ENFL/CATL Summer School Webinar Series

We are pleased to announce a 2026 summer school webinar series on New Frontiers and Perspectives in Catalysis Research. This webinar series is jointly sponsored by the Energy and Fuels (ENFL) and Catalysis Science & Technology (CATL) divisions of ACS. The summer school will consist of a series of four one-hour lectures held over four weeks that will teach important concepts in this area of research. Lectures will be followed by an interactive Q&A session. This series will be an outstanding introduction for students new to the field. The webinars are particularly geared toward graduate students, but students and more senior researchers alike are welcome to attend. Attendance is free to division members.

The series will include lectures from the following speakers:

Date/Speaker/Topic (All webinars will be held at 2PM Eastern time)

- July 29^th / Zach Ulissi (Meta Fundamental AI Research) / Expanding the Universal Model of Atoms to Solid/Electrolyte Interfaces with OC25

- August 5^th / E. Charles Sykes (Tufts) / A Short History of Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts; Born in a Chilly Vacuum, Applied in a Fiery Reactor, and Understood in Silico

- August 12^th / Stacey Zones (Chevron, retired) / Fundamentals of zeolite chemistry and then a discussion of their widespread and emerging applications as catalysts in the worlds of energy transformations, chemicals production and upgrading difficult molecules

- August 19^th / Suljo Linic (Univ. Michigan) / Chemistry and Catalysis for Challenging Chemical Transformations and Sustainable Energy Systems 

Please find the single registration link for all three webinars here: 

https://american-chemical-society.zoom.com/webinar/register/WN_uh_gKVT4RTG06wpD-TLqTg 

Registration for the webinars is free for division members. Membership is free for graduate students who are ACS members. You can join the divisions at the following links. 

For CATL:

https://home.acs.org/forms/s/technical-divisions?sc=TDJoinPage 

For ENFL:

https://forms.gle/Y5R1wGvL5PtSTHKP9  

Please help us to spread the word and encourage your students and colleagues to sign up! Space is limited, so please act fast to reserve a spot. 

Sincerely,

ACS ENFL and CATL Educational Committees