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Graduate Seminars

Seminars are held at 9:30 a.m. in Room 1175 Benedum Engineering Hall unless otherwise indicated. Refreshments will be served 30 minutes before the seminars

Spring 2002 Seminar Series

January 10th Thursday Mike Strano, Ph.D., Rice University
"Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoporous Reactive Membranes the Influence of Pore Structure on Membrane Selectivity"
January 24th Thursday Kacey Marra, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 
"Enhancing Polymeric Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Applications"
January 31st Thursday Yossef (Joe) Elabd, Ph.D., U.S. Army Research Laboratory
"Diffusion in Polymers: Effects of Molecular Interactions & Polymer Nanostructure"
February 7th Thursday Sachin Velankar, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
"Dynamics of immiscible polymer blends with compatibilizer" 
February 13th Wednesday (Evening 5:00pm) Prof. David A. Weitz, Harvard University
"New Insight into Hard Problems with Soft Materials"
February 14th Thursday Prof. David A. Weitz, Harvard University
"Basic Science with Dirty Motor Oil: Jamming of Attractive Particles"
February 21st Thursday Chandra Saravanan, Ph.D., University of California
"Modeling very large systems using high-performance linear-scaling density functional theory: Methods of the future"
February 25th Monday Mark Shiflett, Ph.D., Dupont Experimental Station
"Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoporous Carbon Membranes"
February 28th Thursday Matthew DeLisa, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
"The Tat pathway of protein secretion in bacteria: From genetic analysis to novel biotechnology applications"
April 5th Friday Prof. Paulette Clancy, Cornell University
"To Be Announced"

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