Friday, September 18th, 2026 | Waverly 500
Scientific Program: 1:00 - 5:30 pm
Reception: 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Join the MDI community for a half-day symposium featuring talks from graduate students in the Avalos, Boergel, Kahr, Lee, and Weck labs! The half-day science program can be found below and will be followed by a light reception. If you’re interested in attending, please RSVP by Monday, September 14th!

Third Annual MDI Symposium

PROGRAM BOOK

Symposium Speakers

  • Prof. Bart Kahr

    Crystal Optics in Literature

  • Bibek Dhungel, Weck Lab

    A Cyclophanediene Approach to Controlled Synthesis of Organic Semiconducting Polymers

  • Christopher Grainger, Kahr/Lee Labs

    The Crystalline Photodimerization of Coumarin: Tunable Chiroptics and Photosalience


  • Brendan Hill, Börgel Lab

    Reactive Porous Materials for Activation of Gaseous Alkanes

  • Thiago Rubio, Avalos Lab

    Lanthanum incorporation in cesium lead chloride: A multinuclear magnetic resonance study

  • Amanda Rutledge, Lee Lab

    Photoswitchable Azobenzene Inclusions into Guanidinium-Sulfonate Hydrogen Bonded Frameworks

  • Akash Tiwari, Kahr Lab

    Chiroptical Imaging of inhomogeneous organized media

  • Kevin Torres, Weck Lab

    Colloidal Muscles-Like Actuators

  • Althena Zhu, Lee Lab

    Nanoconfined Pure-2D Chiral Perovskite (S/R-MBA)2PbI4 Crystals Through Electrospinning & Polymer Scaffolding