Also see the Spring 2008 Student Seminar Schedule

Spring 2008 (updated: April 25, 2008 ) Seminars will be held in 66-110 (Ralph Landau Building, Gilliland Auditorium) unless otherwise noted. Reception held before those seminars at 2:45 pm. Everyone is invited.
Friday, February 1 3pm	Theo-zymes: Catalysis Ahead of Nature Anastassia Alexandrova Department of Chemistry, Yale University
Friday, February 8 3pm	Furan-derivatives from Biomass-derived Carbohydrates for the Production of Fuels and Chemical Intermediates Yuriy Roman-Leshkov Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Monday, February 11 4pm (reception at 3:45pm)	Benign synthesis, size control, and assembly of silica nanoparticles: A new paradigm for dispersed particle, porous thin film, and gel applications Mark A. Snyder Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
Friday, February 15 3pm	Nanoconfinement Effects on Glass Formation and Glassy Behavior of Polymers Rodney Priestley Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
Tuesday, February 19 3pm	Towards a Universal Phase Diagram for Functional Rod-Coil Block Copolymers Bradley D. Olsen ’03 Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, February 29 3pm	Multifunctional Hybrid Nanomaterials via Electrostatic Assembly Processes Paula Hammond Chemical Engineering Department, MIT
Thursday, March 6 66-360 3pm	Designing Block Copolymer Surfactants for Organizing Immiscible Polymers Megan Robertson Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
Friday, March 7 3pm	Advances in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering Robert Langer Chemical Engineering Department, MIT
Friday, March 14 3pm	The Energy/Environment Challenge and MIT’s Energy Initiative Robert C. Armstrong Chemical Engineering Department, MIT
Friday, March 28 3pm	Elucidation of nanoscale phenomena in heterogeneous catalysis using a novel catalyst synthetic method and in-situ synchrotron x-ray techniques: NO oxidation on platinum Robert M. Rioux Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Friday, April 4 32-123 3pm (reception at 2:30)	Alan S. Michaels Lecture: Medicine for the Millennium: How MIT Has Served as a Muse for Medtronic Stephen N. Oesterle Senior Vice President for Medicine and Technology, Medtronic, Inc.
Friday, April 11 3pm	Crystal Engineering for Morphology Evolution and Product Design Michael Doherty Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
Friday, April 18 3pm	Dynamics and Control of Integrated Networks: A Multi-scale Perspective Prodromos Daotidis Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
Friday, April 25 3pm	Of Megakaryocytes and Platelets E. Terry Papoutsakis Chemical Engineering and the Delaware Biotech. Institute, University of Delaware
Wednesday, May 7 3:00pm	From Proteins to Peas: Diffusion Across Scales John Brady Chemical Engineering Department, California Institute of Technology
Friday, May 9 3pm (2:30 reception in 66-201)	Warren K. Lewis Lecture: Osmotic Propulsion: The Osmotic Motor John Brady Chemical Engineering Department, California Institute of Technology

•	Spring 2008 Students Seminar Schedule
•	ChemE Seminar Archive (2006-2007)

Other MIT Seminars:
•	Chemistry
•	Program in Polymer Science & Technology
•	Materials Science & Engineering
•	Biology
•	Biological Engineering Division
•	Health Sciences & Technology
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