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" |