Past Events

2026

Final Oral Exam of Daphne Patten (Lee Group)

Aug 7, 2026 - 12:00 PM

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Location
Gilman 1652

Title of Thesis: Beyond identification: Chemical profiling of fingerprints by MALDI-MS for forensic and health-related applications

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Final Defense of Lakshan Yamudith Thalapalage (Winter Group)

Aug 4, 2026 - 10:00 AM

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Location
Hach 2140

Title of Thesis: From Persistence to Function: Hidden Properties and Emerging Applications of Dicyanomethyl Radicals

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Final Defense of Jacob Mayer (Perras)

Jul 17, 2026 - 2:00 PM

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Location
Hach 0203

"Probing surface dynamics of heterogenous catalysts with solid-state NMR utilizing double quantum / single quantum correlation spectroscopy"

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Final Defense of Md Raid Sarkar Pavel (Vela Group)

Jun 29, 2026 - 9:00 AM

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Location
Hach 2140

Title of Thesis: Cd- and Pb-Free Multinary Chalcogenide Nanocrystals: Emerging Earth-Abundant
Semiconductors for Optoelectronics and Energy Conversion

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Final Defense of Thomas Seymour Cozzini

Jun 25, 2026 - 10:00 AM

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Location
Gilman 1652

Title of Thesis: Unconventional Synthesis Routes for Inorganic Solid-State Materials Hybrid Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/289787657788435?p=15GAXp8tXqGM58qKy2

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Final Defense of George Elliot (Mark Gordon's Group)

Jun 24, 2026 - 11:00 AM

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Location
TASF 205

Title of Thesis: Hey Sisyphus, How Steep is That Mountain? Gradients in QM-EFP

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Final Defense of Jiashan Mi (Rossini Group)

Jun 22, 2026 - 9:00 AM

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Location
Hach 1222

Title of Final Defense: Probing Complex Pharmaceutical Systems by Advanced Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy and NMR CrystallographyHybrid Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/292851832836660?p=8hwSLWklFymxMEKrEp

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Final Defense of Megan Schlinsog (Gordon Group)

Jun 19, 2026 - 1:00 PM

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Location
Hach 1221

Hybrid Link: https://iastate.zoom.us/j/91778346259?pwd=T1x8aP8SQynz3ca2eqduYXF9xFwDkA.1 or, go to https://iastate.zoom.us/join and enter meeting ID: 917 7834 6259 and password: 539635

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Final Defense of Daniel Del Angel Cruz (Gordon Group)

Jun 8, 2026 - 12:30 PM

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Location
Gilman 1652

Hybrid link: https://iastate.zoom.us/j/94310407516?pwd=djWMJ6WAEgJ6T9apuqOEKnVS4SFVWd.1
Title of thesis: Expansions, Contractions, and Bonding Interactions. An Accelerated Quest for Insight and Numbers.

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Final Defense of Micke Reynders (Holme Group)

Jun 4, 2026 - 11:30 AM

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Location
Gilman 1652

Hybrid link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/210925574419645?p=0TSY4WreaWVuAiSI2K
Title of Thesis: Impact of rich context interactive resources for teaching and learning complexity via
systems thinking in chemistry

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Final Defense of Joseph Bequette (Rossini Group)

May 29, 2026 - 9:00 AM

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Location
Hach 1222

“Application of NMR to Pharmaceuticals (3 Stories from the Rossini NMR Group)”

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Sean Avedissian (Interdisciplinary)

May 22, 2026 - 1:10 PM

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Location
1352 Gilman Hall, Iowa State University

Title:"Antiviral PK/PD Studies in the CNS: Bench to Bed"
Sean N. Avedissian, Associate Professor

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Final Defense of Bhawana Thapa (Anderson Group)

May 12, 2026 - 1:00 PM

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Location
Gilman 1652

Analytical strategies for sample preparation and zwitterionic liquid-based materials for chromatographic separations
Hybrid Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/28682262302130?p=hH3sR2UhpWWxGJc4Ls

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Final Defense of Morgan Clark (Holme Group)

May 12, 2026 - 9:00 AM

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Location
Hach 1227

Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Learning Technologies to Promote Conceptual Understanding Among Undergraduate General Chemistry Students

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Final Defense of Xiao Yang (Huang Group)

May 11, 2026 - 12:00 PM

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Location
Gilman 1651

Fe–N_x Single-Atom Catalysts on Nitrogen-Doped Carbon for Selective Hydrogenation and Dehydrogenation Reactions

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Final Defense of Shahnaz Mutka (Roth and Lee Groups)

May 7, 2026 - 12:00 PM

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Location
Hach 0203

Conventional Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) and Novel Microwave Inductively Coupled Atmospheric Pressure Plasma as Ionization Sources for Trace Elemental Analysis.

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Final Defense of Amaya Jayaweera (Winter Group)

May 5, 2026 - 10:00 AM

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Location
Hach 3140

Design, Synthesis, and Control of Persistent Dicyanomethyl Radicals: Stability, Self-Sorting, and Spin-Switching Polymers

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Final Defense of Erin Jacobsen (Zhang Group)

May 4, 2026 - 10:00 AM

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Location
Hach 1222

Atom-pair swapping: A gateway to isotopic labeling of pyridines
Hybrid Link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/j.php?MTID=m5d6b247dedae091e397210819cc7d074
Meeting number: 2309 698 2216

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Christopher Anderton (Analytical Seminar)

May 1, 2026 - 3:20 PM

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Location
1352 Gilman Hall, Iowa State University

Title: "Advancements in molecular cartography of plants and microbiomes"
Christopher Anderton
Interim Chief Science Officer, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

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Michele Di Pierro (Physical Seminar)

May 1, 2026 - 1:10 PM

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Location
1352 Gilman Hall, Iowa State University

Title: Physical Chemistry of Genes and Genomes
Michele Di Pierro, Assistant Professor of Physics
Northeastern University, Boston
Host: Davit Potoyan

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