2025-2026 Seminar Schedule:
- October 10 - (Arizona State University)
- Beyond the Harmonic Approximation: Probing Protein Dynamics and Solvation through Anharmonic Vibrations
- October 24 - (San Jose State University)
- Probing Chiral Metal-Biomolecule Interactions Through Advanced Circularly Polarized Luminescence Techniques
- December 5 - (PSE Healthy Energy)
- Climate and Health Pollution from Gas Appliances
- January 16 - (ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ & Berkeley Lab)
- What X-ray can do to boost your research
- January 30 - (UCLA)
- Heat-Electricity Conversion Using Supramolecular Host-Guest Chemistry
- February 27- (Fordham University)
- Can chatbots do chemistry research?
2024-2025 Seminar Schedule:
- October 25 - (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
- Using Ultrafast Spectroscopies to Understand Electron Transfer and Water Structure at Oxide Interfaces
- November 8 - (DEA)
- November 15 - (Genentech)
- Journey in molecular dioxygen activation
- December 6 - (Reed College)
- Organometallic Mechanisms: Strangely Speedy Isotopes and Catalysts for Alternative Fuel
- January 31 - (University of Texas)
- February 21 - (SLAC)
- Tender X-ray Spectroscopy at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- March 7 - (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
- New Redox Strategies in Biochemistry, Photochemistry, and Electrochemistry
- April 4 - (Creighton University)
- May 2 - (UC Davis)
- Leveraging Chemical Reactivity to Explore the Extracellular Bioinorganic Chemistry for Disease Biomarkers
- May 16 - (San Jose State)
- Structured Polymer Targets, Unexpected Results, and a Case for Benchmarking
2023-2024 Seminar Schedule:
- September 29 - (Bucknell University)
- The design of helical peptides for metal-binding, cellular entry, and antibiotics
- October 13 - (UC Santa Cruz)
- February 2 - Dr. Shan Wu (ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½)
- Fantastic spin-charge phenomenon in metallic transition metal dichalcogenide
- February 9 - (Bowdoin College)
- Moving protons to harness light energy
- April 12 - (Indiana University)
- April 18 - (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
- April 26 - (University of Richmond)
- May 3 - (American University)
- It’s OK to play with your food (in your kitchen and classroom and lab and ...)
2022-2023 Seminar Schedule:
- September 23 - (California State University, Fresno)
- Solid, liquid, gas, and ____: using the forgotten state of matter to transform silk material surfaces
- September 30 - (University of Alberta)
- Everything Happens at the Surface: Micro- and Nanoplastic in Aquatic Environments
- October 14 - (Loyola Marymount University)
- Applying Basic Science Research in Pursuit of SARS-CoV-2 Antivirals
- November 4 - (Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges)
- High-Throughput Approaches to Understanding and Engineering Firefly Luciferase
- January 13 - (Dartmouth College)
- Understanding Myelin Degeneration in Aging and Disease
- January 20 - (Montana State University)
- Pushing Metals out of their Comfort Zone: Switching Selectivity in Cross-Coupling Reactions
- January 27 - (University of California, Merced)
- Engineering Colloidal Nanoparticles for Better Catalysis
- February 10 - (California State University, Fullerton)
- Investigating Controllability of Thermal Expansion in Earth-Abundant Materials
- February 24 - Radhiyah Himawan, M.S. (US DEA Pleasanton, CA Office)
- Forensic Chemistry at the DEA
- May 12 - (Stanford University)
- Mulling Over Molecular Mixtures: Ultrafast Spectroscopic Studies of Aqueous & Organic Liquid Dynamics
- May 19 - (Stanford University)
- Natural Products as Inspiration for New Approaches to Chemical Synthesis
- May 26 - (Earth Systems Processes Division, USGS)
- Mercury: Magic, Mining and Menace
- June 2 - (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
- Beyond photosynthesis: Exploring the relationship between structure and light absorption in non-covalent molecular interactions and self-assembly