CBE Seminars + Events
Spring 2019 Seminar Series
All CBE seminars are in Wu and Chen Auditorium at 3:00 p.m, unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, January 23
Amish Patel – Reliance Industries Term Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
“Understanding and Characterizing How Nanostructured Surfaces Perturb Water Structure: Applications to the Prediction of Protein Interactions and the Design of Soft Materials”
Wednesday, February 6
Chibueze Amanchukwu – Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Chemical Engineering
Stanford University
“Novel Electrolyte Design to Control Electrochemistry in Energy Storage Systems”
Wednesday, February 13
Timothy White – Gallogly Professor of Engineering
University of Colorado
“Pixelated Polymers: Programming Function into Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks and Elastomers”
Wednesday, February 20 (Rescheduled for April 3, 2019)
Aleksandra Vojvodic – Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
“C4E – Computational Chemistry of Compounds for Catalysis and Energy”
Wednesday, February 27
Paul Dauenhauer – Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Minnesota
“Mechanisms of Cellulose Activation and Implications for Bioenergy”
Wednesday, March 13
Christopher Roberts – Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Delaware
“Predicting and Controlling Stability and Protein-Protein Interactions for Therapeutic Antibodies”
Wednesday, March 20
John A. Quinn Distinguished Lecture
Eduardo D. Glandt
Dean Emeritus
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Pennsylvania
“Some Uses and Misuses of Equilibrium Thermodynamics”
Wednesday, March 27
Jeremy Palmer – Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Houston
“Particle Transport in Soft, Disordered Media”
Wednesday, April 3
Aleksandra Vojvodic – Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
“C4E – Computational Chemistry of Compounds for Catalysis and Energy”
Wednesday, April 10
Marjolein Dijkstra – Professor of Science and Physics
Utrecht University
Joint seminar with the Department of Physics
Location: David Rittenhouse Lab, Room A8
Time: 4:00 p.m.
“Structuring Matter Over Multiple Length Scales Using the Self-assembly of Colloidal Particles”
Wednesday, April 17
Kathryn Whitehead – Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
“Lipid-like Materials for RNA Delivery: A How-to Guide for Hacking Gene Expression”
Wednesday, April 24
Jian Qin – Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Stanford University
“Effects of Polarity, Solvation, and Interfacial Polarization on Charge-driven Assembly”