These talks begin at 2 pm on Wednesday afternoons in Room LSE 103 (24 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215). There are refreshments provided at the lecture.

Seminars labeled with * and highlighted are part of the Greater Boston Area (GBA) Theoretical Chemistry Lecture Series sponsored by Boston University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). These joint seminars are held at MIT in Building 4, Room 231 and start at 4:30 pm and run until 6:00 pm.

These “theory afternoons” offer an exciting new seminar medium where in-depth presentations of broadly applicable methods and new approaches are presented. For more information on these joint BU-Harvard-MIT theory seminars (including lecture notes) please see the GBA Theoretical Chemistry Lecture Series.

In addition, the Center for Computational Science runs a seminar series Friday at 12:00pm in PRB595 that are labelled as **.

Fall 2025

Chenghan Li
Cal Tech
Chan Group Website
Host: QC
9/3

Troy Van Voorhis*
MIT
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
9/24

Hongze Gao
BU
Ling Group Website
Host: Xi Ling
9/24

Hedieh Torabifard
UT-Dallas
Group Website
Host: Ksenia Bravaya
10/8
Hongjian He
BU
Cheng Group Website
Host: Ji-Xin Cheng/Xi Ling
10/15
Yu-Shan Lin*
Tufts
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
10/22
Zelin Miao
BU
Kamenetska Group Website
Host: Masha Kamenetska/Xi Ling
10/29
Sijia Dong*
Northeastern
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
11/5
Lucas Bao*
BC
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
11/12
Favian Liu
BU
Kamenetska Group Website
Host: Masha Kamenetska/Xi Ling
11/12
Mingyan Lu*
Northeastern
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
11/19
Xinqiang Ding *
Tufts
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
12/10
Weigao Xu
Nanjin U
Group Website
Host: Xi Ling
12/10
Ayse Bekar
BU
Vajda Group Website
Host: Sandor Vajda
12/10

Spring 2026

Jiale Shi
BU
Cui Group Website
Host: QC/Ksenia Bravaya
1/21

Sudip Das
BU
Cui Group Website
Host: QC/Ksenia Bravaya
1/28
Jason Green*
UMass-Boston
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
2/4
Yu-Shan Lin*
Tufts
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
2/11
Yihan Shao*
Brandeis
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
2/18
Connor Coley*
MIT
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
2/25
Ksenia Bravaya*
BU
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
3/4
Bin Zhang*
MIT
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
3/18
Wenjie Dou
Westlake
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
4/1
Fiona Mon
BU
Straub Group Website
Host: John Straub/Ksenia Bravaya
4/8
Camilo Zuluaga
BU
Coker Group Website
Host: David Coker/Ksenia Bravaya
4/15
Ming Chen
Ming Chen
Purdue
Group Website
Host: CCS
4/16
Qiang Cui*
BU
Group Website
Host: THEOCHEM
4/29