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Seminars


Chemical Engineering Graduate


    Seminar Series Fall 2004

3:30 p.m. in CPE 2.218 (unless otherwise noted) * Items in orange begin at different time and/or day


Previous semester schedule

Date   Speaker Affiliation Title
August 31

Salvatore Torquato

Professor

Department of Chemistry and Materials Institute

Princeton University "Particle Packings, Jamming, and Order Metrics"
September 7

Paulette Clancy

Professor

Chemical Engineering

Cornell University "The Role of Order on Structural Properties in Organic Electronic Materials"

September 9

Thursday

CANCELLED

Jane E.G. Lipson

Professor

Department of Chemistry

Dartmouth "New Connections Between Experiment and Theory for Polymer Mixtures"
September 14 TBA      
September 21

Jason Weaver

Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering

University of Florida

"Oxidation of Solid Surfaces with Gas-Phase Oxygen Atoms"

September 28

Paul S. Weiss

Professor

Chemistry and Physics

Penn State University TBA
October 5

Matteo Pasquali

Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering

Rice University "Continuous, Macroscopic Fibers from Liquid Crystalline Mesophases of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Superacids"
October 12

Pirkey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering

Robert S. Langer

Professor

Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Biomaterials and how they will change our lives"

October 12, 2004

3:30 – 4:30 PM

ACES 2.302 – Avaya Auditorium

 

October 19

Zhenan Bao

Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering

Stanford University "Designing Organic Semiconductors for Flexible Electronics"
October 26

Thomas F. Kuech

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

University of Wisconsin-Madison Isoelectronic Impurities and Changes in the Surface Processes Present in the Growth of GaN

October 28

Thursday

Ravi Kane

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering

Rensselaer TBA
November 2 TBA      
November 10   Christopher W. Jones, Assistant Professor, School of Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technoloy

"Spanning the Divide between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis - Immobilized Organometallic Catalysts as Model Systems and Mechanistic Probes"

CPE 2.206 , 3:00 - 4:30


November 16

Jillian Buriak

Professor

Department of Chemistry

University of Alberta-CANADA "Patterning Nanoscale Metallic and Organic Features on Semiconductor Surfaces"
November 19 TBA Ching Tang Kodak

Progress in Organic Light Emitting Diodes

CPE 2.210 (capacity 73)

2:00 -4:00 pm

November 23 Jose G. Santiesteban ExxonMobil New Developments in Shape-Selective Catalysis
November 30

Texas Distinguished Faculty Lecturer

Ludwik Leibler

Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles "From Nanostructured Plastics to Green Supramolecular Rubbers: Joys of Self-assembling"

*To be announced

 

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