Seminars



Fall 2025 Seminars
Date, Time, and LocationTypeSpeaker and AffiliationTopic
Monday, September 8Physical SeminarEric Bittner, University of Houston“Synchronization of Quantum States: Exploring How Noise, Topology, and Dimensionality Affect Quantum Phase Coherence”
Friday, September 12Organic SeminarMarion Emmert, Merk“High-Throughput Experimentation: A Catalyst for Innovation Across Drug Modalities and Development Stages”
Wednesday, September 17Rothchild LecturerMoungi Bawendi, MIT
Friday, September 19Special, 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 24ColloquiumJohn Hartwig, University of California Berkeley"Selective, Catalytic Construction and Deconstruction
of Organic Molecules"
Monday, September 29Special, Harrison Howe
Tuesday, September 30Special, Harrison Howe
Wednesday, October 8ColloquiumMary Watson, University of Delaware“Deaminative Cross-Couplings”
Friday, October 10Organic SeminarIvan Aprahamian, Dartmouth College“Hydrazone-Based Adaptive Materials”
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Wednesday, October 15ColloquiumShauna Paradine, University of Rochester
Monday, October 20Kende LecturerJosep Cornella, Max-Planck-InstituteInnovation in Reagents and Catalysts: from fundamentals to immediate application Part I: Reagents
Wednesday, October 22Kende LecturerJosep Cornella, Max-Planck-InstituteInnovation in Reagents and Catalysts: from fundamentals to immediate application Part II: Ligands
Thursday, October 23Kende LecturerJosep Cornella, Max-Planck-InstituteInnovation in Reagents and Catalysts: from fundamentals to immediate application Part III: Catalysts
Wednesday, October 29Magomedov LecturerMilan Delor, Columbia UniversityTransforming Materials with a Little Light
Tuesday, November 4Hutchison LecturerShelley D. Minteer, University of UtahBio-electrochemical Alternatives to Haber Bosch
Wednesday, November 5Hutchison LecturerShelley D. Minteer, University of UtahSubstrate Channeling in Enzymatic Cascades for Energy Conversion Applications
Thursday, November 6Hutchison LecturerShelley D. Minteer, University of UtahEnzymatic Bioelectrocatalysis for Organic Electrosynthesis
Tuesday, November 11Noyes LecturerNaomi S. Ginsberg, University of California BerkeleyVisualizing and Controlling How Emerging Energy Materials Form, Transform, and Transport Energy at the Nanoscale
Wednesday, November 12Noyes LecturerNaomi S. Ginsberg,  University of California BerkeleyHarnessing Energy Scales and Microscopic Fluctuations to Manipulate Bottom-Up Assembly of Nanomaterials
Friday, November 14Noyes 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 24Inorganic SeminarJoshua Buss, University of MichiganCartography with Clusters: Mapping Surface Science Mechanisms with Atomic Precision