Seminars

Date and Location	Seminar Type	Seminar Details
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: Locality as a Design Variable at Interfaces Hosted by: Professor Wei Xiong
Date: 10/23/2026 (Fri), 11:00 AM Location: PacHall 4500	Inorganic Chemistry	Speaker Professor Robert Waymouth Title: New catalyst designs for electrocatalysis: Energy conversion and storage Hosted by: Professor Joseph O'Connor
Date: 10/30/2026 (Fri), 11:00 AM Location: PacHall 4500	Inorganic Chemistry	Speaker Professor Ioannis Spanopoulos Title: When Pore and Fulle met Semi: A Tale of Material Architectonics Hosted by: Professor Kent Griffith
Date: 11/02/2026 (Mon), 11:00 AM Location: PacHall 4500	Organic Chemistry	Speaker Professor Hao Xu Title: Searching for New Reactivity: Merging Enzymatic Catalysis with Iron Catalysis for Highly Stereoselective Glycosaminoglycan Assembly Hosted by: Professor Kamil Godula
Date: 11/03/2026 (Tue), 11:00 AM Location: PacHall 4500	Materials Chemistry,Physical Chemistry	Speaker Professor Markus B Raschke Title: Quantum Vibrational Nano-Imaging and -Spectroscopy Hosted by: Professor Wei Xiong
Date: 11/06/2026 (Fri), 11:00 AM Location: PacHall 4500	Inorganic Chemistry	Speaker Professor Brandon Barnett Title: Non-Heme Metalloenzyme Mimicry through Confinement 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: Quantum metrology meets chemical microscopy Hosted by: Professor Wei Xiong
Date: 11/24/2026 (Tue), 11:00 AM Location: Urey Hall 2102 - Urey Room	PHD Thesis Defense	Speaker Weddle, Lydia Rose Title: TBA Committee: Clifford Kubiak, Chemistry (Chair) Guy Bertrand, Chemistry Wei Xiong, Chemistry David Fenning, Nanoengineering
Date: 12/01/2026 (Tue), 10:00 AM Location: Pacific Hall 4500	PHD Thesis Defense	Speaker Lerda, Victoria Title: TBA Committee: Valerie Schmidt, Chemistry (Chair) Jazz Dickinson, Cell and Developmental Biology Michael Burkart, Chemistry Haim Weizman, Chemistry
Date: 12/01/2026 (Tue), 01:00 PM Location: Urey Hall 2102 - Urey Room	PHD Thesis Defense	Speaker Wang, Zachary Title: TBA Committee: Johannes Schoeneberg, Biochemistry & Mol Biophysics (Chair) Itay Budin, Biochemistry & Mol Biophysics Gulcin Pekkurnaz, Neurobiology Padmini Rangamani, Mechanical & Aerospace Engnrg Jin Zhang, Pharmacology
Date: 12/07/2026 (Mon), 12:00 AM Location: Natural Sciences Building 3211	PHD Thesis Defense	Speaker Deluca, Emile Title: TBA Committee: Clifford Kubiak, Chemistry (Chair) Nathan Romero, Chemistry Alina Schimpf, Chemistry David Fenning, Nanoengineering
Date: 01/12/2027 (Tue), 11:00 AM Location: PacHall 4500	Theoretical & Computational Chemistry	Speaker Professor Lee-Ping Wang Title: tba Hosted by: Professor Michael Gilson
Date: 02/23/2027 (Tue), 11:00 AM Location: NSB Auditorium 1205	Theoretical & Computational Chemistry	Speaker Professor Hua Guo Title: Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic Dynamics of H-atom Scattering from Surfaces Hosted by: Professor Shaowei Li

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