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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
Oct 22 2026 - 3:30pm Dean Seth Cohen UC Irvine Inorganic Seminar with Dean Seth Cohen: 2025 - The Year of the MOF - From Pores to Polymers Calit2 Auditorium
Oct 29 2026 - 3:30pm Ioannis Spanopoulos University of South Florida Inorganic Seminar: When Pore and Fulle met Semi: A Tale of Material Architectonics RH 104
Jan 7 2027 - 3:30pm Gwendolyn Bailey University of Minnesota Inorganic Seminar RH 104
Jan 21 2027 - 3:30pm Oliver Townrow Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Inorganic Seminar RH 104
Jan 28 2027 - 3:30pm Noémie Elgrishi Louisiana State University Inorganic Seminar 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
Oct 23 2026 - 3:00pm Harunobu Mitsunuma Kobe University Organic Seminar: Development of catalyst systems enabling sp3 C‒H functionalization reactions NS2 1201
Oct 28 2026 - 4:00pm Jeffrey Lipshultz Stony Brook University Organic Seminar: Designing, Understanding, and Manipulating Radical Reaction Pathways Driven by Light RH 104
Nov 4 2026 - 4:00pm Nicholas Truex University of South Carolina Organic Seminar: Protein Technologies for Unlocking Immunity and Expanding the Folding Code RH 104
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 - 3:00pm Hao Xu Brandeis University Organic Seminar: Searching for New Reactivity: Merging Enzymatic Catalysis with Iron Catalysis for Highly Stereoselective Glycosaminoglycan Assembly NS1 4112
Jan 6 2027 - 4:00pm Chi Ting Brandeis University Organic Seminar 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
Oct 23 2026 - 3:30pm Hernan Gomez Palczewski group Lecithin: Retinol Acyltransferase as a Therapeutic Target: Synthesis of Retinal-Derived Esters and Amides and Implications for Vision, Retinoid Toxicity, and Vitamin A Homeostasis. Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building, 2200 Health Sciences Seminar Room
Oct 29 2026 - 2:00pm Leslie Liu Guan group Leslie Liu PhD Defense ISEB 1310
Nov 13 2026 - 2:30pm Maria Sophia Teresa Lee Padilla Nowick group Maria Sophia Teresa Lee Padilla PhD Defense
Nov 24 2026 - 9:00am Giselle Bauer Sheldon group Giselle Bauer PhD Defense
Nov 24 2026 - 11:00am Giselle Bauer Sheldon group Giselle Bauer 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 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