CoAS Seminar Series

About the Seminar Series

The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the continuation of the LTU College of Arts and Sciences Seminar Series.

This lecture series invites the campus community to join us as we explore the relationships between the arts and sciences through a dedicated annual theme. Our three college departments — Math and Computer Science; Humanities, Social Sciences, and Communication; and Natural Sciences — invite internal and external speakers to help us discover links between each other’s disciplines through seminars, lectures, and roundtable discussions.

Each event is free and open to the public. Pizza will be served at 12:15 prior to the event.

Experimental Curiosity

Through a diverse series of events hosted by our three departments, we invite the campus community to join us as we explore the relationship between experimentation and curiosity in the many senses of each term. How does experimentation fuel curiosity? How does curiosity lead to new experimental methods and approaches? How do researchers take their curiosity and transform it into tangible experiments that yield knowledge? How does experimentation and curiosity vary across disciplines? How does experimental curiosity change the way we approach our personal and professional development? Does it make us bolder in our quest to satisfy the unknown?

2025-2026 Lectures
Nimesh Panchal
Corporate to Classroom - Engineering for Scale
September 18, 2025
Dr. John Camardese
The Complete Story with Data: Research Methods for Lithium-Ion Cells
October 16, 2025
Dr. Shaka McGlotten
Hainting the Algorithm
December 4, 2025
Dan Champoux
Revolutionizing Light Vehicle Safety: Al, sensors, and the Future of Micro-Mobility with GEKOT Robotics
April 10, 2025
William Schumaker
The Evolution of Lithography Light Sources
March 6, 2025
John MacNeill Miller, Ph.D.
Unsustainable Storytelling: Conservation Narratives and the Problem of Science Communication
February 6, 2025
Justin Dietrich
Introduction to Small-Molecule Drug Discovery and the Application of Enabling Technology
October 17, 2024
Dr. Vivian Kao
The Empire Walks: The Scholarly Monograph as an Experiment in Curiosity
September 19, 2024
Mark Salamango
Academics, Inspiration, Loss, & Success
March 28, 2024
Dr. Jaime Willbur
Curiosity, Science, & Agriculture
February 29, 2024
Dr. Dmitri Brown
โ€œGive It Back to the Indiansโ€: Commemoration and Place in Christopher Nolanโ€™s Oppenheimer
February 1, 2024
Dr. Elliott Schmitt
P.A.T. for Biopharma Manufacturing
November 16, 2023
Dr. Lara Jones
The Use and Emotional Processing of Emojis
October 19, 2023
Rhetoric, Robots, and Cognition
October 12, 2023
Patrick Nelson
Data, Disease, and Opportunity
September 14, 2023
Departments
Humanities, Social Sciences, + Communication

In Humanities, Social Sciences, and Communication, we explore what makes us uniquely human. Through ancient and modern texts, social norms, and communication, we uncover how these fields are essential to all careers and human endeavors.

Math + Computer Science

In a world of programming, proofs, and unending figures and unfeeling facts, is there room for a touch of magic? Data drives discovery, innovation redefines intelligence, and when curiosity meets logic, mathematics can be miraculous.

Natural Sciences

Curiosity drives discovery in biology, chemistry, and physics, guiding us from molecular interactions to chemical reactions and the fundamental laws of nature. Explore what makes you curious.

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to โ€œDo not disturbโ€ since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select โ€œshare contentโ€ and โ€œscreenโ€ to share your cell phoneโ€™s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select โ€œstart broadcastโ€ from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view โ€“ but you will see โ€˜how you are doingโ€™ in the main Zoom session.