Department of Natural Sciences
Fall 2025 Seminars

DNS Seminars take place in-person in Burns Auditorium (NS E007)
Fridays 12:15pm – 1:15pm PT

 

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
09/07/2025 Trung “Average” V Tran Department of Natural Sciences “Emergent Swarm Behavior in Living and Robotic Systems, and How Machine Learning Can Capture This in a Geometry-Agnostic Way”
10/24/2025 Sandra Watson Department of Natural Sciences “Breaking Down Dopamine Neurotransmission in Drosophila: Genetics Pathways Linking Behavior and Disease Vulnerability”
11/14/2025 John Myers School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Acts of Imagination in Science

 

 

MORE DNS SEMINARS WILL BE ADDED SOON

 

 

5C Chemistry Seminars
Fall 2025

Most seminars take place on Tuesdays, 11:00am – 12:00pm PT unless noted otherwise.

Date & Time Speaker Affiliation Host & Location Title
09/2/2025
11am		 Artiom Skripka Oregon State University DNS/ Burns Auditorium (NS E007 Photon Avalanching Nanocrystals and Their Potential in Optical Computing
09/16/2025
11am		 Leslie Hamachi Cal Poly San Luis Obispo DNS/ Burns Auditorium (NS E007 Colloidal Synthesis of Porous, Crystalline Polymers
09/30/2025
11am		 Kyle Lancaster Cornell University Pomona/ Seaver North Auditorium tbd
10/7/2025
11am		 David Campbell Januz Therapeutics HMC/ Shanahan Center (B480) tbd
10/21/2025
11am		 Alan Sellinger Colorado School of Mines HMC/ Shanahan Center (B480) Organic and Polymeric Materials for Application in Ionizing Radiation Detection and Perovskite Solar Cells
10/28/2025
11am		 Brett Fors Cornell University Pomona/ Seaver North Auditorium tbd
11/4/2025
11am		 Rachel Letteri University of Virginia Pomona/ Seaver North Auditorium tbd
11/11/2025
11am		 Tim Long Arizona State University Pomona/ Seaver North Auditorium tbd
11/18/2025
11am		 Yan Xia Stanford University Pomona/ Seaver North Auditorium tbd
12/2/2025
11am		 Marie Heffern University of California, Davis HMC/ Shanahan Center (B480) tbd