Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule
Seminars this semester are in-person.
Fridays 10:30-11:30 am (usually biochemistry, organic) in COB 110, 3:00 pm in COB 110 (usually physical, materials)
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Jan. 27, 10:30am | Julien Jorda, Pythia Labs (Mike Thompson) |
| Feb. 3, 3:00pm | Myoung Oh, Korea Institute of Energy Technology, KENTECH (Son Nguyen) |
| March 3, 3:00pm | ChangYun Son, POSTECH (Liang Shi) |
| March 10, 3:00pm | Javier Fajardo, UCLA (Andrea Merg) |
| April 14, 10:00am | Roberto Chica, U Ottawa (Mike Thompson) |
| April 21, 3:00pm | Christina Li, Purdue (Son Nugyen) |
| April 28, 3:00pm | Ana Arteaga, PNNL (Erik Menke) |
| May 5, 3:00pm | Vojtech Vlcek, UCSB (Christine Isborn) |
Fall 2022 Seminar Schedule
Seminars this semester are a mixture of Zoom and in-person. See link above for titles, abstracts, speaker bios.
Fridays 10:30-11:30 am (usually biochemistry, organic) in COB 110, 1:30-2:30pm in COB 267 (usually physical, materials)
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Sept. 9, 1:30pm | Teresa Head-Gordon, UC Berkeley (Christine Isborn) |
| Sept. 16, 10:30am | Louise Berben, UC Davis (Rebeca Arevalo) |
| Sept. 16, 1:30pm | Ashley McDonald, Cal Poly (Hrant Hratchian) |
| Sept. 23, 10:30am | Ningkun Wang, San Jose State U. (Mike Thompson) |
| Oct. 7, 1:30pm | Lior Sepunaru, UCSB (Alex Noy) |
| Oct. 14, 1:30pm | Liang Shi, UC Merced (Christine Isborn) |
| Oct. 21, 1:30pm | Joel Ager, UC Berkeley, LBNL (Son Nguyen) |
| Oct. 28, 10:30am | Alshakim Nelson, U. Washington (Jessica Wang) |
| Nov. 4, 10:30am | Steve Damo (Mike Thompson) |
| Nov. 16, 1:30pm | Jeremy Kodanko, Wayne State (Erik Menke) |
| Nov. 18, 1:30pm | Gary Abel, Pacific Biosciences (Tao Ye) |
| Dec. 2, 10:30am | Julien Jorda, Pythia Labs (Mike Thompson) |
| Dec. 2, 1:30pm | Marco Caricato, University of Kansas (Hrant Hratchian) |
| Dec. 9, 1:30pm | MingLee Tang, University of Utah (Son Nguyen) |
Fall 2021 Seminar Schedule
Seminars this semester are a mixture of Zoom and in-person. See link above for titles, abstracts, speaker bios.
Fridays 10:30-11:30 am (usually biochemistry, organic), 1:30-2:30pm (usually physical, materials)
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| August 27, 10:30am | Willow Coyote-Maestas, UCSF (Mike Thompson) |
| Sept. 10, 1:30pm | Hugo Tapia, CSU Channel Islands (Shahar Sukenik) |
| Sept. 10, 10:30am | Filippo Lipparini, University of Pisa (Hrant Hratchian) |
| Sept. 17, 1:30pm | Himanshu Mishra, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Son Nguyen) |
| Sept. 24, 1:30pm | James Shepherd, University of Iowa (Aurora Pribram-Jones) |
| Oct. 1, 1:30pm | Morgan Hawker, CSU Fresno (Son Nguyen) |
| Oct. 15, 1:30pm | Masaki Uchida, CSU Fresno (Son Nguyen) |
| Oct. 22, 10:30am | Marco Messina, UC Berkeley (Michael Findlater) |
| Oct. 29, 1:30pm | Aleksandr Noy, LLNL (Son Nguyen) |
| Nov. 5, 10:30am | Lali Deshmukh, UCSD (Andy LiWang) |
| Nov. 12, 1:30pm | Chris Giebink, Penn State (Christine Isborn) |
| Dec. 10, 1:30pm | Patrick Huang, CSU East Bay (Christine Isborn) |
Fall 2020 Seminar Schedule
Fridays 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Held via Zoom
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Sept. 4 | Journal club |
| Sept. 11 | Oliver Gessner, LBNL (Son Nguyen) |
| Sept. 18 | Journal club |
| Sept. 25 | Leili Zhang, IBM (Liang Shi) |
| Oct. 2 | Journal club |
| Oct. 9 | Cancelled |
| Oct. 16 | Journal club |
| Oct. 23 | Shaama Sharada, USC (Hrant Hratchian) |
| Oct. 30 | Journal club |
| Nov. 6 | Vincent Hilser, John Hopkins (Mike Thompson) |
| Nov. 13 | Journal club |
| Nov. 20 | Benedetta Mennucci, University of Pisa (Christine Isborn) |
| Dec. 4 | Journal club |
| Dec. 11 | Carlos Castañeda, Syracuse (Shahar Sukenik) |
Spring 2020 Seminar Schedule
Fridays 3 to 4 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Jan. 31 | Heather Kulik, MIT (Hrant Hratchian) |
| Feb. 6 (9:30am, SSM 116) | Attila Cangi, Sandia National Lab (Aurora Pribram-Jones) |
| Feb. 28 | J. Vincent Ortiz, Auburn (Hrant Hratchian) |
| Mar. 6 | Thomas Kim, St. John Fisher College (Erik Menke) |
Fall 2019 Seminar Schedule
Fridays 3 to 4 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Aug. 23 | Liang Zhang, University of Connecticut (Liang Shi) |
| Aug. 30 | Maria Zoghbi, UC Merced (Erik Menke) |
| Sept. 6 | Ryan Baxter, UC Merced (Erik Menke) |
| Sept. 13 | Hrant Hratchian, UC Merced (Erik Menke) |
| Sept. 20 | Ad Bax, National Institute of Health (Andy LiWang) |
| Sept. 27 | Wilson Ho, UC Irvine, (Tao Ye) |
| Oct. 11 | Wei Xiong, UC San Diego (Tao Ye) |
| Oct. 25 | Alex Ayzner, UC Santa Cruz (Christine Isborn) |
| Nov. 1 | Dean Tantillo, UC Davis (Hrant Hratchian) |
| Nov. 15 | Jani Ingram, Northern Arizona University (Erik Menke) |
| Nov. 22 | David Prendergast, Molecular Foundry (David Strubbe) |
Spring 2019 Seminar Schedule
Fridays 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Jan. 18 | Jeffrey Gustafson, SDSU (Ben Stokes) |
| Jan. 25 | Yuan Ping, UC Santa Cruz (David Strubbe) |
| Feb. 1 | Olaseni Sode, Cal State LA (Michelle Leslie) |
| Feb. 8 | Javier Vela, Iowa State University (Dave Kelley) |
| Feb. 11 (Note date!) | Alfredo Angeles-Boza, University of Connecticut (Ben Stokes) |
| Mar. 1 | Ozcan Gulacar, UC Davis (Michelle Leslie) |
| Mar. 4 (Note date!) | Daniel Crawford, Virginia Tech, (Hrant Hratchian) |
| Mar. 8 | Hai-Lung Dai, Temple University (Tao Ye) |
| Mar. 15 | Tobin Sosnick, University of Chicago (Victor Munoz) |
| Apr. 12 | Tim Clark, University of San Diego (Ben Stokes) |
| Apr. 19 | Josette Marrero, Sonoma Technology (Aurora Pribram-Jones) |
| Apr. 26 | Kristi Closser, Fresno State University (Christine Isborn) |
| May. 3 | Jeff Peng, University of Notre Dame (Eva de Alba) |
| May. 10 | Frank Graziani, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (David Strubbe) |
Fall 2018 Seminar Schedule
Fridays 3 to 4 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Aug. 24 | Shahar Sukenik, UC Merced (Erik Menke) |
| Aug. 31 | Grace Stokes, Santa Clara University (Anne Kelley) |
| Sept. 7 | Brian Stoltz, Cal Tech (Ben Stokes) |
| Sept. 14 | Mike Harms, University of Oregon (Shahar Sukenik) |
| Sept. 21 | Anthony Dutoi, University of the Pacific (Christine Isborn) |
| Oct. 5 | Leonard Mueller, UC Riverside, (Andy LiWang) |
| Oct. 12 | Hans Bechtel, LBNL (Son Nguyen) |
| Oct. 19 | David Morgan, UC Merced (Dave Kelley) |
| Oct. 26 | Laura Gagliardi, University of Minnesota (Christine Isborn) |
| Nov. 2 | Shelley Claridge, Purdue (Tao Ye) |
| Nov. 9 | Caroline Jarrold, Indiana University (Hrant Hratchian) |
| Nov. 16 | Kristi Closser, Fresno State University (Christine Isborn) |
| Nov. 30 | Martin Moskovits, UC Santa Barbara (Son Nguyen) |
| Dec. 7 | Akif Tezcan, UC San Diego (Eva de Alba) |
Spring 2018 Seminar Schedule
Fridays 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Jan. 19 | Eva de Alba Bastarrechea, UC Merced (Erik Menke) |
| Feb. 9 | Eric Neuscamman, UC Berkeley (Christine Isborn) |
| Mar. 9 | Eric Tillman, Santa Clara University (Ben Stokes) |
| Mar. 16 | Enrico Tapavicza, CSU Long Beach (Christine Isborn) |
| Mar. 23 | Stacy Copp, Los Alamos National Lab (Erik Menke) |
| Apr. 6 | Andrew Petit, CSU Fullerton (Liang Shi) |
| Apr. 13 | Andres Martinez, Cal Poly SLO (Anand Subramaniam) |
| Apr. 20 | Troy Van Voorhis, MIT (Hrant Hratchian) |
| Apr. 27 | Christine Morrison, UC San Diego, (Erik Menke) |
| May 4 | Anne McCoy, University of Washington (Hrant Hratchian) |
Fall 2017 Seminar Schedule
Fridays 3 to 4 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Aug. 25 | Son Nguyen, UC Merced (Erik Menke) |
| Sept. 1 | Jessica Wang, UC Merced (Erik Menke) |
| Sept. 8 | James Takacs, University of Nebraska (Ben Stokes) |
| Sept. 15 | Aurora Pribram-Jones, UC Berkeley (Christine Isborn) |
| Sept. 22 | Aleksey Kocherzhenko, UC Merced (Christine Isborn) |
| Sept. 29 | David Waldeck, University of Pittsburgh, (Tao Ye) |
| Oct. 13 | Tim Zuehlsdorff, UC Merced (Christine Isborn) |
| Oct. 20 | Piotr Zelenay, Los Alamos National Lab (Tao Ye) |
| Oct. 27 | Melanie Cocco, UC Irvine (Andy LiWang) |
| Nov. 3 | Tom Mallouk, Penn State (Tao Ye) |
| Nov. 17 | Richard Saykally, UC Berkeley (Son Nguyen) |
Spring 2017 Seminar Schedule
Fridays 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Jan. 20 | Qianli Chu, North Dakota University (Tao Ye) |
| Jan. 27 | Todd Harrop, University of Georgia (Dave Kelley) |
| Feb. 3 | Reserved (Anne Kelley) |
| Feb. 10 | Lee-Ping Wang, UC Davis (Christine Isborn) |
| Feb. 24 | Ben Schwartz, UCLA (Liang Shi) |
| Mar. 10 | Andrei Yudin, University of Toronto (Ben Stokes) |
| Mar. 17 | Srinivasan Iyengar, Indiana University (Hrant Hratchian) |
| Mar. 24 | Liang Shi, UC Merced (David Strubbe) |
| April 7 | Gabe Montaño, Los Alamos National Lab (Erik Menke) |
| April 14 | Joel Yuen-Zhou, UCSD (Liang Shi) |
| April 21 | Chris Bardeen, UC Riverside (David Strubbe) |
| April 28 | Yu-Shan Lin, Tufts (Liang Shi) |
| May 5 | H. Lee Woodcock, University of South Florida (Hrant Hratchian) |
Fall 2016 Seminar Schedule
Fridays 3 to 4 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Aug. 26 | Jian Liu, NIH (Andy LiWang) |
| Sept. 9 | Tamar Stein, UC Berkeley (Christine Isborn) |
| Sept. 23 | Lionel Cheruzel, San Jose State University (Ryan Baxter) |
| Sept. 30 | David Strubbe, UC Merced (Christine Isborn) |
| Nov. 18 | Anand Bala Subramaniam, UC Merced (Erik Menke) |
| Nov. 30 (Wednesday!) | Hao Xu, Georgia State University (Ben Stokes). NOTE DATE! Seminar at 10:30 am in SE1 270k |
| Dec. 9 | Glenn Micalizio, Dartmouth University (Ben Stokes) |
Spring 2016 Seminar Schedule
Fridays 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Jan. 22 | Sergey Varganov, University of Nevada (Christine Isborn) |
| Feb. 12 | Stephen Boxer, Stanford University (Tao Ye) |
| Feb. 26 | Oleg Prezhdo, University of Southern California (Dave Kelley) |
| April 1 | Gojko Lalic, University of Washington (Ben Stokes) |
| April 8 | Marion Emmert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, (Ryan Baxter) |
| April 15 | Eric Borguet, (Tao Ye) |
| April 22 | De-en Jiang, Riverside, (Tao Ye) |
| May 6 | Armen Zakarian, UC Santa Barbara (Ben Stokes) |
Fall 2015 Seminar Schedule
Fridays 3 to 4 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Sept. 18 | Regan Thomson, Northwestern (Ben Stokes) |
| Oct. 5 (Monday!) | Ben Levine, Michigan State (Christine Isborn) |
| Oct. 9 | Babak Borhan, Michican State (Ben Stokes) |
| Oct. 16 | Kevin Plaxco, UCSB (Tao Ye) |
| Oct. 23 | Roberto Gil, Carnegie Mellon (Erik Menke) |
| Nov. 13 | James Ames, UC Davis (Patti LiWang) |
| Nov. 20 | Jim Hutchison, University of Oregon (Tao Ye) |
| Dec. 4 | David Britt, UC Davis (Andy LiWang) |
Spring 2015 Seminar Schedule
Fridays 3 to 4 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Jan. 23 | Frank Delagio, Agilent (Andy and Patti LiWang) |
| Jan. 30 | Tom Hoye, U. Minnesota (Jason Hein) |
| Feb. 6 | Free |
| Feb. 13 | Neil Garg, UCLA (Ben Stokes) |
| Feb. 20 | Jerry Salan, Nalas Engineering (Jason Hein) |
| Feb. 27 | Steven Wheeler, TAMU (Hrant Hratchian) |
| March 6 | |
| March 13 | Kallie Willets, University of Texas Austin (Tao Ye) |
| March 20 | Jeannie Hernandez, University of Michigan (Erik Menke) |
| April 3 | Regan J. Thomson, Northwestern (Ben Stokes) |
| April 10 | Kim Jelfs, Imperial College London (Erin Johnson) |
| April 17 | Aurora Clark, Washington State University (Christine Isborn) |
| May 1 | Carrie Partsh, UCSC (Andy LiWang) |
Fall 2014 Seminar Schedule
Fridays 3 to 4 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Sept. 5 | Gary Abel, UC Merced (Anne Kelley) |
| Sept. 12 | Erin Johnson, UC Merced (Anne Kelley) |
| Sept. 19 | Michael Rust, Univ. of Chicago (Andy LiWang) |
| Sept. 26 | Gregory B. Dudley, Florida State (Jason Hein) |
| Oct. 3 | Ke Gong, UC Merced (David Kelley) |
| Oct. 10 | John Herbert, Ohio State (Hrant Hratchian) |
| Oct. 17 | Suzanne Blum, UC Irvine (Tao Ye) |
| Oct. 24 | Makenzie Provorse, UC Merced (Christine Isborn) |
| Oct. 31 | Barry Sharpless, Scripps (Jason Hein) |
| Nov. 7 | Youhong Zeng, UC Merced (David Kelley) |
| Nov. 21 | Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong, Oregon State (Jason Hein) |
| Dec. 12 | Tom Driver, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago (Matt Meyer) |
Spring 2014 Seminar Schedule
2:30 to 3:30 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Jan. 24 | Graduate student speaker Joseph Dizon |
| Jan. 31 | Huw Davies, Emory University (Matt) |
| Feb. 7 | Damon Wheeler, UC Merced (Dave) |
| Feb. 14 | Chris Rowley, Memorial University (Erin) |
| Fe. 21 | Christine Aikens, Kansas State University (Hrant) |
| Feb. 28 | Graduate student speakers Xochitl Sosa Vazquez and Youhong Zeng |
| March 7 | Uttam Tambar, U. Texas Southwestern Med Ctr. (Jason) |
| March 14 | Les Butler, Louisiana State University (Erik) |
| March 18 (note date) | Tom Markland, Stanford University (Christine) |
| March 21 | Stephen Bradforth , USC (Anne) |
| April 4 | Mike Bartberger, Amgen (Hrant) |
| April 11 | Matthew J. Allen , Wayne State University (Jason) |
| April 18 | Mitch Croatt, UNC Greensboro (Jason) |
| May 2 | Ben Janesko, Texas Christian University (Hrant) |
| May 9 | Fred Manby, University of Bristol (Christine) |
Fall 2013 Seminar Schedule
3 to 4 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker, Institution (Host) |
| Aug. 30 | Scott Habershon, U. of Warwick (Christine) |
| Sept. 6 | Chris Ackerson, UC Riverside (Erik) |
| Sept. 13 | Graduate student speakers Luke Reed and Gary Abel |
| Sept. 20 | Andrew Bennet, Simon Fraser (Matt) |
| Sept. 27 | Lloyd Smith, Wisonsin (Tao) |
| Oct. 4 | Graduate student speakers Matt Berry and Xiao Li |
| Oct. 11 | Francesco Paesani, UC San Diego (Christine) |
| Oct. 14, 11 am | Dawn Cohen, Amgen (Christine) |
| Oct. 18 | Danieal Quinn, U. of Iowa (Matt) |
| Oct. 25 | Graduate student speakers Josh Maker and Ke Gong |
| Nov. 1 | Javier Read de Alaniz, UC Santa Barbara (Jason) |
| Nov. 15 | David Jonas, U. of Colorado (Anne) |
| Nov. 22 | Greg Beran, UC Riverside (Erin) |
| Dec. 6 | Jon Tripp, Bristol Meyer Squibb (Jason) |
| Dec. 13 | Richmond Sarpong, UC Berkeley (Jason) |
Spring 2013 Seminar Schedule
2:30 to 4 p.m., COB 267
| Date | Speaker (Host) |
| Jan. 25 | David Masiello (Christine) |
| Feb. 8 | Doug Grotjahn (Jason) |
| Mar. 1 | Phillip Christopher (Erik) |
| Mar. 15 | Pinjing Zhao (Tao) |
| Mar. 22 | Richard Dawes (Jason) |
| Apr. 5 | Ryan Fortenbury (Erin) |
| Apr. 11 *Note date* | Stephen Maldonado (Erik) |
| Apr. 12 | John Chodera (Christine) |
| Apr. 19 | Andres Cisneros (Erin) |
| Apr. 26 | Scott McIndoe (Jason) |
| May 3 | Philippe Guyot-Sionnest (Anne) |
| May 10 | Benjamin Schwartz (Anne) |