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Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Mar 9 2026 - 8:00am Graduate Student Recruitment
Inorganic Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Jan 22 2026 - 3:30pm Alexander Miller UNC Chapel HIll Organometallic Strategies for the Reduction of CO2 to CO, Methanol, and More RH 104
Feb 5 2026 - 3:30pm Hans-Conrad zur Loye University of South Carolina Crystal Growth of New Transuranic Phases using High Temperature Solutions and a Low-Temperature Route for the Preparation of Monazite-type Materials RH 104
Feb 26 2026 - 3:30pm Dino Villagran University of Texas at El Paso TBD RH 104
Mar 5 2026 - 3:30pm Ellen Matson University of Rochester TBD RH 104
Apr 9 2026 - 3:30pm Yuyang Dong TBD RH 104
Apr 16 2026 - 3:30pm David Lacy University at Buffalo TBD RH 104
Apr 30 2026 - 3:30pm Alison Fout Texas A&M University TBD RH 104
May 14 2026 - 3:30pm Eva Nichols University of British Columbia TBD RH 104
Jun 4 2026 - 3:30pm Rebecca Abergel University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab TBD RH 104
Organic Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Jan 22 2026 - 4:00pm Yuan Qiao Nanyang Technological University Singapore A chemical biology approach to studying gut microbiota-derived peptidoglycan fragments (PGNs) as signalling molecules in the host NS2 2201
Jan 28 2026 - 4:00pm Glenn Micalizio UC Irvine Natural Products as Stimuli for Invention in Organic Chemistry: Ryanodol as a Case Study RH 104
Feb 4 2026 - 4:00pm Dirk Trauner University of Pennsylvania Overman Lecture: Total Synthesis Illuminates Biosynthesis ISEB 1010 (Auditorium)
Feb 18 2026 - 4:00pm Veronique Gouverneur University of Oxford Amgen Organic Synthesis Lectureship: Fluorochemicals: The Future We Want ISEB 1010
Feb 19 2026 - 3:00pm Veronique Gouverneur University of Oxford Amgen Organic Synthesis Lectureship: Fluorination under Hydrogen Bonding Phase-transfer Catalysis ISEB 1010
Feb 25 2026 - 4:00pm Rebeca Arevalo UC Merced Sustainable Catalytic Strategies for Borylation and Hydro-/Deutero-defluorination of Small Molecules RH 104
Apr 1 2026 - 4:00pm Vladimir Gevorgyan University of Texas at Dallas TBD RH 104
Apr 8 2026 - 4:00pm Tina Wang University of Wisconsin Madison TBD RH 104
Apr 15 2026 - 4:00pm Daniel Kim Temple University TBD RH 104
Apr 22 2026 - 4:00pm Kevin Plaxco University of California Santa Barbara TBD RH 104
Apr 29 2026 - 4:00pm Brent Sumerlin University of Florida TBD RH 104
May 6 2026 - 4:00pm Christopher Newton University of Georgia TBD RH 104
PhD defense
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Feb 26 2026 - 11:00am Jared Stanley Jared Stanley PhD Defense ISEB 1200
Feb 26 2026 - 3:00pm Colin Schiltz Colin Schiltz PhD Defense NS1 4112
Mar 2 2026 - 10:00am Jennifer Jaimes Jennifer Jaimes PhD Defense NS2 2201
Mar 5 2026 - 10:00am Jake Stofan Jake Stofan PhD Defense
Physical Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Jan 20 2026 - 3:30pm Juliane Weber Oak Ridge National Laboratory Interfacial Reactions Across Scales – Influence of Humidity, Defects and Microstructure RH 104
Jan 27 2026 - 3:30pm A.R. Ravishankara Colorado State University What drives nighttime chemistry? RH 104
Feb 24 2026 - 3:30pm Deborah Penchoff University of Central Florida TBD RH 104
Mar 10 2026 - 3:30pm Fang Liu Stanford University Artificial two-dimensional superlattices: synthesis and properties RH 104
Mar 31 2026 - 3:30pm David Punihaole University of Vermont TBD RH 104
Apr 28 2026 - 3:30pm Arjan van der Vaart University of South Florida TBD RH 104
May 5 2026 - 3:30pm Andres Montoya-Castillo Deciphering & controlling the mechanisms of energy, charge, & information flow in molecules & nanomaterials RH 104
May 12 2026 - 3:30pm Yung Doug Suh TBD RH 104
Special Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
May 21 2026 - 4:00pm Robert W. Schurko Florida State University E.K.C. Lee Event Crystal Cove Auditorium