk is shown below:
In 2021, everything became virtual. In April, I gave a virtual talk at the 54th Annual International Meeting of the ESR Spectroscopy Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, which I would have attended in person in Cardiff, Wales (Caerdydd, Cymru), UK.
In 2022, things began getting back to normal. I attended the 12th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-12); Madrid, Spain, July 15, 2022 (session S11: Paramagnetic polypyrroles including lanthanide complexes and radicals); http://www.icpp-spp.org/img_icpp12/ICPP-12_Scientific_Program.pdf).
I also attended the 44th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC), Rimini, Italy; September 1, 2022 (OC058; session T1.4 & T2.3 Computational studies on coordination compounds). ICCC is perhaps the oldest continuously run conference specifically on inorganic chemistry.
On September 23, 2023, Prof. John S. Anderson, U. of Chicago hosted the Chicago Regional Inorganic Chemistry Colloquium (CRIC), which had been on hiatus for the past several years. It was a very successful event, with interesting talks and posters that generated much discussion. Here is the conference photo:
In January 2024, I travelled much further than to UChicago and attended the 6th Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SABIC-2024) in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. In the first picture, Prof. Paul Walton, U. of York, England, is paying attention, but it appears that I am not. 
