Colloquia 2006-2007
This school year the department is hosting two complimentary colloquium series. The Lyman Handy Colloquium series hosted by the Chemical Engineering Program and the Friday First-year Colloquium hosted by the Materials Science Program. Upcoming presentations can be seen on the events list on the front page.
Spitzer Lecture Series
Lyman L. Handy Colloquium Series
- 03/08/2007: Influence of Materials Technology on the Fuel Efficiency of Aeroturbines, by A. G. Evans, UCSB
- 02/08/2007: Modeling Chemical Reactivity: Effects of Confinement, by Keith E. Gubbins, North Carolina State University
- 01/11/2007: Smart Surfactants and Ligands in Pharmaceutical, Environmental, and Energy Applications, by Professor Keith P. Johnston, University of Texas at Austin
- 12/14/2006: Rheology and Fluid Mechanics of Polymer Solutions Undergoing Rapid Elongational Deformations, by Professor Robert E. Armstrong, MIT
- 10/12/2006: "Molecular Engineering of Stem Cell and Gene Therapies", by Professor David Schaffer, UC Berkeley
- 09/14/2006: "Opportunities and Challenges in Nanostructured Materials", by Professor Jagdish (Jay) Narayan, North Carolina State University
- 08/25/2006: Modeling Chemical Reactivity: Effects of Confinement, by Keith E. Gubbins, North Carolina State University
- 08/23/2006: Smart Surfactants and Ligands in Pharmaceutical, Environmental, and Energy Applications, by Keith P. Johnston, University of Texas at Austin
- 08/21/2006: Influence of Materials Technology on the Fuel Efficiency of Aeroturbines, by A. G. Evans, UCSB
Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminars
- 02/23/2007: Stochastic Uncertainty Quantification Approaches for Large Scale Subsurface Problems, by Professor Dongxiao Zhang, University of Oklahoma
- 01/16/2007: The Role of Polymer Science in Designing and Understanding Novel Biomaterials for Tissue-Engineering Applications, by Dr. Shanfeng Wang, Mayo Clinic
- 01/12/2007: Protein Mobility, Filtering, and Separation in Model Cell Membranes, Dr. Susan Daniel, Texas A&M University
- 12/01/2006: Engineered self-assembly for ion channel proteinbased molecular sensors, by Dr. Noah Malmstadt, UCLA
- 11/27/2006: "Polymers for Bionanotechnology.", by Dr. Karen Christman, UCLA
- 10/16/2006: The Future and Challenges of Technology for the Prosperity and Well-Being of the World, by Dr. Abolhassan Vafai Professor, Sharif University of Technology (Iran)
Materials Science Seminars
- 03/05/2007:Facilities Engineering Is It a Necessary Technology? by Kenneth E. Arnold, USC
- 03/02/2007: Extracellular Electron Transport: Mechanism(s) and Applications, by Ken Nealson Wrigley, USC
- 02/23/2007: Deformation and Failure of Composite Structures, by Dr. Chiara Bisagni, MIT
- 02/02/2007: Microscale Flow and Transport Problems arising in Surfactant Rheology, Printing Processes, and Polymer Electrophoresis, by Professor Satish Kumar, University of Minnesota
- 01/26/2007: Some Experimental Results on Adiabatic Shear Banding, by D. Rittel, Mechanical Engineering Technion (Israel)
- 01/19/2007: Electrophoresis of Highly Charged Colloids, by Dr. Apratim Chatterji, University of Toronto
- 01/12/2007: Microbial fuel cell operation for electricity generation, by Zhen He, Washington University
- 11/03/2006: Is Segregation-induced Grain Boudary Embrittlement a Polymorphous Melting Process? by Dr. Nghi Q. Lam, Argonne National Laboratory
- 10/20/2006: Research by Neutron Scattering: Tradition and Outlook, by Dr. Gian P. Felcher, Argonne National Laboratory
- 10/13/2006: The Relationship Between Crystallographic Pitting and Metallic Bonding, by Dr. Scott Lillard, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 10/06/2006: Modeling of Materials and Chemistry at Extreme Conditions, by Dr. Sergey Zybin, Caltech
- 09/28/2006: Ultrafast Biological Dynamics at Atomic Scale, by Dongping Zhong, Ohio State University
- 09/15/2006: Visible and Infrared spectroscopy of nitride quantum wells and dots, by Dr Matthew Halsall, University of Manchester
- 09/08/2006: From Electrons To Finite Elements: A Concurrent Multiscale Approach For Metals, by Gang Lu, California State University, Northridge
- 09/01/2006: Increased Electrode Impedance as a Mechanism of Recording Instability, by Daniel R. Merrill, Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research
Distinguished Lectures
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