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Inorganic Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Nov 29 2018 - 3:30pm Prof. Susannah Scott UC Santa Barbara Looking for active sites in heterogeneous catalysts: Lessons from olefin polymerization and metathesis RH 104
Jan 10 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. James Mayer Yale University TBA RH 104
Feb 4 2019 - 4:00pm Nora Radu Dupont TBA RH 104
Feb 7 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Mircea Dinca Massachusetts Institute of Technology TBA RH 104
Feb 21 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Smaranda Marinescu USC TBA RH 104
Feb 28 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Phil Castellano NC State TBA RH 104
Mar 21 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Michael Nippe TAMU TBA NS2 1201
Apr 11 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Alison Fout University of Illinois TBA RH 104
Apr 18 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Rick Kaner UC Los Angeles TBA RH 104
Apr 25 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Ged Parkin Columbia University TBA RH 104
May 2 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Hill Harman UC Riverside TBA RH 104
May 9 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Marty Kirk University of New Mexico TBA RH 104
May 16 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Alex Guo Carnegie Mellon University TBA RH 104
Organic Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Dec 3 2018 - 4:00pm Dr. Bo Qu Boehringer Ingelheim Asymmetric Catalysis and its Application towards the Development of an Ideal Synthesis for BI’s 11β-HSD 1 Inhibitor RH 104
Feb 20 2019 - 4:00pm Prof. Yan Xia Stanford University TBA RH 104
Feb 27 2019 - 4:00pm Prof. Eric Block University at Albany-SUNY TBA RH 104
Mar 6 2019 - 4:00pm Prof. Yftah Tal-Gan Univerisity of Nevada, Reno TBA RH 104
Mar 13 2019 - 4:00pm David Sarlah University of Illinois TBA RH 104
Apr 3 2019 - 4:00pm Prof. Jared Shaw UC Davis TBA RH 104
Apr 10 2019 - 4:00pm Prof. Evan Miller UC Berkeley TBA RH 104
Apr 17 2019 - 4:00pm Prof. Michelle Farkas University of Massachusetts Amherst TBA RH 104
Apr 24 2019 - 4:00pm Prof. Michael Hilinski University of Virginia TBA RH 104
May 6 2019 - 4:00pm Prof. Jennifer Roizen Duke University TBA RH 104
May 8 2019 - 4:00pm Prof. James Frederich Florida State University TBA RH 104
May 10 2019 - 4:00pm Prof. Tom Snaddon Indiana University TBA RH 104
Jun 5 2019 - 4:00pm Prof. Tim Newhouse Yale University TBA RH 104
Jun 6 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Antonio Echavarren ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain TBA RH 104
Jun 7 2019 - 4:00pm Prof. Antonio Echavarren ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain TBA RH 104
PhD defense
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Nov 26 2018 - 1:00pm Kim Ngan Thi Tu UCI - Blum Group Boron–Heteroatom Addition Reactions via Borylative Heterocyclizations NS2 2201
Nov 30 2018 - 3:00pm Alana Ogata Penner Group TBA
Dec 14 2018 - 10:00am Victoria Oswald Borovik Group TBA NS2 2201
Physical Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Nov 20 2018 - 3:30pm Dr. Wei Xiong UC San Diego Molecular Polaritons – Janus Particles of Photon and Molecules RH 104
Dec 4 2018 - 3:30pm Prof. William Noid Pennsylvania State University Coarse-graining thermodynamics RH 104
Jan 8 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Vicki Grassian UC San Diego Physical Chemistry of Environmental Interfaces RH 104
Jan 15 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Ji-Xin Cheng Boston University TBA RH 104
Jan 16 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. David Wales University of Cambridge Energy landscapes: from molecules and nanodevices to machine learning NS2 2201
Jan 29 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Jason Green University of Massachusetts Boston TBA RH 104
Feb 5 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Jim De Yoreo Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/University of Washington TBA RH 104
Mar 5 2019 - 3:30pm Prof. Eric Appel Stanford University TBA RH 104
Special Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Jan 14 2019 - 4:00pm Jenny Yang UCI TBA RH 104
Jan 17 2019 - 3:30pm Shane Ardo UCI TBA RH 104
Mar 20 2019 - 1:00pm Zhan Chen University of Michigan TBA NS2 2201