Spring 2008 Seminars

All seminars are held in 102 Chemistry Building from 10:00-11:00 a.m. on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays.

Download the Spring 2008 seminar schedule.pdf - Updated on 04/10/08

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Dante Simonetti
• Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "Production of liquid fuels via catalytic glycerol processing coupled with Fischer-Tropsch synthesis"
• http://jamesadumesic.che.wisc.edu/members/dante.htm

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Vadim Guliants
• Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
• University of Cincinnati
• "Bulk Mixed Metal Oxides for Emerging Energy Conversion and Chemicals Applications: Nanostructured Ni⁰ Catalysts for Hydrogen Production and Mo-V-M-O (M= Te, Nb, etc.) Catalysts for Propane Ammoxidation"
• http://alpha.che.uc.edu/guliants.html

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Lydia M. Contreras
• Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Cornell University
• "Understanding and Tuning Protein Translocation through the Ribosome"
• http://web1temp.cheme.cornell.edu/peopleevents/
  faculty/md255/People.html

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Paul J. Dauenhauer
• Department of Chemical and Engineering and Materials Science
• University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
• "Millisecond Catalytic Reforming of Carbohydrates for Synthetic Fuels"
• http://www.cems.umn.edu/research/schmidt/
  studentpages/dauenhauer.html
• Seminar cancelled on 01/28/08.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

William Bentley
• Department of Bioengineering
• University of Maryland
• "Interrogating Bacterial Communication Networks - Issues and Applications"
• http://www.bioe.umd.edu/facstaff/bentley.html

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Carsten Sievers
• School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• "Lanthanum exchanged Zeolites as Refining Catalysts"
• http://www.chbe.gatech.edu/jones/Members/Sievers/Sievers.php

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Robert Rioux
• Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
• Harvard University
• "Elucidation of nanoscale phenomena in heterogeneous catalysis using a novel catalyst synthetic method and in-situ synchrotron techniques: NO oxidation on platinum"
• http://www.nsec.harvard.edu/people/researchers.htm

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Fernando Escobedo
• School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Cornell University
• "Mesoscopic Simulations of Order-Disorder Transitions and Self-Assembly in Colloidal and Polymeric Systems"
• http://www.cheme.cornell.edu/cheme/people/profile/index.cfm?netid=fe13

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Kyle J. M. Bishop
• Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
• Northwestern University
• "Nanoscale Self-assembly via Electrostatic Interactions"
• http://dysa.northwestern.edu/People/People.dwt

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Liangfang Zhang
• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• "Lipid-Polymer Hybrid Nanoparticles for Targeted Therapeutics"
• http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/877/722

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Lenore L. Dai
• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Texas Tech University
• "Pickering Emulsions - A Paradigm Shift"
• http://www.depts.ttu.edu/che/faculty/ldai/ldai.php

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Daniel Rivera
• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Arizona State University
• "Inventory management in supply chains and adaptive interventions in behavioral health: insights gained from a process control perspective"
• http://www.eas.asu.edu/~csel/rivera.html

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Francis J. "Frank" Doyle, III
• Department of Chemical Engineering
• University of California - Santa Barbara
• "Robust Timekeeping in Circadian Rhythm: From Genes to Cells to Systems"
• http://www.chemengr.ucsb.edu/people/faculty_d.php?id=18

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Eric Stuve
• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Washington University
• "Direct Oxidation of Hydrocarbon Fuels in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells"
• http://faculty.washington.edu/stuve/
• Seminar cancelled on 03/17/08.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Mark A. Snyder
• Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
• University of Minnesota
• "Benign synthesis, size control, and assembly of silica nanoparticles:
  A new paradigm for dispersed particle, porous thin film, and gel applications"

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