Select a semester below to see the Informal Seminar Series from that semester.
| Select Semester | |
|---|---|
| Fall 2013 | Spring 2014 |
| Fall 2012 | Spring 2013 |
| Fall 2010 | Spring 2011 |
| Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 |
| Fall 2008 | Spring 2009 |
| Fall 2007 | Spring 2008 |
| Fall 2006 | Spring 2007 |
| Fall 2005 | Spring 2006 |
| Fall 2004 | |
"Is multiculturalism good?"
Professor Eros DeSouza, Psychology
"Natural products inspired organic synthesis"
Professor Andrew Mitchell, Chemistry
"Happiness and noncognitive skills"
Professor Dimitrios Nikolaou, Economics
"Novelty of scientific ideas"
Professor Allison Meyer,School of Teaching and Learning
"Climate in Lakes"
Professor Catherine O'Reilly,Geology
"Ethnography in/of Brazil"
Professor Gina Hunter, Sociology and Anthropology
"Chocolate and Learning"
Professor Daniel Cochese Davis, School of Communications
"Ecology of Infectious Diseases"
Professor Ben Sadd, School of Biological Sciences
"Photochemical processes by nanoscale materials"
Professor Jun-Hyn Kim, Chemistry
"Israel and Palestine"
Professor Reecia Orzeck, Geography-Geology
"Rainforests to prairies"
Professor Joe Armstrong, Biological Sciences
"Data visualization"
Professor Rick Valentin, Arts Technology
"Energy price modeling"
Professor Hassan Mohammadi, Economics
"Fungal genomics"
Professor Tom Hammond, Biological Sciences
"Integrating cover crops into conventional cropping systems"
Professor Shalamar Armstrong, Agriculture
"Handling and manipulating big data"
Professor David Stern, Milner Library
"Children’s literature: cognition and context"
Professor Roberta Seelinger Trites, English
"Preventing kids from going to prison"
Professor Sesha Kethineni, Criminal Justice
"What is next in forensic science?"
Professor Christopher Mulligan, Chemistry
"Sense organs and and the brain"
Professor Wolfgang Stein, Biological Sciences
"Teaching in virtual reality"
Bill Shields, Geography-Geology
"Cognitive development"
Professor Alycia Hund, Psychology
"US Foreign Policy"
Professor Ross Kennedy, History
"Tutorials for material science courses"
Professor Rebecca Rosenblatt, Physics
"Neanderthals and the beginning of people like us"
Professor Fred Smith, Sociology and Anthropolgy
"Economics of corruption"
Professor Rajeev Goel, Economics
"3-dimensional molecular visualization on an iPod"
Professor Gregory Ferrence, Chemistry
"Conflicts between mining and farming"
Professor Matthew Himley, Geography-Geology
"Prison subculture"
Professor Jessie Krienert, Criminal Justice Sciences
"Energy use on campus"
Doug McCarty, Senior Engineer, office of Energy Management
"Hormones and behavior in birds"
Professor Joseph Casto, Biological Sciences
"Data visualization and art"
Professor Rose Marshak, Music and Arts Technology
"Corruption, causes and consequences"
Professor Ozugham Dincer, Economics
"Development of scientific reasoning in kids"
Professor Steve Croker, Psychology
"Modeling neurons: from chaos to neurology"
Dr. Christian Finke, Physics, Oldenburg University, Germany
"What do dissolved noble gases tell us about ground water processes"
Stephen Van der Hoven, Geography-Geology
"MRI in children and adults"
Professor Jamie Perry, Communication Sciences
"How to become a successful entrepreneur"
Professor Mark Hoelscher, Management & Quantitative Methods
"LED lighting of crops"
Professor David Kopsell, Agriculture
"Pornocopia, miscellaneous topics related to pornography"
Professor Raymond Bergner, Psychology
"Tectonics and erosion"
Professor Lisa Tranel, Geography-Geology
"Religious parties and democracy"
Professor Yusuf Sarfati, Politics and Government
"Wind turbines and bats"
Professor Angelo Capparella, Biological Sciences
"Pschoacoustics"
Professor Scott Seeman, Communication Sciences
"Statistical tools in business"
Professor Askar Choudhury, Management & Quantitative Methods
"Public opinion on the war"
Professor Anthony DiMaggio, Politics and Government
"The unification problem in mathematics"
Professor Sunil Chebolu, Mathematics
"Stigma"
Professor John Pryor, Psychology
"The past, presence and future of the US trade union movement"
Professor Victor Devinatz, Mangement and Quantitative Methods
"The archeology of the south shore of Lake Superior"
Professor James Skibo, Sociology and Anthropology
"Environmental regulation in Illinois"
Professor Adrienne Ohler, Economics
"Community patterns in crime"
Professor Ed Wells, Criminal Justice Sciences
"Just plain data analysis"
Professor Gary Klass, Politics and Government
"Insects, evolution and race"
Professor Doug Whitman, Biological Sciences
"Language and culture in the Amazon"
Professor Dan Everett - Languages, Literature and Culture
"Understanding meteorite parent bodies"
Professor Tasha Dunn, Geography-Geology
"Globalizing America"
Professor Lane Crothers, Politics and Government
"Radio News"
Charlie Schlenker, WGLT Radio
"Methamphetamine and violence"
Professor Ralf Weisheit, Criminal Justice
"Religion and politics in South Asia"
Professor Ali Riaz, Politics and Government
"DNA repair and mutagenesis in humans"
Professor Erik Larson, Biology
"Activities at CeMaST"
Professor Willie Hunter, Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology
"A teacher-scholar program in mathematics"
Professor Saad El-Zanati, Mathematics
"Molecular asymmetry"
Professor Shawn Hitchcock, Chemistry
"Sex and parenthood of burying beetles"
Professor Anne-Katrin Eggert, Biology
"Evolutionary game theory in macro economics"
Professor George Waters, Economics
"Geographic information systems and visualization"
Professor John Kostelnick, Geography-Geology
"Higher- ordered complexity"
Professor Chung-Chih Li, Information Technogy
"Which feels heavier-a pound of lead or a pound of feathers?"
Professor Jeffrey Wigman, Psychology
"Physics education in the high school classroom"
Professor Ken Wester, Physics
"Faculty evaluation at ISU"
Professor Patrick O'Sullivan, Communicationa and evaluation at ISU
No talk
"Development of early sound recording"
Mr. John Fesler, Consulting electrical engineering
"Renewable energy"
Professor David Loomis, Economics
"A teacher-scholar program in mathematics"
Professor Saad El-Zanati, Mathematics
"An interesting enzym"
Professor Marjorie Jones, Chemistry
"Markets as producers and consumers"
Professor Thomas Burr, Sociology & Anthropology
"Markets as producers and consumers"
Professor Jean Standard, Chemistry
"Molecular asymmetry"
Professor Shawn Hitchcock, Chemistry
"Drugs for neglected diseases"
Professor David Williams, Biology
Spring Break
"Codons and DNA"
Professor Brian Clark, Physics
"The development of monetary theory and policy"
Professor Neil Skaggs, Economics
No talk, Undergraduate Symposium in Bone Center
"Using Mathematica in physics courses"
Professor Richard Martin, Physics
"Discrete models in physics"
Professor Lucian Ionescu, Mathematics
"The mechanics of stuttering"
Professor Jean Sawyer, Speech pathology and Audiology
"Biomechanics of landing"
Professor Steven McCaw, Kinesiology
"Understanding brain and award"
Professor Valeri Farmer-Dougan, Psychology and Biology
"The construction of race in popular Brazilian music"
Professor John Baldwin, Communication
"Corporate risk management"
Professor Yayuan Ren, Finance, Insurance and Law
"Logic and, language and, math and, and imaging"
Professor Qichang Su, Physics
"Graph theory and combinatorics"
Professor Shailesh Tipnes, Mathematics
"Scanning electrochemical microscopy"
Professor John Baur, Chemistry
"The evolution of plant forms"
Professor Martha Cook, Biology
"Chaotic water wheel"
Professor George Rutherford, Physics
"Speculations on a possible electromgnetic source of mass"
Professor Sam Bowen, Physics, Chicago State University
"Waste treatment options"
Professor Tim Kelley, Health Sciences
"Sound design"
Professor Aaron Paolucci, Theatre
"Development of bioenergy crops for fuel"
Professor John Sedbrook, Biology
"Modeling randomness of demand for a product"
Professor Krzyz Ostaszewski, Mathematics
"Wind energy"
Prof. David Kennell, Technology
Spring Break
"Halvings of multigraphs"
Professor Shailesh Tipnes, Mathematics
"Perception of other people's motives"
Professor Glen Reeder, Psychology
"Assessing protein function in cells using low-throughput (confocal microscopy) and high-throughput (RNAi screen) menthods"
Professor Kevin Edwards, Biology
"Molecular clusters and intriguing chemical phenomena"
Professor Cliff Dykstra, Chemistry
No Seminar - Undergraduate Symposium in Bone Center
"Sex determination of turtles"
Professor Rachel Bowden, Biology
"Disposition of Inhaled Methanol in Mammals"
Professor Garnet Erdakos, Physics
"A Mind as an Energy Transformer"
Professor Scott Jordan, Psychology
"Radical-radical Couplings"
Professor Steven Peters, Chemistry
"Simulation Modeling of Self Similar Phenomena?"
Professor Tibor Gyires, Information Technology
"Biodiesel"
Professor Tom Bierma and Professor Guang Jin, Health Sciences
No Seminar - Alumni Day
"Destruction of Molecules with Lasers"
Professor Robert Quandt, Chemistry
"Stress Adaptation in Killifish"
Professor Robert Preston, Biology
No Seminar - Argonne Symposium
"Electromagnetic Source of Mass"
Professor Samuel Bowen, Physics Department, Chicago State University
Professor Dagmar Budikova, Geology and Geography
No Seminar - Fall Break
Prof. Tim Kelley, Health Sciences
"Evolution of Life Histories"
Professor Charles Thompson, Biology
"Graphs and Scheduling"
Professor Mike Plantholt, Mathematics
"Reductionism in Philosophy and Physics"
Professor Mark Siderits, Philosophy
"The Electron, the Glue of the Universe"
Professor Cheryl Stevenson, Chemistry
"Psycholinguistics"
Professor J. Cooper Cutting, Psychology
"Philosophy of Mathematics"
Professor Harry Deutsch, Philosophy
"All About Small Graphs"
Professor Roger Eggleton, Mathematics
"Super-lattice Thermo Electrics, an ISU-industry Project"
Professor David Marx, Physics
"Musical Acoustics"
Professor Andy Morrison, Physics, Illinois Wesleyan University
"Fundmental Tests of Quantum Mechanics"
Professor Christopher Gerry, Physics, Lehman College
"Biomaterials for Sustainable Packaging"
Professor Louis Reifschneider, Technology
"Semantic Web"
Professor Joaqin Vila-Ruiz, Information Technology
"A Crossroad Between Science and Culture in the 21th Century"
Professor Tak Cheung, Biology
"Enzyme Catalysis"
Professor Jon Friesen, Biochemistry
"Graph Designs"
Professor Saad El-Zanati, Mathematics
"Can Quantum Mechanics Save Free Will?"
Professor James Swindler, Philosophy
"Oxygen Isotopes in Minerals"
Professor Elizabeth King, Geology and Geography
"Why do we need the quantum theory of light? Comments on this year's Noble Prize"
Professor Z. Y. Ou, Physics Department, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
"Strategies for Enhancing Critical Thinking and Promoting Female Participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)"
Professor Anu Gokhale, Technology
"Transition Metal Clusters"
Professor Lisa Szczepura, Chemistry
"Reconstructing Evolutionary History Using Molecular Tools"
Professor Sabine Loew, Biology
"Physics Outreach for K-12"
Professor Jay Ansher, Physics
Professor Richard Martin, Physics
"The water wheel on the rocks?"
Professor G. Rutherford, Physics
"What the heck are inverse Gaussian random variables?"
Professor O. Akman, Mathematics
"Physical laws and moral responsibility"
Professor K. Machina, Philosophy
"Scientific objectivity"
Professor C. Horvath, Philosophy and Biology
"Emergence in the classroom"
Professor J. Kalmbach, English
"Newton's view on motion"
Professor H. Matsuoka, Physics
"How to sew pairs of pants"
Professor F. Akman, Mathematics
"Galaxy classification using shapelets"
Professor S. Goderya, Physics
"Numerical modeling of ground and surface water"
Professor E. Peterson, Geology and Geography
"Mercury I, the ISU solar car"
Professor D. Marx, Physics
"Causes and consequences of size variations in insects"
Professor S. Juliano, Biology
"Nonlinear dynamics and weak plasmas"
Professor B. Clark, Physics
"Genes and neural development?"
Professor T. Otsuka, Biology
"Laser Beam Production and Characteristics"
Professor R. Zich, Physics
"Optical properties of turbid media from scattering data"
Professor S. Menon, Physics
"Colors, thought, and culture"
Professor J. Stanlaw, Sociology and Anthropology
"Magnetospheric waves"
Professor J. Ansher, Physics
"Geometric Invariants in Mathematics"
Professor G.F. Seelinger, Mathematics
"Alloy quantum dot phonons"
Professor S.F. Ren, Physics
"Kinetics of the membrane transport"
Professor C. Gatto, Biology
"The pedagogy of the PTE program"
Professor C. Wenning, Physics
"The mind, brain and physics"
Professor D. Anderson, Philosophy
"Nonlinear dynamics and the stock market"
Professor B. Clark, Physics
"Teaching concepts of electricity and magnetism"
Professor R.F. Martin, Physics