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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).

Department Seminar Program Policy and Guidelines

2025-2026 SHC Handbook

Upcoming Events

May
18
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
June
1
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 1, 2018, 4:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
About the Talk "Small-molecule Reactive Probes for Study and Control of RNA" RNAs arguably comprise the most diverse functional class of biomolecule, acting in th
Date
Monday, April 16, 2018, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor Troy Van Voorhis, MIT (Host: Hannah Wayment-Steele) "Electronic Dynamics in Complex Environments: From Electron Transfer to Singlet Fission"
Date
Monday, March 5, 2018, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor Tim Swager, MIT, Sapp Center Lecture Hall, 4:30 pm (Naomi Clayman)  
Date
Monday, February 26, 2018, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor Tobin Marks, Northwestern (Host: Hsiao-Tieh Hsu)"Surface Science Meets Homogeneous Catalysis"About the Seminar
Date
Monday, February 5, 2018, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor Jay Keasling, UC Berkeley (Host: Jaron Mercer) "Engineered Polyketide Synthases for Production of Commodity and Specialty Chemicals"
Date
Monday, January 22, 2018, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor Bob Bergman (Host: Katherine Walker) Sponsored by:
Date
Monday, November 27, 2017, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
"Cooperative Adsorption and Gas Separations in Metal-Organic Frameworks"About the Seminar
Date
Monday, November 6, 2017, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor Henry White, University of Utah (Host: Rain Mariano) "The Physics and Electrochemistry of Nanobubbles" About the Seminar
Date
Monday, October 23, 2017, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
Student Hosted Colloquia: Professor Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard (Host: Anton Sinitskiy) "Everything SLIPS: Design of Novel Omniphobic Materials" ​About the Seminar Liquids
Date
Monday, October 2, 2017, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Sapp Center Auditorium
"Making Antibiotics on Assembly Lines: What Have We Learned in the Past 25 Years"