News and Events
Spring 2011 Seminars
All seminars are held in 108 Wartik Laboratory from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. on
Tuesdays or Thursdays unless otherwise noted.
- Download the Spring 2011 seminar schedule.pdf - Updated on 04/06/11
Thursday, January 13th
David J. Klinke II
- David J. Klinke Faculty web page
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology
- West Virginia University
- "A Bayesian Perspective on Understanding How Cells Make Decisions"
- http://klinke.openwetware.org/
Thursday, January 20
Stefan Vajda
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division
- Yale University
- "Catalysis by Small Clusters and Nanoparticles"
Thursday, January 27
Donald Chmielewski
- Donald Chmielewski Faculty web page
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- "New Perspectives on Control System Design"
Tuesday, February 3
Neda Bagheri
- Department of Biological Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- "Computational methods to investigate cell regulatory dynamics of virus-host interaction and t-cell signaling"
Tuesday, February 8
Christian Metallo
- Christian Metallo on the Gregory Stephanopoulos faculty web page
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- "Rethinking Carbon Utilization in Human Cells"
Thursday, February 10
Carlos Rinaldi
- Carlos Rinaldi Faculty web page
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
- "Suspensions of Magnetic Nanoparticles: From Fluid Physics to Biomedical Applications"
- Rinaldi Laboratory Website
Tuesday, February 15
Kevin Sivula
- Kevin Sivula web page
- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- "Bottom-up Control of Materials and Morphology for Solar Energy Conversion"
Tuesday, February 22
Randolph Ashton
- Randolph Ashton on the Schaffer Group Website
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- University of California at Berkeley
- "Towards Engineering Instructive Cellular Microenvironments: Case Studies in Neurogenesis"
Tuesday, March 1
Greg Thurber
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Harvard Medical School
- "Can We Predict Drug and Imaging Agent Distribution"?
Tuesday, March 15
Tae Hyeon Yoo
- Tae Hyeon Yoo web page
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- The University of Texas at Austin
- "Engineering Protein Sequences and Compositions"
Tuesday, April 5
Ryan Gill
- Ryan Gill Faculty web page
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- "Genome Surfing"
Thursday, April 7
Orlin Velev
- Orlin Velev Faculty web page
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- North Carolina State University
- "Electrically Functional Soft Matter: From Precise Colloidal Assembly to Hydrogel Photovoltaics"
Thursday, April 14
Galen Stucky
- 102 Chemistry, 1:00 p.m. - Time changed from 12:30 p.m.
- Galen Stucky Faculty web page
- University of California at Santa Barbara
- 2011 Barrer Lecture (Lecture #1)
- The Barrer Lecture is sponsored by the Department of Chemistry
and the Department of Chemical Engineering. - "Zeolites and R. M. Barrer Inspired Control of Bioprocesses: The Challenge of Hemostasis"
Friday, April 15
Galen Stucky
- 102 Chemistry, 2:30 p.m.
- Galen Stucky Faculty web page
- University of California at Santa Barbara
- 2011 Barrer Lecture (Lecture #2)
- The Barrer Lecture is sponsored by the Department of Chemistry
and the Department of Chemical Engineering. - "The Synthesis and Use of 3-D Heterostructured Materials as Thermoelectrics"
Thursday, April 21
Eric Shaqfeh
- Eric Shaqfeh Faculty web page
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Stanford University
- "The Microfluidics of Particle/ Vesicle Mixtures in the Microvasculature"