Past Seminars

2013 - 2014

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
May 9, 2014	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	Yongdan Li State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering Tianjin University, CHINA Talk Title: Catalytic ethanolysis of Kraft lignin with a Mo-based catalyst in supercritical ethanol
February 26, 2014	11:00AM	ESB 2001	Ignacio Melián-Cabrera Chemical Reaction Engineering, ITM, University of Groningen Talk Title: Coke, friend or foe? The case study of the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene
January 31, 2014	11:00AM	MRL 2053	Xinhe Bao Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Talk Title: Catalytic Activation of Methane
January 28, 2014	2:00PM	ESB 1001	Gouyu Wang Vice Dean of School of Humanities, director of the Department of Philosphy and director of the Center for EU Studies at Dalian University of Technology Talk Title: Nanoethics Based on the Principle of Feasibility
January 17, 2014	4:00PM	ESB 1001	Can Li State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy Talk Title: Fundamental Understanding of Photocatalysis Roles of Cocatalysts and Junctions
October 28, 2013	4:00PM	MRL 2053	Joachim Sauer Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität Talk Title: C-H bond activation by solid oxides – mechanisms and catalysts
September 9, 2013	2:30PM	ESB 2003	Jinping Zhang Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO), CAS Talk Title: Introduction to Electron Microscopy Facilities in China and the TEM Methods in Application to the Future US-China Collaborations in Research & Development of New Catalytic and Energy Materials

2012 - 2013

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
May 29, 2013	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	Jörg Kärger Leipzig University, Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences Talk Title: Potentials and Benefit of “Microscopic” Techniques of Diffusion Measurement in Nanoporous Materials
January 30, 2013	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	Ib Chorkendorff Center for Individual Nanoparticle Functionality (CINF) Technical University of Denmark Talk Title: Catalysis: A Part of the Solution for Future Energy Conversion

Winter 2012

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
April 4, 2012	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	Hans-Peter Steinrück Physikalische Chemie Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Talk Title: Surface chemistry with porphyrins
March 22, 2012	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	Istvan Horvath Head of Department of Chemistry and Biology City University of Hong Kong Talk Title: Sustainable Conversion of Carbohydrates to Chemicals. Do We Appreciate the Mechanistic Limitations?
March 7, 2012	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	Tom Jaramillo Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Stanford University Talk Title: Tailoring Electrocatalyst Materials at the Nano-Scale: Controlling Activity, Selectivity, and Stability for Energy Conversion Reactions
February 29, 2012	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	John Kitchin Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Talk Title: Fe-promoted NiO based oxygen evolution electrocatalysts
February 21, 2012	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	Cliff Kubiak Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Harold C. Urey Chair in Chemistry UC San Diego Talk Title: Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Reduction of CO2.
January 11, 2012	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	Sean McGrady University Research Professor Department of Chemistry University of New Brunswick Talk Title: Metal and Chemical Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage: Recent Progress

Winter 2011

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
February 2, 2011	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	James M. Mayer Alvin L. and Verla R. Kwiram Endowed Professor of Chemistry University of Washington Talk Title: Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: Metal Complexes, Organic Reactions, Metal Oxides, and Marcus Theory
February 16, 2011	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	Mark E. Davis Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology Talk Title: New Heterogeneous Catalysts for Converting Sugars in Aqueous Media
February 23, 2011	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	Jim Liao Chancellor's Professor and Vice-Chair UCLA Talk Title: Design, Evolution, and Ensemble Modeling of High Flux Microbial Synthesis Networks
March 2, 2011	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	Suljo Linic Professor of Chemical Engineering University of Michigan Talk Title: Design of targeted nanostructures for efficient and environmentally friendly catalysis and photo-catalysis.
April 13, 2011	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	Richard G. Finke Professor of Chemistry Colorado State University Talk Title: Transition-Metal Nanoclusters: From Solution Synthesis, Stabilization and Mechanism of Formation to Supported Nanoparticle Heterogeneous Catalysts.
April 26, 2011	4:00PM	ENG-II 1519	Paul Chirik Professor of Chemistry Princeton University Talk Title: Modern Alchemy: Catalysis with Base Metals.

Spring 2010

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
March 19, 2010	3:00PM	ESB 2001	John T. Yates Professor of Chemistry University of Virginia Talk Title: Electronic Activation of TiO2 – Watching the Behavior of Electrons and Holes.

Fall 2010

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
October 7, 2009	3:00PM	MSB 1302	Enrique Iglesia Professor of Chemical Engineering Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Talk Title: Nanostructures and Nanospaces in Catalysis.
December 2, 2009	3:00PM	MSB 1302	Jim Dumesic Professor of Chemical Engineering University of Wisconsin, Madison Talk Title: Catalytic Approaches for Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Fuels and Chemicals.

Spring 2009

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
April 8, 2009	3:30PM	MSB 1302	Sunney Chan Professor of Biophysical Chemistry, Emeritus California Institute of Technology Talk Title: Learning From Nature To Develop A Catalyst For The Facile Conversion Of Methane To Methanol.
April 21, 2009	3:00PM	ESB 1001	John T. Yates Professor of Chemistry University of Virginia Talk Title: Observation of Chemical Reactions on Surfaces using STM- Watching Individual Molecules do their Molecular Dances.
April 29, 2009	3:00PM	ESB 1001	Mark A. Barteau Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Delaware Talk Title: Fundamental Approaches to Catalyst Design for Selectivity: Lessons from Olefin Epoxidation.
May 6, 2009	3:00PM	ESB 1001	Alexis T. Bell Professor of Chemical Engineering University of California, Berkeley Talk Title: Insights Gained from Experiments and Theory into the Factors Controlling the Activity and Selectivity of Catalytically Active Sites.
May 20, 2009	3:00PM	MSB 1302	Thomas Bligaard Associate professor Center for Atomic-scale Materials Design (CAMD) Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Talk Title: The reactivity-trends underlying catalytic chlorine evolution processes.

Winter 2009

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
January 14, 2009	3:00PM	Chem 1005D	Michael Gordon Assistant Professor Department of Chemical Engineering UC Santa Barbara Talk Title: Mechanical, Electrical, and Optical Interrogation of Nanostructures and Surfaces.
January 28, 2009	3:00PM	MSB 1302	Bruce Gates Catalysis Group Principal Investigator Professor of Chemical Engineering UC Davis Talk Title: Extending Molecular Catalysis to Surfaces: Supported Metal Complexes and Metal Clusters with Well-Defined Structures.
February 11, 2009	3:00PM	MRL 2053	Miquel Salmeron Professor and Scientific Director Imaging and Manipulation Facility of the Molecular Foundry Materials Science Division of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Talk Title: Water at Interfaces: Adsorption, Reactions, Wetting.

Fall 2008

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
November 5, 2008	3:00PM	MSB 1302	Clemens Heske Professor of Chemistry University of Nevada, Las Vegas Talk Title: How Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy can Shed Light on the Electronic and Chemical Properties of Interfaces.

Summer 2008

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
September 3, 2008	3:00PM	ESB 1001	Hongfei Wang Research Professor State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics Chinese Academy of Sciences Talk Title: New Opportunities in the Interface Studies with Nonlinear Spectroscopy.

Spring 2008

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
May 14, 2008	3:00PM	MRL 2053	Byeongdu Lee Argonne National Laboratory Talk Title: Scattering Studies of Nanoparticles and their Assemblies: Size-Selective Cluster and DNA-Programmed Nanoparticle Cluster.
May 28, 2008	3:00PM	MSB 1302	Surya Prakash George A. and Judith A. Olah Nobel Laureate Chair in Hydrocarbon Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry University of Southern California Talk Title: Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy.
June 11, 2008	3:00PM	ESB 1001	Israel Wachs G. Whitney Snyder Professor and Professor of Chemical Engineering Lehigh University Talk Title: Selective Oxidation over Bulk Mixed Metal Vanadates and Supported Vanadium Oxide Catalysts.

Winter 2008

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
January 16, 2008	3:30PM	ESB 1001	Henry White Professor, Analytical Chemistry University of Utah Talk Title: Electrochemistry in Synthetic and Biological Nanopores.
February 13, 2008	3:00PM	ESB 1001	Musa Ahmed Staff Scientist, LBNL Chemical Dynamics Beamline Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Talk Title: Aerosol Chemistry, Nanoparticle Physics, and Imaging Mass Spectrometry with Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Radiation.
February 27, 2008	3:30PM	ESB 1001	Barr Halevi Post-Doc, Scott Group UC Santa Barbara Talk Title: Fundamental Studies of the Reactions of Alkyl Thiols and Sulfides on Metal-Oxide Model Catalysts.
March 12, 2008	3:30PM	ESB 1001	Stefan Vajda Chemist, Cluster Studies Group Argonne National Laboratory Talk Title: The Effect of Size and Composition of Highly Monodisperse Nanocatalysts in Selective Partial Oxidation Reactions.

Fall 2008

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
September 26, 2007	3:30PM	ESB 1001	Zdenek Dohnalek Senior Research Scientist II Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Talk Title: Defect and Adsorbate Dynamics on TiO₂(110)
October 10, 2007	3:30PM	ESB 1001	Francisco Zaera Professor of Chemistry UC Riverside Talk Title: The Mechanisms of Hydrocarbon Conversion Catalysis: Regioselectivity, Stereoselectivity, and Enantioselectivity
December 5, 2007	3:30PM	MRL 2053	Nathan S. Lewis Professor of Chemistry California Institute of Technology Talk Title: Progress and Challenges in Solar Energy Conversion Using Semiconductor/Liquid Junctions.

Spring 2007

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
April 18, 2007	2:00PM	MSB 1302	Gabor Somorjai Professor of Chemistry UC Berkeley Talk Title:Frontiers of Surface Science. Structure, Bonding and Dynamics on the Nanoscale of High Pressures and at the Buried (solid-liquid and solid-solid) Interfaces.
May 2, 2007	3:30PM	ESB - 1001	Raymond J. Gorte Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Pennsylvania Talk Title: Characterization of the Equilibrium Redox Properties of Mixed Oxides
May 16, 2007	3:30PM	ESB - 1001	Andrew Kummel Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry UC San Diego Talk Title: Low Drift Chemical Sensing Mechanisms of Organic Thin-Film Transistors
May 30, 2007	3:30PM	MRL - 2053	Bruce D. Kay Laboratory Fellow Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Talk Title: Using Nanoscale Amorphous Films to Study Processes in Supercooled Liquid Water and Liquid Solutions

Winter 2007

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
February 21, 2007	4:00PM	Chemistry 1005D	Eric McFarland Professor of Chemical Engineering UC Santa Barbara Talk Title: A Solid Cataloreactant Strategy for the Synthesis of Liquid Fuels and Chemicals from Methane
March 7, 2007	3:30PM	MRL 2053	Alexis T. Bell Professor of Chemical Engineering UC Berkeley Talk Title: Identifying the Relationships between Catalyst Composition and Structure and Catalyst Performance: Challenges for the Experimentalist and the Theoretician

Spring 2006

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
June 14, 2006	2:00PM	ESB 2001	Bas van de Meerakker Talk Title: Stark deceleration and trapping of OH radicals.
May 31, 2006	2:00PM	ESB 2001	Raj Pala UC Santa Barbara Talk Title: Effect of symmetry breaking structural transitions on oxygen vacancy formation in doped ZnO films
May 19, 2006	2:00PM	Chem 1171	Sir John Meurig Thomas The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London and Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge Talk Title: The Advantage of Single Site Heterogeneous Catalysts.
May 17, 2006	2:00PM	ESB 2001	Matthias Scheffler Director, Theory Department Frits-Haber-Institut, Berlin Talk Title: Computational Science and Engineering from First Principles; insights into the physics of the earth core, quantum dots, catalysis and mad cow disease.

Winter 2006

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
March 7, 2006	2:00PM	ESB 2001	John Tully Sterling Professor of Chemistry Yale University
February 22, 2006	2:00PM	ESB 2001	Wayne Hess Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Talk Title:Controlled Laser Desorption from Crystalline Surfaces.
February 8, 2006	2:00PM	ESB 2001	Martin Moskovits Professor of Chemistry UC Santa Barbara

Fall 2005

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
November 30, 2005	2:00PM	ESB 2001	Horia Metiu Professor of Chemistry UC Santa Barbara Talk Title: Doped oxides as catalysts, why gold clusters are reactive, and CO oxidation by Au₂/TiO₂(110)
November 16, 2005	2:00PM	ESB 2001	Steve Buratto Professor of Chemistry UC Santa Barbara Talk Title: Size, Shape and Sintering of Size-Selected Au_N Nanoparticle Catalysts Supported on Rutile TiO₂(110)-1x1 Surfaces: A UHV-STM Study
November 10, 2005	4:00PM	PSBN 4606	Xinhe Bao Director, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Professor and Group Leader, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis Talk Title: Catalytic Chemistry of Confined Systems.
November 2, 2005	2:00PM	ESB 2001	Susannah Scott Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering UC Santa Barbara Talk Title: Exploring active site structures on oxide-supported catalysts.
October 19, 2005	2:00PM	ESB 2001	Alec Wodtke Professor of Chemistry UC Santa Barbara Talk Title: Using Electronically Non-adiabatic Interactions to Control Surface Chemistry.
September 29, 2005	4:00PM	ESB 1001	Charles T. Kresge Global R&D Director for Research and Engineering Sciences Core Research & Development Dow Chemical Company Talk Title:Why Work In An Industrial Research Laboratory? Catalysis Looks to the Future.
September 22, 2005	3:00PM	PSBN 4606	Professor Hongfei Wang Molecular Reaction Dynamics Laboratory Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Talk Title: Quantitative measurement of vibrational spectra, structure and dynamics of molecular interfaces with nonlinear spectroscopy.