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Fall 2023 Seminar Schedule

Seminars this semester are in-person. 

Fridays 10:30-11:30 am (usually biochemistry, organic) in COB 267, 1:30 pm in COB 267 (usually physical, materials)

Date Speaker, Institution (Host)
Sept. 29, 1:30pm Josh Kretchmer (Henrik Larsson)
Oct. 6, 1:30pm Eric Josephs (Tao Ye)
Oct. 13, 10:30am Son Nguyen, UC Merced (Michael Findlater)
Oct. 13, 1:30pm Yang Yang, Wisconsin (Christine Isborn)
Oct. 20, 1:30pm Laura McCaslin, Sandia (Michael Findlater)
Oct. 27, 10:30am Anthony Cozzolino (Michael Findlater)
Oct. 27, 1:30pm Greg Tschumper (Hrant Hratchian)
Nov. 3, 1:30pm Yi He (Tao Ye)
Nov. 17, 10:30am Brook Small (Michael Findlater)
Dec. 1, 10:30am Seth Rubin, UC Santa Cruz (Mike Thompson)
Dec. 1, 1:30pm Scott Oliver, UCSC (Anne Kelley)

 

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)
Oct. 28 Hao Xu, Georgia State University, (Ben Stokes)
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)