News and Events
Spring 2013 Seminars
All seminars are held in 102 Chemistry Building from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
on Thursdays unless otherwise noted.
- Download the Spring 2013 seminar schedule.pdf - Updated on 04/23/13
Thursday, January 17th
Ryan P. Lively
- 102 Chemistry Building. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Algenol Biofuels, Atlanta, GA
- www.algenolbiofuels.com
- "Enabling Advanced Biofuel Production through Materials-inspired Energy Efficient Separations"
Thursday, January 24th
Michael Smith
- 102 Chemistry Building. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Villanova University
- "Supported catalysts: does surface roughness matter? A case study with VOx-SBA-15"
- http://bibliography.library.villanova.edu/Author/Home?author=Michael%20A%20Smith
Tuesday, January 29th
Christopher E. Wilmer
- 102 Chemistry Building. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
- Northwestern University
- "Algorithmic Exploration of "Building-Block" Chemistry:
Rapid Discovery of Optimal Gas Storage & Separations Materials" - www.chriswilmer.com
Thursday, January 31st
Bingjun Xu
- 102 Chemistry Building. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- California Institute of Technology
-
"Mechanistic investigations of surface-mediated
reactions for heterogeneous catalysis and efficient energy conversion" - www.che.caltech.edu/groups/med/xu.html
Tuesday, February 5th
Haiqing Lin
- 102 Chemistry Building. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Gas Separation Group
- Membrane Technology and Research (MTR)
- "Molecular Engineering of Polymeric Membrane Materials for H2 Purification and CO2 Capture"
- www.mtrinc.com
Thursday, February 14th
Xueyi Zhang
- 102 Chemistry Building. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- University of Minnesota
- "Zeolite nanosheets: catalyst architecture at the molecular scale"
- www.tc.umn.edu/~zhang914/
Tuesday, February 19th
Nicholas A. Brunelli
- 102 Chemistry Building. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- "The Sub-Nanometer Length Scale: Exploring Fundamental Challenges in Aerosols & Catalysis"
- http://jones.chbe.gatech.edu/Members/Brunelli/Brunelli.php
Thursday, February 21st
Justin Gallivan
- 102 Chemistry Building. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Biomolecular Chemistry
- Emory University
- "Synthetic Riboswitches for Controlling Bacterial Gene Expression"
- www.gallivanlab.org/Justin.html
Thursday, March 14th
Hal Alper
- 102 Chemistry Building. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Department of Biological Engineering
- The University of Texas at Austin
- "Directed evolution strategies for cellular and metabolic engineering"
- www.che.utexas.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-directory/alper/
Thursday, April 11th
Jeffrey J. Tabor
- 102 Chemistry Building. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Department of Bioengineering
- Rice University
- "Engineering, characterization, and predictive control of light-switchable bacterial two-component systems"
- http://bioengineering.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=196
Tuesday, April 16th
Stephen H. Garofalini
- N-308A/B Millennium Science Complex. 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Rutgers University
- "Simulations of Water/Silica Interactions and Proton Behavior"
- http://mse.rutgers.edu/faculty/stephen_h_garofalini
Tuesday, April 30th
Shobo Bhattacharya
- Seminar cancelled
102 Chemistry Building. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.- Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Mumbai, India
- "Sticking and Unsticking: How simple can a complex system be?"
- www.aps.org/about/governance/election/shobo.cfm
Thursday, May 2nd
Daeyeon Lee
- 102 Chemistry Building. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- University of Pennsylvania
- "Janus particles at fluid-fluid interfaces: the third face of Janus"
- www.seas.upenn.edu/~leegroup/people.html