The Peter Anthony Leermakers Symposium

The Peter A. Leermakers Symposium was created in memory of Professor Peter Leermakers of the Wesleyan Chemistry Department, who died tragically in 1971. The following year, Professor Max Tishler launched the symposium in Leermakers’s honor and, through his extensive connections in the chemistry community, attracted some of the world’s leading scientists as speakers.

2026 Leermakers Symposium

The 37th Peter Anthony Leermakers Symposium: Phys-Org Chemistry in Action will be held on October 10th, 2026 in the newly opened Wesleyan University Casper Life Sciences Building. 

Register here for the 2026 Leermakers symposium! 

Symposium Poster- 10/10/26, speaker headshots for Marty Burke, Neil Garg, Jessica Lamb, Dean Toste, Alison Wendlandt