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 Brad Olsen
at bdolsen@mit.edu.

Please note that we hope to reschedule the cancelled SEPT. 28th SEMINAR
with Prof. Jodie Lutkenhaus in the near future. Stay tuned...

FALL 2011 SEMINAR LOCATION: 4-237

All talks take place on Wednesdays.
Seminar 3:30 PM / Refreshments 3:00 PM

September October November December

7

14

21

28
CANCELLED

CANCELLED

5

12

19

26

2

9

16

23

7

14

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		September



	14	Prof. David Kaplan Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering Tufts University TOPIC: *“New Functional Materials via Bioengineering”*
	21	NO SEMINAR
	28	CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS Prof. Jodie Lutkenhaus Department of Chemical Engineering Texas A&M University TOPIC: “Layer-by-Layer Assemblies: From Fundamental Thermal Analysis to Electrochemical Energy Storage Applications” CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
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		October

	5	NO SEMINAR
	12	Prof. Junsang Doh PPST-ChemE PhD ’06 I-Bio/Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTech), Korea TOPIC: *“Polymer-Based Micro/Nano Systems to Interrogate T Cell Dynamics”*

	19	NO SEMINAR
	26	Prof. Katharina Ribbeck MIT Department of Biological Engineering/PPST TOPIC: “From Nuclear Pores to Mucus – A study of biological hydrogel-based filters”
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		November

	2	Prof. David J. Mooney School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University TOPIC: “Infection-Mimicking Polymers”
	9	Prof. Richard Superfine Department of Physics and Astronomy University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill TOPIC: *“The River Within: How the lung stays clean”*
	16	Prof. Gregory N. Tew Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “Designing Synthetic Macromolecules with Strong Similarities to Biology”
	23	NO SEMINAR
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		December

	7	Prof. Anne J. McNeil Department of Chemistry University of Michigan TOPIC: *“Synthesizing TT-conjugated Copolymers with Sequence Control Using Ni Catalysis”*
	14	Prof. Heather Maynard Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California/Los Angeles TOPIC: “Stabilizing Proteins with Polymer Conjugates”
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