Calendar - Chemistry

Aug 24, 2026: Organic Chemistry Seminar: Leonidas Syntrivanis | Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:00:00 -0600

Title: Towards complex molecules on demand: From programmable terpene synthesis to accelerated drug discovery

Aug 28, 2026: Molecular Biophysics Supergroup Meeting at Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0600

The Molecular Biophysics Supergroup meets monthly during the academic year to hear presentations by graduate students and postdocs from mentor labs associated with the Biophysics T32 training program.

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Aug 28, 2026: Physical Chemistry Seminar: Fang Liu |Stanford University at JILA

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:00:00 -0600

Title: Artificial two-dimensional superlattices: synthesis and properties

Abstract: Two-dimensional (2D) materials and their engineered lattices offer exciting opportunities for next-generation electronic, optoelectronic, and electrochemical devices. Yet, studies of high-quality heterostructures have been largely constrained to microscopic flakes. Here, we present scalable, controllable top-down methods that transform a wide range of van der Waals (vdW) single crystals into twisted moiré superlattices with high yield, exceptional uniformity, and macroscopic dimensions from millimeters to centimeters. Access to such large-area structures has enabled new discoveries, including ultrafast thermal exchange at bilayer interfaces, rapid photoinduced tuning of moiré patterns, and markedly reduced Debye temperatures in deformed monolayers compared to their isolated counterparts. Furthermore, by patterning 1D features—such as nanoribbon arrays and nanowrinkles—on 2D monolayers, we uncover unique electronic and thermodynamic behaviors absent in pristine layers. These advances in large-scale 2D artificial structures pave the way toward mass production and practical deployment of twistronic devices.

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Sep 4, 2026: Physical Chemistry Seminar: Joel W. Ager III | University of California, Berkeley at JILA

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0600

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Sep 11, 2026: Physical Chemistry Seminar: Yitong Dong | University of Oklahoma at JILA

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0600

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Sep 14, 2026: Organic Chemistry Seminar: Faculty Presentations at Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0600

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Sep 18, 2026: Physical Chemistry Seminar: Department Seminar at JILA

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0600

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Sep 25, 2026: Molecular Biophysics Supergroup Meeting at Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600

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Sep 25, 2026: Physical Chemistry Seminar: Sarah King | University of Chicago at JILA

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0600

Title: Locality as a Design Variable at Interfaces

Abstract: Interfacial function is often attributed to the few atomic layers at a boundary. For mixed-dimensional interfaces, however, how far that influence extends depends strongly on direction. The same boundary can act locally along one crystallographic direction and nonlocally along another, reaching tens to hundreds of nanometers into adjoining materials. While theory has long recognized such nonlocality, directly resolving it at functioning interfaces has remained challenging. I argue that the locality of an interface, the distance over which its influence reaches, is not a fixed material property but a design variable revealed by resolving the interfacial response in momentum, space, and time. My group achieves this using momentum-resolved electron energy-loss spectroscopy, transient absorption spectroscopy, and time-resolved photoemission microscopy. I will discuss two case studies. In MoOCl2, an anisotropic van der Waals crystal, the interface extends far along one in-plane direction while remaining confined along the orthogonal one, making a single boundary simultaneously local and nonlocal. In cobalt and iron oxides, the balance is set instead by the material: regions of local bonding and defect trapping can dominate in one oxide, while strain and interfacial fields carry influence across buried interfaces in another. Together these examples show that the role of locality at an interface can be tuned by direction, structure, and composition, providing a route to engineer light–matter interactions for photocatalysis and quantum emitters.

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Sep 28, 2026: Organic Chemistry Seminar: Faculty Presentations at Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0600

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Oct 2, 2026: Physical Chemistry Seminar: Matt Crane | Colorado School of Mines at JILA

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:00:00 -0600

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Oct 9, 2026: Physical Chemistry Seminar: Randall Goldsmith | University of Wisconsin-Madison at JILA

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:00:00 -0600

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Oct 12, 2026: Organic Chemistry Seminar: TBD at Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:00:00 -0600

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Oct 16, 2026: Physical Chemistry Seminar: TBD at JILA

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:00:00 -0600

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Oct 23, 2026: Molecular Biophysics Supergroup Meeting at Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0600

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Oct 23, 2026: Physical Chemistry Seminar: Thomas Allison |Stony Brook University at JILA

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:00:00 -0600

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Oct 26, 2026: Organic Chemistry Seminar: Lyle Isaacs at Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:00:00 -0600

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Oct 30, 2026: Physical Chemistry Seminar: Megan Jackson | UNC - Chapel Hill at JILA

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:00:00 -0600

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Nov 6, 2026: Physical Chemistry Seminar: TBD at JILA

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:00:00 -0700

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Nov 9, 2026: Organic Chemistry Seminar: TBD at Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 16:00:00 -0700

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Nov 13, 2026: Molecular Biophysics Supergroup Meeting at Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 12:00:00 -0700

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Nov 13, 2026: Physical Chemistry Seminar: TBD at JILA

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 16:00:00 -0700

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Nov 20, 2026: Physical Chemistry Seminar: TBD at JILA

Fri, 20 Nov 2026 16:00:00 -0700

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Nov 30, 2026: Organic Chemistry Seminar: TBD at Cristol Chemistry and Biochemistry

Mon, 30 Nov 2026 16:00:00 -0700

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Dec 11, 2026: Molecular Biophysics Supergroup Meeting at Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building

Fri, 11 Dec 2026 12:00:00 -0700

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Jan 15, 2027: Molecular Biophysics Supergroup Meeting at Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building

Fri, 15 Jan 2027 12:00:00 -0700

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Jan 29, 2027: Molecular Biophysics Supergroup Meeting at Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building

Fri, 29 Jan 2027 12:00:00 -0700

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Feb 26, 2027: Molecular Biophysics Supergroup Meeting at Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building

Fri, 26 Feb 2027 12:00:00 -0700

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Mar 26, 2027: Molecular Biophysics Supergroup Meeting at Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building

Fri, 26 Mar 2027 12:00:00 -0600

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Apr 16, 2027: Molecular Biophysics Supergroup Meeting at Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building

Fri, 16 Apr 2027 12:00:00 -0600

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