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Spring 2026
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/28/26
Nicholas Angello
GSK
02/04/26
Henry Squire
University of California, Berkeley
02/11/26
Zack Ulissi
Meta FAIR
02/18/26
Simon d’Oelsnitz
Harvard University
02/25/26
Rachel Yang
University of Michigan
03/18/26
Yeongseon Jang
University of Florida
04/08/26
Feng Zhang (Chance Lecturer)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
04/15/26
Venkat Ganesan
University of Texas at Austin
04/22/26
Sharon Glotzer (Quinn Lecturer)
University of Michigan
04/29/26
Shannon Boettcher
University of California, Berkeley
Fall 2025
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/03/25
Himanshu Mishra
KAUST
09/10/25
Charles Schroeder
Princeton University
09/17/25
Wenjun Zhang
University of California, Berkeley
10/08/25
Lauren Marbella
Columbia University
10/15/25
Shihong Lin
Vanderbilt University
10/22/25
Rajamani Gounder
Purdue University
10/29/25
Jerelle Joseph
Princeton University
11/12/25
Jean-Francois Louf
Auburn University
12/03/25
Markita Landry
University of California, Berkeley
Spring 2025
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/22/25
Mohamad Abedi
University of Washington, Seattle
01/29/25
Alice Stanton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
02/05/25
Wenhao Gao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
02/12/25
Shunzhi Wang
University of Washington
02/19/25
Claire Bedbrook
Stanford University
02/26/25
Jeremy Guest
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
03/05/25
Lia Stanciu
Purdue University
04/02/25
Hal Alper
University of Texas at Austin
04/09/25
Maureen Tang
Drexel University
04/16/25
Antonia Statt
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
04/23/25
Victor Zavala
University of Wisconsin
04/30/25
Paula Hammond (Quinn Lecturer)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fall 2024
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
08/28/24
Julia Dshemuchadse
Cornell University
09/04/24
Hongyou Fan
Sandia National Laboratories
09/18/24
Taylor Woehl
University of Maryland
09/25/24
Jennifer Cochran (Chance Lecturer)
Stanford University
10/02/24
Yamil Colon
University of Notre Dame
10/09/24
Jodie Lutkenhaus
Texas A&M University
10/16/24
Diane Hildebrandt
Rutgers University
10/23/24
James Link
Princeton University
11/06/24
Charles Schroeder
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11/20/24
Albert Keung
North Carolina State University
12/04/24
Alissa Park
University of California, Los Angeles
Spring 2024
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/24/24
Yanpu He
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
01/31/24
Benjamin Decardi-Nelson
Cornell University
02/07/24
Sevahn Vorperian
Stanford University
02/14/24
Francesco Destro
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
02/21/24
Anqi Zhang
Stanford University
02/28/24
Cameron Glasscock
University of Washington
03/13/24
Shu Hu
Yale University
04/03/24
Ayman Karim
Virginia Tech
04/10/24
Ali Dhinojwala
University of Akron
04/17/24
David Block
University of California, Davis
04/24/24
Matthew Tirrell (Quinn Lecturer)
University of Chicago
05/08/24
Tim Cernak
University of Michigan
Fall 2023
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/06/23
Miguel Modestino
New York University
09/13/23
Masoud Soroush
Drexel University
09/20/23
Rong Yang
Cornell University
09/27/23
Hong Yang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10/04/23
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
Columbia University
10/18/23
Michael Murrell
Yale University
10/25/23
Joseph Kwon
Texas A&M University
11/01/23
Pranam Chatterjee
Duke University
11/15/23
Rob Phillips (Chance Lecturer)
California Institute of Technology
11/29/23
Kwanghun Chung
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12/06/23
Sumit Agarwal
Colorado School of Mines
Spring 2023
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/25/23
Jessica Stark
Stanford University
02/01/23
Lisa Volpatti
University of Chicago
02/08/23
Antonio Del Rio Flores
University of California, Berkeley
02/15/23
Yifan Dai
Duke University
02/20/23
Xue Sherry Gao
Rice University
02/22/23
Linda Broadbelt
Northwestern University
03/01/23
Andre Levchenko
Yale University
03/15/23
Karthish Manthiram
California Institute of Technology
03/22/23
Theresa Reineke
University of Minnesota
04/05/23
Vivek Sharma
University of Illinois Chicago
04/19/23
Bill Hammack (Quinn Lecturer)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
04/26/23
Markus Buehler
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fall 2022
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/07/22
Daniel Tartakovsky
Stanford University
09/14/22
Marta Hatzell
Georgia Institute of Technology
09/21/22
Micah Ziegler
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10/05/22
Charles Gersbach
Duke University
10/12/22
Scott Milner
Pennsylvania State University
10/26/22
Clifford P. Brangwynne (Chance Lecturer)
Princeton University
11/02/22
Susan Daniel
Cornell University
11/09/22
Christopher A. Alabi
Cornell University
11/30/22
Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou
The University of Oklahoma
12/07/22
Jeanne Stachowiak
The University of Texas at Austin
Spring 2022
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/19/22
Connie Wu
Harvard Medical School and Wyss Institute
01/26/22
Fang Liu
Stanford University
02/02/22
Julie Rorrer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
02/09/22
Molly Kozminsky
University of California, Berkeley
02/16/22
Dohyung Kim
Stanford University
02/23/22
Juan Manuel Restrepo-Florez
University of Wisconsin, Madison
03/02/22
Lily Cheung
Georgia Institute of Technology
03/23/22
Amir Haji-Akbari
Yale University
03/30/22
Joel L. Kaar
University of Colorado, Boulder
04/06/22
Aaron D. Sadow
Iowa State University
04/13/22
Nicholas L. Abbott (Quinn Lecturer)
Cornell University
04/20/22
Christian W. Pester
Pennsylvania State University
Fall 2020
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/09/20
Hermann Frieboes
University of Louisville
09/30/20
Matteo Cargnello
Stanford University
10/14/20
Edward Sargent
University of Toronto
10/21/20
Shikha Nangia
Syracuse University
10/28/20
Cesar de la Fuente
Perelman School of Medicine
11/04/20
David M. Umulis
Purdue University
11/11/20
Peter Psarras
Cuyahoga College
12/09/20
LaShanda Korley
University of Delaware
Spring 2020
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/22/20
Anna C. Balazs
University of Pittsburgh
01/29/20
Jennifer Elisseeff (Chance Lecturer)
Johns Hopkins University
02/05/20
Joaquin Resasco
University of California, Santa Barbara
02/10/20
Hanyu Gao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
02/12/20
Jennifer Wilcox
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
02/19/20
Andrew Allman
University of Minnesota
02/24/20
Marcella Lusardi
California Institute of Technology
02/26/20
Jeffrey Lopez
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fall 2019
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/04/19
Stanislav Y. Shvartsman
Princeton University
09/11/19
Cecilia Leal
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
09/18/19
Diwakar Shukla
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
09/25/19
Leila Deravi
Northeastern University
10/02/19
Charles Sing
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10/16/19
Connie Chang
Montana State University
10/23/19
Yushan Yan
University of Delaware
10/30/19
Dan Hickman
Dow Chemical Company
11/06/19
Yong Joo
Cornell University
11/20/19
Joelle Frechette
Johns Hopkins University
Spring 2019
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/23/19
Amish Patel
University of Pennsylvania
02/06/19
Chibueze Amanchukwu
Stanford University
02/13/19
Timothy White
University of Colorado
02/20/19
Aleksandra Vojvodic
University of Pennsylvania
02/27/19
Paul Daeunhauer
University of Minnesota
03/13/19
Christopher Roberts
University of Delaware
03/20/19
Eduardo Glandt (Quinn Lecturer)
University of Pennsylvania
03/27/19
Jeremy Palmer
University of Houston
04/10/19
Marjolein Dijkstra
Utrecht University
04/17/19
Kathryn Whitehead
Carnegie Mellon University
04/24/19
Jian Qin
Stanford University
Fall 2018
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/05/18
Lynden A. Archer
Cornell University
09/12/18
Andrew Ferguson
University of Chicago
09/19/18
Cheng Zhu
Georgia Tech
09/26/18
Kimberly Ogden
University of Arizona
10/03/18
Bingjun Xu
University of Delaware
10/10/18
Yan Yu
Indiana University at Bloomington
10/17/18
Suljo Linic
University of Michigan
10/24/18
Arthi Jayaraman
University of Delaware
11/07/18
David Schaffer (Chance Lecturer)
University of California, Berkeley
11/14/18
Karen Goldberg
University of Pennsylvania
11/28/18
Keith Johnston
University of Texas at Austin
12/05/18
Cynthia Friend (Grace Hopper Lecturer)
Harvard University
Spring 2018
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/24/18
Omolola Eniola-Adefeso
University of Michigan
01/31/18
Adam J. Nolte
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
02/07/18
Darrell J. Irvine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
02/21/18
M. Scott Shell
University of California, Santa Barbara
02/28/18
Mark L. Schlossman
University of Illinois at Chicago
03/28/18
Steve McIntosh
Lehigh University
04/04/18
Paul McKenzie (Quinn Lecturer)
Biogen
04/11/18
Stephanie Farrell
Rowan University
04/18/18
Baron Peters
University of California, Santa Barbara
Fall 2017
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/20/17
Yury Gogotsi
Drexel University
09/27/17
Andrew Goodwin
University of Colorado
10/04/17
Jonathan Whitmer
University of Notre Dame
10/18/17
Susannah Scott
University of California, Santa Barbara
10/25/17
Linda G. Griffith
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11/08/17
Jerome Delhommelle
University of North Dakota
11/15/17
Dave Devore
Dow Chemical
11/29/17
Marianth Lerapetritou
Rutgers University
12/06/17
Zhihong Nie
University of Maryland
Spring 2017
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/18/17
Nisarg Shah
Harvard University
01/25/17
Aaron Anselmo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
02/08/17
Bomyi Lim
Princeton University
02/15/17
Wei Gao
University of California, Berkeley
03/01/17
Cameron Abrams
Drexel University
03/08/17
Kenneth Dill
Stony Brook University
03/23/17
Manfred Morari (Quinn Lecturer)
University of Pennsylvania
03/29/17
Zahra Fakhraai
University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2016
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/07/16
Christian Metallo
University of California, San Diego
09/14/16
Rob Riggleman
University of Pennsylvania
09/21/16
Tom Adams
McMaster University
10/05/16
Nazeer Bhore
ExxonMobil Research & Engineering
10/19/16
David Issadore
University of Pennsylvania
10/26/16
Bernhardt Trout
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11/02/16
Nicole Zacharia
University of Akron
11/09/16
Alberto Striolo
University College London
11/30/16
Valeria Milam
Georgia Tech
12/07/16
David Mooney
Harvard University
Spring 2016
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/13/16
Adrianne Rosales
University of Colorado, Boulder
01/27/16
Chinedum Osuji
Yale University
02/03/16
James Watkins
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
02/08/16
Aleksandra Vojvodic
Stanford University
02/10/16
Julius Lucks
Cornell University
02/15/16
Peter Beltramo
ETH Zurich
02/24/16
Lauren Woodruff
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
03/02/16
Coleman Kronawitter
Princeton University
03/16/16
Pablo Debenedetti
Princeton University
04/06/16
Andrew Spakowitz
Stanford University
04/13/16
Chris Floudas
Texas A&M University
04/20/16
Pete Tessier
Rensselaer Polytechnic University
Fall 2015
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/05/15
Joan Brennecke
University of Notre Dame
09/16/15
J. Will Medlin
University of Colorado, Boulder
09/21/15
Shawn Shadden
University of California, Berkeley
10/07/15
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Northwestern University
10/14/15
Samir Mitragotri
University of California, Santa Barbara
10/21/15
Fernando Escobedo
Cornell University
10/28/15
Yiannis Kaznessis
University of Minnesota
11/18/15
Paulo Arratia
University of Pennsylvania
12/02/15
Gunaretnam Rajagapol
Jannsen Research and Development
Spring 2015
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/21/15
Matthew J. Lazzara
University of Pennsylvania
01/28/15
Moon Jeong Par
Pohang University of Science and Technology
02/11/15
Jeffrey R. Errington
The University of Buffalo, SUNY
02/18/15
Kathryn Miller-Johnson
Yale University
02/25/15
Lydia M. Contreras
University of Texas at Austin
03/04/15
Yannis G. Kevrekidis
Princeton University
03/18/15
Forest M. White
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
03/25/15
Johnathan Lane
Praxair Surface Technologies
04/01/15
Nigel Seaton
Abertay University
04/06/15
Dionisios G. Vlachos
University of Delaware
04/08/15
Henry Ashbaugh
Tulane University
04/15/15
Julie A. Champion
Georgia Tech
04/22/15
Satish Kumar
University of Minnesota
04/29/15
Maria M. Santore
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Spring 2013
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/16/13
Eric M. Furst
University of Delaware
01/30/13
Alexander R. Dunn
Stanford University
02/13/13
Joelle Frechette
Johns Hopkins University
02/20/13
John Yin
University of Wisconsin, Madison
03/13/13
Levi T. Thompson
University of Michigan
03/27/13
William F. Banholzer
The Dow Chemical Company
04/10/13
Tewodros (Teddy) Asefa
Rutgers University
04/17/13
Erika Eiser
University of Cambridge
04/24/13
Shekhar Garde
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Fall 2012
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/05/12
Sue Ann Bidstrup Allen
Georgia Institute of Technology
09/12/12
Rakesh Agrawal
Purdue University
09/19/12
Arup K. Chakraborty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10/10/12
David Odde
University of Minnesota
11/07/12
Zhen-Gang Wang
California Institute of Technology
11/14/12
Paul F. Nealey
University of Chicago
11/28/12
Jeffrey S. Marshall
University of Vermont
Spring 2012
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
02/01/12
Natnael Behabtu
Rice University
02/08/12
Nicholas C. Strandwitz
California Institute of Technology
02/15/12
Pamela Peralta-Yahya
University of California, Berkeley
02/22/12
Amish Patel
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
02/29/12
Hang Lu
Georgia Institute of Technology
03/14/12
Debra T. Auguste
Harvard University
03/21/12
Michael F. Carolan
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
03/28/12
Prashant Nagpal
Los Alamos National Laboratory
04/04/12
Jongyoon Han
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
04/11/12
Krishanu Saha
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
04/18/12
Frank J. Doyle
University of California, Santa Barbara
04/20/12
Paulo E. Arratia
University of Pennsylvania
04/25/12
W.S. Winston Ho
The Ohio State University
04/27/12
German Drazer
Johns Hopkins University
Fall 2011
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/14/11
Richard A. Register
Princeton University
09/21/11
Bryan D. Vogt
University of Akron
09/28/11
Patrick T. Spicer
Procter and Gamble Company
10/12/11
Jack F. Douglas
National Institute of Standards and Technology
11/02/11
Frank S. Bates
University of Minnesota
11/09/11
Shelley L. Anna
Carnegie Mellon University
12/07/11
George W. Huber
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Spring 2011
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/26/11
Edward J. Maginn
University of Notre Dame
02/09/11
Montgomery Alger
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
02/23/11
Rebecca Schulman
University of California, Berkeley
03/02/11
John F. Brady
California Institute of Technology
03/16/11
Orlin D. Velev
North Carolina State University
03/23/11
Kelvin H. Lee
University of Delaware
03/30/11
Laura Sepp-Lorenzino
Merck
04/06/11
Cameron F. Abrams
Drexel University
04/13/11
Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
Princeton University
04/20/11
Michael J. Solomon
University of Michigan
Fall 2010
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/15/10
Pablo G. Debenedetti
Princeton University
09/22/10
Charles L. Cooney
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
09/29/10
Jennifer R. Cochran
Stanford University
10/06/10
David Parrillo
Dow Chemical Company
10/13/10
William M. Deen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11/03/10
David A. Tirrell
California Institute of Technology
11/17/10
Victor Breedveld
Georgia Institute of Technology
12/01/10
Rajeev Gautam
University of Pennsylvania
12/08/10
Nicholas A. Kotov
University of Michigan
Spring 2010
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/13/10
Arben Jusufi
Temple University
02/03/10
Peter A. DiMaggio
Princeton University
02/17/10
Kevin Janes
University of Virginia
02/24/10
Vanessa Ortiz
University of Wisconsin, Madison
03/03/10
T. Kyle Vanderlick
Yale University
03/17/10
Fikile R. Brushett
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
03/24/10
Ilona Kretzschmar
City College of New York
03/31/10
Yong Wang
Washington State University
04/07/10
Robert A. Riggleman
University of California, Santa Barbara
04/14/10
Robert E. Cohen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
04/21/10
Itai Cohen
Cornell University
Fall 2009
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/16/09
Steven M. Cramer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
09/23/09
Anna C. Balazs
University of Pittsburgh
10/07/09
Darrell Velegol
Pennsylvania State University
10/14/09
Eric V. Shusta
University of Wisconsin-Madison
10/21/09
Richard B. Dickinson
University of Florida
10/26/09
Mark E. Davis
California Institute of Technology
11/04/09
Christopher W. Jones
Georgia Institute of Technology
12/02/09
Yossef A. Elabd
Drexel University
12/09/09
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos
Johns Hopkins University
Spring 2009
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
01/21/09
Vernita D. Gordon
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
02/11/09
Prashant Purohit
University of Pennsylvania
02/18/09
David W. Colby
University of California, San Francisco
02/25/09
Abhaya K. Datye
University of New Mexico
03/25/09
Robert A. Brown
Boston University
04/01/09
Hsueh-Chia Chang
University of Notre Dame
04/03/09
Fernando Escobedo
Cornell University
04/15/09
Patrick S. Daugherty
University of California, Santa Barbara
04/22/09
Jeremiah J. Zartman
Princeton University
05/15/09
Kookheon Char
Seoul National University
Fall 2008
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
09/10/08
Michael A. Bevan
Johns Hopkins University
09/17/08
Jeffrey J. Siirola
Eastman Chemical Company
09/24/08
Costas D. Maranas
Pennsylvania State University
10/01/08
Juan J. de Pablo
University of Wisconsin
10/08/08
Cherie R. Kagan
University of Pennsylvania
10/15/08
K. Dane Wittrup
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10/22/08
Jay D. Keasling
University of California, Berkeley
11/05/08
Georges Belfort
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
11/27/08
Jason M. Haugh
North Carolina State University
12/03/08
Maria Kilfoil
McGill University