The Fall 2007 Seminar Series is outlined below:

September 17
Dr. Stephen Jaffe, Former Distinguished Scientific Advisor, ExxonMobil Technology Company; ChBE Alumnus, E'64 "Composition Based Modeling"

September 24
Professor Ping Wang, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota "Biocatalysis for Bioproducts and Bioenergy"

October 15
Professor Michael S. Wong, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University "Nanoparticle Engineering of Palladium-Gold Catalysts for Groundwater Clean-up"

October 22
Professor Ka-Yiu San, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University "Metabolic and Cofactor Engineering"

October 29
Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University "De Novo Protein Design in Computational Genomics"

November 19
Professor Lee Lynd, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College "Biofuels: Envisioning a Revolution"

December 3
Professor Kelvin H. Lee, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Cornell University "Enhancing Protein Secretion: The Old, the New and the Unexpected"

The Spring 2007 Seminar Series is outlined below:

January 29.
Professor Jonathan S. Dordick, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Molecular Bioprocessing as a New Paradigm in Drug Discovery"

February 5.
Professor Fiorenzo Omenetto, Department of Biomedical Engineering Tufts University
"Silk optics and biophotonics"

February 12.
Professor Ben Wilhite, Department of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut
"Alternative Energy Systems and Sources: Bridging the Gap Between Biofuels and Fuel Cells"

February 26.
Professor Fotis Papadimitrakopoulos, Department of Chemistry Associate Director, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut
"Biological Recognition Motifs in the Fabrication of Photonic Crystals and Meta Materials"

March 5.
Professor Shaoyi Jiang, Department of Chemical Engineering University of Washington Langer Research Laboratory, M.I.T.
Title TBA

March 12.
Professor Byung-Gee Kim, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seoul National University
"Proteomic study of Streptomyces for Secondary Metabolites: Industrial Proteomics"

March 26.
Dr. Kishori Deshpande, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title TBA

April 2.
Professor Paul Barton, Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title TBA

April 9.
Speaker TBA

April 23.
Speaker TBA

April 30.
Professor Dionisios Vlachos, Department of Chemical Engineering University of Delaware
Title TBA

The Fall 2006 Seminar Series is outlined below:

Monday, September 18
Professor Patrick Doyle, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT
"Microfluidics: An Enabling Tool to Study Soft Matter"

Monday, September 25
Professor Krishna Kumar, Department of Chemistry, Tufts University
"A New Paradigm for Protein Design and Molecular Engineering"

Monday, October 2
Professor Babatunde Ogunnaike, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware
"Elucidating the Digital Control Mechanism for DNA Damage Repair with the p53 Mdm2 System: Single Cell Data Analysis and Ensemble Modeling"

Monday, October 16
Professor Kyriacos Zygourakis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Rice University
“Biocomplexity Meets Chemical Engineering: Dynamic Behavior of Cell Populations Growing Under Mass Transport Limitations”

Monday, October 23
Professor Steven Cramer, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“Prediction of Protein Affinity and Displacer Selectivityin Ion Exchange Systems”

Monday, October 30
Professor Arijit Bose, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island
“Microstructure Evolution and Materials Synthesis in Mixed Surfactant Systems”

Monday, November 6
Dean Linda Abriola, Dean of School of Engineering, Tufts University
"Subsurface Contamination: Application of Innovative Technology or Perpetual Stewardship?"

Monday, December 4
Professor Michael Henson, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Genome-Scale Analysis of Yeast Metabolism and Ethanol Production In Fed Batch Culture"

Refreshments served prior to the seminar, Room 124
4 Colby Street, Science and Technology Center, Room 136

The Fall 2005 Seminar Series is outlined below:

Monday, October 3
Professor Gary Haller, Department of Chemical Engineering
Yale University
"Toward the Design of a Diameter Selective Catalyst for Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Synthesis"
(Distinguished Lectures in Nanotechnology)

Refreshments served prior to the seminar, Room 124
4 Colby Street, Science and Technology Center, Room 136

The Fall 2004 Seminar Series is outlined below:

September 20
Professor Robert Parker, University of Pittsburgh
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
“Engineering Cancer Treatment – A Process Systems Approach”

October 4
Professor James C. Liao, University of California@ Los Angeles
Department of Chemical Engineering
“Networking in the Cell”

October 18
Dr. Haiyou Wang, Catalytic Materials LLC
Innovative Nanotechnology Solutions
“Catalytic Decomposition of Methane to Hydrogen and Carbon over NiCu Alloy Catalysts at High Temperature”

October 25
Professor Bruce Gates, University of California@Davis
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
“Supported Molecular – and Nano-Scale Catalysts: Metal Complexes and Clusters on Oxides and Zeolites”
Distinguished Lectures in Nanotechnology for Advanced Energy Materials and Catalysts
co-sponsored by the NSF-NIRT grant #0304515 and the ChBE Department

November 22
Professor Wei-Shou Hu, University of Minnesota@St. Paul
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
TBA

November 29
Professor Christos Flytzanis, Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Department of Physics, Ecole Normale Supèrieure, Paris
“Photonics in Nanoscale Structures: The Impact of Electron and Photon Confinement"
Distinguished Lectures in Nanotechnology for Advanced Energy Materials and Catalysts
co-sponsored by the NSF-NIRT grant #0304515 and the ChBE Department

All full-time graduate students are required to attend.

Unless otherwise specified, all seminars are held on Mondays at 11:50 a.m.
4 Colby Street, Science and Technology Center, Room 136
Refreshments served prior to the seminar, Room 124