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Spring 2009 Chemical Engineering Department Seminar Series (Updated: February 25, 2009 ) Seminars will be held in 66-110 (Ralph Landau Building, Gilliland Auditorium) unless otherwise noted. Reception held before seminars at 2:45 pm. Everyone is invited.
Friday, February 6 3pm	Multiscale Modeling of Actin: Nucleotide Dependent Properties and the Arp2/3 Branch Junction Jim Pfaendtner Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation, University of Utah
Friday, February 13 3pm	Smart Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery Danielle S.W. Benoit Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington
Tuesday, February 17 3pm	Secret Lives of Nanoscale Catalysts during Reactions Feng Tao Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, February 20 3pm	Numerical and Experimental Multi-scale Reaction Engineering for Novel Schemes of Sustainable Energy Generation Christopher Müller Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Thursday, February 26 3pm	Clean Energy: The Case for Thermoelectrics and Photovoltaics Akram Boukai Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, February 27 3pm	Biomolecular engineering for low-cost clinical diagnostics and cell-free mimics of the oxidative burst immune strategy Hadley Sikes Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Friday, March 6 3pm	Rational design of microbial chemical factories Kristala Jones Prather Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT
Friday, March 13 3pm	The wonders of one dimensional chemistry: carbon nanotubes for single molecule biodetection and energy applications Michael S. Strano Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT
Friday, March 20 3:30pm 32-123	Frontiers of Biotechnology Lecture - Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology Peter G. Schultz Institute Director, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
Friday, April 3 3pm 66-110	Michaels Lecture: Recognition and Delivery: The Next Generation of Medical Microdevices Nicholas A. Peppas Fletcher S. Pratt Chair of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Pharmaceutics, University of Texas at Austin
Friday, April 17 3pm Location TBD	Lewis Lecture: The Impact of Mega Economic Trends on the Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Profession Dr. William F. Banholzer Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Dow Chemical Company
Friday, April 24 3pm	Electrochemical ultra low voltage electrowetting: changing the face of variable optics Alexei A. Kornyshev Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Friday, May 8 3pm	On the Relation between Scientific and Humanistic Education Svetozar Minkov History, Art, and Philosophy Department, Roosevelt University
This schedule is subject to change. (Last updated: February 25, 2009 )