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Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Mar 9 2026 - 8:00am Graduate Student Recruitment
Inorganic Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Mar 5 2026 - 3:30pm Ellen Matson University of Rochester Metal Chalcogenide Clusters for Energy Storage and Conversion RH 104
Apr 9 2026 - 3:30pm Yuyang Dong Colorado State University Mechanism-Guided Approach to Late First-Row Transition Metal Catalysis RH 104
Apr 16 2026 - 3:30pm David Lacy University at Buffalo Mn(III) trihalides: missing high-potential oxidants and useful reagents in benzylic C–H functionalization and stereoselective alkene dihalogenation RH 104
Apr 23 2026 - 3:30pm Christina Birkel Arizona State University / Technische Universität Darmstadt Student-Invited Inorganic Chemistry Seminar: Between Layered Solids and 2D Materials: Synthesis-Driven Exploration of the Functional Properties of MAX Phases and MXenes RH 104
Apr 30 2026 - 3:30pm Alison Fout Texas A&M University Student-Invited Inorganic Chemistry Seminar 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
Apr 1 2026 - 4:00pm Vladimir Gevorgyan University of Texas at Dallas Development of Novel C–H Functionalization Methodologies and Beyond RH 104
Apr 15 2026 - 4:00pm Daniel Kim Temple University Applications of Acetal Radicals in Organic Synthesis RH 104
Apr 22 2026 - 4:00pm Kevin Plaxco University of California Santa Barbara Molecular vital signs: recent advances in in vivo biosensors 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
Jun 3 2026 - 4:00pm Tina Wang University of Wisconsin Madison TBD RH 104
PhD defense
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
Mar 5 2026 - 10:00am Jake Stofan Heyduk group Ruthenium and Molybdenum Complexes Bearing Redox-Active Ligands: C−H Activation, Oxidative Addition and Dyes NS2 2201
Apr 13 2026 - 10:30am Kirsten Ruud Kirsten Ruud PhD Defense NS2 2201
Apr 16 2026 - 3:00pm Brian Daniels Chiral Lewis Acid Catalysis for P-Stereogenic Compounds: From Ligands to Therapeutics and Beyond NS2 2201
Apr 17 2026 - 2:00pm Camryn Wallace Camryn Wallace PhD Defense
May 15 2026 - 1:00pm Logan Brennan Law group Logan Brennan PhD Defense ISEB 1200
May 22 2026 - 3:00pm Julia Balsamo Julia Balsamo PhD Defense NS2 2201
Physical Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
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 Towards developing spectroscopic tools to investigate amyloid fibril structures related to Alzheimer’s Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy RH 104
Apr 21 2026 - 3:30pm Yung Doug Suh 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 26 2026 - 3:30pm Adrian Figg Virginia Tech TBD RH 104
Special Seminar
Date Speaker Institution Title Location
May 21 2026 - 4:00pm E.K.C. Lee Event Crystal Cove Auditorium