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 2023 Seminar Series

Date	Speaker
Jan 24	Michael Beck, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Eastern Illinois University, "Chemical Biology Approaches for Uncovering Interindividual Variability in Drug Metabolism" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Jan 31	Michele Verst, Director of Medical Physics, Hux Cancer Center, "Medical Physics: One of the Most Critical Jobs in Cancer Care that No One Knows About" (Seminar Abstract)
Feb 21	Hadiseh Alaeian, Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, Purdue University (Homepage)

Fall 2022 Seminar Series

Date	Speaker
Sept 6	Patrick Bohman (ISU Chemistry Alumnus), Sales Representative for Thermo-Fisher Scientific, "My career in analytical chemistry: What following suggestions has done for me." (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Sept 13	Amy VandeVelde and Gina Federighi, Elanco- Clinton, IN (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 11	Brittany Morgan, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, "Cracking the Code: Predicting Small Molecule Binding to a Cryptic, Dynamic Protein Pocket." (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 25	Nicholas Oberlies, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, "The Fungal Battlefield: A Source for New Chemical Diversity?" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Nov 1	Shixiong Zhang, Department of Physics, Indiana University-Bloomington, "Magnetism in 2D van der Waals Materials" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract) (Zoom seminar)

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)