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Current Seminars
 
ENERGY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
SPRING SEMESTER, 2008

Friday Seminars start at 11 am, Lopata Hall, Room 101 (unless otherwise stated)

January 18, 2008  
 Dr. Nathan Ravi, Joint Prof. of Opthalmology and Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
"Biomimetic Design of Ophthalmic Prosthesis"
January 25, 2008  EECE Graduate Students Meeting with Department Chair: DIscussion
February 1, 2008  
 Dr. Eric Williams, Asst Prof., Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering & The School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
 "Systems Assessment and Engineering of Energy Supply and Demand"
February 8, 2008  
 Dr. Tianfeng Lu, Princeton University
"Integrating Realistic Chemistry in Large-Scale Simulations:
  Applications in the Efficient Utilization of Biomass and Fossil Fuels"


February 15, 2008
 
Dr. Yangchuan Xing, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering,  
  University of Missouri, Rolla
  "Carbon Nanotubes as PEM Fuel Cell Catalyst Support"
February 22, 2008
 Dr. Ramki Kalyanaraman, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis
 "Novel nanomaterials from fast laser-induced self-organization: applications to solar energy harvesting and magnetism"
February 29, 2008
 Dr. Shahla Keyvan, Independent Consultant, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
 "Energy Efficiency for Natural Gas Consumption in U.S. Industries"
March 7, 2008
 Dr. Jayajit Das, Postdoctoral Associate, Chemical Engineering, MIT
 "Membrane Proximal Signaling in T lymphocytes: An interplay between co-operative processes and stochastic fluctuations"
  

March 13, 2008
Thursday, 11am
Lopata 101
 Dr. Patrick Underhill, Postdoctoral Associate, U. of Wisconsin, Madison
 "Dynamics of DNA and swimming microorgainsms: theory and coarse-grained simulations"
March 14, 2008
 Dr. Amy R. Sapkota, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health, MD Institute for Applied Environmental Health
 "Animal Agriculture and Antimicrobial Resistance: Do Organic Practices Make a Difference?"
March 21, 2008
AEESP Lecturer
Dr. Dave Allen, University of Texas, Austin
Gertz Regents professor in Chemical Engineering; Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Resources
"The Energy Institute at the University of Texas"
  
March 24, 2008
Monday, 3:30pm
Whitaker Auditorium
 Dr. Arthi Jayaraman, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign
 "A Theoretical Study of Polymer Tethered Nanoparticles: Their Assembly in Melts and Role as Novel Fillers in Polymer Nanocomposites"
March 28, 2008  
Dr. Roger Lewis, Saint Louis University, School of Public Health 
"What Goes Up, Must Come Down... and then spread around: Particle Resuspension Indoors"
WEDNESDAY
April 2, 2008
11am - Noon
Lopata 101
 Michael Lefenfeld, President and CEO, SiGNa Chemistry, New York NY
 "Entrepreneurial Ventures: From Classroom to Board Room"
April 11, 2008
 Dr. John Gleaves, Associate Professor, Dept. of Energy, Environmental and    Chemical Engineering, Washington University
"Do Biocatalytic Reactors Dream of Heterogeneous Processes?"
April 18, 2008  Earthday Seminar
 Dr. Lilia Abron, WU Alumni
"Earth Day:  Originated in the U.S., Lost in the U.S., Can It Be Rediscovered?"
 May 1, 2008
 Final Exams - no seminar


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