PPST

PPST sponsors a series of seminars covering a broad range of topics of general interest to the polymer community, featuring speakers from both on and off campus. We invite the polymer community at MIT and elsewhere to participate. For further information, contact Professor Darrell Irvine at djirvine@mit.edu.

All talks take place on Wednesdays.

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FALL 2009 SEMINAR LOCATION: 4-237

Seminar 3:30 PM / Refreshments 3:00 PM

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October

7	Prof. Ting Xu Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of California/Berkeley *TOPIC: “Directed Hierarchical Assembly in Thin Film: One Piece At A Time”*
14	Prof. Sergiy Minko Nanostructured Materials Group Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science Clarkson University TOPIC: “Stimuli-Responsive Nanostructured Materials”
21	Prof. Yonathan S. Thio School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering Georgia Tech TOPIC: “Blends and composites based on block copolymers: geometry, size, and orientation”
28	Prof. Andrew Parker Green Templeton College University of Oxford (UK) TOPIC: “*Optical Biomimetics - structural colour in nature and our early attempts to copy it”*
November

4	Prof. Chun Wang Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota/Twin Cities TOPIC: “Polymers for DNA Vaccine Delivery: Novel Materials and Biological Mechanisms”
11	Speaker: TBA TOPIC: TBA
18	Prof. James H. Henderson Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Department of Biology, Syracuse Materials Institute TOPIC: *“Active Cell Culture”*
25	Speaker: TBA TOPIC: TBA Tell me more...
December

9	Prof. Shashi K. Murthy Department of Chemical Engineering Northeastern University TOPIC: “Microfluidic Cell Separation in Tissue Engineering: Technological Solutions & Basic Science Questions”