CBE Seminars + Events
Fall 2024 Seminar Series
All CBE seminars will be held in the Wu and Chen Auditorium at 3:30 PM, unless otherwise noted.*
Wednesday, August 28
Julia Dshemuchadse
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Cornell University
“Self-assembly Models for Crystal Growth and Phase Transitions”
Wednesday, September 4
Hongyou Fan
Department Head and Manager
Geochemistry
Sandia National Laboratories
“Pressure-induced Nanoparticle Assembly”
Wednesday, September 11
Hayley Brown
Senior Research Scientist
Dow
Title TBA
Wednesday, September 18
Taylor Woehl
Associate Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Maryland
“Autonomous Soft and Colloidal Matter Fueled by Chemical Reactions”
Wednesday, September 25
Britton Chance Distinguished Lecture
Jennifer Cochran
Macovski Professor of Bioengineering
Senior Associate Vice Provost of Research
Stanford University
“Next-generation Cancer Therapeutics Guided by Structural, Mechanistic, and Biophysical Properties”
Wednesday, October 2
Yamil Colón
Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Notre Dame
“Filling the Gaps of Machine Learning Workflows in the Molecular Sciences”
Wednesday, October 9
Jodie Lutkenhaus
Professor, Associated Department Head, and Axalta Chair
Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University
“Organic Batteries for a More Sustainable Future”
Wednesday, October 16
Diane Hildebrandt
Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Rutgers University
“Optimizing Work and Heat Flows in Sustainable Chemical Processes Using Attainable Regions”
Wednesday, October 23
James Link
Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Princeton University
“Backbone Modifications in Peptide Natural Products”
Wednesday, November 20
Albert Keung
Associate Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
North Carolina State University
“Scalable Access to the Hidden Topologies of Biology”
Wednesday, December 4
Alissa Park
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
“Creating a New Circular Carbon Economy via Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage”