2013年底到2014实验室有一系列的学术报告，选列部分重量级的报告如下，主要是物理化学等各个领域的诺贝尔奖获得者及其他杰出科学家和管理者。如华人熟悉的朱棣文博士。限于专业和时间，只参与了其中的几个，其中朱棣文是冲着他华人的面庞去的，学术水平不说，沟通能力确实强，学者中属于上乘。其实除了这些重量级的人物，个人更关注小领域的各种Seminar，受益良多。

Arun Majumdar - January 27, 2014

Vice President of Energy, Google

Former Director, U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

Video: "Energy and the Industrial Revolution: Past, Present, and Future"

Wigner distinguished lecturer Majumdar says scale-up factor key to R&D success

Steven Chu - February 12, 2014

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University

Former US Secretary of Energy

1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics

? Lecture: "The Energy and Climate Challenge: Necessity as the Mother of Invention"

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - July 28, 2014

Structural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Other confirmed lecturers include:

Frances Arnold

Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry

Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center

Principal Investigator, The Frances H. Arnold Research Group, California Institute of Technology

Craig Barrett - April 8, 2014

Former Chairman of the Board, Intel Corporation

Siegfried Hecker

Professor (Research), Management Science and Engineering

Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University

C. N. R. Rao

National Research Professor

Linus Pauling Research Professor

Honorary President, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

Ada Yonath

The Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology

Director, The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly, Weizmann Institute of Science

2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry