September 14 (Cancelled)

Central King Building (CKB) Room 303

Tao Liu 

Virginia Tech  

"Revisiting Battery Electrolytes through Small-Angle X-ray Scattering"  

September 21

Central King Building (CKB) Room 303

Cory M. Simon  

Oregon State University

"Adaptive, Bayesian Experimental Design of Efficiently Characterize Surfactants"

September 28

Central King Building (CKB) Room 303

Gaurav Das

Director of Research & Development, OLI Systems

"Thermodynamics of Critical Materials: Solution Chemistry for Recovery, Separation and Recycling"

October 5 

Central King Building (CKB)  Room 303

Huixin He

Rutgers University

"From Water to Molecular Hydrogenation: Proton-Intercalation Chemistry in Transition-Metal Oxides"

October 14 (Marino Xanthos Memorial Lecture 2026)

Central King Building (CKB) Room L-70 (Agile Lab)

Nader Engheta

University of Pennsylvania

"Near-Zero-Index Metamaterials"

October 19

Central King Building (CKB) Room 303

Yun Hang Hu

Michigan Technological University

"Thermo-Photo Hybrid Catalysis: A New Frontier in Catalysis"

October 26

Central King Building (CKB) Room 303

Hamed Haddadi

"Process Simulation at the Meso-Scale: From Ceramic Extrusion to Hot Glass Spreading and Keyhole Laser Welding"

November 2

Eberhardt Hall Room 112

Distinguished Lecturer: Caroline L. Schauer

Drexel University

"Processing Biopolymer Nanofibers and Composites"

November 30

Central King Building (CKB) Room 303

Nicholas Corrente

Rutgers University

"When Crowded Guests Stress Their Hosts: Adsorption-Induced Deformation in Nanoporous Materials"

December 7

Central King Building (CKB) Room 303

Suhas Prameela

University of Utah 

"From Defects to Discovery: High-Throughput Experiments and Autonomous Platforms for Multicomponent Alloys"