Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series

Spring 2003      3:00 p.m. in CPE 2.218 (unless otherwise noted)

*Denotes 4:00 p.m.

January 14 Steve Granick, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Polymers at Aqueous Interfaces"
January 16*

PIRKEY CENTENNIAL LECTURESHIP, Gabor A. Somorjai, Professor of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, "The Surface Science of Catalytic Selectivity"
January 28

Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, "Polyelectrolytes in the Presence of Multivalent Ions: Gelation Versus Segregation"
February 3*

MONDAY

Thomas P. Russell, Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, (Seminar Scheduled for 4:00 p.m. in CPE 2.214), Seminar Title to TBA
February 11

TEXAS DISTINGUISHED FACULTY LECTURE, Ronald G. Larson, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, "DNA in Micro-Flows"
February 18

Jan Genzer, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, "Molecular and Macromolecular Gradients on Material Surfaces: Formation and Applications"
February 25 Michael Jaffe, Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Seminar Title to TBA
March 6*

Michael J. Betenbaugh, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, "Humanizing Insect Cells for Biotechnology Applications"
March 18 Clifford L. Henderson, Assistant Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Seminar Title to TBA
March 27*

Bernhardt L. Trout, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Solvation Effects in Clathrate-Hydrates and Biological Systems"
April 1 Ruben G. Carbonell, Professor of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, "Thin Film Coatings Using Liquid Carbon Dioxide as Solvent"
April 8 Demetre J. Economou, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Seminar Title to TBA
April 15 William E. Bentley, Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park, Seminar Title to TBA
April 22

 

 PROVOST DISTINGUISHED LECTURE, Alice P. Gast, Vice President for Research, Associate Provost and Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Protein Crystals on Lipids:  Ordering in Nature"
April 29

 

 David S. Corti, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, Seminar Title to TBA
May 1*

 

 HOLLINGSWORTH LECTURESHIP IN ENGINEERING, Chad A. Mirkin, Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Seminar Title to TBA
May 6

 

 Jay H. Lee, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, "New Challenges and Directions in Process Control: Going Beyond the Model Predictive Control Paradigm"