CBE Seminars & Events

Spring 2012 Seminar Series

Wednesday, February 1
Natnael Behabtu
Rice University
"Dissolution, Processing and Fluid Structure of Graphene and Carbon Nanotube in Superacids: The Route Toward High Performance Multifunctional Materials."
3:00 p.m., Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall
 
Wednesday, February 8

Nicholas C. Strandwitz

Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry, California Institute of Technologyn

"Semiconductor Photoanodes: Structure and Stability"

3:00 p.m., Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

Wednesday, February 15

Pamela Peralta-Yahya

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

"Cell Engineering for the Production of Biofuels"
3:00 p.m., Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

 
Wednesday, February 22

Amish J. Patel
Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"Uncovering the Role of Water in Biomolecular Interactions: New Insights from Theory and Computation"
3:00 p.m., Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

 
Wednesday, February 29

Hang Lu
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

"Microtechnologies for High-throughput High-content Developmental Biology and Neurogenetics"
3:00 p.m., Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

 
Wednesday, March 14

Debra T. Auguste

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering on the Gordon McKay Endowment and Member, Kavli Institute for Bionano Science & Technology, Harvard University

"Cooperative Assembly in Drug Delivery and Tissue Fngineering"
3:00 p.m., Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

 
Wednesday, March 21

Michael F. Carolan

Manager, ITM Materials Research, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

"Ion Transport Membranes: Gas Separation Technology for the 21st Century"

3:00 p.m., Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

 
Wednesday March 28

Prashant Nagpal

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory

"Third Generation Photovoltaics: Harnessing the Heat or "Hot" Carriers"
3:00 p.m., Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

 
Wednesday, April 4

Jongyoon Han
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Pushing Ions Around: Ion Selective Membrane Systems for Biosensing, Desalination, and Neuroscience"
3:00 p.m., Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

 
Wednesday, April 11

Krishanu Saha
Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Engineering Pluripotent Stem Cells Using New Models and Biomaterials"
3:00 p.m., Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

Wednesday, April 18

Frank Doyle
Professor, Mellichamp Chair in Process Control, University of California at Santa Barbara

"Control Design for the Artificial Pancreas: Algorithms and Clinical Testing"
3:00 p.m., Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

Friday, April 20

Paulo E. Arratia
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania

"Swimming and Self-Propulsion in Complex Fluids"
12:00 noon, Room 337, Towne Building

Wednesday, April 25

John A. Quinn Distinguished Lecture in Chemical Engineering

W.S. Winston Ho
University Scholar Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University

"Facilitated Transport Membranes for CO2 and Antibiotic Separations"
3:00 p.m., Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

Friday, April 27

German Drazer
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

"Transport of Suspended Particles in Periodic Systems: Applications to Microfluidics for Separation Sciences"
12:00 noon, Room 337, Towne Building