Seminars & Lectures of interest can be seen on the LRSM Calendar page 
Current events
- Franklin Institute Award: David Weitz, April 17, 2024
- Principles of Quantum Matter, August 9-11, 2023
A Symposium to Celebrate Charles Kane’s 60th Birthday - 2023 Colloid and Interface Science Symposium (COINS), June 26-27, 2023
- Franklin Institute Award Lecture: Philip Kim, April 27, 2023
- Pursuing a Scientific Career at a National Laboratory Tuesday, October 11, 2022
- New Development in Topological and Correlated Materials, June 7-10, 2022
- Information-driven Biomaterials (Square Table III) January 16-17, 2020
- Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day
- Workshop on Science in Archaeology
- Burstein Lecture Series in Materials Science
- NCS9 (May 25, 2018)
- Britton Chance Symposium on Metabolic Imaging and Spectroscopy
- Principal of Condensed Matter: A Symposium in Honor of Tom Lubensky
- The Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
- Science Café Program
- Philadelphia Science Festival
- Annual Symposium on PREM-related Research
- Workshop on Science in Archaeology
- Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day
- The Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter Workshop (MASM)
- TAFDV Spring Symposium
Summer Outreach Programs
- Research Experience for Undergraduates
- Penn Summer Science Initiative (HS students)
- Research Experience for Teachers
- High School Teachers Food Science Workshops
- Penn-Girard High School Science Camp
Additional Related Events:
- NSF Workshop: Enabling Quantum Leap, September 19 & 20, 2019
- Fibrous Networks in Biology, May 8, 2019
- Eli Burstein Centennial Event
- WHY LIGHT MATTERS October 27, 2015
- Lectures for Science Teachers (past events)
- Special Lecture in Materials: Sergey B. Vakhrushev
“From Lead Zirconate to PZT: Evolution of Structure” January 23, 2015 [ poster ] - Workshop on Foldable, Buildable, & Responsive Materials from the micro scale to the building scale
- How to Start a Materials-based Company October 28, 2013
- MRSEC Workshop on Liquid Crystals and Particles December 16, 2013
- ACS 2014 Colloid & Surface Science Symposium June 22nd – June 25th, 2014
- LRSM-COMPLOIDS Workshop on Soft Matter April 17-19, 2013
- TAFDV Spring Symposium 2013 March 14, 2013 / West Conshohocken, PA
- LRSM 50th Anniversary Celebration May 4, 2012
- 2nd COMPASS Symposium, March 28, 2012
- 1st LRSM-NIMS Materials Workshop in Tsukuba, Japan
- Industry Lecture: “Nanotubes and Nanoparticles: Making Them Work for You” by Janis Matisons, Gelest Inc., December 7, 2011
- LRSM/MSE lecture: Zakya H. Kafafi, When Optoelectronics Goes Organic: What does Si have to do with it? Thursday, September 8, 2011 [ poster ]
- Frontiers in Macromolecular and Supramolecular Science
June 11-13, 2012 / Romanian Academy, Bucuresti, Romania - TAFDV Spring Symposium 2011 March 23, 2011 / West Conshohocken, PA
- Kick-off Meeting for NSF/Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) PENN Project / 10.8.10 [poster ]
- David Nelson’s First 60 years / Conference, 1.8.11 [ poster ]
- Frontiers in Macromolecular and Supramolecular Science
June 7, 2010 / Romanian Academy, Bucuresti, Romania
June 8-9, 2010 / Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Romania - COMPASS (Complex Assemblies of Soft Matter) News Release, February 26, 2010
1st COMPASS Symposium, April 29, 2010 - STRUCTURAL TOOLS at the LRSM Wednesday, January 6, 2010
- Enrichment Course for HS Science Teachers 2001/2010
- Soft Matter Workshop 2006
- Condensed Matter Physics Seminar