Our chemistry and physics seminar series usually meets in Room 059 in the Science Building 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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Fall 2024 Seminar Series

Spring 2024 Seminar Series

Date	Speaker
Feb 6	Darby Scism, Associate Director of Career Coaching, Indiana State University Career Center (Homepage)
Feb 20	Elizabeth Goldschmidt, Department of Physics, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign and Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center (IQUIST), "Quantum Information with Photons" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Mar 5, 4:00 pm S-012	Stephen Sligar, Department of Biohemistry, Department of Chemistry, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, "Revealing the Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins through Nanotechnology: Cancer Signaling" (Homepage)
Apr 2	Tim Durham (ISU Chemistry Alumnus), Executive Director of Discovery Chemistry Research, Eli Lilly & Company, "Identification of LY3522348: A Highly Selective and Orally Efficacious Ketohexokinase (KHK) Inhibitor" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)

Fall 2023 Seminar Series

Date	Speaker
Sept 5	Andrew J. Wilson, Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, "Reducing Ensemble Averaging for Mechanistic Insight in Electrocatalysis" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Sept 12	Arika Palmer (ISU Chemistry Alumna), Superior Industrial Solutions, Indianapolis, "Chemistry in Industry: Quality Control and Research & Development" (Website) (Seminar Abstract)
Sept 19	Lawrence Hill, Department of Chemistry, Western Kentucky University, "Chemistry Research Projects at WKU" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 17	Krystiauna Cole (ISU Chemistry Alumna), IU Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, "Life as a Medical Technologist and Indiana University School of Medicine Graduate Student" (Website) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 24	Herbert Fertig, Department of Physics, Indiana University-Bloomington, "Neutral Modes of Electrons and Their Quantum Geometry" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Oct 31	Amy Lane (ISU Chemistry Alumna), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Florida, "Revealing Bacterial Blueprints for Natural Product Assembly" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)

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, "From Dipolar to Rydberg Photonics" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)
Apr 18	Yongming Deng, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, IUPUI, "A New Avenue for Single-Electron Chemistry of Aromatic N-oxides in Synthesis and Catalysis" (Homepage) (Seminar Abstract)

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)