Chemical Engineering Graduate
Seminar Series Spring 2008
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 01/15/08 Christopher J. Ellison Postdoctoral Research Associate (Faculty Candidate) Final Itinerary University of Minnesota Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science "Phase Behavior and Processing: Tools for Designer Nanostructured Materials" 01/22/08 Jeffrey A. Reimer Warren and Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering University of California, Berkeley Department of Chemical Engineering "Physical and Chemical Rates from NMR Spectroscopy and Imaging" 01/24/08 Thursday Victor M. Zavala PhD Candidate (Faculty Candidate) Final Itinerary Carnegie-Mellon University Chemical Engineering Department "Fast Optimization Strategies for Large-Scale Nonlinear Model Predictive Control" 01/29/08 Rodney D. Priestley PhD Candidate (Faculty Candidate) Final Itinerary Northwestern University Department of Chemical Engineering "Nanoconfinement Effects on Glass Formation and Glassy Behavior of Polymers" 01/31/08 Thursday Kyle J. M. Bishop PhD Candidate (Faculty Candidate) Final Itinerary Northwestern University Chemical and Biological Engineering "Nanoscale Self-assembly via Electrostatic Interactions" 02/05/08 R. B. Trull Lectureship Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis Eugene du Pont Chair in Chemical Engineering and DBI Faculty Fellow University of Delaware Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Institute "Of Megakaryocytes and Platelets" 02/07/08 Thursday Bradley D. Olsen PhD Candidate (Faculty Candidate) Final Itinerary University of California, Berkeley Chemical Engineering Department "Towards a Universal Phase Diagram for Functional Rod-Coil Block Copolymers" 02/12/08 Michael A. Filler Postdoctoral Scholar (Faculty Candidate) Final Itinerary California Institute of Technology Applied Physics "Silicon Nanowire and Microwire Photovoltaic Devices" 02/19/08 Robert Rioux Postdoctoral Fellow (Faculty Candidate) Final Itinerary Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology “Elucidation of nanoscale phenomena in heterogeneous catalysis using a novel catalyst synthetic method and in-situ synchrotron x-ray techniques: NO oxidation on platinum” 02/21/08 Thursday Lydia M. Contreras PhD Candidate (Faculty Candidate) Final Itinerary Cornell University School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering "Understanding and Tuning Protein Translocation through the Ribosome" 03/18/08 Jeffrey J. Gray Assistant Professor Johns Hopkins University Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering "Fundamentals and applications of protein structure prediction” 04/01/08 Texas Distinguished Lectureship Frank S. Bates Regents Professor University of Minnesota Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science "Macromolecular Surfactants: Engineering Value added and Commodity Products" 05/01/08 Thursday Krzysztof Matyjaszewski J. C. Warner University Professor Carnegie Mellon University Department of Chemistry "Macromolecular Engineering by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization"
Previous semester schedule
01/15/08
Christopher J. Ellison
Postdoctoral Research Associate
(Faculty Candidate)
Final Itinerary
University of Minnesota
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
"Phase Behavior and Processing: Tools for Designer Nanostructured Materials"
Jeffrey A. Reimer
Warren and Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Chemical Engineering
01/24/08
Thursday
Victor M. Zavala
PhD Candidate
Carnegie-Mellon University
Chemical Engineering Department
"Fast Optimization Strategies for Large-Scale Nonlinear Model Predictive Control"
Rodney D. Priestley
Northwestern University
01/31/08
Kyle J. M. Bishop
Chemical and Biological Engineering
R. B. Trull Lectureship
Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis
Eugene du Pont Chair in Chemical Engineering and DBI Faculty Fellow
University of Delaware
Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Institute
02/07/08
Bradley D. Olsen
Michael A. Filler
Postdoctoral Scholar
California Institute of Technology
Applied Physics
Robert Rioux
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
02/21/08
Lydia M. Contreras
Cornell University
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
"Understanding and Tuning Protein Translocation through the Ribosome"
Jeffrey J. Gray
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Texas Distinguished Lectureship
Frank S. Bates
Regents Professor
"Macromolecular Surfactants: Engineering Value added and Commodity Products"
05/01/08
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
J. C. Warner University Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Chemistry
*To be announced
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