Seminars

January 13th: Tagbo Niepa, University of Pittsburgh, Nanocultures: High-Throughput Platform for Assessing Microbial Community Dynamics in Sessile Drops.

February 3rd: Eric Furst, University of Delaware, Dissipative Self-Assembly of Colloidal Dispersions.

February 10th: James Crawford, NREL, Reactive Carbon Capture, Routes to Renewable Natural Gas.

February 17th: Edward Phelps, University of Florida, Engineered Models for New Insights Into Human Type 1 Diabetes.

February 24th: Alberto Striolo, University of Ohio, New Surfactants with Excellent Performance in the Energy and Materials Sectors.

March 3rd: Rebecca Willits, Northeastern University, Microenvironmental Cues to Enhance Neural Repair

March 17th: Francois Baneyx, University of Washington, Hierarchical and Stimuli-Responsive Hybrid Materials from High Information Content Building Blocks.

March 31st: Joel Plawsky, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Heat Pipes in Space: What Could Go Wrong?

April 7th: Thomas Fuerst, Idaho National Lab, Tritium in Fusion and Fission Reactors

April 21st: Kayla Sprenger, University of Colorado, Moving the Needle: Employing Deep Learning to Push the Boundaries of Computational Vaccine Models

April 28th: S. Eileen Seo, Arizona State University, TBD.

Tagbo Niepa – University of Pittsburgh

Host: Associate Professor Kevin Cash

Eric Furst – University of Delaware

Host: Associate Professor Joseph Samaniuk

 James Crawford – National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Host: Associate Professor Ning Wu

Edward Phelps – University of Florida

Host: Assistant Professor Nikki Farnsworth

Alberto Striolo – University of Oklahoma

Host: Professor Carolyn Koh

Rebecca Willits – Northeastern University

Host: Associate Professor Melissa Krebs

Francois Baneyx – University of Washington

Host: Assistant Professor Alex Pak 

Joel Plawsky – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Host: Associate Professor Joseph Samaniuk

Thomas Fuerst – Idaho National Lab

Host: Professor Colin Wolden

Kayla Sprenger – University of Colorado

Host: Assistant Professor Alexander Pak

S. Eileen Seo – Arizona State University

Host: Assistant Professor Stephanie Kwon

• September 2nd: Rahul Kasat, 3D Systems Corporation, My Journey from Graduate Student to become an Entrepreneur

  September 9th: Christopher Muhich, Arizona State University, Understanding and Controlling Surface Adsorption from the Ground Up- a Quantum Mechanical Approach to Renewable Energy and Environmental Remediation Materials Design.

  September 16th: Anne “Liz” Ware, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Analytical Approaches for Characterization of Lignocellulosic Biomass Cell Walls to Develop Optimized Feedstocks for the Bioderived Value Chain

  September 23rd: Alexander Mironenko, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Catalysis Meets Quantum Mechanics: Accurate and Low-Cost Predictions of Complex Solvation and Reactivity Phenomena

  September 30th: Angela Pannier, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Engineering Extracellular Vesicles for Nonviral Gene Delivery

  October 7th: Mandi Malmali, Texas Tech University, Sustainable Ammonia Synthesis Under Milder Conditions

  October 14th: Karen Wawrousek, University of Wyoming, Production of Fatty Acids From an Agricultural Residue, and Covid-19 Driven Research Shift to Biomedical Diagnostics

  October 21st: Abigail Koppes, Northeastern University, Engineered Models of the Enteric-Gut-Axis

  October 28th: Prashant Jain, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, The Interface of Optics and Chemistry

  November 4th: Greg Hudalla, University of Florida, Supramolecular Approaches for Localized Biotherapeutic Delivery

  November 11th: Edward Phelps, University of Florida, Engineered Models for New Insights Into Human Type 1 Diabetes.

  December 2nd: Simon Thompson, United States Department of Energy, Beyond Li-Ion Batteries: Low-Cost , High-Energy Density Lithium Metal Batteries

• January 14th: Yamil Colon, University of Notre Dame, Navigating the Landscape of Advanced Materials
• January 21st: Danielle Tullman-Ercek, Northwestern University, Designing with nanoscale building blocks: engineering self -assembling protein superstructures for applications in vaccines, drug delivery and Biomanufacturing
• January 28th: Will Medlin, University of Colorado Boulder, Functionalizing catalytic metal-metal oxide interfaces for selective upgrading of CO2 and biomass derivatives
• February 4th: Christopher Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology, Development and Deployment of Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs): Humanity’s Moonshot for the 21st Century
• February 11th: Suljo Linic, University of Michigan, Fuel Cells Reactions on Pt electrodes: from kinetics and spectroscopy to new materials
• February 18th: Abigail Koppes, Northeastern University, Engineered Models of the Enteric-Gut-Axis (Cancelled)
• March 4th: Scientific Writing Workshop by Mines Writing Center
• March 11th: Anne “Liz” Ware, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Analytical Approaches for Characterization of Lignocellulosic Biomass Cell Walls to Develop Optimized Feedstocks for the Bioderived Value Chain (Postponed)
• March 18th: Phaneendra Kondapi, University of Houston, Digital Approach in the Process Industry: Current and Future State of Transformation 
• March 25th: Daniel Alge, Texas A&M University, Expect the Unexpected – Unanticipated Effects of Crosslinking Chemistry and Immune Reactions on Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Hydrogels
• April 8th: Dante Disharoon and Ryan Gasvoda, Colorado School of Mines Alumni, Miniaturized Dielectric Coagulometry for Point-of-Care Assessment of Hemostatic Dysfunctions/Miniaturized Dielectric Coagulometry for Point-of-Care Assessment of Hemostatic Dysfunctions and Obtaining High Etch Selectivity in Plasma-Assisted ALE: A Surface Functionalization Approach
• April 15th: Bhuvnesh Bharti, Louisiana State University, Assembly and propulsion of colloids in external fields
• April 29th: Clayton Radke, University of California Berkeley, Black Holes and Dry-Eye Amelioration

• September 3rd: Mines DI&A Workshop, Lakshmi Krishna & Muthu Vinayak Thyagarajan, Minimizing Microaggressions
• September 10th: John Newman, Colorado School of Mines, Turbulence and Energy Storage 
• September 17th: Rodney Priestley, Princeton University, Glass Transition and Dynamics of Nanoscopically Confined Polymer
• September 24th: Shaun Alia, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Materials Integration, Durability, and Perspectives in Low Temperature Electrolysis
• October 1st: William Tarpeh, Stanford University, Electrochemical Wastewater Refining: Reframing Nitrogen Pollutants as Products
• October 8th: Xi Chen, City University of New York, “Hygroscience” for Evaporation Energy Harvesting
• October 15th: Matthew Green, Arizona State University, Next-generation polymers for membrane separations, CO2 capture, and advanced materials
• October 22nd: Sudipta Seal, University of Central Florida, Multi-valent nano-oxides for angiogenesis
• November 5th: Andres Garcia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Bioengineered Synthetic Hydrogels for Regenerative Medicine
• November 19th: David Nielson, Arizona State University, Pathway, strain, and community engineering to expand
  biochemical production and enhance carbon utilization
• December 3rd: William Schneider, University of Notre Dame, The Catalytic Science of Making Up and Breaking Up Dinitrogen

• January 15th: Idalis Villanueva, University of Florida, A multi- and mixed-method exploration of hidden curriculum and issues affecting women in science or engineering
• January 22nd: Michael Sefton, University of Toronto, Medicine by Design: Preparing the ground for endogenous repair
• January 29th: Taras Makogon, Saudi Aramco, Phase Transitions and Multiphase Flow in Energy and Bioscience
• February 5th: Michele Sarazen, Princeton University, Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as catalysts and catalyst precursors
• February 19th: Maria Carreon, South Dakota School of Mines, Nitrogen Fixation: Unveiling the Cold Plasma-Based Route
• March 12th: Lucio Isa, ETH Zurich, New Directions for Active Colloids: Swimming at Oil-Water Interfaces and External Feedback
• March 19th: Amy Herr, University of California at Berkeley, Microfluidic Design Bridges A Gap: Electrophoretic Cytometry for Targeted Proteomics
• March 26th: Brent Nannenga, Arizona State University, High-Resolution Molecular Structure Determination: Methods Development and Applications
• April 9th: Hadley Sikes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Protein and Reaction Engineering for Accessible, Scalable Medical Diagnostics
• April 23rd: Carrie Farberow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), First Principles Modeling to Reveal the Effect of Surface Modification Strategies on Hydrogenation Catalysis
• April 30th: Diego Pradilla, Universidad de los Andes, The Strange But Interesting World of Asphaltenes

• September 4th: Michael Guarnieri, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), C1 Biocatalysis: Bioengineering for Energy and Environmental Solutions
• September 11th: Prashant Deshlahra, Tufts University, Selectivity Limitations in Alkane Oxidative Dehydrogenation
• October 2nd: Jim Pfaendtner, University of Washington, Molecular engineering and design at the bio/nano interface
• October 9th: Paul Shearing, University of College London, The Role of Advanced X-ray Characterisation in Understanding Degradation and Failure in Li-ion Batteries
• October 16th: Keith Johnston, University of Texas at Austin, Soft Matter Stabilization at Challenging Conditions for Drug Delivery and Energy Applications
• October 23rd: Peter Cummings, Vanderbilt University, The Molecular Simulation Design Framework (MoSDeF): Capabilities and
  Applications
• October 30th: Jason Shoemaker, University of Pittsburgh, Computational modeling to guide drug target discovery and treatment design in flu and COVID-19
• November 6th: Reza Foudazi, New Mexico State University, Polymerization in Nanoconfinement of Soft Templates for
  Making Membranes
• November 13th: John Frostad, University of British Columbia, Micromechanical Characterization of Soft
  Particles

• January 10: William Olbricht, National Science Foundation (NSF), Transport Phenomena Research at the National Science Foundation
• February 21: Thomas Mansell, Iowa State University, Synthetic Biology for Microbiome Engineering
• March 6: Jonathan Stickel, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Flow, Transport, and Reaction during the Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals: From Hoppers to Bioreactors

• August 30: Joseph Zasadzinski, University of Minnesota, Interfacial Rheology and How We Breathe
• September 6: Nicholas Sandoval, Tulane University, Advancing Frontiers in Novel Methods of Gene Regulation in Bacteria
• September 13: Chris Wirth, Cleveland State University, Complex Colloidal Particles Near Boundaries
• September 20: Kelly Schultz, Lehigh University, Characterizing the Evolution of Gel Scaffolds Using Passive Microrheology
• September 27: Ryan Hartman, NYU, Artificially Intelligent Microreactors with In Situ Characterization Methods with Potential Applications in Energy, Chemicals, and Materials
• October 4: Gordon Christopher, Texas Tech University, How Do We Characterize the Properties of Air/Water Interfaces Relevant to Petroleum Processing?
• October 11: Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University, Open the Front Door, Close the Back Door: The Impact of Organizational Culture on Recruiting and Retention 
• October 25: Edward Maginn, University of Notre Dame, Computational Design of New Materials for Separations and Energy Storage
• November 1: Sapna Sarupria, Clemson University, Building and Applying in Silico Nanoscopes for Gas Hydrates and Ice
• November 8: George O’Toole, Dartmouth College,, To Build A Bioflim
• November 22: Clare McCabe, Vanderbilt University, Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Stratum Corneum Lipid Mixtures: A Multiscale Perspective

• January 18^: John Rogers, Northwestern University, Soft Electronic and Microfluidic Systems for the Skin
• January 25: Todd Squires, University of California, Driving Particles and Fluids Using Chemical Fluxes
• February 1: Kristala Prather, MIT, Metabolite Valves: Dynamic Control of Metabolic Flux for Pathway Engineering
• March 8: Carolyn Lee-Parsons, Northeastern University, Engineering the Production of Medicinal Natural Products from Plant Cell Cultures
• March 15: K. Scott Phillips, Food and Drug Administration, TBD
• March 22: Patrick Doyle, MIT, Microfluidic Technologies to Manufacture Soft Matter Materials
• April 19: Steven Little, University of Pittsburgh, Controlling Controlled Release to Make Medicine That Imitates Life

• August 30: Gerald Fuller, Stanford U, Asphaltenes: Big Molecules Causing Bigger Problems
• September 7: Young Jik Kwon, UC Irvine, MINEd from Nature and Engineered for Therapy: Semi-synthetic Virus, Nanoantibiotics, and Engineered Extracellular Vesicles
• September 14: Michael Domach, Carnegie Mellon, Optimization can be on the Bounds: Maximizing Therapeutic DNA without Antibiotics and What the Cell’s Solution to Hyper-production Suggests
• September 28: Jacklyn Steeples, Freeport-McMoRan Inc., Chemical Engineering Applications in Mining at Freeport-McMoRan Operations
• October 5: Matthew Panthani, Iowa State, Crystallizing Semiconductors at the Nano- and Molecular Scale: Opportunities and Challenges
• October 12: Chris Wilmer, U of Pittsburgh, Understanding Thermal Transport in Porous Crystals
• October 19: Robert Prud’homme, Princeton University, Nanomedicine: From High Tech to Global Health
• October 26: Terry Papoutsakis, U of Delaware, Native and engineered megakaryocytic microparticles for cell- and gene-therapies
• November 9: Kenneth Kroenlein, NIST, Overcoming Scarcity in the Scientific Literature
• November 16: Andrew Petruska, CSM, Magnetic Guidance in Medicine
• November 30: Tanya Lipscomb, Biotechnology Entrepreneur & Consultant, From the Lab Bench to the Boardroom: My Adventures in Start-ups

• January 12: Alissa Park, Columbia U, Towards Sustainable Energy and Materials: Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)
• January 19: Anthony Muscat, U of Arizona, Where Materials Meet: Passivation and Activation of Semiconductor and Metal Surfaces
• February 13: Niall MacDowell, Imperial College London, Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS): vital for 1.5C, but does it work?
   
• March 16: Todd Alam, Sandia Labs, Domain Structure and Water Transport in SDAPP Proton Exchange Membranes 
• April 6: Peter Monson, U Mass Amherst, Understanding the Thermodynamics and Dynamics of Fluids Confined in Mesoporous Materials
• April 20: Bin Liu, Kansas State U, Atmospheric ammonia synthesis – mechanism, materials, and processes
• April 27: Prasad Shalini, UT Dallas, Early Stage Technologies in Wearable Lifestyle Monitoring: Flexible Sensors for Monitoring Biomarkers in Sweat

• September 1: Hannes Schniepp, William & Mary, Synthetic and Biogenic 2D Materials: Interfacial Properties and Characterization
• September 8: Cole DeForest, U Washington, User-Programmable Hydrogel Biomaterials to Probe and Direct 4D Stem Cell Fate
• September 15: Paul Van Tassel, Yale, Layer-by-layer Assembled Polyelectrolyte Films as Porous Biomolecular Delivery Systems
• September 22: Linda Broadbelt, Northwestern, Reaction Pathway Analysis of the (Bio)conversion of (Bio)macromolecules
• September 29: Geoff Geise, U Virginia, Structure/property Relationships in Polymer Membranes for Water Purification and Energy Applications
• October 6: Jessica Winter, Ohio St., Battling Cancer through Chemical Engineering: A Bench to Bedside Journey
• October 13: Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin, Reaction Mechanisms and Structure Sensitivity for Materials Discovery from first-principles in Heterogeneous Catalysis
• October 20: Ramon Gonzalez, Rice University
• October 27: Jeff Reimer, Berkeley, My Response to our Changing Climate: NMR and Metal-Organic Frameworks
• November 10: Placidus Amama, Kansas State
• November 17: Laura Jarboe , Iowa State University, Development of Robust Microbial Cell Factories by Membrane Engineering
• December 1: Mike Jewett, Northwestern, Repurposing the Translation Apparatus for Synthetic Biology

• January 13: Tim Barbari, Boston Univ., Affinity Membranes for Specific Protein Capture: Controlling the Orientation of Immobilized Biomolecules on a Surface
• January 20: David Sholl, Georgia Tech., Developing New Nanoporous Materials for Practical Applications Using Computational Modeling – How Close Is the Dream to Reality
• January 27: Mircea Dinca, MIT, Teaching Sponges New Tricks: Catalysis and Charge Transport in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks
• February 3: Jinaping Yu, NREL, Ethylene Forming Enzyme and Bio-ethylene Production
• February 10: Shelley Anna, Carnegie Mellon, Phase Change and Partitioning in Nanoliter Droplets
• February 17: Richard Willson, Univ. of Houston, New Approaches to Lateral-flow Immunoassays: What’s Inside That Home Pregnancy/Flu/Chlamydia Test?
• February 24: Kyongbuym Lee, Tufts, Using Metabolomics to Understand the Regulatory Roles of Metabolic Products: Applications in Improving Bioprocesses and Studying the Gut Microbiome
• March 3: Huimin Zhao, Univ. of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Synthetic Biology: A New Engine for the Third Wave of Biotechnology
• March 10: Bill Ristenpart, UC Davis, Colloids near Electrodes: Complex Behavior via Microscale Electrohydrodynamic Flows
• March 17: Scott Cooper, Univ. of Wisconsin Lacrosse, From Burrow to Bedside: Blood Clotting in Hibernating Ground Squirrels
• April 7: Mark Barteau, Univ. of Michigan, Catalysis and Communications for a Carbon-constrained World
• April 14: Christine Schmidt, Univ. of Florida, Engineering Materials for Functional Nerve Regeneration
• April 28: Nosang Myung, UC Riverside, Smartphone Integrable High Density Chemical Sensor Arrays

• September 2: Sibani Lisa Biswal, Rice University, TX, Nonequilibrium Dynamics with Magnetic Filaments
• September 9: Stephanie Bryant, CU, Designing Biomimetic Hydrogels for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
• September 16: Aleksander Donev, NYU, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Hydrodynamics of Suspensions of Passive and Active Rigid Particles: A Rigid Multiblob Approach
• September 23: Christie Peebles, CSU, Developing Green Cell Factories: Progress Toward Cyanobacterial Fuels and Chemicals
• September 30: Yadong Wang, University of Pittsburgh, Biomaterial-Enabled In Situ Tissue Regeneration
• October 7: Andrea Armani, USC, Portable Sensors based on Integrated Photonics and Functional Materials
• October 14: Douglas Adamson, University of Connecticut, Pristine Graphene Composites by Interfacial Trapping
• October 21: Haluk Beyenal, Washington State Univ, Electrochemical Biofilm Control
• October 28: Sang Eon Han, University of NM, Manipulating Photonic Nanostructures for Efficient Solar Energy Usage
• November 4: David Lynn, University of WI-Madison, Design of Soft Material Interfaces: From ‘Conventional’ to ‘Covalent’ Assembly
• November 11: Thomas Webster, Northeastern, Commercializing Nanomedicine: Improving Tissue Growth, Inhibiting Infection, and Limiting Inflammation
• November 18: Mary Laura Lind, Arizona State University, Advanced Membrane Materials for Liquid and Gas Separations
• December 2: Michael Tsapatsis, University of Minnesota, 2-dimensional Zeolites

• March 25: Ningzhong Bao, Univ of Tech Jiangsu, Nanjing CHINA, Graphene — A New Member of Carbon Family: Properties, Preparation, and Applications
• April 8: Shaoyi Jiang, U of Wa – Seattle, Molecular Understanding, Design and Development of Ultra Low Fouling Zwitterionic-based Functional Materials
• April 15: Matthew Walsh, Chevron, Gas Hydrates: The Flow Assurance Problem With A Thousand (Crystal) Faces
• April 22: Jon Pharoah, Queens Univ at Kingston, Canada, Fuel Cells and the Future of the Energy System… and Multi-Scale Modelling Tools for Fuel Cell Development
• April 29: Mark Tuckerman, NYU, Exploration and Generation of Free Energy Landscapes of Molecular Crystals and Oligopeptides

• September 4: John Ekerdt, University of Texas, Austin,Atomic Layer Deposition of Crystalline Perovskites on Ge(001) and Si(001)
• September 11: Susanta Sarkar, Colorado School of Mines, High-Throughput Spectroscopy and Tracking of Single Particles
• September 18: Michael Crowley, NREL, Better Biofuels Through Molecular Modeling and Theory at NREL
• September 25: Brian Pfleger, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sustainability via Synthetic Biology –A Growing Role for Biotechnology in the Chemical Industry
• October 2: Karin Leiderman, UC Merced, Mathematical Modeling of Thrombus Formation Under Flow
• October 9: Christopher Snow, CSU, Programming Nanoscale and Mesoscale Assembly of Protein Crystals
• October 16: Shiguang Li, Gas Technology Institute (GTI), Membrane Contactors for CO2capture and Bio-Mimetic HIgh-Purity O2 Production
• October 30: Leland Vane, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Pervaporation & Vapor Permeation: Membrane Processes for the Recovery & Drying of Solvents and Alcohol Biofuels
• November 6: Ahmet Kusoglu, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Laboratories, Chemical-Mechanical interactions controlling Structure/Function Relationships in Ionomers
• November 13: Tim Secomb, University of Arizona, Mechanics of blood flow in micro vessels
• November 20: Dan Zarraga, Genentech / University of Delaware (Adjunct Faculty),Elucidation of mAb protein interactions and clustering using neutron and light scattering techniques
• December 4: Ken Balkas, University of Texas – Dallas, Novel Polymer Blend membranes with controlled microstructure for gas separations

• January 16: Jules Magde, University of Utah, Restart of Flow in Waxy Crude Oil Pipelines Blocked With Wax Gels – Predictions Using Laboratory Tests
• January 23: Thomas McKinnon, Agribotix, Making Drones Work for Agriculture
• January 30: Chris Wright, Liberty Resources, American Shale Revolution: Beginnings, Today, and Thoughts on Tomorrow
• February 13: Kurt Koppi, Dow Chemical Company, Industrial Applied Rheology: Rheological Tools For Die Design
• February 20: Byron Pipes, Purdue University, Modelling in Composites Manufacturing: Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB (cdmHUB)
• February 27: Tom Plant, Colorado State University, Emerging opportunities and challenges in the New Energy Economy
• March 6: Margaret Sobkowicz-Kline, University of Massachuetts-Lowell, Aqueous Processing of Conjugated Polymers for Flexible Electronics
• March 20: Eric Furst, University of Delaware, Directing Colloidal and Nanoparticle Self-Assembly
• April 3: Michael Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara, Fooling Light with Nanostructures: Controlling Reflection to Chemical Imaging
• April 17: Adam Weber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Understanding Transport in Polymer-Electrolyte-Fuel-Cell Ionomer
• April 24: Joan Brennecke, University of Notre Dame, Ionic Liquids for Electrochemical Applications

• October 29: Salman R. Khetani, Colorado State University, Liver Tissue Engineering: Applications in Drug Screening and Disease Modeling
• September 5: Jaehun Chun, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Colloidal Dispersions: Where Various Length Sales Become Correlated
  September 12: Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University, Engineering Education – What’s in Store for the Next 100 Years?
• September 14: Shota Atsumi, University of California, Davis, Systematic Construction of Biosynthetic Pathways for Chemical Production
• September 26: Srinivasa R. Raghavan, University of Maryland, Light-Tunable Fluids, Self-Propelling Microcapsules and Hemostatic Biomaterials: The Next Generation of Soft Matter
• October 3: John Ekerdt, University of Texas, Austin, Atomic Layer Deposition of Crystalline Perovskites on Ge(001) and Si(001)
• October 17: Gregg Nyberg, Amgen
• October 24: Reginald E. Rogers, Rochester Institute of Technology, Free-standing Carbon Nanocomposites as Next Generation Adsorbent Materials
• October 31: Anand Yethiraj, Memorial University, Field-induced Self-assembly and Collective Dynamics in Colloids and Emulsions
• November 7: James Gilchrist, Lehigh University, Tuning 2D and 3D Suspension Microstructure
• November 14: Jerry Rudy, University of Colorado, Boulder, Variation in the Persistence of Memories: A view from the Synapse
• November 21: Alan Sellinger, Dept. of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Acid and Silane-based Ligands for Tuning Bandgaps and Work Functions of Hybrid Quantum Dots and Oxide Electrodes

• August 31: David Ku, Georgia Tech
• September 7: Tyler W. Johannes, The University of Tulsa, Using Synthetic Biology to Engineer Microalgae
• September 14: Abe Stroock, Cornell University, Microvascular Structure and Function in vitro
• September 21: Xiao Cheng Zeng, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Computer-Aided Nanoscience Research: Nanoice, Nanoclusters, and Superhydrophobicity
• October 5: Jason Baxter, Drexel University, Extremely Thin Absorber Solar Cells
• October 12: Richard Cairncross, Drexel University, TBA
• October 19: Tianshu Li, George Washington University, Ice Nucleation in Supercooled Water: From Bulk to Nano Water Droplets
• October 26: Steve Granick, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, TBA
• November 13: Michael Ramage, retired Executive VP ExxonMobil, Transitions to Alternative Transportation Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges to Reduce US Oil Use and CO2 Emissions in Light Duty Transportation
• November 16: Katherine Ayers, Proton OnSite,, Bridging the Infrastructure Gap: Cost Effective Generation of Hydrogen from Water
• November 30: Bill Green, MIT
• December 7: Michael Detamore, University of Kansas, Gradient Strategies and Umbilical Cord Wharton’s Jelly Cells for Osteochondral Tissue Engineering