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All Seminars are usually held in the Electrical Engineering Building, Lankford Lab at 3:00 PM to 4:20 PM. For an updated schedule please check the Home Page.

fall 2009
Date Speaker Title Institution Seminar Title
11-Sep Marek Pyda Professor The University of Technology-Poland Characterization of Biopolymers and Biomaterials by Modern Calorimetry and Advacned Thermal Analysis.
24-Sep Rod Ruff Professor UT Austin Graphene-based Materials and their Potential for Applications.
2-Oct Al Sacco Professor Northeastern University Silver ions and nanoparticles; their role in the visible light sensitization of methylene blue.
23-Oct Willima D Lawson Professor Texas Tech University Professional Ethics for Chemical Engineers: Understanding the Obligation.
30-Oct Hicham Fenniri Professor University of Alberta From Molecules to Supramolecular Architectures via Self-Assembly and Self-Organization Processes.
20-Nov Roger Bonnecaze Professor UT Austin Slip, Shear Banding and Aging of Soft Particle Pastes.
4-Dec Michael Pishko Professor Texas A & M University Encapsulation of drugs in core-shell nanoparticles.

 

spring 2009
Date Speaker Title Institution Seminar Title
13-Mar John Walz Professor Virginia Tech Equilibrium and Dynamic Forces in Binary Colloidal Mixtures
27-Mar Phil Westmoreland Professor U. of Massachesetts Measuring and Predicting Kinetics for Clean Use of Biofuels
10-Apr Robert Davis Professor U. Virginia Catalytic Conversion of Biorenewable Molecules to Fuels and Chemicals
24-Apr Frank Bates Professor U. Minnesota Block Copolymers: Designer Materials at Commodity Prices.

 

fall 2008
Date Speaker Title Institution Seminar Title
08-Sep David Callahan     Cheating Culture
12-Sep Sindee Simon Professor Texas Tech University Reactions and Tg at Nanoscale
19-Sep M N Karim Chairman and Professor Department of Chemical Engineering Texas Tech University Renewable Biofuel: One step-ethanol production- is it feasible?
26-Sep Michele Pantoya Professor Texas Tech University Modes and Mechanisms for Energy Transfer in Nanocomposite Energetic Materials
3-Oct Ted Wiesner Professor Texas Tech University Middle Molecule Uremic Toxin Removal via Hemodialysis Augmented
10-Oct Greg McKenna Horn Professor Texas Tech University Paradigms for the glass transition
17-Oct Bill Hase Professor Texas Tech University Energy Transfer at Interfaces
24-Oct Mark Vaughn Professor Texas Tech University Determining the structure of multicomponent lipid bilayers
31-Oct Kishore Mehta Horn Professor Texas Tech University Automation of Wind Damage with Hyperspectral Imagery.
07-Nov Louisa Hope-Weeks Professor Texas Tech University Low density sol-gel based transition metal oxide and sulfide materials
14-Nov Rajesh Khare Professor Texas Tech University Molecular Hydrodynamics at the Nanoscale

 

fall 2007
Date Speaker Title Institution Seminar Title
07-Sep William King

Kritzer Faculty Scholar Professor

 University of Illinois Thermomechanical probes at the micro and nano scale.
14-Sep Dilhan Kalyon Institute
Professor		 Stevens Institute
of Technology		 Continuous processing and shaping of energetic formulations: Challenges with viscoplasticity, migration effects and wall slip.
21-Sep Clarence Miller  Louis Calder
Professor		 Rice University Alkaline-surfactant processes for enhanced oil recovery.
01-Oct Semahat Demir Program Director National Science Foundation Computational Modeling of Bioelectricity in Cardiac Cells.
19-Oct George Stephanopoulos Arthur D. Little Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology Design principles and methods for nanoscale structures with desired geometrices.
09-Nov Mark Ediger Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison Dynamics of polymer glasses during active deformation (Jointly with Chemistry).
16-Nov Greg Rutledge Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Molecular simulation of polymers: Far from equilibrium.
30-Nov Lance Criscuolo Vice President of Global Sales Zyvex Performance Materials Commercialization of Nanotechnology
07-Dec Robert K. Prud'homme Professor Princeton University Nanoparticle formation by flash nanoprecipitation using block copolymer directed self-assembly.