Chemical Engineering Seminars

Fall 2025 Seminar Schedule
Date Speaker Title

August 28

Dr. Abhishek Kar

Beyond the Barrel: Creating Value through Innovation and Resilience

 

September 4

Dr. David Flaherty

Catalysis as Dynamic Active Sites in Complex Environments: Epoxidations and Ammoxidations

 

September 11

Dr. Carl Laird

Systems, Surrogates, Solutions: Optimization and Machine Learning for Decision-Making at Scale

September 18

Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Klavs Jensen

Accelerating Chemical Discovery and Development with Automation and AI

September 30

Dr. Eva Zurek

Computational Prediction of Multi-Functional Materials

October 9

Dr. Zhen-Gang Wang

The Anomalous Phase Behavior of Polymer-Ionic Liquid Mixtures

October 16

Dr. Darrell Velegol

Gambling on Innovation

October 23

Air Products Lecturer, Dr. Eranda Nikolla

Embracing the Complexity of Mixed Metal Oxide Catalytic Structures for Efficient Energy and Chemical Conversion

October 30

Penn State Graduate Student Awardees - Akanksha Shayal (Best Qualifying Exam), Tina Doika (Best Teaching Assistant), and Vasudev Tangry (Best Paper)

Akanksha Dhayal, Best Qualifying Exam: Understanding the Mechanism of Reactive Carbon Capture and Conversion in Ionic Liquids

Tina Doika, Best TA

Vasudev Tangry, Best Paper: The Application of Forward Osmosis for Producing Highly Concentrated Biotherapeutics 

November 13

Bladimir Ramos-Alvarado, Joint Appointment Candidate

Almost a Decade of Research on the Relationship between Chemistry and Interfacial Transport of Heat and Momentum across Solid/Water Interfaces

November 20

Feifei Shi, Joint Appointment Candidate

Thermodynamics of Solvation Process in Liquid Electrolytes

December 4

Dr. William Green Predicting Chemical Properties & Kinetics, and Assessing the Viability of Proposed New Processes

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Waltemyer Department of Chemical Engineering

121 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802

Phone: 814-865-2574