Graduate Seminars

January    9th Friday

Professor Adri C.T. van Duin

Pennsylvania State University

"Atomistic Scale Simulations on Chemical Reactions: Bridging from Quantum Chemistry to Engineering"

Dr. Richard A. Vaia

U.S. Air Force

"Bottom-up Nanocomposites:  Hybrid Nanoparticles, Assemblies and Functional Opportunities"

Professor Matthias Batzill

University of South Florida

"Steps on Metal Oxide Surfaces"

Professor Joelle Frechette

Johns Hopkins University

"Dynamic Control of Surface Properties"

Professor Todd Emrick

University of Massachusetts Amherst

"Building Structures and Encapsulants with Hybrid Materials, Interfaces, and Embedded Chemical Functionality"

Professor Yunfeng Lu

University of California at Los Angeles

"Nanostructured Materials through Hierarchical Assembly"

Professor Christopher B. Roberts

Auburn University

"Using the Tunable Properties of Gas Expanded Liquids to Control Nanoparticle Deposition and Separation Processes"

Professor L. D. Schmidt

University of Minnesota

"Catalytic Autothermal Reforming of Renewable Fuels at Millisecond Times"

*April 2nd Thursday

5:00 pm

Bayer Distinguished Lectureship 2009

Dr. Robert E. Cohen

St. Laurent Professor of Chemical Engineering

Department of Chemical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Bumpy Beetles, Moth Eyes, Butterfly Wings and Patchy Immune Cells: Exploitation of Layer-by-Layer Assembly in Bio-Inspired Materials Engineering"

April 3rd

Friday

Bayer Distinguished Lectureship 2009

Dr. Robert E. Cohen

St. Laurent Professor of Chemical Engineering

Department of Chemical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Designing Robust Omniphobic Surfaces"

Professor Nicholas L. Abbott

University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Engineering Biomolecular Interfaces using Liquid Crystals"