Events
February 2026
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
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4:00pm
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Special ChE Seminar
Droplets for High-throughput Cell-Cell Interaction Screening and All-Aqueous Miniaturized Systems
Prof. Anderson H. C. Shum,
City University of Hong Kong,
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
8:00am
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2/10
11:59pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Electron Spin, Chiral Symmetry Breaking, and Life's Homochirality
Monday, February 9th, 2026
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Scalable Ab Initio Quantum Many-Body Methods for Crystalline Materials
Junjie Yang,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Negotiating Thermodynamics: Designing Periodic and Aperiodic Oxides on Demand
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Morphodynamics of Hanging Ice Dams in Northern Rivers
Gary Parker,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Structural and molecular insights into antibody elicitation and transport"
Chengcheng Fan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Björkman Group,
Friday, February 13th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
9:00am
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9:01am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Joint CPS/GPS seminar
Chirality and the electron spin- A miraculous match
Ron Naaman,
Professor Emeritus,
Department of Chemical and Biological Physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Isreal,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Land-Atmosphere Interactions and the Changing Hydrologic Cycle
Kirsten Findell,
Research Physical Scientist,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, February 19th, 2026
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Friday, February 20th, 2026
11:00am
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3:00pm
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ChE Panel & Research Talks
Naga Phani Aetukuri,
Associate Professor,
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU),
Indian Institute of Science — Bengaluru,
Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan,
Associate Professor,
Materials Engineering,
Indian Institute of Science — Bengaluru,
Srinivasan Ramakrishnan,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Technology — Bombay,
Monday, February 23rd, 2026
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ernest H. Swift Lecture Series
Sustainable Production of Reduced Phosphorus Compounds
Christopher (Kit) Cummins,
Henry Drefus Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Informal Chemical Physics Seminar
Towards in-vivo acousto-optic imaging of biological tissues
Dr. Maïmouna Bocoum,
Researcher,
CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique),
Institut Langevin ESPCI Paris Université PSL,
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Utilizing Mass Transport To Enhance CO2 Conversion to Multi-Carbon Products
Matthew Salazar,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Agapie Lab),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Chasing Sustainable Battery Chemistries for the Future with Kimberly See
Kimberly See,
professor of chemistry,
- Public Event
Thursday, February 26th, 2026
8:00am
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Ongoing
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
TBA
Elizabeth Hughes,
Graduate Student,
Shapiro Group,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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