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Seminars

Date and Location Seminar Type Seminar Details
Date: 09/18/2026 (Fri), 11:00 AM

Location: Urey Hall 2102 - Urey Room

PHD Thesis Defense

Speaker Zhu, Xuanyu


Title: Toward Predictive Many-Body Models of Water and Aqueous Ions: Accuracy, Stability, and Transferability

Committee:
Francesco Paesani, Chemistry (Chair)
Mark Herzik, Biochemistry & Mol Biophysics
Wei Wang, Biochemistry & Mol Biophysics
Michael Galperin, Chemistry
John Mcgreevy, Physics

Date: 09/21/2026 (Mon), 11:00 AM

Location: Kavli Auditorium- Tata Hall

Department Colloquia

Speaker Professor Nathan Romero


Title: New Synthetic Tools for Precision Polymers & Sustainable Materials

Hosted by:
Chemistry Department

Date: 09/22/2026 (Tue), 01:00 PM

Location: PacHall 4500

Department Colloquia

Speaker Professor Haiwang Yong


Title: Visualizing Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics in Space and Time with X-rays and Electrons

Hosted by:
Chemistry Department

Date: 09/29/2026 (Tue), 11:00 AM

Location: NSB Auditorium 1205

Theoretical & Computational Chemistry

Speaker Professor Hsing-Ta Chen


Title: TBA

Hosted by:
Professor Joel Yuen-Zhou

Date: 09/30/2026 (Wed), 11:00 AM

Location: Kavli Auditorium- Tata Hall

Department Colloquia

Speaker Professor Colleen Mchugh


Title: Non-coding RNA regulation of human gene expression

Hosted by:
Chemistry Department

Date: 10/02/2026 (Fri), 11:00 AM

Location: Kavli Auditorium- Tata Hall

Department Colloquia

Speaker Professor Kent Griffith


Title: An NMR Crystallography Approach to Defects, Dynamics, Distortions, and Disorder in Emerging Materials

Hosted by:
Chemistry Department

Date: 10/05/2026 (Mon), 11:00 AM

Location: Kavli Auditorium- Tata Hall

Department Colloquia

Speaker Professor Jeffrey Rinehart


Title: tba

Hosted by:
Chemistry Department

Date: 10/05/2026 (Mon), 01:00 PM

Location: Urey Room 2102

Department Colloquia

Speaker Professor Vicki Grassian


Title: Chemistry and Impacts of Environmental Interfaces

Hosted by:
Chemistry Department

Date: 10/06/2026 (Tue), 11:00 AM

Location: PacHall 4500

Department Colloquia

Speaker Professor Andrew Pun


Title: Photochemistry Across Spin States for Photon Upconversion and Photocatalysis

Hosted by:
Chemistry Department

Date: 10/07/2026 (Wed), 11:00 AM

Location: NSB Auditorium 1205

Department Colloquia

Speaker Professor Andy Kummel


Title: Chemistry and Processing for 3D Semiconductor Chip Stacking, the key to lower power AI compute

Hosted by:
Chemistry Department

Date: 10/09/2026 (Fri), 11:00 AM

Location: Kavli Auditorium- Tata Hall

Department Colloquia

Speaker Professor Akift Tezcan


Title: Chemical and Computational Design of Metalloenzymes

Hosted by:
Chemistry Department

Date: 10/16/2026 (Fri), 11:00 AM

Location: Kavli Auditorium- Tata Hall

Department Colloquia

Speaker Professor Alina Schimpf


Title: TBA

Hosted by:
Chemistry Department

Date: 10/20/2026 (Tue), 11:00 AM

Location: NSB Auditorium 1205

Physical Chemistry

Speaker Professor Sarah King


Title: tba

Hosted by:
Professor Wei Xiong

Date: 10/23/2026 (Fri), 11:00 AM

Location: PacHall 4500

Inorganic Chemistry

Speaker Professor Robert Waymouth


Title: tba

Hosted by:
Professor Joseph O'Connor

Date: 10/30/2026 (Fri), 11:00 AM

Location: PacHall 4500

Inorganic Chemistry

Speaker Professor Ioannis Spanopoulos


Title: tba

Hosted by:
Professor Kent Griffith

Date: 11/03/2026 (Tue), 11:00 AM

Location: PacHall 4500

Physical Chemistry

Speaker Professor Markus B Raschke


Title: tba

Hosted by:
Professor Wei Xiong

Date: 11/06/2026 (Fri), 11:00 AM

Location: PacHall 4500

Inorganic Chemistry

Speaker Professor Brandon Barnett


Title: tba

Hosted by:
Professor Joshua Figueroa

Date: 11/13/2026 (Fri), 11:00 AM

Location: PacHall 4500

Inorganic Chemistry

Speaker Professor Jeff Lopez


Title: tba

Hosted by:
Professor Kent Griffith

Date: 11/20/2026 (Fri), 11:00 AM

Location: PacHall 4500

Inorganic Chemistry

Speaker Professor Selly Demir


Title: tba

Hosted by:
Professor Jeffrey Rinehart

Date: 11/23/2026 (Mon), 11:00 AM

Location: PacHall 4500

Physical Chemistry

Speaker Professor Mikael Backlund


Title: tba

Hosted by:
Professor Wei Xiong