OVERVIEW

Our Events

The Smalley-Curl Institute hosts a variety of events throughout the year. Select a title or tab to learn more about each annual event or series. See scheduled upcoming SCI events at the bottom of the page.

Recurring events

SCI Summer Colloquium
The Smalley-Curl Institute Summer Research Colloquium began in 1986 as the RQI Colloquium and has been held in August of each year. The purpose of the SCI Summer Research Colloquium is to provide undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers working at Rice with an opportunity to present their most recent work.

The next SCI Summer Colloquium is scheduled for Friday, August 7, 2026.

The SCI centers frequently hold workshops and conferences. For example, the Rice Center for Quantum Materials has an annual Workshop and Winter School on topics related to quantum materials.

Event Archive

Upcoming Events

 

Event Archive

 

Seminars

  • Quantum (RQI) Seminar Series
  • Theory and Computation in the Physical Sciences (TCPS) Lectures
    • September 8th, 2025 - Geoffroy Hautier
    • September 15th, 2025 - Evelyn Tang
    • September 22, 2025 - Peter Rossky
    • September 29, 2025 - Kaden Hazzard, "Paraparticles: a new window into correlated matter"
    • October 6, 2025 - Thomas Senftle, "Understanding Metal-Support Interactions in Catalysis with Symbolic Regression"
    • October 27, 2025 - Walter Chapman, "Self-assembly of bulk and confined copolymer / solvent systems from molecular density functional theory"
    • November 3, 2025 - Jose Onuchic, "Modeling the Genome: A View by a Physicist"
    • November 10, 2025 - Vir Bulchandani, ""Easy” versus “hard” problems in quantum many-body physics"
    • December 8, 2025 - Peter Wolynes, "Back to the Future:  Quantum Chaos and Information Scrambling in the Molecular World"
  • NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (NRT-CQED) Lectures
    • September 3, 2025 - Junichiro Kono, "Cavity QED in the ultrastrong coupling regime"
    • September 10, 2025 - Aditya Mohite (ChBE), "Overcoming the surface paradox"
    • September 17, 2025 - Songtao Chen, "Cavity-coupled telecom atomic source for quantum networking"
    • September 24, 2025 - Kaden Hazzard (PHYA), "What is a phase matter when a cavity is involved?"
    • October 1, 2025 - Douglas Natelson (PHYA), "Light emission from atomic-scale plasmonic tunnel junctions"
    • October 8, 2025 - Shengxi Huang (ECE), "Designer van der Waals materials for new photonic and phononic properties"
    • October 15, 2025 - Emilia Morosan (PHYA), "The rich physics of transition metal dichalcogenides"
    • November 11, 2025 - Han Pu, "Dicke model and its generalization"
    • November 19, 2025 - Guido Pagano, "Trapped-Ion simulation of molecular energy transfer"
  • RCQM Seminars
    • December 5, 2025 - Liang Wu, "Scanning ultrafast optical probe and control in kagome metals"
  • eQMA Seminars
    • December 4, 2025 - Steven Kivelson, "Emergent Gauge Fields in Quantum Condensed Matter"
  • Frontier Condensed Matter Physics (FCMP) Seminar Series (RLEMM)
  • Chapman Lectures

Workshops

Symposiums

Colloquiums 

Group Meetings and Lunches