Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Spring 2008 Seminar Series
12:00 – 1:00
SciTech Center Room 136

Wednesday January 23
Dr. Olena Baranova, National Research Council of Canada
"Synthesis and Characterization of Nano-sized Pt Group Catalysts for Low Temperature Fuel Cells"

Friday January 25
Dr. Michael Filler, California Institute of Technology
"Silicon Nanowire and Microwire Photovoltaic Devices"
Note: Seminar will take place in room 134

Monday January 28
Dr. Yuriy Roman-Leshkov, University of Wisconsin
"Furan-derivatives from Biomass-derived Carbohydrates for the Production of Fuels and Chemical Intermediates"

Monday February 4
Dr. Stuart Licht, University of Massachusetts, Boston and the National Science Foundation
"Clean Water, Energy Storage and Solar Chemical Technologies"

Friday February 15
Dr. Zhongwei Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Nanomaterials Development for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel cells: Electrocatalysts and Membranes"

Thursday February 21
Dr. Mark Snyder, University of Minnesota
"Benign Synthesis, Size Control, and Assembly of Silica Nanoparticles: A New Paradigm for Dispersed Particle, Porous Thin Film, and Gel Applications"

Monday March 10
Fire Extinguisher Demonstration

Monday March 24
Dr. William Green, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Complex Chemistry of Energy"

Monday March 31
Dr. Friedrich Srienc, University of Minnesota
Title TBA

Monday April 14
Dr. Wilfred Chen, University of California, Riverside
"A Biomolecular Engineering Approach for Environmental
Remediation and Sensing".