Seminars

Seminar Series sponsored by Shell

Upcoming in Spring 2023

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.

Spring 2023

All seminars are held Fridays in CTLM102 from 10 to 11 a.m., unless otherwise noted.

January 13th: Tagbo Niepa, University of Pittsburgh

Tagbo Niepa – University of Pittsburgh

Host: Associate Professor Kevin Cash

February 3rd, 2023: Eric Furst, University of Delaware

Eric Furst – University of Delaware

Host: Associate Professor Joseph Samaniuk

February 10th, 2023: James Crawford, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
February 17th, 2023: Edward Phelps, University of Florida

Edward Phelps – University of Florida

Host: Assistant Professor Nikki Farnsworth

February 24th, 2023: Alberto Striolo, University of Ohio

Alberto Striolo – University of Oklahoma

Host: Professor Carolyn Koh

March 3rd, 2023: Rebecca Willits, Northeastern University

Rebecca Willits – Northeastern University

Host: Associate Professor Melissa Krebs

March 17th, 2023: Francois Baneyx, University of Washington

Francois Baneyx – University of Washington

Host: Assistant Professor Alex Pak 

March 31st, 2023: Joel Plawsky, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Joel Plawsky – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Host: Associate Professor Joseph Samaniuk

April 7th, 2023: Thomas Fuerst, Idaho National Lab

Thomas Fuerst – Idaho National Lab

Host: Professor Colin Wolden

April 21st 2023: Kayla Sprenger, University of Colorado

Kayla Sprenger – University of Colorado

Host: Assistant Professor Alexander Pak

April 28th, 2023: S. Eileen Seo, Arizona State University

S. Eileen Seo – Arizona State University

Host: Assistant Professor Stephanie Kwon

Past Seminars

Fall 2022
  • 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

Spring 2022
  • 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
Fall 2021
  • 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
Spring 2021
  • 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
Fall 2020
  • 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
Spring 2020
  • 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
Fall 2019
  • 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
Spring 2019
  • 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
Fall 2018
  • 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
Spring 2018
  • 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
Fall 2017
  • 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
Spring 2017
  • 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
Fall 2016
  • 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
Spring 2016
  • 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
Fall 2015
  • 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
Spring 2015
  • 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
Fall 2014
  • 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
Fall 2012
  • 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