Visiting Speaker Seminar Programs

The Monday Chemistry Colloquium presentations will be held on Mondays at 4:00 - 4:50 pm in Benton Hall (BH) 103. Seminars are  attended by faculty, visiting scientists, postdocs, and graduate students from all divisions, as well as undergraduate chemistry majors typically in their final semester.

Spring 2025

Date

Location

Speaker

Host

Jan. 27

B 103

 Kevin Brown  (Indiana University). ″Building Bonds with Boron″.

Sharma

Feb. 3

 Zoom

Don Tilley (University of California, Berkeley), ″Metal Complexes with Unususal Main-Group Ligands in Bond Activations and Chemical Transformations″.

 Holmes

Feb. 10

 Zoom

 Seunghyun Sim (University of California, Irvine). ″Molecular assembly of living and lifelike materials″.

 Xu

Feb. 17

Zoom

 Vivien Zapf ( Los Alamos National Laboratory), "The hunt for magnetic quantum materials at the magnet lab".

Holmes

Feb. 24

B 103

 Yan Yu (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN) "From nanobiotics to viruses: exploring effects of nanoparticle surface heterogeneity on membrane interactions". 

 Xu

Mar. 3

 Zoom

 Yuki Kobayashi (University of Michigan) ″Coherent electronic phenomena in atoms, molecules, and two-dimensional materials″.

Xu

Mar. 10

 B 103

Oleg Larionov (University of Texas at San Antonio) ″Development of Selective Reactions for Organic Synthesis″

 Sharma

Mar. 17

 Zoom

 Ryan Hadt (California Institute of Technology), ″Enabling Molecular Quantum Information Science with Electron Spins″.

 Holmes

Mar. 24

 

 No Colloquium scheduled-Spring Break

Mar. 31

 Zoom

 Phoebe Glazer (North Carolina State University), ″TBA″

 Holmes

Apr. 7

Zoom

 Martin Kirk (University of New Mexico), ″TBA″.

 Holmes

Apr. 14

Zoom

 Sergey Varganov (University of Nevada-Reno), ″Nonadiabatic spin dynamics in lanthanide complexes″.

 Holmes

Apr. 21

 Zoom

 Sengupta Arjit (Bradley University), ″TBA″ 

 CSGA

Apr. 28

 B 103

 Christine O'Brien (Washington University in St. Louis) ″Application of short wave infrared spectroscopy for
maternal health diagnostics
″ 

 O'Brien

May. 5

 B 103

 Gregg J. Lumetta BS, 1982, PhD 1986, (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), 38th Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecturer. "TBA".

 Stine