News and Events
Fall 2011 Seminars
All seminars are held in 102 Chemistry Building from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
on Thursdays unless otherwise noted.
- Download the Fall 2011 seminar schedule.pdf - Updated on 10/21/11
Thursday, September 15th
Professor Steven Schiff
- Steven Schiff faculty web page
- Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
- Center for Neural Engineering
- The Pennsylvania State University
- "Towards model-based control of brain dynamics"
- Steven Schiff Group Website
Thursday, September 22nd
Professor William Schneider
- William Schneider faculty web page
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- University of Notre Dame
- "Environmental Catalysis from First Principles"
- William Schneider Research Group Website
Thursday, September 29th
William Velander
- Department Chair and Professor
- William Velander faculty web page
- Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- "The Interface Between Hemostasis and Inflammation: Improving Healing by Tissue Engineering"
Thursday, October 6th
Associate Professor Michael A. Bevan
- Michael A. Bevan faculty web page
- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
- Johns Hopkins University
- "Colloidal Interactions, Dynamics, and Assembly on Energy Landscapes"
- Bevan Lab Website
Thursday, October 13th
Professor Bartosz A. Grzybowski
- Bartosz A. Grzybowski faculty web page
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Non-Equilibrium Energy Research Center (NERC)
- Northwestern University
- "The 'wired' universe of organic chemistry"
- Bartosz Grzybowski Group Website
Thursday, October 27th
Assistant Professor Mohammad Reza Abidian
- Mohammad Reza Abidian faculty web page
- Department of Bioengineering
- The Pennsylvania State University
- "Advanced Nanobiomaterials for Multifunctional Neural Interfaces"
- Abidian Group Website
Thursday, November 3rd
Professor Shekhar Garde
- Shekhar Garde faculty web page
- The Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- "Water at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology: A New Perspective on Hydrophobicity"
- Shekhar Garde Research Group Website
Thursday, November 10th
Randy L. Vander Wal
- Associate Professor
- Randy L. Vander Wal faculty web page
- The Deptartment of Energy and Mineral Engineering
- The EMS Energy Institute
- The Materials Research Institute
- The Pennsylvania State University
- "A Survey of Nanomaterials for Energy Applications"
Thursday, November 17th
Associate Professor Arul Jayaraman
- Arul Jayaraman faculty web page
- Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering
- Texas A&M University
- "Inter-kingdom signaling in the GI tract: There's a lot of talking going on..."
- Arul Jayaraman Research Group Website
Thursday, December 1st
Professor Anatoly Frenkel
- Anatoly Frenkel faculty web page
- Department of Physics
- Yeshiva University
- Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- "Nanothermodynamics of supported metal clusters"
Thursday, December 8th
Brent Shanks
- Mike and Jean Steffenson Professor
- Brent Shanks faculty web page
- NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC)
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Iowa State University
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"Biorenewable Chemical Production through a Generalized Platform
Employing Biological and Chemical Catalysts" - NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals