Fall 2025- Seminar List
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Department Seminars are held Tuesday (or sometimes Thursday) at 11:30 in LGRT 201 (unless otherwise noted). Refreshments are available ~11:15 in LGRT 201. The public is cordially invited to attend. Here is the list in pdf (updated 9/9/25).
Department Links: Linktree, Quicklinks Page, Google Calendar Page and Google Sites Calendar Page. There is also the COE Events page.
Also: Chemistry Events, Polymer Science Events, Material Sciences Events (see right hand side).
(Updated 9/9/25)
SEPTEMBER 2025
Tuesday, Sept 2 First Day of Classes
Tuesday, Sept 9 Community Forum (In Goessmann 153, LGRT still under construction)
Tuesday, Sept 16 Seminar: Sanjeev Katti, Sanionics, "Clean Energy, Green Energy -- A Global Perspective" (Chen)
Tuesday, Sept 23 Seminar: Lilian C. Hsiao, North Carolina State University, “Strain softening and stiffening in colloidal biopolymer composites" (Beltramo)
Tuesday, Sept 30 UMass-3M Diversity in STEM seminar:
Belma Erdogan-Haug, Henkel Adhesive Technologies, “Breaking Through: My Path from STEM Student
to Corporate Leader”” (Perry, Coughlin) (Separate Coffee Hour at 3:00 pm in A624 Conte Polymer Research Center)
OCTOBER
Tuesday, Oct 7 Community Forum
Tuesday, Oct 14 Emily Diep and Josh Chen, Best Dissertation Award Recipients
“From Surface Evolution to Electronic Design Automation (EDA): Plasma-Facing Materials to High-NA Lithography”
and “TBD” (Schiffman, Maroudas)
NOVEMBER
week of Nov 2 AIChE Meetings this week in Boston
Thursday, Nov 13 Alumni Lectures: David Kaplan, Tufts University, "TBD"
& Friday Nov 14 Thursday, 11:30 in LGRT 201; Friday, 11:30 in Campus Center 168C (Reception following seminar)
Thursday, Nov 20 Seminar: Michele L. Sarazen, Princeton University,
“Designing microporous catalysts to overcome material and reaction limitations” (Jentoft)
Tuesday, Nov 25 Community Forum
DECEMBER
Tuesday, Dec 9 Community Forum
Tuesday, Dec 9 Last Day of Classes
Wednesday, Dec 10 Reading Day, Holiday Party at 12:00 pm in Amherst Room (10th Floor Campus Center)
Wednesday, Dec 17 Finals End
JANUARY 2026
Thursday, Jan 1 Holiday: New Year's Day
Monday, Jan 19 Holiday: Martin Luther King Day
Thursday, Jan 29 First day of classes
FEBRUARY
Wednesday, Feb 4 Last Day to Add/Drop
Monday, Feb 16 Holiday: President's Day
Tuesday, Feb 17 Seminar: Rajamani P. Gounder, Purdue University, "Dynamic Interactions Between Copper
Active Sites in Zeolites During NOx Pollution Abatement Catalysis”" (Fan)
Thursday, Feb 19 Monday class schedule at UMass
Tuesday, Feb 24 Seminar: William Phillips, University of Notre Dame, "TBD" (Schiffman)
MARCH
Friday, Mar 13 March Break begins after last class
Tuesday, Mar 31 Seminar: Elizabeth Biddinger, CUNY, "TBD" (Chen)
APRIL
Friday, Apr 17 Monday class schedule will be followed
Monday, Apr 20 Patriot's Day
MAY
Friday, May 8 Last Day of Classes
Monday, May 11 Finals begin
Friday, May 15 Finals end and Commencement Weekend begins
Thursday, May 21 Final grades due by Midnight
End of May: Qualifying Exams, Faculty Retreat
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Updated: September 23, 2025
Maria Wallace (wallace@ecs.umass.edu) manages the schedule, Amity Lee (lee@umass.edu) updates this web page.
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