Fall 2006 Seminar Series

Event Date: August 22, 2006

August 22, 2006

Professor Arvind Varma
Head, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
“Organization Session”


September 12, 2006

Professor Tim Sands
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
"Nanostructured Thermoelectrics"


September 19, 2006

Professor Wei-Shou Hu
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
“Dissecting A Gene Switch For Microbial Antibiotic Biosynthesis”


September 26, 2006

Professor Ravi Kane
Department of Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"The design of nanoscale therapeutics and nanostructured materials"

 


October 3, 2006

Andreas Acrivos, Professor Emeritus
Department of Chemical Engineering, City University of New York
“The Rheology of Concentrated Suspensions of non-Brownian Spherical Particles: Latest Variations on a Theme by Albert Einstein”


October 17, 2006

Professor Tate T.H. Tsang
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky
"Parallel Least-Squares Finite Element Method for Large Scale Transport Processes on PC Clusters"


October 24, 2006

Professor Fernando Muzzio
Director, NSF ERC on Structured Organic Composites
Professor, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University
“Cohesion, Cracking, Dilation, and Flow – Rheological Behavior of Cohesive Powders”


October 31, 2006

Professor Brij Moudgil
Departments of Material Science & Engineering, University of Florida
“Nano-Engineered Particulate Systems for Bio- Medical Applications”


November 7, 2006

Professor Andrew Zydney
Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
“Membrane Separations: New Opportunities for Protein Purification”


November 21, 2006

Professor Ross Taylor
Departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Clarkson University
“(Di) Still Modeling After All These Years: A View of the State of the Art”


November 28, 2006

Professor Andrew Gellman
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
“Enantioselectivity on naturally chiral surfaces”


December 5, 2005

Professor Vasilios Manousiouthakis
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Los Angles
"The IDEAS Approach to Globally Optimal Process Network Synthesis"