Events

Upcoming FIP Seminars

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

FIP Seminar: Non-destructive 3D pathology and analysis for optimizing treatments

Jonathan T.C. Liu, PhD Professor of Pathology and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering Director, Molecular Biophotonics and Analytics Lab, Stanford University

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Wilkinson Building, room 021 auditorium

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

FIP Seminar: Label-Free Chemical Imaging of Single-Cell Drug Response: From Subcellular Quantification to Super-Resolution

Dan Fu, Professor Associate Chair, Master of Science in Applied Chemical Science & Technology

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Wilkinson 021

Upcoming Associated School & Dept. Events

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Learning in Networks Reading Group

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

MEMS Distinguished Seminar: Kristina Johnson

Kristina Johnson

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

MEMS Distinguished Seminar: Kristina Johnson, "The Intentional Entrepreneur"

Kristina Johnson

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Physics Colloquium - Millisecond Pulsars: Basic Physics from Nature's Celestial Clocks

Scott Ransom

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Physics 130

Thursday, September 10, 2026

DPS Community Schools Learning Exchange Orientation

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

NC Mutual Tower, 411 W Chapel Hill St, Durham

Friday, September 11, 2026

Fall 2026 ORAQ Regulatory Affairs Training Program

Office of Regulatory Affairs and Quality

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Zoom

Friday, September 11, 2026 to Sunday, September 13, 2026

Adventures in Sampling

9:00 am - 9:00 am

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Saturday, September 12, 2026

Stargazing

8:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Duke Teaching Observatory

Monday, September 14, 2026 to Sunday, September 20, 2026

Academic Resources Week

(all day)

East Campus

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Learning in Networks Reading Group

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

MEMS Distinguished Seminar: Robert Clark, "Walkabout: From Engineering Research and Entrepreneurship to Academic Leadership— and Back Again"

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

FIP Seminar: Non-destructive 3D pathology and analysis for optimizing treatments

Jonathan T.C. Liu, PhD Professor of Pathology and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering Director, Molecular Biophotonics and Analytics Lab, Stanford University

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Wilkinson Building, room 021 auditorium

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Physics Colloquium - Reverse Physics: From Laws to Physical Assumptions

Christine Aidala

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Physics 130

Friday, September 18, 2026

Cybersecurity at Duke Conference "In the Age of Autonomy"

General Charles Q. Brown (Ret), Tim Kosiba National Security Agency Deputy Director, Congresswoman Deborah Ross United States Congress 2nd Congressional District, North Carolina, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee United States Congress 4th Congressional District, North Carolina

8:00 am - 8:00 pm

Penn Pavilion

Friday, September 18, 2026

Blue Devil Toastmasters Online Meeting

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Virtual

Friday, September 18, 2026

Duke Society for Women in Science (SWS) Distinguished Lecture and Lunch series

Haiyan Gao, Physics

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Friday, September 18, 2026

Stargazing

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Duke Teaching Observatory

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Learning in Networks Reading Group

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

FIP Seminar: Label-Free Chemical Imaging of Single-Cell Drug Response: From Subcellular Quantification to Super-Resolution

Dan Fu, Professor Associate Chair, Master of Science in Applied Chemical Science & Technology

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Wilkinson 021

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

MEMS Distinguished Seminar: Dr. Younan Xia, "Three Decades of Nanomaterials Research: From Fundamental Studies to Applications"

Younan Xia

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Forecasting Patient Trajectories: Leveraging Irregularly Sampled, Multimodal Time-Series for Clinical Foundation Models

Rishi Kamaleswaran, PhD

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Virtual

Friday, September 25, 2026 to Saturday, September 26, 2026

Humanistic AI: Generative Models and the Future of Cultural and Historical Interpretation

8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Friday, September 25, 2026

Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation Demo Day 2026

3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Wilkinson Building

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Learning in Networks Reading Group

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

MEMS Pearsall Distinguished Lecture: Metin Sitti (Koç University, Turkey), "Wireless Milli/Microscale Robots for Biomedical Applications"

Metin Sitti

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Friday, October 2, 2026

Founders Friday Monthly Mentoring

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Wilkinson Engineering Building, Room 017

Saturday, October 3, 2026

Stargazing

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Duke Teaching Observatory

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Learning in Networks Reading Group

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

DMI/MEMS Seminar Presented by Prof Lane Martin

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

DMI/MEMS Seminar Presented by Prof Lane Martin

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

DMI/MEMS Seminar Presented by Prof Lane Martin

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Thursday, October 8, 2026 to Friday, October 9, 2026

Duke Summit on AI for Health Innovation

(all day)

North Carolina Biotechnology Center

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Pratt PhD Program Re-Orientation

Dr. Heileen Hsu-Kim

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Westbrook 0012

Monday, October 12, 2026

2026 Duke-ORNL Workshop on Advanced Microscopy & Data-Driven Materials Science

See website for full details!

8:30 am - 5:30 pm

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

2026 Duke-ORNL Workshop on Advanced Microscopy & Data-Driven Materials Science

See website for full details!

8:30 am - 5:30 pm

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Learning in Networks Reading Group

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Friday, October 16, 2026

Blue Devil Toastmasters Online Meeting

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Virtual

Friday, October 16, 2026

Duke Society for Women in Science (SWS) lunch series

Xiaoyue Ni, Mechanical Engineering and Matls Science

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Friday, October 16, 2026

Stargazing

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Duke Teaching Observatory

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Chemistry Seminar Presented by Prof. J.R Schmidt (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Prof. J.R Schmidt

11:40 am - 12:40 pm

French Family Science Center 2237

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Learning in Networks Reading Group

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Physics Colloquium - Title Forthcoming

Michelle Wang

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Physics 130

Friday, October 23, 2026 to Sunday, October 25, 2026

Rhodes iiD PopUp: Statistical Inference and Learning in Networks Workshop 1

9:00 am - 9:00 am

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Saturday, October 24, 2026 to Monday, October 26, 2026

DuQuantum Hackathon

9:00 am - 9:00 am

Wilkinson 021

Saturday, October 24, 2026 to Monday, October 26, 2026

DuQuantum Hackathon

9:00 am - 9:00 am

Wilkinson 021

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Learning in Networks Reading Group

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Physics Colloquium - Title Forthcoming

Mark Chadwick

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Physics 130

Friday, October 30, 2026

Stargazing

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Duke Teaching Observatory

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Chemistry Seminar Presented by Prof. Peter Mahaffy (University of Wisconsin- Madison)

Prof. Peter Mahaffy (University of Wisconsin- Madison)

11:40 am - 12:40 pm

French Family Science Center 2237

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Learning in Networks Reading Group

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Physics Colloquium - Title Forthcoming

Katherine Brading

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Physics 130

Friday, November 6, 2026

Founders Friday Monthly Mentoring

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Wilkinson Engineering Building, Room 017

Friday, November 6, 2026

Founders Friday Monthly Mentoring

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Wilkinson Engineering Building, Room 017

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Learning in Networks Reading Group

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Physics Colloquium - Title Forthcoming

Douglas Natelson

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Physics 130

Friday, November 13, 2026

Rhodes iiD PopUp: Learning in Networks Workshop 2

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Fuqua School of Business Geneen Auditorium

Friday, November 13, 2026

Pratt PhD 2026 Fellowship Awards Celebration and Lunch

Dr. Heileen Hsu-Kim

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Fitzpatrick CIEMAS 3121

Saturday, November 14, 2026

Stargazing

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Duke Teaching Observatory

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

Learning in Networks Reading Group

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Friday, November 20, 2026

Blue Devil Toastmasters Online Meeting

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Virtual

Friday, November 20, 2026

Duke Society for Women in Science (SWS) lunch series

Susan Rodger, Computer Science

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Tuesday, November 24, 2026

Learning in Networks Reading Group

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

Chemistry Seminar Presented by Prof. Hans Renata (Rice University)

Prof. Hans Renata (Rice University)

11:40 am - 12:40 pm

Department of Chemistry

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

Learning in Networks Reading Group

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Friday, December 4, 2026

Founders Friday Monthly Mentoring

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Wilkinson Engineering Building, Room 017

Saturday, December 5, 2026

Stargazing

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Duke Teaching Observatory

Friday, December 18, 2026

Blue Devil Toastmasters Online Meeting

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Virtual

Tuesday, January 12, 2027

Chemistry Seminar Presented by Prof. Brian Blagg (Notre Dame)

Prof. Brian Blagg (Notre Dame)

11:40 am - 12:40 pm

French Family Science Center 2237

Friday, January 29, 2027

Duke Society for Women in Science (SWS) Distinguished Lecture and Lunch series

Xiuyuan Cheng, Math

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

Wednesday, February 3, 2027

MEMS Distinguished Seminar: Karen A. Thole (Penn State), ""The Opportunities and Challenges Using Additive Manufacturing for Advancing Turbine Cooling"

Karen A. Thole

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium

Wednesday, February 3, 2027

Physics Colloquium - Title Forthcoming

Sean Carrol

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

None

Tuesday, February 9, 2027

Chemistry Seminar Presented by Prof. Samantha Kristufek (Texas Tech University)

Prof. Samantha Kristufek (Texas Tech University)

11:40 am - 12:40 pm

French Family Science Center 2237

Tuesday, February 23, 2027

Chemistry Seminar Presented by Dr. Euna Yoo (NIH/NCI)

Dr. Euna Yoo (NIH/NCI)

11:40 am - 12:40 pm

French Family Science Center 2237

Friday, February 26, 2027

Duke Society for Women in Science (SWS) Distinguished Lecture and Lunch series

Marcy Uyenoyama, Biology

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330