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 |