Spring 2025 Seminars


A table showing upcoming seminars in the Chemistry Department, including the name of the speaker & home institution, date & time of talk, location of talk, and title of talk.
Date, Time, and LocationTypeSpeaker and AffiliationTopic
Monday, February 3, 2025Special SeminarRoger Dube
RIT		“People of the Quantum Leap –
Inventing the Future in Pre-Columbian Native America”
Monday, February 10, 2025
4 p.m.
Lander Auditorium, 140 Hutchison Hall		Inorganic SeminarLisa Olshansky
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign		"Emergent Properties from Dynamicity: Investigating Conformational Control in Bioinorganic Model Systems"
Monday, February 17, 2025
4 p.m.
Lander Auditorium, 140 Hutchison Hall		Inogranic SeminarGang Fang
University of Rochester		"Bio-inspired catalysis for circularizing the polymer economy"
Monday, February 24, 2025Inorganic SeminarJihye Park
University of Colorado Boulder		"Molecular Approaches to Advancing 2D Conductive MOFs for Tailored Properties and Applications"
Monday, March 3, 2025
4 p.m.
Lander Auditorium, 140 Hutchison Hall		Physical SeminarXiang Sun
New York University Shanghai		"Theoretical Approaches to Photoinduced Charge Transfer in the Condensed Phase"
Wednesday, March 5, 2025Rothchild LectureDavid Flannigan
University of Minnesota
Friday, March 14, 2025Organic SeminarEric Nacsa
Penn State University
Monday, March 17, 2025Hutchison LecturesKarsten Meyer
Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Monday, March 31, 2025Physcial SeminarCathy Wong
University of Oregon
Wednesday, April 2, 2025Magomedov LecturesAlison Wendlandt
MIT
Monday, April 7, 2025Chambers LecturesDirk Trauner
University of Pennsylvania
Monday, April 21, 2025Noyes LecturesAbraham Nitzan
University of Pennsylvania
Monday, April 28, 2025Physical SeminarYang Yang
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, April 30, 2025Inorganic ColloquiumAndy Borovik 
University of California-Irvine
Monday, May 5, 2025Inorganic SeminarRaul Hernandez-Sanchez
Rice University
Friday, May 9, 2025Organic SeminarIulia Strambeanu
Janssen
Tuesday, May 20, 2025Physical ColloquiumDanna Freedman
MIT