24 January	Dr. Sharon Vercelloti V-Labs Inc.  Covington LA	"Challenges of Contract Research in a Small Chemical Business"
31 January	Jason Calmes Tulane University	The Twin Twin-Paradox Paradox: The Twin Paradox in a Closed Universe
7 February	Dr. John Worstell Shell	"globalization and its impact on the industrial chemists"
14 February	Dr. Tino Lodogana Southeastern Louisiana University	Biological Activity of the African Medicinal Plant  Embelia Schimperi'
21 February	Dr. Robert Lucchese Texas A & M University	The Effects of Electron Correlation and Nuclear Motion in Molecular Photoionization
28 February	Dr. Eugene Theobald Shell Chemical	"Accelerating the Inventive Process Through the Use of Statistical Methods"
7 March	Dr. Debra Dolliver Southeastern Louisiana  University	Oxime Ethers What Are They? Why Make Them? Why Study Them?
14 March	Dr. Ulrike Diebold Tulane University	"What is a polar surface,  why should it not be there, and how come it's there anyway?"
21 March	Dr. Ken Nash Argonne National Laboratory	"Man-made Elements Are Our Friends: Studies in Actinide Solution Chemistry"
28 March	Dr. Julie Teetsov GE Global Research and Development	"The Role of Scanned Probe Microscopy (SPM) in General Electric's Nanotechnology Program"
4 April	Dr. John Meriwether  University of Louisiana @ Lafayette	Radioactive Dating of Sediments in Louisiana's Endangered Coastal Marshes
11 April	Dr. James McGuire Tulane University	Correlation: how to make simple things complex
18, 25 April	Spring Break!	can't say here...
2 May	Dr. Gary White American Institute of Physics	The Secret Lives of the Hidden Physicists: From Spandex to Software
9 May	Dr. Brad Wurm Dow Chemical	From SLU to DOW:  My Adventures in Science