Seminar Series Spring 2007

Date	Speaker	Title
1/16	Richard D. Noble Alfred T. & Betty E. Look Professor University of Colorado Chemical Engineering Dept. host: Tim Ward	Design and Characterization of Novel Membrane Materials from Imidazolium-Based Room Temperture Ionic Liquids and Liquid Crystal Structures
1/30	Steven Cramer Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Editor, Separation Science and Technology Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute host: Dimiter Petsev	Protein Separations in Chromatographic Systems: A-priori prediction of protein affinity, selective displacers and generic antibody purification processes
2/6	Paul D. Ronney Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA host: Plamen Atanassov	Dynamics of propagating fronts: flames, aqueous reactions, free-radical polymerization and bacteria
2/13	Dmitri Ivnitski, Ph.D. Research Professor Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering University of New Mexico	Electrochemical Studies of Intramolecular Electron Transfer Mechanism in Enzymes
2/20	Bruce Dunn Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA USA host: Jeff Brinker	Integrating Sol-Gel Science in Nanobiotechnology
2/27	Michael J. Cooney Associate Researcher Hawaii Natural Energy Institute School of Ocean And Earth Science And Technology University of Hawaii at Manoa host: Plamen Atanassov	Application of Flouroesence to the Development of Enzyme Immobilized Electrodes
3/6	ChE Faculty Candidate Brian Prevo Postdoctoral Research Scholar Department of Chemical Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara host: Tim Ward	Scalable routes for the assembly of colloid-based functional materials
3/8 Thursday • ME218	ChE Faculty Candidate Mark Borden Assistant Project Scientist Department of Biomedical Engineering University of California, Davis host: Tim Ward	Microbubbles in Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Targeted Gene Therapy
3/13	Spring Break	aaa
3/22 Thursday • ME218	cChE Faculty Candidate Eva Chi Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Chemistry University of Chicago host: Tim Ward	Protein Misfolding and Aggregation
4/3	ChE Faculty Candidate Sergio Mendez Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Chemical & Nuclear Engineering University of New Mexico host: Tim Ward	Characterization of self-assembled structures within electrospun block copolymer fibers and computer simulations of nanoparticle composites
4/5	NE Faculty Candidate Dr. Cassiano de Oliveira Nuclear & Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology host: Anil K. Prinja	Radiation Transport Modelling on Unstructured Grids: Overview, Applications and Challenges
4/12 Thursday • ME218	NE Faculty Candidate Dr. Sara Pozzi Oak Ridge National Laboratory host: Anil K. Prinja	New Detection Techniques for Special Nuclear Material: from Modeling and Simulations to Experiments and Validation
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*Seminars are scheduled for Tuesday @ 2:30 pm in Mechanical Engineering 218 unless otherwise noted on the schedule.
For more information about the ChNE Seminar Series contact Cheryl Brozena