Departmental Seminar Series

Our chemistry and physics seminar series meets in Science 059 at 11:00 AM on Tuesdays. Students interested in attending graduate school are encouraged to meet with the academic seminar speakers on Tuesday afternoon.

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Spring 2013 Seminar Series


Date Speaker
Jan 15 Kevin Williams, Department of Chemistry, Western Kentucky University, "Tailoring Platinum(II) Complexes to Biologically Relevant Targets" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Jan 22 Anita Mattson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, "New Directions in Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysis" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Feb 12 Hilkka Kenttamaa, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, "Organic Mass Spectrometry" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Feb 19 Richard Higashi, Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, "Dalton's Muse: Lies of the Periodic Table and Its Application to Metabolomics" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Mar 19 Jared Anderson, Department of Chemistry, University of Toledo (Homepage)
Mar 26 Stuart A.Solin, Department of Physics, Washington University - St. Louis (Homepage)
Apr 2 Richard DiMarchi, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University - Bloomington (Homepage)


Fall 2012 Seminar Series


Date Speaker
Sep 4 Mingqiang Gu (graduate student), Department of Physics, Nanjing University, and Department of Chemistry and Physics, Indiana State University, "Strain Induced Phase Transitions in SrRuO3/SrTiO3 Superlattice" (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 2 William Jackson (pharmacy student and ISU alumnus), Purdue University College of Pharmacy, "Gastroenteral Consequences of Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy" (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 9 Patrick Limbach, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, "RNA Spell Checking: How to Know when RNA is Modified and Why" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 30 Tykhon Zubkov, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University, "Layered Metal Sulfides: Nanostructures, Surface Chemistry, and Photochemistry" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Nov 13 Sonya Bahar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Percolation, Phase Transitions and Speciation on a Neutral Landscape" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Dec 4 Stephen Wolf, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Indiana State University (Homepage)


Spring 2012 Seminar Series


Date Speaker
Jan 24 Yelizaveta Babayan, Analytical Sciences Research and Development, Eli Lilly and Company, "Analytical Chemistry in Pharmaceutical Development" (Seminar Abstract)
Feb 14 Stephane Egot-Lemaire, Department of Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, "Effects of weak electromagnetic fields on biological systems. Review of potential mechanisms of action and experimental exploration for therapeutic applications." (Seminar Abstract)
Feb 21 Jonathan Sweedler, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, "Understanding our brain neuron by neuron: Analytical chemistry for neuroscience research" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Feb 28 Justin Shearer, Department of Chemistry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, "Carbon cryogels: A medium for separations" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Apr 10 John Goodpaster, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis (IUPUI), "Beating the bugs: Monitoring, modeling and preventing microbial degradation of ignitable liquids" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)


Fall 2011 Seminar Series


Date Speaker
Aug 30 Chem 399/499 initial meeting
Sep 6 Guillermo Morales, CGeneTech, Inc., Indianapolis, "The Chemist Entrepreneur: From the Lab into the Business World" (CGeneTech Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Sep 13 Peter Burns, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, "Nanoscale Uranium-Based Cage Clusters Inspired by Uranium Mineralogy" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Sep 20 Chem 399/499 student research presentations
Sept 27 Chem 399/499 student research presentations
Oct 4 Aleksei Aksimentiev, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Physics of DNA: Insights from Molecular Simulations" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 11 Chem 399/499 student research presentations
Oct 18 George Stan, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, "Protein Quality Control Mechanisms: Protein Unfolding and Translocation by Biological Nanomachines" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 25 Chem 399/499 student research presentations
Nov 1 Charles Dann III, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, "Treating Cancer and Autoinflammatory Disease for over Six Decades: Structural Basis for Folate and Antifolate Trafficking via Human Folate Receptors" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Nov 8 Chem 399/499 student research presentations
Nov 15 Eric Glendening, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Indiana State University, "New Insight into Fundamental Issues of Structural Organic Chemistry" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Nov 22 No seminar
Nov 29 Chem 399/499 student research presentations
Dec 6 No seminar