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Invited Lectures (2004-present)

Distinguished Lecture, “Analysis of Bioprocesses. Dynamic Modeling is a Must,” January 21, 2016. International Conference on Advances in Bioprocess Engineering and Technology, Kolkata, India.

Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. Lecture on “Dynamic Modeling of Metabolism,” January 18, 2016.

Invited Keynote Speaker: 8th Sino-US Joint Conference of Chemical Engineering October 12-16, 2015, Shanghai, China: Lecture on: “Population Balances. A Ubiquitous Tool for Engineering Analysis.”

National Science Foundation Workshop on Systems Biology, Hyatt Regency Tysons Corner Center, W.VA, “Design Principles for Engineering Biology,” November 11, 12 2015. Invited participant.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea South. Seminar: “Is Abstraction Antithetical to Practicality?” (Mini Workshop lecture), May 22, 2015.

Center for Theragnosis, Biomedical Research Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology. Lecture on “Towards Personalized Medicine. Beyond Pharmacogenomics,” Wednesday, May 20, 2015.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea South. 6 Lectures on Population Balances as part of a Short Course, May 19-29, 2015.

Ramkrishna, Doraiswami, (Invited Talk), “On Modeling of Signaling Processes,” In honor of Greg Stephanopoulos’ 65th Birthday, Paper #74f, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, November 8-13, 2015.

Institute of Applied Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Seminar on: “Metabolic Complexity. Is there Music Behind It?” May 7, 2015.

Institute of Applied Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 5 Lectures on Metabolic Modeling, May 2-15, 2015.

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Mexico, Cuarnevaca, Mexico. 4 Lectures on Metabolic Modeling, March 19-21, 2015.

NSF-CSoI Workshop Talk, National Academy of Engineering and Science, Irvine, Talk on “On Modeling Biological Systems. Quest for Goal-Directedness,” August 4, 2014.

Invited Lecturer at Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Lecture on “Metabolic Complexity. Is there Music Behind it?” March 14, 2014.

Invited Lecturer at Department of Chemical Engineering, Rice University. Lecture on “Metabolic Complexity. Is there Music Behind it?” March 13, 2014.

PD2M Plenary Session: AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 4, 2013: Invited talk: “Towards Personalized Therapy: Biomolecular Complexities Beyond Gene Expression” paper #39a, November 3-8, 2013.

Invited Lecturer at Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Lecture on “Dynamic Modeling of Metabolism. The Cybernetic Approach,” October 24, 2013.

Purdue University Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award Lecture, “Metabolic Complexity. Is there Music Behind it?” October 22, 2013.

Invited Lecturer at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, L. K. DORAISWAMY Lecture on “Dynamic Modeling of Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Approach,” September 16, 2013.

Invited Lecturer at Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Irvine, Lecture on “On dynamic Modeling of Metabolism. The Cybernetic Approach,” Wednesday, June 5, 2013.

Invited Lecturer at Department of Bioengineering, University of California at San Diego, Lecture on “On Dynamic Modeling of Metabolism. The Cybernetic Approach,” Monday, June 3, 2013.

Invited Lecturer at Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, L. K. DORAISWAMI Lecture on “Dynamic Modeling of Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Approach,” March 14, 2013.

Invited Lecturer at Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, on “Dynamic Modeling of Metabolism. The Cybernetic Approach,” November 27, 2012

Invited Session: “Paradigms in Systems Biology, “Dynamic Modeling of Metabolism. The Cybernetic Approach” AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October, 2012.

Session in Honor of Professor Santosh K. Gupta: “Population Balance Modeling of Particles with Random Behavior. Application to Gene Regulatory Processes,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October, 2011.

Invited Talk in 18th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization, “Towards Control of Crystal Shape. Crystallization and Dissolution”,  September 13-16, 2011, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Society for Biological Engineering, An AIChE Technological Community, Webinar, “Cybernetic Approach to Metabolic Modeling,” April 12, 2011.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Pasco, Washington, “On Modeling Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Route,” March 5, 2009.

Brystol Myers Squibb, New Jersey, “On Modeling Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Route,” February 6, 2009.

Invited Talk in Session on Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering: Past 100 Years and the Future: “Dynamic Models of Biological Systems. A Hotbed for Nonlinear Analysis,” Paper #154e, November 17, 2008, AIChE Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 16-21, 2008.

Invited Talk in Memory of Rutherford Aris, “Monod’s Growth Kinetics. Is there a Rationale for it?” Paper 295b, November 18, 2008, AIChE Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 16-21, 2008.

Invited Talk in Symposium Honoring Ted Davis: “On the Computation of Spectra of Spatially Varying Convective-Diffusion Operators,” Ansgar Bohmann, Nandkishor Nere, Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Achim Kienle, Paper #564a, November 19, 2008, AIChE Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 16-21, 2008.

Invited Talk in Memory of Rutherford Aris, “Monod’s Growth Kinetics. Is there a Rationale for it?” Paper #295b, November 18, 2008, AIChE Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 16-21, 2008.

Invited Talk in Session on Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering: Past 100 Years and the Future: “Dynamic Models of Biological Systems. A Hotbed for Nonlinear Analysis,” Paper #154e, November 17, 2008, AIChE Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 16-21, 2008.

University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, “On Hybrid Cybernetic Models of Metabolic Systems,” July 2, 2008.

National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. “On Modeling Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Route,” June 26, 2008.

Symposium on Information and Control Hierarchies: Foundations, Computation and Applications: Invited Talk: “On Modeling Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Route,” Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik Komplexer Technischer Systeme, May 22-23, 2008.

Reliance Company, Chembur, Mumbai. Lecture on “On Modeling Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Approach,” December 26, 2007.

Chemical Engineering Division, MUICT, Bombay. Lecture on “On Modeling Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Approach,” December 20, 2007.

Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai: “The Road Ahead,” Talk to MSc. Students about opportunities ahead, December 20, 2007.

Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.   Lecture on “On Modeling Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Approach,” November 27, 2007.

L. K. Doraiswamy Symposium: Invited Talk on: “On Bubble Size Distributions in the Heterogeneous Regime,” (238d) November 6, 2007, A.I.Ch.E. Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, November 4-9, 2007.

Arvind Varma Symposium:  AIChE Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah: Invited Talk on “Steady State Multiplicity in Biological Reactors,” (31a) November 5, 2007, A.I.Ch.E. Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, November 4-9, 2007.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN. Lecture on “On Modeling Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Approach,” October 4, 2007.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. Lecture on “Modeling of Cancer Chemotherapy. Potential Benefits,” August 2, 2007.

Computer Research Institute (CRI) CS&E/CLS SEMINAR SERIES, Lecture on “On Modeling Metabolic Systems,” November 29, 2006.

Ramkrishna, D., “On Amundson’s Legacy,” Paper # 136b, Session in Honor of Neal R. Amundson’s 90th Birthday: Invited talk, A.I.Ch.E. Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 12-17, 2006.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, Lecture on “On Modeling Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Approach,” July 14, 2006.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. Lecture on “On Modeling Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Approach,” July 10, 2006.

Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin. Lecture on “The Potential of Mathematical Models in Cancer Treatment,” June 30, 2006.

Indiana University Biocomplexity Workshop: Lecture on “On Modeling Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Approach,” May 9-12:, 2005.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Washington University at St. Louis. Lecture on “On Modeling Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Approach,” April 25, 2005.

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles. Lecture on “On Modeling Metabolic Systems. The Cybernetic Approach,” March 11, 2005.

Thomas Baron Award Lecture: “Population Balances. Future Prospects,” A.I.Ch.E. Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, November 10, 2004, 6 PM.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University. Lecture on “A Cybernetic Approach to Analysis of Metabolic Regulation in Large Pathways. An Evolving Framework for Bioinformatics,” September 30, 2004.

Fredrickson Lecture: “Blotting out the Bad Bugs. Fredrickson’s Models for Killing Cell Populations, and their Descendants,” Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., September 10, 2004.

Invited Keynote Talk on: “Population Balances: Future Prospects,” Second International Conference on Population Balance Modeling, Valencia, Spain, May 7-9, 2004.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Rice University. Lecture on “A Cybernetic Approach to Analysis of Metabolic Regulation in Large Pathways. An Evolving Framework for Bioinformatics,” March 11, 2004.

Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of the City University of New York. Lecture on “A Cybernetic Approach to Analysis of Metabolic Regulation in Large Pathways. An Evolving Framework for Bioinformatics,” March 1, 2004.

 

Invited Lectures Given by Prof. Ramkrishna Prior to 2004

Cast Plenary Lecture, “On Modeling Biochemical Reaction Systems: The Cybernetic Route,” Paper No. 240d, AIChE Annual Meeting 2002, Indianapolis, IN, November 4-9, 2002.

Conference on Analysis of Microbial cells at the Single Cell Level, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark. Lecture on: “The Potential of Apoptotic Studies in Single Cells for Cancer Treatment,” June 1-4, 2002.

Scientific Symposium commemorating Official Inauguration of the Max Planck Institute at Magdeburg, Germany. Lecture on:” Population Balances. Challenges Not as Well-Known,” May 24, 2002.

Department of Chemical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo. Lecture on: “Modeling of Biological Systems. The Cybernetic Approach to the Issue of Metabolic Regulation,” April 3, 2002.

Invited Special Lecturer at Chemcon 2001: Joint AIChE and IIChE Meeting in Chennai, India. The N. R. Kamath Memorial Lecture on: “Is Abstraction Antithetical to Practicality?” December 19, 2001.

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Thessaloniki, Greece. “Inverse Problems in Population Balances,” November 23, 2001.

Department of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University, Athens, Greece. Lecture on: “On Cybernetic Modeling of Biological Processes,” November 22, 2001.

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece. Lecture on: “Inverse Problems in Population Balances,” November 21, 2001.

Research Institute of Chemical Engineering and High-Temperature Chemical Processes, Patras, Greece. Lecture on: “Cybernetic modeling of Biological Processes,” November 21, 2001.

Department of Theoretical Biophysics, University of Humboldt, Berlin, Germany. Lecture on: “On Cybernetic Modeling of Biological Processes,” November 15, 2001.

Institute for Systems Theory in Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany: Lecture on: “Inverse Problems in Population Balances,” November 13, 2001.

Invited Speaker at the Symposium on Liquid-Liquid Mixing at the A.I.Ch.E. Meeting , 2001, Reno Nevada (Paper No. 224c). Lecture on: “Identification of Particle Behavior from Measurements of Population Distributions. The Inverse Problem Approach.”

Max-Planck Institute, Magdeburg, Germany. Lecture on: “Problems in Chemical Reaction Engineering. An Analyst’s Perspective,” October 24, 2001.

Invited Plenary Speaker at the Workshop on Modeling and Computation in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (MCEB 2001), Hohenwart Forum, Germany; Black Forest, October 1-4, 2001. Lecture “On Cybernetic Modeling of Biological Processes.”

Invited Keynote speaker at the Conference on Dynamics of Chemical Process Systems (DyCops 6), Cheju Islands, Korea, June 4-6, 2001. Lecture on: “On Modeling of Bioreactors for Control.”

Department of Mathematics and Chemical Engineering, University of Houston. 4 lectures on “Population Balances,” as part of a course on Aerosols, January 22-26, 2001.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, November 30, 2000. Lecture on “Modeling of Biological Systems. The Cybernetic Approach to the Issue of Metabolic Regulation.”

Mahoney, A. W. and D. Ramkrishna, “Determination of Nucleation and Particle Growth Rates from Particle Size Distributions-An Inverse Problem Approach,” Invited Paper presented at the 1st Symposium on Particulate Processes Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg, Germany, October 11-12, 2000.

McKnight Seminar Series sponsored by the Departments of Mathematics, Chemical Engineering and Bioprocess Technological Institute of the University of Minnesota. Lecture on “Stochastic Modeling of Populations & Applications,” April 4, 2000.

“Modeling, Simulation and Design in Process Engineering,” Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 412 ‘Computer Aided Modeling and Simulation for Analysis, Synthesis and Operation in Process Engineering’ of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, October 11-12, 1999. Lead Lecture on “Population Balance Modeling of Dispersed Phase Systems,” Tuesday, October 12, 1999.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, July 30, 1999. Lecture on “Destabilization of Stored Emulsions.”

Chemical Engineering Division, Bombay University Department of Chemical Technology, July 8-22, 1999. Gave six lectures on Population Balances as Dow-Professor Sharma Distinguished Fellow. Also presented a popular lecture on “Modern Trends in Chemical Reaction Engineering,” on August 2, 1999.

Department of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, April 27, 1999. Lecture on “Modeling of Metabolic Regulation. The Cybernetic Approach.”

Department of Chemical & Bioresource Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, April 16, 1999. Lecture on “Modeling of Metabolic Regulation. The Cybernetic Approach.”

Conference on “Analysis of microbial cells at the single-cell level,” March 25-27, 1999 in Villa Olmo, at Como, Italy. Lecture on “On Corpuscular Models of Cell Populations. The Population Balance Approach.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ, April 16, 1998, Lecture (as part of Collaboratus VIII, Eighth Annual Merck-sponsored Distinguished Lecture Series) on “The Status of Cybernetic Modeling of Microbial Processes.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, March 6, 1998. Lecture on “Destabilization of Stored Emulsions.”

Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, Golden Jubilee Celebrations, December 15-18, 1997, New Delhi, India. Plenary Lecture XIII on “Destabilization of Stored Emulsions.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina A & T University, Greensboro, North Carolina, October 10, 1997. Lecture on “The Destabilization of Stored Emulsions.”

Second Joint U.S. China Chemical Engineering Conference, May 19-22, 1997, Beijing, China. Keynote Lecture on “Cybernetic Modeling and Metabolic Engineering.” (Lecture delivered by Professor G. T. Tsao in view of inability to attend the conference).

International Conference on Advances in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, December 13, 1996. Lecture on “The Status of Cybernetic Modeling of Microbial Processes.”

Department of Statistics, Purdue University Probability Seminar Series, September 26, 1996. Lecture on “Stochastic Bridge Processes and Polymer Conformations.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University, September 19, 1996. Lecture on “The Packed Bed Reactor. A Modeler’s Delight.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, June 5, 1996. Lecture on “The Packed Bed Reactor. A Modeler’s Delight.”

Chemcon 95: joint-meeting A.I.Ch.E. and I.I.Ch.E. (Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers), December 27-29, 1995. Plenary lecture on “The Packed Bed Reactor. A Modeler’s Delight.”

Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University, December 11, 12, 1995. Two lectures on “Modeling of Microbial Processes.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University, December 4-9, 1995. Four lectures on “Modeling of Microbiol Processes,” as World Bank sponsored visitor of P.R. China.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 1995. Three lectures on population balances.

Biochemical Engineering IX, Engineering Foundation Conference in Davos, Switzerland, May 21-26, 1995. Invited Talk on “Strategies for Enhancement of Bioremediation from Cybernetic Modeling of Mixed Substrate Utilization,” in the session on “The Role of Physiology for Process Enhancement,” May 23, 1995.

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, December 1994. Three lectures on Population Balances.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, August 3, 1994. Lecture on “A Self-Similar Theory of Microbial Population Growth.”

Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India, August 9-11, 1994. Plenary Lecture on “Inverse Problems in Population Balances” in Conference on Advances in Chemical Engineering.

Institute for Advanced Studies in Bioprocessing Technology, St. Paul, MN, May 1994. Lecture on “A Self-Similar Theory of Microbial Population Growth.”

Bombay University Department of Chemical Technology, December 27, 1993. Rajadhyaksha Distinguished Memorial Lecture on “The Oddities of Bioreactors.”

Chemcon 93: joint meeting of A.I.Ch.E and I.I.Ch.E (Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers) December 16-18, 1993, Bombay. Distinguished speaker. Lecture on “Maximizing Selectivity in Liquid-Liquid Reaction Systems. Control of the Dispersion Process.” (Paper with Ken Yasuda).

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 14, 1993. Lecture on “Modeling of Metabolic Regulation in Microbial Systems. A Cybernetic Approach.”

Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India, June 25, 1993. Lecture on “Modeling of Metabolic Regulation in Microbial Systems. A Cybernetic Approach.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, April 16, 1993. Lecture on “Modeling of Metabolic Regulation in Microbial Systems. A Cybernetic Approach.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, FAMU/FSU, Tallahassee, FL, April 2, 1993. Lecture on “Modeling of Metabolic Regulation in Microbial Systems. A Cybernetic Approach.”

International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISACXVI), Colorado Springs, CO, March 21-26, 1993. Invited Plenary Lecture on “Towards a Self-Similar Theory of Microbial Populations.”

Ninth International Biotechnology Symposium and Exposition, “Harnessing Biotechnology for the 21st Century,” Crystal City, VA, August 16-21, 1992. Invited talk on “Modeling of Microbial Processes — The Status of the Cybernetic Approach,” J. Straight, A. Narang, and D. Ramkrishna (Speaker).

U.S.-India Exchange Visitor (sponsored by the National Science Foundation) to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay – May-June 1993.

American Fine Particle Society, Las Vegas, NV, July 14, 1992. Invited talk on “Analysis of Diffusion in Fractal Media,” Session on Pore Diffusion, Membrane Transport and Dispersion Processes I.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April 22, 1992. Lecture on “Inverse Problems of Aggregation Processes.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, April 20, 1992. Lecture on “Linear Operator Theory in Chemical Engineering.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, March 26, 1992. Lecture on “Inverse Problems of Aggregation Processes.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, October 4, 1991. Lecture on “Inverse Problems of Aggregation Processes.”

Lecture on “Diffusion in Fractal Media” at (i) Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay. (ii) Department of Chemical Engineering, Bombay University. (iii) National Chemical Laboratory at Pune.

Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Co-organizer of a Workshop on “Interfacial Phenomena in Liquid-Liquid Dispersions,” June 24-27, 1991 at Bangalore, India. Delivered four lectures entitled “The Framework of Population Balance”; “Simulation of Dispersion Processes”; “Modeling of Breakage and Coalescence Processes”; and “Inverse Problems for Breakage and Coalescence Processes.”

7th International Conference on Partitioning in Aqueous Two-Phase Systems, June 6, 1991. Invited Talk on “Analysis of Transport in Dispersed Phase Systems. An Inverse Problem Methodology.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri at Rolla, MO, April 22, 1991. Lecture on “Inverse Problems of Aggregation Processes.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, March 19, 1991. Lecture on “Inverse Problems of Aggregation Processes.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, March 1, 1991. Lecture on, “Modeling of Metabolic Regulation in Microbial Systems. A Cybernetic Approach.”

School of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, February 12, 1991. Lecture on, “Fractals. What is in it for Chemical Engineers?”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi, India, August 7-8, 1990. Lectures on “Anomalous Diffusion” and “Inverse Problems in Agglomerating Particulate Systems.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay, India, August 3, 1990. Lecture on “Inverse Problems in Agglomerating Particulate Systems.”

Center for Applied Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science-TIFR Program, Bangalore, India, July 19, 1990. Lecture on “Anomalous Diffusion.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, July 20, 1990. Lecture on “Can Pseudohomogeneous Reaction Models be Valid?”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, November 28, 1989. Lecture on “Linear Operator Methods in Chemical Engineering.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, NY, October 31, 1989. Lecture on “Inverse Problems in Agglomerating Particulate Systems.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, October 30, 1989. Lecture on “Are Empty Tubular Reactors Really Empty?”

As U.N.D.P. expert under the TOKTEN (Transfer of knowledge through expatriate nationals) program (7/2/89 – 8/14/89) gave lectures at: Bombay University, Department of Chemical Technology Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay and Delhi National Chemical Laboratory at Pune Hindustan Lever Research Center, Bombay

Second National Symposium on Modelling and Simulation in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, July 6-8, 1989. Plenary Lecture on “Applied Mathematics. Opportunities for Chemical Engineers”.

Savannah River Laboratory, Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Aiken, SC, June 19, 1989. Lecture on “Rate Processes in Liquid-Liquid Dispersions. Engineering Issues and Analysis.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, February 17, 1989. Lecture on “Inverse Problems in Agglomerating Particulate Systems.”

Wisconsin Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, February 10, 1989, at the Academic Festival to celebrate the 65th birthday of Professor R.B. Bird. Lecture on “Operators in the Service of Chemical Reactors.”

Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. October 18, 1988. Lecture on “Inverse Problems in Agglomerating Particulate Systems.” Fall Quarter, 1988. Series of lectures on “Cybernetic Models of Microbial Systems.”

Institute for Advanced Studies in Biological Process Technology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, December 6, 1988. Lecture on “Cybernetic Modeling of Metabolic Regulation.”

Alpha Chi Sigma Award Symposium, AIChE Meeting, Washington, DC, November 27-December 2, 1988. Lecture on “Applied Mathematics. Opportunities for Chemical Engineers.”

Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL and NASA, June 2, 1988. Lecture on “Population Balances. The Rational Approach to Analysis of Dispersed Phase Systems.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, April 13, 1988. Lecture on “Modeling of Metabolic Regulation in Microbial Systems. A Cybernetic Approach.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, February 24, 1988. Lecture on “Analysis of Rate Processes in Liquid-Liquid Dispersions. A Population Balance Approach.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, September 17, 1987. Lecture on “Linear Operator Methods in Chemical Engineering.”

International Chemical Reaction Engineering Conference, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, April 22-24, 1987. Invited lecture on “How Effective are Effectiveness Factors in Transient Reactor Analysis?”

Applied Mathematics Center, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, October 29, 1986. Lecture on “Some Inverse Problems in Particulate Systems.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, October 23, 1986. Lecture on “Are Microbes Optimal Strategists?”

Department of Chemical Engineering and Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, August 13, 1986. Two lectures: “The Descendents of the Fourier Transform” and “Are Microbes Optimal Strategists?”

Department of Chemical Technology, Bombay University, India, August 11, 1986. Lecture on “Are Microbes Optimal Strategists?”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, July 29, 1986. Lecture on “The Descendents of the Fourier Transform.”

Center for Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science-Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Cooperative program, Bangalore, India, July 16, 1986. Lecture on “Some Symmetrizable Nonself-adjoint Boundary Value Problems in Chemical Engineering.”

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, August 6, 1986. Institute Lecture (public) on “Are Microorganisms Smart?” Department of Chemical Engineering, (I.I.T. Kanpur, India). Lecture on “The Descendents of the Fourier Transform.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, July 28, 1986. Lecture on “Are Microbes Optimal Strategists?”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, TX, January 10, 1986. Neal R. Amundson 70th Birthday lecture on “The Descendents of the Fourier Transform.”

Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, October 1985. Lecture on “Some Nonlinear Problems in Chemical Reaction Engineering.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, September 10, 1985. Lecture on “Are Microbes Optimal Strategists?”

Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, April 4, 1985. Lecture on “Cybernetic Models of Microbial Populations,” in commemoration of Henry M. Tsuchiya at the Opening Ceremony of the Tsuchiya Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering in Amundson Hall.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, October 26, 1984. Lecture on “Population Balances. Do We Need Them?”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL. September 7, 1984. Lecture on “Axial Dispersion Models. How does one do without Danckwerts Boundary Conditions?”

International Chemical Reaction Engineering Conference, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, January 8-11, 1984. Invited plenary lecture on “Cybernetic Modelling of Microbial Populations. Growth on Mixed Substrates.”

Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, December 2, 1983. Lecture on “Some Symmetrizable Non-self-adjoint Operators in Chemical Engineering Problems.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, October 25, 1983. Lecture on “Axial Dispersion Models. How does one do without Danckwerts Boundary Conditions?”

Department of Chemical Engineering, I.I.T. Kanpur, India, February 4, 1983. Lecture on “A Spectral Theoretic View of Axial Dispersion Models.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Presented the 1982 KULOOR MEMORIAL LECTURES. Three lectures.

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, November 11, 1982. Lecture on “Linear Operator Theory in Chemical Engineering.”

Presented an invited lecture on “Multicomponent Diffusion and Reaction” in the Alpha Chi Sigma Award Symposium in honor of Professor Warren E. Stewart, Los Angeles, CA, November, 1982, AIChE Annual Meeting.

“Holiday and Science on the Rhine.” Summer school on Residence Time Distribution Theory in Chemical Engineering at the Physics Center of the German Physical Society, D-5340 Bad Honnef, West Germany, August 15-25, 1982. Presented two invited lectures on “Axial Dispersion Models from the Viewpoint of Spectral Theory.”

American Chemical Society, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division, 1982 Winter Symposium on “Foundations of Biochemical Engineering: Kinetics and Thermodynamics in Biological Systems,” January 17-20, 1982 at Boulder, CO, Lecture on “A Cybernetic Perspective of Microbial Growth.”

Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, December 8, 1981. Lecture on “Some Symmetrizable Non-self-adjoint Operators in Chemical Engineering Problems.”

Planta Piloto de Ingenieria Quimica (PLAPIQUI), Bahia Blanca, Argentina, as an invitee of the Nation Research Council (BID-CONICET) of Argentina; spent one month teaching a graduate course on “Linear Operator Methods in Chemical Engineering”, and as a research consultant to the faculty at PLAPIQUI, from June 22, 1981 to July 22, 1981.

Department of Chemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, October 16, 1980: Lecture on “Prospects of Population Balances.”

As US-INDIA Exchange Visitor sponsored by the National Science Foundation presented lectures at the following institutions in India between June 13, 1980 and August, 1980. Indian Institutes of Technology at Bombay and Kanpur Bombay University Department of Chemical Technology National Chemical Laboratory, Pune Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Regional Research Laboratory, Hyderabad Engineers India Limited, New Delhi

Department of Chemical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, March 24, 1980. Lecture on “Prospects of Population Balances.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, March 7, 1980. Lecture on “Linear Operator Theory in Chemical Engineering.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, October 24, 1979. Lecture on “What are Population Balances? Do We Need Them?”

Engineering Foundation Conference, Henniker, NH, August, 1979. August, 1979. Invited Talk: “Drop Breakage in Liquid-Liquid Dispersions.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April 4, 1979. Lecture on “Linear Operator Theory in Chemical Engineering.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, March 14, 1979. Lecture on “Prospects of Population Balances.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, February 1, 1979. Lecture on “Prospects of Population Balances.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, November 7, 1977. Lecture on “A Generalized Treatment of Particulate Systems.”

Department of Chemical Enginering, Case-Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, October 28, 1977. Lecture on “A Generalized Treatment of Particulate Systems.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, October 7, 1977. Lecture on “The Prospects of Population Balances.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, September 19, 1977. Lecture on “A Generalized Treatment of Particulate Processes.”

Engineering Foundation Mixing Conference, Rindge, NH, August 1977. Invited Talk On the Transitional Breakage Probability of Droplets in Agitated Lean Liquid-Liquid Dispersions.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, March, 1977. Lecture on “What are Population Balances? Do we need them?”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, January 1977. Lecture on “Stochastic Models of Algal Photosynthesis in Turbulent Flows” in the Amundson Seminar Series.

Technical Microbiology Department, MBU, CSAV, Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 1974. Lecture on “Statistical Models of Cell Populations,”.

Math Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1975. Lecture on “Some Non-self Adjoint Sturm-Liouville Problems.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, (i) a series of 4 Lectures on “Generalized Treatment of Population Balances” in a Fluidization Seminar, (ii) a series of 5 Lectures on “Stochastic Differential Equations,” and (iii) a series of 5 Lectures on “Biological Population Modeling.”

Engineering Foundation Conference, Rindge, NH, August, 1976. Invited Talk “On the Mathematical Analysis of Particulate Systems: Small and Large Populations.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute Technology, Delhi, India, December 1973. 4 Lectures on “Biochemical Engineering Kinetics.”

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Spring, 1976. Lecture on “Stochastic Simulation of Stirred Tank Reactors.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, Fall, 1975. Lecture on “Generalized Analysis of Particulate Systems.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, March, 1975. Lecture on “Generalized Analysis of Particulate Systems.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, September 1975. Lecture on “Generalized Analysis of Particulate Systems.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, June 1974. 3 Lectures on “Generalized Analysis of Particulate Systems.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME, March 1972. Lecture on “Population Balance Modeling of Lean Liquid-Liquid Dispersions.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, March 1972. Lecture on “Population Balance Modeling of Lean Liquid-Liquid Dispersions.” Lecture on Stochastic Differential Equation.

Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, March 1972. Lecture on “Population Balance Modeling of Lean Liquid-Liquid Dispersions.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, February 1972. Lecture on “Solution of Population Balance Equations by MWR.”

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, December, 1971. Lecture on “Statistical Modeling of Cell Populations.”

Symposium on “Industrial Fermentations with Special Reference to Indigenous Raw Materials and Needs of the Country”, in Regional Engineering College, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Presented a talk on “The Role of Kinetic Analysis in Fermentation” in March, 1970.

Regional Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, India, 1968 (June). 6 Lectures on The Application of Probability Theory.