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.
Driving directions to the Department
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 3 | John Goodpaster, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis (IUPUI), (Homepage) |
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 |
Spring 2011 Seminar Series
| Date | Speaker |
| Jan 18 | Arthur Cammers, Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "Discotic salts: The nature of ion pairing between charged aromatic molecules" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) |
| Jan 25 | George Gokel, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri at St. Louis, "Synthetic channels that selectively transport cations or anions through phospholipid bilayer membranes" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) |
| Feb 15 | Richard Fitch, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Indiana State University, "Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em: Nicotine receptors in health and disease" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) |
| Feb 22 | Seminar by Aleksei Aksimentiev canceled; may be rescheduled for later in the semester. |
| Mar 8 | No seminar- spring break |
| Mar 29 | No seminar- National ACS meeting |
| Apr 5 | Ming Yu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Louisville, "Geometric and energetic aspects of SiC nanostructures" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) |
| Apr 12 | Christopher Burns, Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, "Group 10 metal complexes incorporating anionic phosphinimine ligands for olefin polymerization" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) |
Fall 2010 Seminar Series
| Date | Speaker |
| Sept 7 | Sergei Savikhin, Department of Physics, Purdue University, "Photosynthetic proteins: structure and function" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) |
| Sept 21 | Karen Wooley, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, "Sophisticated Plastics: Diverse opportunities-- from materials to medicine-- for well-defined polymer chemistry" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) |
| Oct 5 | Guoping Zhang, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Indiana State University, "Introduction to femtosecond magnetism" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) |
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Oct 7 (Thursday) |
Ali Mansoori, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Nanotechnology and Nanobiotechnology (Global Science, Engineering and Business Perspectives)" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) |
| Nov 2 | Paul Hergenrother, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Direct Procaspase-3 Activation as an Anti-Cancer Strategy: Compound Discovery, Mechanism of Action, and a Phase I Canine Clinical Trial" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) |
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Nov 11 (Thursday, 4 PM in S-138 and 7 PM in Dede I) |
Harold Kroto, Nobel Laureate, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, "Architecture in NanoSpace" (4 PM) and "Science, Society and Sustainability" (7 PM) (Homepage) (4 PM Seminar Abstract) (7 PM Seminar Abstract) |
| Nov 16 | Herbert A. Fertig, Department of Physics, Indiana University at Bloomington, "'Relativity' in a Carbon Network: The Strange World of Electrons in Graphene" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) |