| Date |
|
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| Sept 5 |
 |
Kristi S. Anseth
Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering |
University of Colorado at Boulder |
"Hydrogel Niches Designed to Promote Tissue Regeneration" |
| Sept 12 |
 |
Noel Russell
|
Texas Instruments |
"Metallization Challenges for CMOS Interconnect Scaling" |
Sept 14
THUR |
 |
Melissa Shell
Program Manager
EUV Lithography Research |
Intel Corporation |
"Next Generation Lithography: Scaling for the Next Decade" |
| Sept 19 |
 |
C. Daniel Frisbie
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science |
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
"Organic Thin Film Electronics: A Materials Science Perspective" |
| Sept 26 |
 |
Giulio Sarti
Visiting Professor |
University of Texas, Austin |
“Predictive Thermodynamic Models for the Solubility of Gases and Vapors in Glassy Polymers and Polymer Blends” |
| Oct 3 |
 |
William Banholzer
Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer |
The Dow Chemical Company |
“Personal Experience in the Application of Chemical Engineering and Selected Research Topics at Dow” |
| Oct 10 |
 |
Lloyd M. Robeson
|
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. |
"Polymer Blend Utility in Emerging Technologies" |
| Oct 17 |
 |
Eric V. Shusta
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering |
University of Wisconsin-Madison
|
"Engineering Strategies for Mimicking the Blood-Brain Barrier In Vitro and Overcoming it In Vivo" |
Oct 19
THUR |
 |
Teri Wang Odom
Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department |
Northwestern University |
"Manipulating Light in Arrays of Nanoscale Holes and Pyramids" |
| Oct 24 |
 |
John M. Torkelson
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Northwestern University |
"Dramatic Effects of Nanoscale and Microscale Confinement on Glassy Polymer Behavior: Why These Effects Occur and Unique Characterization of the Response across Films and within Nanocomposites" |
Oct 31
2:00 pm |
 |
Jeffrey J. Siirola
|
Eastman Chemical Company |
"Sustainability in the Chemical and Energy Industries" |
| Nov 7 |
 |
Norman Wagner
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering |
University of Delaware |
"The Rheology Of Colloidal & Nanoparticle Dispersions: “Stf Armor”- Nanoparticle Composites For Flexible Ballistic Materials" |
| Nov 28 |
 |
Michael Henson
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering |
University of Massachusetts Amherst |
"Genome-Scale Analysis of Yeast Metabolism and Ethanol Production in Fed-Batch Culture" |
| Dec 5 |
 |
Shi-Qing Wang
Professor
Department of Polymer Science |
The University of Akron |
"Opening the Pandora's box in polymer rheology to find elastic breakup as the origin of various nonlinear flow behavior of entangled polymers" |
