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"