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Seminars - Fall 2008

(Please click on the speaker's Abstract for seminar details and event location information)

 

August 28
Dr. Pulickel M. Ajayan                        
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science   
Rice University, Houston, Texas
"Engineering Materials at the Nanoscale Prospects and Challenges"
Abstract
   
September 4 Dr. Nate Bachman                        
Schlumberger Sugarland Product Center, Sugarland, Texas
 
 

 

 
September 11 Dr. Raz Kupferman                        
Einstein Institute of Mathematics 
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel "Cracking the High-Weissenberg Number Problem"
Abstract
     
September 17

LELAND LECTURE

Dr. William Russel                        
Department of Chemical Engineering
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
"Colloidal Dispersions as Thermodynamic Phases: Past, Present & Future"

 
     
September 24

Dr. Hans Anderson                        
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University, Stanford, California

 

 

October 2

Dr. Clare McCabe                        
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

 
     
October 9

Dr. Michael Bevan                        
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering   
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

 
     
October 16 To be announced  
     
October 23 To be announced  
     
October 29 Dr. Jens Nielsen                       
Train/Track Interaction   
Chalmers, Goteborg, Sweden
 
     
November 6 Dr. Huimin Zhao                        
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering   
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
 
     
November 13 Dr. Seung Ihl Kam                        
Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering   
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
 
     
November 20 AICHE Annual Meeting  
     
November 27 Thanksgiving recess  
     
December 4 Dr. Eric Shaqfeh                       
Department of Chemical Engineering   
Stanford University, Stanford, California
 
     
     

Seminars - Spring 2008 (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

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March 20
Dr. Jessica Winter                       
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering                
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
" Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites for Neural Interfaces"
Abstract
   
March 24 Rodney Priestley                       
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering                
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Nanoconfinement Effects on Glass Formation and  Glassy Behavior of Polymers"
Abstract
     
March 27 Dr. Wei-Shou Hu                        
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science               
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
“Towards the Rational Design of Porous Solids”
Abstract
     
October 11

Dr. Daniel Resasco                        
Department of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma               
"Kinetic modeling of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube growth on Co-Mo/SiO2 catalysts with same-particle characterization of catalysts and product"

Abstract
     
October 18

Dr. Edward Maginn                       
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana               
"Development and Using Atomistic Simulation Methods to Understand Structure-Property Relationships for Ionic Liquids

Abstract
   
October 25 Dr. J. Ilja Siepmann                        
Department of Chemistry               
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Structure and Solvation in hydrogen-bonding fluids: A molecular perspective ”
Abstract
     
November 1 Dr. Alejandro Garcia                       
Department of Mechanical Engineering               
Monterrey Tech University, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico
Abstract
     
November 15 Dr. Bruce J. Hinds                       
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering               
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Abstract
     
November 29 Dr. Marianthi Ierapetritou                     
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering               
Rutgers State University of New Jersey,Piscataway, New Jersey
Abstract
     
December 6 Dr. Kristyn S. Masters                       
Department of Biomedical Engineering               
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Abstract
     

Seminars - Fall 2007 (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

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March 20
Dr. Jessica Winter                       
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering                
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
"
Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites for Neural Interfaces"
Abstract
   
March 24 Rodney Priestley                       
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering                
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Nanoconfinement Effects on Glass Formation and  Glassy Behavior of Polymers"
Abstract
     
March 27 Dr. Wei-Shou Hu                        
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science               
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
“Towards the Rational Design of Porous Solids”
Abstract
     
October 11

Dr. Daniel Resasco                        
Department of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma               
"Kinetic modeling of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube growth on Co-Mo/SiO2 catalysts with same-particle characterization of catalysts and product"

Abstract
     
October 18

Dr. Edward Maginn                       
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana               
"Development and Using Atomistic Simulation Methods to Understand Structure-Property Relationships for Ionic Liquids

Abstract
   
October 25 Dr. J. Ilja Siepmann                        
Department of Chemistry               
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Structure and Solvation in hydrogen-bonding fluids: A molecular perspective ”
Abstract
     
November 1 Dr. Alejandro Garcia                       
Department of Mechanical Engineering               
Monterrey Tech University, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico
Abstract
     
November 15 Dr. Bruce J. Hinds                       
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering               
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Abstract
     
November 29 Dr. Marianthi Ierapetritou                     
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering               
Rutgers State University of New Jersey,Piscataway, New Jersey
Abstract
     
December 6 Dr. Kristyn S. Masters                       
Department of Biomedical Engineering               
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Abstract
     

Seminars - Spring 2007

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January 11
Professor Ravi Prakash                        
Department of Chemical Engineering                        
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
"Rheological Observation of Glassy Dynamics of Dilute Plymer Solutions near the Coli-Stretch Transition in Elongational Flows"

Abstract
   
February 8 Professor Doug Clark
Chemical Engineering Department
University of California, Berkeley
"Engineering in the (Bio)Material World: Overcoming the Natural Limitations of Biocatalysis"
Abstract
   
February 22 Professor Edward Maginn
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Notre Dame University
"Using Atomistic Simulations to Understand Structure-Property Relationships: Application to Ionic Liquids and Crystalline Nanoporous Materials"
Abstract
     
February 27 Professor Thomas Mason
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angelies
"Nanoemulsions: From Shear-Induced Vitrification to Slippery Aggregation"
Abstract
     
March 1 Professor Yufeng Lu
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
"Nanostructured Materials and Devices by Hierarchical Assembly"
Abstract
   
March 15 Professor Juan A. Asenjo
Centre for Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
"Metabolics of Recombant Yeast: Gene Expression, Flux Analysis and a Mathematical Model for Gene Regulation of Metabolism"
Abstract
     
March 22 Dr. Patrick Spicer
Complex Fluids Research
Procter & Gamble, Co.
West Chester, Ohio
"Crystal Comets: Dewetting during Emulsion Droplet Crystallization"
Abstract
     
March 29 The 2007 T.W. Leland, Jr. Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Professor Carol Hall
Chemical Engineering Department
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
"Thermodynamics and Kinetic Origins of Alzheimer's and Related Dieseases: A Chemical Engineer's Perspective"
Abstract
     
April 11 Professor Jose Onuchic
Department of Physics
University of California, San Diego
Abstract
     
April 19 Professor Georges Belfort
Russell Sage Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Eng.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
"Fibrillation Kinetics of Recombinant Human Insulin at Interfaces and with Osmolytes: Experiments and Kinetic Modeling"
Abstract
   
April 26 Professor Fernando Escobedo
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell University
Abstract

 

 

Seminars - Fall 2006

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August 31

Professor Barry (Lie-Ding) Shiau
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
Chang Gung University, Taiwan
"A New Separation Method - Distillative Freezing"

Abstract
     
September 21 Professor Peter Strasser
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston
"Lattice-strained Nanoparticle Catalysts for the Electroreduction of Oxygen at PEM Fuel Cell Cathodes"
Abstract
     
September 28 Professor Giulio C. Sarti
Chemical Engineering, Universita di Bologna, Italy
"Predictive Thermodynamic Models for the Solubility of Gases and Vapors in Glassy Polymers"
Abstract
     
October 5 Dr. Eliot Fang
Computational Materials Science & Engineering Department
Sandia Natonal Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
"Computational Materials Science: An Underpinning for Engineering Science"
Abstract
     
October 12 Professor Bill Green
Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"A 21st Century Approach to Chemical Kinetics"
Abstract
     
October 19

Dr. Kevin G. Joback
Molecular Knowledge Systems, Inc.
"Designing Chemical Products"

Abstract
     
October 26 Professor Brian A. Korgel
Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Texas Materials Institute, Center for Nano- and Molecular Science & Technology
"Semiconductor Nanowires"
Abstract
     
November 1 Dr. Jeff Siirola
Eastman Chemical Company
"Sustainability in the Chemical and Energy Industries"
Abstract
     
November 9

Professor Christos Georgakis
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Tufts University
"Process Operability"

Abstract
     
November 30

Professor Suzie Pun
Department of Bioengineering, Univeristy of Washington, Seattle
"Materials for Spatially and Temporally-Controlled Gene Delivery"

Abstract
     
December 1 Professor Tad W. Patzek
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California - Berkeley
"Mythology and Ecology of Biomass Production"
Abstract
     
December 7 Professor Zhen-Gang Wang
Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
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Seminars - Spring 2006

 

  • January 19 - P.C. WILBER LECTURE
    Out of Gas: The end of the age of oil [Abstract]
    Prof. David Goodstein, Vice Provost, Caltech

  • January 26 - P.C. WILBER LECTURE
    Equation-free modeling of complex/multiscale systems [Abstract]
    Prof. Yannis Kevrekidis, Princeton University

  • February 9
    Viscoelastic flow simulations in a 3D benchmark flow - Velocity overshoots inside a smooth contraction [Abstract]
    Prof. Fernando Tavares de Pinho, Univ. of Minho

  • February 23
    Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers for Two- and Three- Dimensional Nanofabrication [Abstract]
    Mark Stoykovich, University of Wisconsin

  • March 2
    Effects of Molecular Coupling on Microscopic Mechanics [Abstract]
    Dr. Lisa Biswal, University of California Berkeley

  • March 6
    Biological and Synthetic Methods for the Formation of Polymeric Nanostructures [Abstract]
    Dr. Kevin Hermanson, Technical University of Munich

  • March 9
    Composite Nanostructures: Protein and nanoparticle arrays templated in block-copolymer mesophases [Abstract]
    Danilo Pozzo, Carnegie Mellon University

  • March 23
    [Abstract]
    Prof. Max Lu, University of Queensland, Australia

  • April 13
    Pickering Emulsions - A Paradigm Shift [Abstract]
    Prof. Lenore Dai , Texas Tech University

  • April 19
    Functionalisation of Composite Membranes for Fuel Cells [Abstract]
    Prof. Joe Da Costa, University of Queensland, Australia

  • April 20
    Better Living Through Biosensors [Abstract]
    Prof. Kevin Plaxco, University of California Santa Barbara

  • April 27
    Optimal Combination of Theory and Experiment to Explore the Protein Folding Landscape [Abstract]
    Prof. Cecilia Clementi, Chemistry Department, Rice University

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Seminars - Fall 2005

September 1 - Dr. Jeffrey Miller, BP [Abstract]

September 8 - Prof. Ananth Annapragada, UT Houston, Med Center [Abstract]

September 15 - Professor Vincent Rotello, Chemistry, University of Massachusetts [Abstract]

September 22 - Rescheduled to November 10, 2005 due to hurricane Rita.

September 29 - Professor Venkat Ganesan, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas [Abstract]

October 6 - Professor John Morgan, Chemical Engineering, Purdue [Abstract]

October 13 - Professor Paul F. Nealey, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison [Abstract]

October 20 - WILBER LECTURE - Professor Arup Chakraborty, Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley [Abstract] (joint with Chemistry)

October 27 - Professor Shekhar Garde, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstItute [Abstract]

November 10 - Professor Michael E. Mackay, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University [Abstract]

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Seminars - Spring 2005

  • Ted Oyama, Virginia Tech
    Nanostructure of a High-Permeability, Hydrogen-Selective Inorganic Membrane

  • Ramon Gonzalez, Iowa State
    Understanding and Manipulating the Anaerobic Metabolism of Escherichia coli: A Systems Biology Approach

  • Wilfred Chen, University California Riverside
    A Biomolecular Engineering Approach for Environmental Biotechnology

  • Laura Segatori, UT Austin
    Structure, Function and Engineering of Disulfide Bond Isomerization in Bacterial Cells

  • Dacheng Ren, Cornell
    Genome-Wide Analysis of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Discovery of Natural Biofilm Inhibitors

  • James Link, Caltech
    Azide-Bearing Amino Acids in Protein Engineering and Proteomic Profiling

  • Johnathan Silberg, Rice
    Exploring sequence space by structure-guided recombination

  • Aaron Sin, Harvard
    Microfluidic Cell Affinity Chromatography: Using chemical engineering tools to sort out the complexity of blood

  • Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, Rice
    Theoretical Investigations of Growth Dynamics of Rigid Biopolymers

  • Shaoyi Jiang, U. Washington
    Molecular Engineering of Biological Interfaces

  • Greg Stephanopoulos, MIT
    Metabolic Engineering in the post-Genomic Era

  • Maria Flytzani-Stehanopoulos, Tufts
    Nanostructure of a High-Permeability, Hydrogen-Selective Inorganic Membrane

  • V. Kumaran, Indian Institute of Science

  • Stability of fluid of flow past flexible sufaces

  • Nicholas Kotov, Michigan
    Neural Applications of Layered Nanocomposites: From Diagnostics to Artificial Retina

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Modified 9/5/2008

 

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