Department of Natural Sciences
Spring 2026 Seminars
DNS Seminars take place in-person in Burns Auditorium (NS E007)
Fridays 12:15pm – 1:15pm PT
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 01/30/2026 | Trung V. Phan | Assistant Professor at Pitzer & Scripps, DNS | From Ecology to M-Theory |
| 02/06/2026 | Richard Futrell | Associate Professor at UC Irvine | TBD |
| 02/13/2026 | Sam Shoemaker | Mycologist | TBD |
| 04/03/2026 | Aditi Vyas | Visiting Professor at Pitzer and Scripps, DNS | TBD |
| 04/10/2026 | Saw Sudta | Assistant Professor at Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand | TBD |
| 04/17/2026 | Katie Hansen | Graduate Student at UCSF | TBD |
MORE DNS SEMINARS WILL BE ADDED SOON
5C Chemistry Seminars
Spring 2026
Most seminars take place on Tuesdays, 11:00am – 12:00pm PT unless noted otherwise.
| Date & Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Host & Location | Title |
| 1/27/2026 11am |
Will Dichtel | Northwestern University | HMC/Shanahan Center (B480) | Two Dimensional Polymers and Polymerizations |
| 2/3/2026 11am |
Anne Baranger | Berkeley | Pomona/Seaver North Auditorium | TBD |
| 2/10/2026 11am |
William Pomerantz | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | DNS/Nucleus East E208 | The Promise and Peril of a Maverick Element, Fluorine: Impact on Human Health and the Environment |
| 2/17/2026 11am |
Christine Thomas | The Ohio State University | Pomona/Seaver North Auditorium | TBD |
| 3/3/2026 11am |
Judy Wu | University of Houston | HMC/Shanahan Center (B480) | TBD |
| 3/10/2026 11am |
Amie Boal | Penn State | Pomona/Seaver North Auditorium | TBD |
| 3/31/2026 11am |
Andrew Pun | UCSD | Pomona/Seaver North Auditorium | TBD |
| 4/7/2026 11am |
Timothy Su | UC Riverside | DNS/Nucleus East E208 | Sila-Diamondoids: Atomically Precise Clusters of Crystalline Silicon |
| 4/14/2026 11am |
Elizabeth (Betsy) Parkinson | Purdue University | HMC/Shanahan Center (B480) | TBD |
| 4/21/2026 11am |
Alex Zhukhovitskiy | UNC Chapel Hill | Pomona/Seaver North Auditorium | TBD | 4/28/2026 11am |
Matthew Law | UC Irvine | DNS/Nucleus East E208 | Connecting the Dots: Toward Colloidal Quantum Dot Superlattices with Fully Delocalized Charge Transport |