Seminars



Spring 2026 Seminars
Date, Time, and LocationTypeSpeaker and AffiliationTopic

Friday, January 16

9am, 140 Hutch Hall

Organic SeminarDaniel Kim, Temple University“Applications of Acetal Radicals in Organic Synthesis”

Monday, February 2

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Inorganic SeminarKorey Carter, University of Iowa

Wednesday, February 4

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

ColloquiumDanna Freedman, MIT

Wednesday, February 11

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

ColloquiumNatalia Shustova, University of South Carolina

Monday, February 16

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Inorganic/Physical SeminarFarnaz Shakib, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Monday, February 23

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Inorganic/Physical SeminarMike Reynolds, Shell

Friday, February 27

9am, 473 Hutch Hall

Organic SeminarZachary Wickens, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Monday, March 2

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Seymour Rothchild Distinguished LecturePaul Chirik, Princeton University

Wednesday, March 4

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

ColloquiumMircea Dinca, Princeton University

Wednesday, March 11

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

ColloquiumPatrick Holland, Yale

Monday, March 16

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Seymour Rothchild Distinguished LectureDean Toste, University of California, Berkeley

Monday, March 30

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Inorganic SeminarAnna Wittig, University of Chicago

Wednesday, April 1

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

ColloquiumEric Anslyn, University of Texas, Austin

Monday, April 6

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Inorganic/PhysicalTim Lian, University of Pennslyvania

Friday, April 10

9am, 473 Hutch Hall

Organic SeminarAlex Grenning, University of Minnesota

Friday, April 17

9am, 473 Hutch Hall

Organic SeminarJun Ohata, NC State University

Monday, April 20

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Physical SeminarRichard Robinson, Cornell University

Wednesday, April 22

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

ColloquiumMunira Khalil, University of Washington

Monday, April 27

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Physical SeminarSilvia Cavagnero, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wednesday, April 29

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

ColloquiumOmer Yaffe, Weizmann Institute of Science

Monday, May 11

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Physical SeminarJonathan Hood, Purdue University



 

 

Fall 2025 Seminars
Date, Time, and LocationTypeSpeaker and AffiliationTopic

Monday, September 8

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Physical SeminarEric Bittner, University of Houston“Synchronization of Quantum States: Exploring How Noise, Topology, and Dimensionality Affect Quantum Phase Coherence”

Friday, September 12

9am, 140 Hutch Hall

Organic SeminarMarion Emmert, Merk“High-Throughput Experimentation: A Catalyst for Innovation Across Drug Modalities and Development Stages”

Wednesday, September 17

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Rothchild LecturerMoungi Bawendi, MIT"Quantum Dots: From Curiosity to Technology"

Friday, September 19

9am, 101 Goergen 

Special, Meliora TalksSteven Sibener & George Stanley"From Rochester Reminiscences to Molecular Beam, STM, and Simulation Studies of On-surface Chemical Dynamics" & "Rochester, Rhodium, & Cobalt: Fun & Surprises"

Wednesday, September 24

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

ColloquiumJohn Hartwig, University of California Berkeley"Selective, Catalytic Construction and Deconstruction
of Organic Molecules"

Monday, September 29

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Special, Harrison HoweMichelle Arkin, University of California, San Francisco“Hacking the (Protein-Protein Interaction) Matrix”

Tuesday, September 30

7:30pm, 101 Goergen

Special, Harrison HoweMichelle Arkin, University of California, San Francisco“A Life in Chemical Biology is a Grand Life, Indeed”

Wednesday, October 8

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

ColloquiumMary Watson, University of Delaware“Deaminative Cross-Couplings”

Friday, October 10

9am, 473 Hutch Hall

Organic SeminarIvan Aprahamian, Dartmouth College“Hydrazone-Based Adaptive Materials”
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Wednesday, October 15

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

ColloquiumShauna Paradine, University of Rochester“Catalytic Strategies for the Selective Construction of sp3-rich Organic Scaffolds”

Tuesday, October 21

2pm, 1101 Dewey

Kende LecturerJosep Cornella, Max-Planck-InstituteInnovation in Reagents and Catalysts: from fundamentals to immediate application Part I: Reagents

Wednesday, October 22

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Kende LecturerJosep Cornella, Max-Planck-InstituteInnovation in Reagents and Catalysts: from fundamentals to immediate application Part II: Ligands

Thursday, October 23

2pm, 1101 Dewey

Kende LecturerJosep Cornella, Max-Planck-InstituteInnovation in Reagents and Catalysts: from fundamentals to immediate application Part III: Catalysts

Wednesday, October 29

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Magomedov LecturerMilan Delor, Columbia UniversityTransforming Materials with a Little Light

Tuesday, November 4

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Hutchison LecturerShelley D. Minteer, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyBio-electrochemical Alternatives to Haber Bosch

Wednesday, November 5

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Hutchison LecturerShelley D. Minteer, Missouri University of Science and TechnologySubstrate Channeling in Enzymatic Cascades for Energy Conversion Applications

Thursday, November 6

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Hutchison LecturerShelley D. Minteer, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyEnzymatic Bioelectrocatalysis for Organic Electrosynthesis

Tuesday, November 11

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Noyes LecturerNaomi S. Ginsberg, University of California BerkeleyVisualizing and Controlling How Emerging Energy Materials Form, Transform, and Transport Energy at the Nanoscale

Wednesday, November 12

12pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Noyes LecturerNaomi S. Ginsberg,  University of California BerkeleyHarnessing Energy Scales and Microscopic Fluctuations to Manipulate Bottom-Up Assembly of Nanomaterials

Friday, November 14

9am, 473 Hutch Hall

Noyes LecturerNaomi S. Ginsberg,  University of California BerkeleySpatiotemporally Engaging with the Full Complexity of Transduction, Transport, and Dissipation in Energy Materials at the Nanoscale

Monday, November 24

4pm, 140 Hutch Hall

Inorganic SeminarJoshua Buss, University of MichiganCartography with Clusters: Mapping Surface Science Mechanisms with Atomic Precision