September 1	Graduate Student Orientation: Meet the new students, Faculty Introductions.  Photo Shoot. Laboratory Tours
September 5, 4 pm Lab Sciences Bldg., Room 100	Dr. Ashok Misra, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. "Higher Technical Education in India and Global Transformation" (Meeting with Students: September 6, 2006 12 noon)
September 8	Dr. Brian Wrenn, EECE "Laboratory Safety Refresher"
September 22, 4 pm Whitaker Hall, Room 100	Dr. David Morse from U. Minnesota, Dept. of Chemical Eng. & Materials Science "Dynamics of semi-flexible polymers/bio-polymers"
September 29	Dr. Andrey V. Filippov, Sr. Project Engineer, Corning Incorporated "Aerosol Technologies in Corning"
October 6	Dr. Nancy Ho, Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering, Purdue Univeristy "Development of Recombinant Saccharomyces Yeast for Cost-Effective Cellulosic Ethanol Production"
October 12, 4 pm Duncker Hall, Room 101	Doug Cameron, CSO, Khosla Ventures "Fuels and Chemicals from Renewable Resources: Opportunities and Challenges"
October 13	Dr. Daniel B. Oerther, Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati "Ecological Considerations in Bioreactor Design: Genomics, Modeling, and Theory"
October 18, 3 pm Lopata Hall, Room 101	Sean Raffuse, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, California "Smoke from Wildfires – Modeling, Satellite Data, and Geospatial Analyses"
October 20	Dr. Timm Strathmann, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Developing Targeted Treatment Strategies for Wastewater-Derived Micropollutants"
October 27	Dr. Yong Joo, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University "Nanostructured Nanofibers: from Metal Oxide Inclusion to Confined Self-Assembly"
November 3	Dr. Beizhan Yan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University "Over One Hundred Years of Energy Usage and Contamination History Reflected in Urban Waters: From the Buggy Era to the Bus Era"
November 17	Dr. Mark Macklin, Professor of Physical Geography and Director of the Centre for Catchment and Coastal Research, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK "A Geomorphological Approach to the Management of Rivers Contaminated by Metal Mining"
November 24	Thanksgiving Holiday
December 1	CANCELLED........   Dr. Ravi Kane, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The Design of Nanoscale Therapeutics and Nanostructured Materials
Monday, December 4 2:30 pm Lopata Hall, Room 101	Dr. Maria Ghirardi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado "Biological hydrogen production: catalysts and processes"