CBE Seminars + Events
Spring 2020 Seminar Series
All CBE seminars are in Wu and Chen Auditorium at 3:00 p.m, unless otherwise noted.*
Wednesday, January 22
Anna C. Balazs – Distinguished Professor
Chemical Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
“Collaboration and Competition Between Active Sheets for Self-Propelled Particles”
Wednesday, January 29
Britton Chance Distinguished Lecture
Jennifer Elisseeff – Professor and Director
Translational Tissue Engineering Center
Wilmer Eye Institute and Departments of Biomedical Engineering,
Orthopedic Surgery, Chemical and Biological Engineering,
and Materials Science and Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
“Regenerative Immunology: The Role of Technology Translation in Guiding Discovery”
Wednesday, February 5
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Joaquin Resasco
Postdoctoral Fellow
Chemical Engineering
University of California – Santa Barbara
“Understanding and Controlling the Complexity of Catalytic Active Sites”
*Monday, February 10
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Hanyu Gao
Postdoctoral Associate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Facilitating Chemical Process Development Using Theoretical Modeling and Machine Learning”
Wednesday, February 12
Jennifer Wilcox – James H. Manning Chaired Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
“A Case for Carbon Dioxide Removal from Air”
Wednesday, February 19
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Andrew Allman – Postdoctoral Associate
Chemical Engineering
University of Minnesota
“Decomposition: Exploiting Structure in Chemical Systems to Solve Challenging Decision-Making Problems”
*Monday, February 24
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Marcella Lusardi – Postdoctoral Scholar
California Institute of Technology
Towards a “Greener” Route for Acetic Acid Production via the Carbonylation of Dimethyl Either Over Small-Pore Molecular Sieves
Wednesday, February 26
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Jeffrey Lopez – Postdoctoral Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Understanding and Design of Materials of High Energy Density Batteries”
Wednesday, April 1
Rafiqul Gani
Distinguished Visiting Professor
Zhejiang University
“Model-Based Chemical Product Design and Analysis”
Wednesday, April 8
John A. Quinn Distinguished Lecture
Nicholas L. Abbott
Tisch University Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell University
“Molecular and Colloidal Interactions in Water”
Wednesday, April 22
Kam W. Leong – Samuel Y. Sheng Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
“Biomaterials-Mediated Inflammation Control”