Our chemistry and physics seminar series usually meets in Room 059 in the Science Building at 11:00 AM on Tuesdays, but some seminars will take place using Zoom instead of in-person. Students interested in attending graduate school are encouraged to meet with the academic seminar speakers on Tuesday afternoon.

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Spring 2022 Seminar Series

Date	Speaker
Jan 25	Wei Shi, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University, "Study of Bioactive Natural Products in Medicine and Biology" (Homepage)  (Seminar Abstract) (Zoom seminar)
Feb 1	Lee Thompson, Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, "Different Orbitals for Different Configurations: Compact Wavefunction Descriptions for Modeling Excited State Processes" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) (In person)
Mar 1	S. Lance Cooper, Department of Physics, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, "Shining Light on Collective Excitations in Strongly Interacting Materials" (Homepage)  (Seminar Abstract) (Zoom seminar)
Apr 5	Julia Laskin, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, "Ambient Imaging of Biological Tissues Using Nanospray Desorption Electrospray Ionization (nano-DESI) Mass Spectrometry" (Homepage)  (Seminar Abstract) (Zoom seminar)
Apr 19	Partha Basu, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, IUPUI, "Complexes of Antipodal Dithione and Dithiolene Ligands: New Chemistry from Old Friends" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) (In person)

Fall 2021 Seminar Series

Date	Speaker
Aug 31	Jennifer Schomaker, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Taming Nitrene Reactivity with Silver Catalysts" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Sept 7	Kimberly Gleason (ISU Chemistry Alumna), Elanco- Clinton, IN (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Sept 14	Joseph Gerdt, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University-Bloomington, "Interspecies Chemical Signaling in a Privileged Protozoan" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 19	Rebekah J. Borders (ISU Alumna), Australian Gold- Indianapolis, "Cosmetic Chemistry: the Hidden Science" (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 26	James Eckstein, Department of Physics, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, "New Phenomena from Interfaces in Oxides" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)

Spring 2021 Seminar Series

Date	Speaker
Jan 26	Aron Huckaba, Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, "Tuning Charge Transport with Intermolecular Interactions of an Organic Semiconductor" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Feb 2	Ian Webb, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, IUPUI, "Ion/Ion, Ion/Neutral, and Ion/Electron Interactions for Rapid and Accurate Structural Biology" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Feb 16	Sheikh Fahad Ferdous, Department of Applied Engineering and Technology Management, Indiana State University, "Computational Material Design and Mechanical Behavior of Materials at the Molecular Level" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Mar 2	Stephen Wolf, Department of Chemistry & Physics, Indiana State University, "Investigations into the Distribution of the Highly Volatile Trace Elements Bi, Pb, Cd, In, and Tl within the Allende Carbonaceous Chondrite" (Homepage)  (Seminar Abstract)
Apr 20	Fengyuan Yang, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, "Electrical Switching of Antiferromagnetic Spins in Pt/Fe2O3 Bilayers" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Apr 27	Garth Patterson, Department of Science, Mount St. Mary's University, "Griffin Analytical, A Student’s Path from Pure Research to IPO" (Homepage)  (Seminar Abstract)

Fall 2020 Seminar Series

Date	Speaker
Aug 25	David Giedroc, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, "Inorganic Chemistry of the Cell: Transition Metal Homeostasis in Bacterial Pathogens" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Sept 1	A. Douglas Kinghorn, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, "Natural Products and Pharmacognosy" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Sept 8	Angeline Lyon, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, "Conformational Regulation of Phospholipase C Enzymes" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 13	Karin Dahmen, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Universal Avalanches: From Nanocrystals to Earthquakes to Stars?" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 20	Brent Schludecker, Midwest Compliance Labs, "Career Opportunities for Professional Chemists Available in Terre Haute" (Company Website) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 27	Gabor Csathy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, "A Glance at Electronic Order in Two Dimensions" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)