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Student Hosted Colloquia
The Student Hosted Colloquia (SHC) are seminars that appeal to a broad scientific audience. This series, entirely run by graduate students in the Department of Chemistry, aims to select speakers who are engaging, enthusiastic, and interested in sharing their scientific knowledge and research with our students. The success of this program is dependent upon sponsorship by our industry partners. Seminars in the SHC series are free and open to the public.
The financial sustainability of this series is bolstered by the generosity of our industry partners. To learn more about becoming a sponsor of this series, please contact chemistry-externalrelations [at] stanford.edu (chemistry-externalrelations[at]stanford[dot]edu).
Upcoming Events
Date
Monday, May 18, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium (STLC 111)
About the Seminar "Light-driven fuel production at passivated silicon photoelectrodes"Coatings and termination strategies for silicon photoelectrodes are cru
Date
Monday, June 1, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium (STLC 111)
About the Seminar"Chemically and Financially Sustainable Methods for Chemical Synthesis"Sustainability has become
Past Events
Date
Monday, October 5, 2020, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Zoom
Student Hosted Colloquia Kick-Off: Professor Tom Markland
About the Talk
"Harnessing the quantum mechanics of the hydrogen bond: from atmospheric science to enzyme cataly
Date
Monday, April 13, 2020, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
CANCELED: Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor Stephen Craig, Duke University (Host: Matias Horst)
Date
Monday, March 2, 2020, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor Gary Brudvig, Yale University (Host: Gus Braun)
About the Seminar
"Water oxidation chemistry of photosystem II and artificial systems"
Date
Monday, September 30, 2019, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia Kick-Off: Professor Justin Du Bois
"Through the Molecular Looking Glass: A View of Sodium Ion Channel Structure and Function"
Date
Monday, June 3, 2019, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor Marsha Lester, University of Pennsylvania (Host: Kallie Hilsabeck and Jana Meiser)
About the Seminar
"Spectroscopic and dynamical probes of at
Date
Monday, April 15, 2019, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia: Derek Lowe, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research (Host: Jack Sloane)
About the Seminar
"Drug Discovery From the Inside"
Drug di
Date
Monday, February 25, 2019, 4:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor John Arnold, UC Berkeley (Host: Augustin Brown)
About the Seminar
"Catalytic and Stoichiometric Reactivity with Electropositive Metals"
Date
Monday, February 4, 2019, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor Sarah Reisman, Caltech (Host: Clayton Hardman)
Sponsored By:
Date
Monday, January 28, 2019, 4:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor Marc Hillmyer, University of Minnesota (Host: JD Feist)
Sponsored by:
Date
Monday, October 29, 2018, 4:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
About the Talk
"The long and winding road: predicting material and molecular properties through computation"