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” |
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 |