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Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Aug 10 2027 - 8:00am SoCal Undergraduate Chemistry Research Symposium
Inorganic Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Jan 7 2027 - 3:30pm Gwendolyn Bailey University of Minnesota Inorganic Seminar: Atomic Precision as a Path Towards Non-Precious Metal Catalysts RH 104
Jan 14 2027 - 3:30pm Peter Burke UC Irvine Inorganic Seminar: Oxidation-Reduction State of Endogenous and Genetically Engineered Flavoproteins as Biological Quantum Bits: Towards a Quantum Interface with Life RH 104
Jan 21 2027 - 3:30pm Oliver Townrow Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Inorganic Seminar: Stable Single-Ion Sources of Iron(I) RH 104
Jan 28 2027 - 3:30pm Noémie Elgrishi Louisiana State University Inorganic Seminar: Exploring non-covalent interactions to improve electrochemical energy storage and water purification RH 104
Feb 4 2027 - 3:30pm Woon Ju Sung Seoul National University Inorganic Seminar RH 104
Mar 11 2027 - 3:30pm Julia Stauber UC San Diego Inorganic Seminar RH 104
Apr 8 2027 - 3:30pm Fraser Armstrong St. John's College, University of Oxford Inorganic Seminar RH 104
Apr 22 2027 - 3:30pm Qilei Zhu University of Utah Inorganic Seminar RH 104
May 20 2027 - 3:30pm Theodore Betley Harvard University Inorganic Seminar RH 104
May 27 2027 - 3:30pm Jonathan Kuo The Pennsylvania State University Inorganic Seminar RH 104
Jun 3 2027 - 3:30pm Adam Jaffe University of Notre Dame Inorganic Seminar RH 104
Organic Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Nov 18 2026 - 4:00pm Andrea Merg University of California, Merced Organic Seminar: From the Bottom-Up: Engineering Nanoscale Architectures from De Novo Peptide Building Blocks RH 104
Dec 2 2026 - 4:00pm Elias Picazo University of Southern California Organic Seminar: New Reactivity to Solve Chemical Challenges RH 104
Dec 4 2026 - 3:30pm Hao Xu Brandeis University Organic Seminar: Searching for New Reactivity: Merging Enzymatic Catalysis with Iron Catalysis for Highly Stereoselective Glycosaminoglycan Assembly NS2 1201
Jan 6 2027 - 4:00pm Chi Ting Brandeis University Organic Seminar: Chemical and Biocatalytic Synthesis of Natural Products RH 104
Jan 13 2027 - 4:00pm Filippo Romiti UT Dallas Organic Seminar RH 104
Jan 27 2027 - 4:00pm Erik Alexanian University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Organic Seminar RH 104
Feb 10 2027 - 4:00pm Brooks Abel UC Berkeley Organic Seminar RH 104
Feb 17 2027 - 4:00pm Aaron Teator Kansas University Organic Seminar RH 104
Feb 23 2027 - 4:00pm F. Dean Toste UC Berkeley Amgen Organic Synthesis Lectureship ISEB 1010 (Auditorium)
Feb 24 2027 - 3:00pm F. Dean Toste UC Berkeley Amgen Organic Synthesis Lectureship ISEB 1010 (Auditorium)
Mar 3 2027 - 4:00pm Matt DeLisa Cornell University Organic Seminar RH 104
Mar 10 2027 - 4:00pm Ron Kluger University of Toronto Organic Syntheses Lecture RH 104
Mar 31 2027 - 4:00pm Mary and Don Watson University of Delaware Overman Lecture RH 104
Apr 7 2027 - 4:00pm Erik Romero UC San Diego Organic Seminar RH 104
PhD defense
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Nov 13 2026 - 2:30pm Maria Sophia Teresa Lee Padilla Nowick group Vancomycin-Teixobactin Conjugates ISEB 1010
Nov 16 2026 - 10:00am Christopher Dicksion Bess group In Support of a New Paradigm: Human Gut Microbiota Anaerobically Deconstruct Lignin FRH 5017
Nov 20 2026 - 2:30pm Halley Lin-Jones Prescher group Halley Lin-Jones PhD Defense ISEB 1310
Nov 24 2026 - 11:00am Giselle Bauer Sheldon group Giselle Bauer PhD Defense NS2 2201
Nov 24 2026 - 3:00pm Calder Duffin Ribbe group Nitrogenase from Assembly to Mechanism NS2 2201
Nov 30 2026 - 10:00am Vy Pham Blum group Vy Pham PhD Defense
Dec 1 2026 - 11:00am Jackson Brunicardi Nowick group Jackson Brunicardi PhD Defense NS2 2201
Jan 19 2027 - 11:00am Antoinette Antonucci Dong group Antoinette Antonucci PhD Defense NS2 2201
Physical Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Nov 16 2026 - 4:00pm Scott Cushing Caltech Physical Seminar: The Vibrating Landscape of Charge Transport ISEB 1200
Nov 17 2026 - 3:30pm Anna Krylov University of Southern California Physical Seminar: Chirality, Spin, and Breaking Symmetry Between Enantiomers: A Quantum Chemistry Perspective RH 104
Nov 24 2026 - 3:30pm Mikael Backlund University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Physical Seminar: Quantum metrology meets chemical microscopy RH 104
Dec 1 2026 - 3:30pm Xiaoji Xu Stony Brook University Physical Seminar: Atomic Force Microscope-based Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy RH 104
Jan 5 2027 - 3:30pm Liza Lee UC Irvine Physical Seminar RH 104
Jan 12 2027 - 3:30pm Tim Bertram University of Wisconsin Physical Seminar RH 104
Jan 19 2027 - 3:30pm Joel Thornton University of Washington Physical Seminar RH 104
Feb 2 2027 - 3:30pm Greg Voth University of Chicago Physical Seminar RH 104
Feb 9 2027 - 3:30pm Megan Jackson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Physical Seminar RH 104
Apr 20 2027 - 3:30pm Megan Willis Colorado State University Physical Seminar RH 104
Apr 27 2027 - 3:30pm Naihao Chiang University of Houston Physical Seminar RH 104
May 4 2027 - 3:30pm Ivan Moreno-Hernandez Duke University Physical Seminar RH 104
Jun 1 2027 - 3:30pm Andrea Carlini UC Santa Barbara Physical Seminar RH 104
Special Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
May 13 2027 - 3:30pm E.K.C. Lee Lecture Student Center Crystal Cove Auditorium