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
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 Glandt – Emeritus Professor of CBE and Dean of Penn Engineering
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 10
* 4-5PM – David Rittenhouse Lab, Room A8
Joint Seminar with the Department of Physics
Marjolein Dijkstra – Professor of Science and Physics
Utrecht University
“Structuring Matter Over Multiple Length Scales Using the Self-assembly of Colloidal Particles”
Wednesday, April 17
Kathryn A. Whitehead – Associate Professor, Departments of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical 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”