ChBE Department Seminar Series - Spring 2009 Archive
January 28, 2009Faculty Candidate Seminar
February 4, 2009
Faculty Candidate Seminar
February 11, 2009
Faculty Candidate Seminar
February 18, 2009
Faculty Candidate Seminar
February 25, 2009
Faculty Candidate Seminar
March 4, 2009
Six Sigma and Innovative R&D
Jane Li, NL Technology
Speaker Bio & Abstract
March 10, 2009
Nano-Engineering of Block Copolymer Vesicles
Adi Eisenberg, Otto Maass Professor of Chemistry, McGill University
Speaker Bio & Abstract
March 18, 2009
Spring Break - No Seminar Scheduled
March 25
Non-equilibrium microrheology of cytoskeletal networks in live cells
Denis Wirtz, Professor at Johns Hopkins University
Abstract
April 1, 2009
Bioengineering: Fifty Years of Progress, But Still Only a Beginning
Robert Nerem, Professor at Georgia Tech and Director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Speaker Bio & Abstract
April 8, 2009
Modeling of PEM fuel cell electrodes: Understanding the influence of component microstructure and property on electrochemical performance
Kunal Karan, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Queens University and Associate Director of Queen's-RMC Fuel Cell Research Centre
Speaker Bio & Abstract
April 15, 2009
Catalytic Fuel Reforming: A mechanistic understanding
Marco Castaldi, Columbia University
Speaker Bio & Abstract
April 22, 2009
Sedimentation of Particles in Yield-Stress Fluids
Matthew Lynch, Procter & Gamble
Speaker Bio & Abstract
April 24, 2009
2009 Peck Lecture | 4 p.m.
Achieving Sustainable Energy: Connecting goals to research across scales and disciplines
Jefferson Tester, David Croll Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University, Director of the Energy Institute in the College of Engineering and Associate Director of the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future
Speaker Abstract & Bio
April 29, 2009
From ethanol and butanol fermentations to cell- and tissue-culture ... and back to biofuels, 100 years of bioreactor design and the birth of a discipline
Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis, Eugene DuPont Chair and DBI Faculty Fellow at the University of Delaware
Abstract
May 6, 2009
Polymer Membranes that get Wetter as the Surrounding Air gets Hotter
Nitash Balsara, University of California at Berkeley
Speaker Bio & Abstract