CBE Seminars
Spring 2020
10:30 am-Noon on Fridays
Room: JAB 473
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Jan. 31 | Dorthe Eisele | CCNY | A Paradigm Shift Inspired by Nature: Robust Frenkel Excitons Despite Extreme Heat Stress |
| Feb. 7 | Kevin M. McPeak | Louisiana State University | Some Like it Hot: Chemistry with Above-Equilibrium Charge Carriers |
| Feb. 14 | Alexander Katz |
UC Berkeley | Materials Design Innovations Create Opportunities Abound |
| Feb. 21 | No seminar | Board meeting is scheduled. | |
| Feb. 28 | Alan West | Columbia U | Studies of Transport Processes in Li-Ion Cathodes |
| Mar. 6 | Steven Little | Pittsburgh U | Controlling “Controlled Release” to Make Medicine That Imitates Life |
| Mar. 13 | Nitash Balsara | UC Berkeley | Negative Diffusion Coefficients, the Pesko Condition, and Performance of Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries |
| Mar. 20 | No seminar | Spring recess | |
| Mar. 27 | Peter Green | NREL | The energy transition and the status of advanced energy technologies |
| Apr. 3 | Jennifer Curtis | UC Davis | Flow Behavior of Cohesive and Aspherical Particles in Hoppers and Shear Cells |
| Apr. 10 | Thomas Truskett |
U Texas | Inverse methods for the design of self-assembling materials |
| Apr.17 | Randy Snurr | Northwestern U | Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable Platforms for Gas Storage, Chemical Separations, and Catalysis |
| Apr. 24 | Paulette Clancy |
Johns Hopkins U |
How Understanding a Messy Solution Process Can Make Better Solar Cells: A Bayesian Optimization-guided Route to Metal Halide Perovskite Design |
| May. 1 | Eric Furst | U Delaware | Interactions, microstructure, elasticity, and aging of colloidal gels |
| May. 8 | Carlos Rinaldi | U Florida | Diffusion of Nanoparticles in Polymer Solutions and Biological Fluids |
Fall 2019
10:30 am-Noon on Fridays
Room: JAB 474
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Sep. 13 | Christopher Roberts | University of Delaware | Physical stability of therapeutic antibodies, and predictive approaches to antibody formulation and candidate design |
| Sep. 20 | No seminar | - | - |
| Sep. 27 | Anne Skaja Robinson | Carnegie Mellon | Engineering Approaches to Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Oct. 4 | Matthew Panzer | Tufts University | Design of Polymeric Scaffolds for Nonaqueous Ionogel Electrolytes |
| Oct. 11 | Nathalie Pinkerton | Pfizer & NYU | Developing Responsive Soft Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications |
| Oct. 18 | Samira Azarin | University of Minnesota | Biomaterial-based approaches to study and control ovarian cancer |
| Oct. 25 | Abraham Strook | Cornell | TBA |
| Nov. 1 | Nitash Balsara | UC Berkeley | Ohm's Law, Polymer electrolytes, and Lithium Batteries |
| Nov. 8 | Michael Wong | Rice | Designing Catalytic Converters for Clean Water |
| Nov. 15 | Charles Musgrave | UC Boulder | Accelerating the Discovery of New Materials for Energy Applications Using Ab Initio and Machine Learned Modeling |
| Nov. 22 | Fotis Sotiropoulos | SUNY SB | Dean’s Lecture. 1MTC 1930/1931 |
| Dec. 6 | Francesco Stellacci | EPFL | Hydrophobic Forces in Soft Materials |
| Dec. 13 | Michael Harold | University of Houston | Multi-functional Structured Catalysts for Emission Control |