CEMS Seminars


Fall 2009

 

Tuesday, September 15th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Ronald Larson, University of Michigan, Chemical Engineering
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Surfactant and Lipid Assemblies - In Honor of Ted Davis

 

Tuesday, September 22nd: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Yi Cui, Stanford University, Materials Science and Engineering
Designing Nanowires: from Energy Conversion to Novel Quantum Materials

 

Tuesday, September 29th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Howard Brenner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering
Bi-Velocity Hydrodynamics

 

Tuesday, October 6th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

John A. Rogers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Materials Science and Engineering
Materials for Stretchable Electronics: From Hemispherical Digital Imagers to Devices for Cardiac Electrophysiology

 

Tuesday, October 13th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Susan Muller, University of California - Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
Using Microfluidics to Control DNA Conformation for Genotyping, Sorting, and Analysis

 

Thursday, October 15th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Nigel D. Browning, University of California - Davis, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Molecular and Cellular Biology
(Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscopy with High Spatial, Temporal and Spectroscopic Resolution

 

Tuesday, October 20th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Gerbrand Ceder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Materials Science and Engineering
Materials Design with First Principles Computations and Application to Materials for Energy Storage and Generation

 

 

Tuesday, October 27th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Matthew Neurock, University of Virginia, Chemical Engineering
Elucidation and Control of Catalytic Sites and Their Environments for Hydrocarbon Oxidation

 

Thursday, October 29th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Yi Tang, University of California, Los Angeles, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Production of a Blockbuster Drug Using Biocatalysis

 

Tuesday, November 3rd: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Louis Brus, Columbia University , Chemistry
Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Single Sheet Graphene

 

Tuesday, November 17th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Edwin Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Materials Science and Engineering
Periodic NanoComposites for Control of PhoXons Where X = t + n

 

Thursday, November 19th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

The 8th Annual Fredrickson Lecture

Ronald G. Larson, University of Michigan, Chemical Engineering
Making the Transition from Rheology to Biology, Following the Path of Arnie Fredrickson

 

Tuesday, November 24th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Jonathan A. Foley, University of Minnesota, Institute on the Environment
The Other Inconvenient Truth: A Global Crisis of Land Use and Agriculture

 

Tuesday, December 8th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Patrick Daugherty, University of California - Santa Barbara, Chemical Engineering
More Magic for the "Magic Bullet": Sense-and-Respond Proteins to Target Sites of Human Disease

 

Thursday, December 10th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Amanda Petford-Long, Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division
The Role of Interfaces in Behavior of Magnetic Tunnel Junction Structures

 

Tuesday, December 15th: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

David Pine, New York University, Physics and Center for Soft Matter Research
http://physics.as.nyu.edu/object/DavidPine.html

 

Thursday, January 21st: 1:25 PM

B-75 Amundson Hall

Joseph Zasadzinski, Uiversity of California, Santa Barbara, Chemical Engineering
Seeing is Believing and Other Lies - Electron Microscopy of Soft Materials