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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

fall 2008 Seminar Series

September

5th Friday

Professor Michael J. Baird

University of Pittsburgh

"Novel Metal Sulfides for the Catalytic Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) and Hydrodenitrogenation (HDN) of Petroleum Feedstock’s"
September 19th Friday

Professor Darrell Irvine

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Engineering Approaches to Immunology and Immunotherapy: Using Materials to Prod and Probe the Immune System"

October

3rd Friday

Professor Ralph Nuzzo

University of Illinois

"Fabrication for Form and Function"
October  10th Friday

Professor John Y. Walz

Virginia Tech

"Equilibrium and Dynamic Forces in Binary Colloidal Mixtures"
October  17th Friday

Mr. Richard C. Baxendell

Director, Supply Chain Planning Optimization Project Bayer Material Science, LLC

"Launching a career, soon, huh?  Be careful what you ask for.  You may get it."

October

31st Friday

Professor James P. Lewis

West Virginia University

"What Can Frontier Orbitals in Disordered Systems Tell Us about the Properties of a Material?"

November 7th Friday

Professor Thomas P. Russell

University of Massachusetts Amherst

"Capillary Wrinkling of Floating Thin Films"
November 14th Friday Professor Kwong-Yu Chan

University of Hong Kong

"Materializing Electrochemical Technologies: From Fuel Cells to Ozonators"

December 5th Friday

Professor Yu Lei

University of Connecticut

"Metal Oxide Nanomaterials and their Application in (Bio)Sensors"
December 12th Friday

Professor Christine M. Hrenya

University of Colorado

"Newton's Cradle Undone: Experiments and Theory for Collisions between Wetted Solids"

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