Previous Academic Seminars
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 20 | Welcome for all Graduate Students | Dr. Brian Grady, Director Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering |
| Aug 27 | OU lab Safety Training | Dave Clark OU Safety Officer |
| Sept 17 | C-C Cross-Coupling Reactions using Earth-Abundant Cooper-Based Nanocatalysts | Dr. Mari Andiappan Oklahoma State University |
| Sept 24 | The Catalytic Science of Making Up and Breaking Up Nitrogen | Dr. Bill Schneider University of Notre Dame |
| Oct 1 | Molecular Structures of Polymer and Biological Molecules at Buried Interfaces | Dr. Zhan Chen University of Michigan |
| Oct 22 | Nanomaterials for Morphogen Delivery in Skeletal Tissue Regeneration | Dr. Esmaiel Jabbari University of South Carolina |
| Oct 29 | ||
| Nov 5 | Modification of a Bentonite Clay with the Ionic Liquid 1-Ethyl-3-Methylimidazolium Ethylsulfate | Dr Steven T. ("Sam") Adamy Church & Dwight |
| Nov 19 | Membranes in Bioprocessing - New Developments and Insights | Dr. Andrew Zydney Pennsylvania State University |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Sep | AFM Studies of the Admicellar polymetization process | John O'Haver Department of Chemical Engineering University of Mississippi |
| 18-Sep __________ | Comparison of the Neocartilage Formed on Two Scaffold Materials | Anu Subramanian Department of Chemical Engineering |
| 25-Sep | Structure, Scattering, and Synthesis in Surfactant Solutions | Eric W. Kaler Dean, College of Engineering University of Delaware |
| 9-Oct | Influence of Polymer Structures on their Effectiveness in Drag Reduction | Thomas Hanratty Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Illinois |
| Oct 16 | Designing Degradable Gels from Multifunctional Monomers and their Application in Tissue Engineering | Kristi Anseth Department of Chemical Engineering University of Colorado |
| Oct 23 | Biological and Colloidal Pattern Formation in Electric Fields with Potential Application to MicrofluidicBiotechnologies | Robert D. Tilton Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Oct 30 | Blending of Polymers with Chaotic Mixing | Sadhan C. Jana Department of Polymer Engineering University of Akron |
| Dec 4 | Directed Assembly of 3-D Periodic Structures UsingColloidal Inks | Jim Smay Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Jan | The Near-Term Energy Challenge and Surfactant Methods | Kishmore Mohanty Department of Chemical Engineering University of Houston |
| 22-Jan __________ | Self-organizing Polymer Membranes for Ultra- and Nanofiltration | Anne Mayes Department of Material Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 12-Feb | Entropic Measures of Mixing Tailored for Various Applications | Ica Manas-Zloczower Department of Macromolecular Science Case Western Reserve University |
| 19-Feb | Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Membrane Electrode Assembly. Electrode and Electrocatalvst Fundamental Technological Aspects | Carlos Cavalca DuPont |
| Feb 26 | Tissue Engineering Solutions for Reconstructive Surgery** | Charles Patrick University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
| Mar 11 | Protein Adsoption at Fluid/Fluid Interfaces: Birth and Death | Clayton Radke Department of Chemical Engineering University of California-Berkeley |
| Mar 25 | Base Oil Production and Manufacturing | Michel Daage ExxonMobil |
| 8-Apr Harry Fair | Rheoloqv and Fluid Mechanics of Polymer Solutions Undergoing Rapid Elongation Deformations | Robert C. Armstrong Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 22-Apr | Engineering Approaches for Circumventing the Blood-Brain Barrier | Eric V. Shusta Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering University of Wisconsin |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 26-Aug | Welcome and Orientation for CBME Graduate Students | CBME Graduate Student Organization |
| 27-Aug __________ | Iniectable Biomemetic Scaffolds for Regeneration of Skeletal Tissues | Esmaiel Jabbari University of South CarolinaColumbia, South Carolina |
| 16-Sep | Continuous. Macroscopic Fibers from Liquid CrystallineMesophases of Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes in Superacids | Matteo Pasquali Rice University Houston, Texas |
| 23-Sep | Clean Fuels R&D at ConocoPhillips | Byron Johnson ConocoPhillips Bartlesville, Oklahoma |
| Oct 21 | Synthesis of Nanomaterials in Dusty Plasmas | Themis Matsoukas Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania |
| Oct 28 | Modeling and Numerical Simulation of the Flow-InducedDeformation of Red Blood Cells | Constantine Pozrikidis University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California |
| Nov 4 | Surfactant/Polymer Interactions with Solids: Nanostructure ofAdsorbed Lavers and its Role in Wettability. Dispersion, Flotation | Ponisseril Somasundaran New York, New YorkColumbia University Deposition and Solubilization |
| 2-Dec | New Vistas in Dispersion Science and Engineering | Darsh Wasan Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois |
| 9-Dec | Effect of Chain Scission on Polymer Turbulent Drag Reduction | Michael J. Solomon University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Jan | Doing a Literature Search in Engineering | Karen Antell Engineering Library University of Oklahoma |
| 27-Jan __________ | Calcification of Implantable Biomaterials. Mechanisms andSolutions: An Industrial Researchers Perspective | Richard E. Phillips Cardiac Surgery North America The Sorin Group |
| 3-Feb | AFM Characterization of the Stability and Structure of Cell Culture Model Matrices | Adam T. Capitano Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Houston |
| 10-Feb | Synthesis and Functionalization of Compound Semiconductor Nanocrystals | T. J. Mountziaris Department of Chemical Engineering University of Buffalo (SUNY) |
| Feb 17 | Self Assembly of Surfactants in Aqueous Solution: FromEngineering Theory Toward Multi-Scale Simulations | Henry Bock Department of Chemical North Carolina State University |
| Feb 24 | Rheoloay and Microstructure of Dense Colloidal Gels | Subramanian Ramakrishnan Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Mar 3 | A Game Theoretic Approach to Multi-Obiective Process Designs | Warren D. Seider Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Pennsylvania |
| 7-Mar | Synthesis of Inorganic Porous Materials by Using Structure-Directing Agents | Hyunjoo Lee Department of Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology |
| 10-Mar | Simulations: The Molecular Tool for Interpreting Experimental Results | Alberto Striolo Department of Chemical Engineering Oklahoma University |
| 7-Apr | Production of H2 and Alkanes by Aqueous-Phase of Biomass-Derived Oxygenated Hydrocarbons over Supported Metal Catalysts | James A. Dumesic Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Wisconsin —Madison |
| 25-Apr | A Universal Mixing Rule for Cubic Equations of State Applicable to Symmetric and Asymmetric Systems | Epaminondas C. Voutsas School of Chemical Engineering National Technical University of Athens |
| 28-Apr | Energy Markets and the Future of Refining | Dennis O'Brien Institute for Energy Economics and Policy University of Oklahoma |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8-Sep | Intelligent system Via Web Applications for Manufacturing Optimization | Fran k Zhu UOP Chicago, Illinois |
| 15-Sep __________ | pH Responsive Polymer Films and Membrane Films | G. Kane Jennings Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee |
| 22-Sep | Laboratory Safety | Trent Brown University of Oklahoma |
| 29-Sep | Product and Process Design for Structured Chemical Products | Michael Hill M Hill & Associates New Jersey |
| Oct 13 | Fire Safety Training | Gary Marquis University of Oklahoma |
| Oct 20 | Modeling for Micro-Chip Manufacturing. Pathogen Killingand Hydrocarbon Well Drilling: Common Themes & Case Studies | Michael Nikolaou University of Houston Houston, Texas |
| Nov 17 | Tissue Engineering of the Human Vocal Fold | Roger Chan University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |
| 1-Dec | Multiscale Modeling of Complex Reacting Systems | Richard D. Braatz University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Jan | Networking Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks | Mohammed Atiquzzaman University of Oklahoma |
| 25-Jan __________ | Computational Tools for Nanostructure Modeling | John Mintmire Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma |
| 2-Feb | The Flow, Aging and Memory of Soft Particle Pastes | Roger T. Bonnecaze University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas |
| 9-Feb | DNA Dynamics in a Microchannel: Confinement and Boundary Effects in Flowing Polymer Solutions | Michael D. Graham University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin |
| Feb 23 Harry Fair | Discovery of Novel Therapeutic Antibodies Enzymes | George Georgiou |
| Mar 2 | Colloids with Directional Interactions: New Building Blocks for Self Assembly | David J. Pine New York University New York, New York |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 26-Aug Host: Brian Grady | Sorted Carbon Nanotube Networks for Transistors and Sensors | Zhenan Bao Stanford University |
| 9-Sep Host: Daniel Resasco __________ | Electronic Structure Methods in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Reaction Mechanisms and Novel Materials | Manos Mavrikakis University of Wisconsin |
| 16-Sep Host: Lance Lobban/Brian Grady | Lipid-based Anti-Inflammatory Drug Delivery | Ramanan Krishnamoorti University of Houston |
| 23-Sep Host: Pete Heinzelman | Tandem Mass Spectrometry Tools for Measuring Metabolic Fluxes in Living Cells | Maciek R. Antoniewicz Delaware University |
| 7-Oct Host: Rick Mallinson | Distributed Pyrolysis of Agricultural Biomass for the Production of Refinable Crude Bio-oil and Valuable Coproducts | Akwasi A. Boateng Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture |
| 14-Oct Host: Roger Harrison | Designer Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery | Samir Mitragotri University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 21-Oct Host: Dave Schmidtke | Mechanosensing and the Regulation of Tissue Barriers | Deborah E. Leckband University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign |
| 28-Oct Host: Brian Grady/Daniel Resasco | Fluid Phases of Nano-Carbon | Matteo Pasquali Rice University |
| 4-Nov Host: Roger Harrison | Nanoparticles for the Targeted Delivery of Chemotherapeutics | Michael Pishko Texas A&M University |
| 18-Nov Host: Dave Schmidtke | Cancer Cells in Transit: A Biochemical and Biophysical Analysis of the Vascular Interactions of Tumor Cells | Konstantinos Konstantopoulos Johns Hopkins University |
| 2-Dec Host: Alberto Striolo | The Meaning of Wetting and Hydrophobicity at the Molecular Scale | Miquel B. Salmeron Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. University of California, Berkeley |
| 6-Dec Host: John Scamehorn | Solute Partitioning in Multi-Component Micellar Solutions: Modeling and Experimental Study | Irina Smirnova Technische Universität Hamburg |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 13-Jan | Calcium phosphate biomaterials in skeletal repair applications | Cueyt Tas University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center |
20-Jan __________ | Anisotropic Particle Assembly at Interfaces | Kathleen Stebe University of Pennsylvania |
| 27-Jan | Catalytic Activation of CO2 and Hydrocarbon Using Porous Metal Oxides | Steven L. Suib University of Connecticut |
| 3-Feb | Model materials for control of Biofueling and robust functional biohybrids | Gabriel P. Lopez University of New Mexico |
| 10-Feb CANCELLED | Treating Contaminated Water Using Nanomaterials and Catalysis | Michael S. Wong Rice University |
| Feb 17 | Insight into the Kinetics of Oligomer Formation During Amyloidosis | Georges Belfort Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Feb 24 | New Perspectives in Control System Design -- Pseudo Contrained to Market Responsive Control | Donald J. Chmielewski, Illinois Institute of Technology |
| 10-Mar | Hydrodynamic Interactions in Inertial Solid-Liquid Suspensions | Jos Derksen University of Alberta |
| 24-Mar | Catalyst Synthesis by Atomic Layer Desposition | Peter C. Stair Northwestern University (now department chair but chemistry and not Chem Engr.) |
| 31-Mar | CANCELLED | John K. Brennan Army Research Laboratory |
| 14-Apr | Molecule-Based Modeling of Complex Reaction Systems | Michael T. Klein University of Delaware |
| 21-Apr | Nanostructured Carbons for Energy-Related Applications | Yury Gogotsi Drexel University |
| 28-Apr | Hamessing Light Using Nanomaterials: Implications for a Renewable Energy Future | Radhakrishna Sureshkumar Syracuse University |
| 5-May | Design of Bio-Inspired Heterogeneous Catalysts: Synthesis, CHaracterization, and Performance | Alexander S. Katz University of California, Berkeley |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Aug | OU Safety Seminar | Trent Brown Fire Department |
| 1-Sep __________ | Chemical Energy Storage: A grand challenge for caralysis | Robert Schlögl Director, Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany |
| 8-Sep | Oscillating flows and their application to energy, materials, and microsystem design | Daniel T. Schwartz Chair, UW Department of Chemical Engineering, Seattle, WA |
| 15-Sep | 3D imaging and modeiling of wetting-phase displacements in porous material | Karsten E. Thompson Lowe Professional Development Professor, Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA |
| 22-Sep | Transport and control of catalytic and mineral-driven micromotors | Darrell Velegol Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park PA |
| 6-Oct | Treating Contaminated Water Using Nanomaterials and Catalysis | Michael S. WongChemistry, Rice University, Houston TX |
| 27-Oct | Nanoconfined Polymerization: Reaction Kinetics and Properties | Paul Whitfield Horn Sindee Simon Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX |
| 10-Nov | Technological, Climate Change and Sustainability Aspects of Future Transportation Fuels | Sabrina Spatari Professor, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engr., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia PA |
| 17-Nov | Physics and modelling of particle dispersion in turbulent flows | Alfredo Soldati Professor and Director, Laboratory for Environmental & Fluid Mechanics, Dip. Energetica e Macchine Via delle scienze 208, 33100 Udine |
| 1-Dec | Transport of pathogens and other intracellular particles by the polymerization of microfilaments | Richard B. Dickinson Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 19 | Technology Innovation in the Fuels and Petrochemicals Industry | Gavin Towler – C. M. Sliepcevich Lecture Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and Senior Manager of Process Design Development, UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL |
| Jan. 26 | Nanomedicine Transitions to | Mauro Ferrari |
| _________ | Transport Oncophysics | President and CEO, Ernest Cockrell Jr. Distinguished Endowed Chair, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute President, Houston, TX |
| Feb. 2 | "Synthesis and Characterization of Complex Nanostructured Materials" | Leonard Pease Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition University of Utah, Salt Lake City |
| Feb. 9 | Environmental Effects of Tissue Engineered Cartilage | Gilda Barabino Associate Chair for Graduate Studies & Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA |
| Feb. 16 | A Sustainably Smooth Ride with Nanocomposites | Charles Zukoski – Harry Fair Lecturer U Illinois, Urbana-Champagne |
| Feb. 23 | Hydrocarbon transport, sorption and catalytic transformation | Johannes Lercher TU München, Department of Chemistry, Chair for Chemical Technology and PNNL, Institute for Integrated Catalysis, Director |
| 1-Mar | Engineering molecular imaging probes for nanomedicine | Gang Bao Professor, Robert A. Milton Chair in Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering Distinguished Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA |
| 8-Mar | "Coal-, gas-, biomass- and waste-to-liquids conversion: Yes, no or maybe?" | Arno de Klerk Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada |
| Mar. 15 CANCELLED | Dynamics of elastic capsules and erythrocytes in microfluidic channels and the microcirculation | Panogiotis Dimitrakopoulos Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 5-Apr | Synergistic Approaches in Molecular and Nanoscale Therapeutics and Delivery Systems for Cancer Diseases | Kaushal Rege Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Arizona State UniversityTempe, SZ |
| 19-Apr | Methanol-to-Hydrocarbons: The Carbon Pool (R)Evolution | Jeffrey L. White Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK |
| CANCELLED 26-Apr | Lost in Post-translation: Glycoengineering Applications in Biotechnology | Michael Betenbaugh Professor, JHU Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Home, Baltimore, MD |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 23 ___________ | An Introduction to Laboratory Safety | Trent Brown, OU Environmental Health and Safety Officer |
| Aug. 30 | Anti-Cancer Natural Killer Cells: May the Force Be with Them - But Which One | Per Basse, Associate Professor, Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, PA |
| Sept. 6 | Hydrodynamics of Gas-Solid Flows with a Continuous Size Distribution: Experiments and Theory | Christine Hrenya, Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| Sept. 13 | Scifinde r/ Web of Science / PubMed Tutorial | Lina Ortega, Chemistry & Mathematics Librarian James Bierman, Engineering Librarian, Assistant Professor of Bibliography |
| Sept. 20 | New Catalytic Technologies for Production of Renewable Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass | George Huber, Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering Univ of Wisconsin |
| Sept. 27 | Electrodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers | Raymond J. Gorte, Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), University of Pennsylvania |
| Oct. 4 | Micropatterned Surfaces and Sensors for Analysis of Living Cells | Alexander Revzin, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis, CA |
| Oct. 11 | Fire Safety Seminar and Hands-on Training | Justin Daniels, OU Fire Inspector |
| Oct. 18 | Inventing New Technologies using Physical and Computational Experiments in Flows, Materials, and Human Perception | Rajeev Chhabra, Proctor and Gamble Corp. |
| Nov. 15 | Tailoring the Catalytic Properties of Transition Metals and Aluminosilicates Guided by First-Principles Calculations | Lars Grabow, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Univ. Houston, TX |
| Nov. 29 | Remendable and “Self-healing” Cross-linked Polymers and Composites | Giuseppe Palmese, Professor and Head, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA |
| Dec. 6 | Mechanical Stimulation of Synthetic Hydrogel Niches for Applications in Musculoskeletal Regeneration | Stephanie Bryant, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Univ. Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 17 | Synthesis and Applications of Nanocrystalline Zeolites in Catalysis, Adsorption and Drug Delivery (PDF) | Sarah Larsen, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa, |
| Jan. 24 | Pyrolysis of Agricultural Biomass for Production of Refinable Crude Bio-Oil (PDF | Charles Mullen, Research Chemist, Eastern Regional Research Center, ARS, USDA, Wyndmoor PA 19038 |
| Feb. 7 | How to Tie Peptide Knots (PDF) | A. James Link, Assistant Professor, Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
| Feb. 14 Harry G Fair Memorial Seminar | Effects of Local Composition, Structure, and Confinement on the Activity and Selectivity of Catalytically Active Sites (PDF) | Alesis T. Bell, The Dow Professor of Sustainable Chemistry, UC Berkeley, Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |
| 18-Feb | Probing angiogenesis with a hybrid manganese-ultralow gadolinium nanocolloids and drug delivery: synthesis, characterization and translation (PDF) | Dipanjan Pan, assistant professor of medicine, research division of cardiology Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University, St. Louis MO |
| Feb. 21 | Designer Proteins for Materials Synthesis and Assembly (PDF) | Francois Baneyx, Charles W.H. Matthaei Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| Feb. 28 | Targeting Tumor Vasculature and Reactivating Tumor Immunity with Bavituximab (PDF) | Philip Thorpe, Professor of Pharmacology, The Serena Simmons Distinguished Chair, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX |
| 7-Mar | Cancelled | |
| 14-Mar | Asphaltenes and Emulsions, Oh My (PDF) | Harvey Yarranton, Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering , University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| 4-Apr | In Silico: Expressway to Materials Design (PDF) | Coray Colina, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA |
| 18-Apr | Toward imaging membrane protein assembly and dynamics with in-situ atomic force microscopy | Paul Ashby, Professor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 25-Apr | Interfacial Dynamics and Mechanics at the Microscale | Shelley Anna, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2-May | Water Structural Transformation at Molecular Hydrophobic Interfaces | Dor Ben-Amotz, Professor- Physical Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 29 | Laboratory Safety (PDF) | Trent Brown, University of Oklahoma |
| 5-Sep | Identifying New Paradigms in Crystal Engineering for Catalysis and Biomedical Applications (PDF) | Jeffrey Rimer, University of Houston, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Houston, TX |
| Sept. 19 | Life Cycle Based Approaches for Understanding Environmental Sustainability of Emerging Biofuels | Vikas Khanna, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA |
| Oct. 3 | Unraveling Cellulose for Renewable Plastics and Fuels | Paul J. Dauenhauer, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Oct. 10 | Stem Cell Therapy: Regeneration and Tracking | Laure Suggs, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Oct. 17 | Disease-Inspired Materials Science: From Biopolymers to BP | Paul Russo, Roy Paul Daniels Professor, Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA |
| Oct. 24 | Biomedical Applications of Emulsion Templating | Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez,Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University |
| Oct. 31 | Engineering catalysts for improved hydrothermal stability | Abhaya Datye, Professor, Distinguished Regents Professor, Director, Center for Micro-Engineered Materials, Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque |
| Nov. 21 CANCELLED | Energy from Biomass for Sustainable Development | Gerard Ostheimer, Science Advisor, USDA |
| Dec. 5 | Process Systems Engineering for Renewable Energy | Christos T. Maravelias, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 16 | Antibiotic Biosynthesis on Enzymatic Assembly Lines | Chaitan Khosla, Professor, Wells H. Rauser and Harold M. Petiprin Chemical Engineering Stanford University |
| Jan. 23 | Hydrophobically Modified Biopolymers – a Hook for Drug Delivery and Energy Technologies | Vijay John, Professor, - The Leo S. Weil Professor in Engineering, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA |
| an. 30 | Mechanical Supports to Redirect Tissue Remodeling in Mechanically Active Soft Tissues | William R. Wagner, Professor of Surgery, Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA |
| Feb. 6 CANCELLED | Role of Technology in Meeting Refining Challenges | Prakash Karpe, APC Network Lead Phillips 66, Houston, TX |
| Feb. 13 | Multiscale and Patient-specific Systems Biology | Scott L. Diamond, Arthur E. Humphrey Professor and Chair Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
| Feb. 20 | Modularization of metabolic pathways to facilitate biological synthesis | Kristala Jones Prather, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA |
| Mar. 13 Harry G Fair Memorial Lecture | New Heterogeneous Catalysts for Converting Sugars in Aqueous Media | Mark Davis, Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering, California institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA |
| Mar. 27 | First Principles investigations of catalytic trends in biomass conversion and electrocatalysis | Jeffrey Greeley, Asociate Professor, Purdue Univeristy, School of Chemical Engineering, West Lafayette, In |
| April 3 CANCELLED | Energy from Biomass for Sustainable Development | Gerard Ostheimer, Science Advisor, USDA |
| 10-Apr | Strategies fro the synthesis of supported oxides and immobilized molecular catalyst | Justin Notestein, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Center for Catalysis and Surface Science, Institute for Atom-Efficient Chemical Transformation (ACT) |
| April 17 Cancelled | Lignocellulosic carbon materials for adsorption of nitroaromatics and nitrosamines | David Rockstraw, Distinguished Achievement Professor and Academic Department Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM |
| 24-Apr | Thermodynamics and kinetics of elementary reaction steps on late transition metal catalysts, and in their sintering | Charles T. Campbell, B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Chemistry Department, University of Washington; Seattle |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 28 | Laboratory Safety (PDF) | Trent Brown, University of Oklahoma |
| 4-Sep | Using Microfluidic systems for the visualizing and manipulation of multiphase fluids for oil recovery processes | Sibani Lisa Biswal, Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX |
| 18-Sep | Molecular understanding, design and development of ultra low fouling zwitterionic-based functional materials | Shaoyi Jiang, Boeing-Roundhill Professor of Chemical Engineering & Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| 25-Sep | Interrogating buried solid-liquid catalytic interfaces with calorimetry: Examples from biomass conversion and catalyst synthesis | Robert Rioux, Friedrich G. Helfferich Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA |
| 2-Oct | Controlling controlled release to make medicine that imitates life. | Steven Little, Associate Professor and CNG Faculty Fellow, Chairman, Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 |
| 9-Oct | Fire safety in the lab and buildings | Mr. Chase Abbot and Mr. Marco Grier, Fire Inspectors, Fire Marshall Office, Departments of Risk Management, Norman, OK |
| Oct. 30 | Correlating structure and function for nanoparticle catalysts | Graeme Henkelman, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX |
| 6-Nov | Converting Biomass to Chemicals: Combining insights from Heterogeneous, Homogeneous and Enzyme Catalysis | Michiel Dusselier, Postdoctoral researcher, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena |
| 13-Nov | Molecular design of selective multimodal protein separations | Steven M. Cramer, Professor and William Weightman Walker Professor of Polymer Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY |
| 4-Dec | Synthesis and catalysis of isolated bimetallic sites for chemical transformations | Feng (Franklin) Tao, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 15 | Engineering Molecular Transformations over supported catalysts for sustainable energy conversion | Matthew Neurock, University of Minnesota as of Fall 2014 |
| Jan 22 | Formulation engineering: from molecular interactions to product performance | Edgar Acosta, Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Jan 29 | Active sites in heterogeneous catalysis: from single atoms to clusters | Fabio H. Ribeiro, R. Norris and Eleanor Shreve Professor of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
| Feb 3 | Packing Polyhedra: From Ancient Math to Advanced Materials | Daphne Klotsa, Chemistry, Cambridge University, Cambridge UK |
| Feb 5 | Intermolecular Interactions in colloidal graphene dispersions | Micah Green, Texas A&M, Artie McFerrin Dept of Chemical Engineering, College Station as of Fall 2014 |
| Feb 10 | Hydrogen electrocatalysis: from mechanistic study to advanced material development | Wenchao Sheng, Columbia University, Dept of Chemical Engineering , New York, New York |
Feb 12 | Biomaterials for tissue engineering | Antonios G. Mikos,Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Director of John W. Cox Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Director of Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX |
| Feb 19 | Oxidative and initiated chemical vapor deposition for conformal and clean polymer coatings | Siamak Nejati, Chemical and Enfironmental Engineering, Yale University |
| Feb 26 | Nanostructure characterization of organic photovoltaics | Feng Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| March 12 | Mathematical modeling of pharmaceuticals: Predictive design for better medicines | Ashlee Ford Versypt, Assistant Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater |
| April 2 | A Molecular Approach to the Design of Earth-Abundant Hydrodeoxygenation Catalysts | Yuriy Roman, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 |
| Apr 9 | Applications of the ReaxFF force field for identifying reactive properties for complex materials and interfaces | Adri van Duin, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA |
| Apr 23 | Expression-targeted gene delivery as applied to cancer | W. Terrance Godbey, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Lindy Boggs Center for Energy and Biotechnology, New Orleans, LA 70118 |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 27 | Welcome for all Graduate Students and Faculty research presentations for new graduate students | Dr. Brian Grady, Director Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering |
| Sept 10 | Trent Brown, OU Laboratory Safety Officer, Risk Management | |
| Sept 17 | The Future of Innovation and Work | Brian Rovelli, Oilfield Sciences Program Manager, GE Global Research |
| Sept 24 | Non-isothermal reaction kinetics and operando spectroscopies reveal the inherently dynamic behavior of catalysts | Susannah Scott, Mellichamp Professor Dept of Chemical Engineering, University of Calafornia, Santa Barbara |
| Oct 1 | Knowledge-Based Development of Catalytic Processes | Yanhui Yang, Associate Professor, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Oct 15 | Engineering Cellular Microenvironments | Elizabeth Dirk, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of New Mexico |
| Oct. 22 | Nanoporous materials for electrochemical systems | Jiao Feng, Assistant Provessor, Department of Deleware |
| Oct. 29 | Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable Platforms for Chemical Separations and Catalysis | Randall Snurr, John G. Searle Professor, Dept of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University |
| Nov 19 | Graduate student presentations | |
Dec 3
| Translating molecular bioengineering from the lab to the patient | Ashutosh Chilkoti, Theo Pilkington Professor and the Chair Dept of Biomedical Engineering Duke University |
| Dec 8 | Material design... from molecular structure to engineering function | Dr. Keisha Walters, Associate Professor, Mississippi State University |
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| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 18 Harry G Fair Lecturer | Effects of Chemical Heterogenity on Hydrophobic Interactions | Nicholas Abbott, John T. and Magdalen L. Sobota Professor, Hilldale Professor, Dept of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Feb 25 | The Micromechanics of Shear Thickening Fluids and Their Applications as Field-Responsive Protective Materials and Shielding for Spacecraft and Astronauts | Norman Wagner, Robert L. Pigford Chaired Professor, Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware |
| Mar 24 | Biomass and Natural Gas Valorization by Zeolite Catalysis | Raul Lobo, Claire D. LeClaire Professor, Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware |
| Mar 31 | A Molecular Level Insight into Thermodynamic, Transport and Structural Properties of Room Temperature Ionic Liquid Mixtures | Jindal Shah, Assistant Professor, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University |
Apr 28
| An atomic-scale view of surface chemistry, molecular motors and radioactive thin films | Charlie Sykes, Professor, Dept of Chemistry, Tufts University |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 22 | Welcome for all Graduate Students and Faculty research presentations for new graduate students | Dr. Brian Grady, Director Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering |
| Aug 29 | OU lab Safety Training | Dave Clark OU Safety Officer |
| Sept 26 | Inorganic Membranes for Energy and Environmental Systems | Seol-Jhin Kim Oklahoma State University |
| Oct 3 | Deciphering surface mediated thermo- and electro- catalytic reactions with in-situ spectroscopies | Bingjun Xu University of Delaware |
| Oct 17 | Leila Karimi Felipe Anaya Saltarin | |
| Oct 24 | Enhanced bioplastics production through genomics | Michael G. Benton Lousiana State University |
| Nov 7 | Surfactant Science in the Consumer Products Industry | Dr. George Smith Huntsman |
| Nov 14 | From Fundamentals to Refinery Optimization | Dr. Tushar Choudhary Phillips 66 |
| Nov 28 | Modeling Fluid Flow In Induced Fractures In Shale By The Latice Boltzmann Method |
University of Tulsa |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 21 | Welcome for all Graduate Students | Dr. Brian Grady, Director Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering |
| Sept 4 | OU lab Safety Training | Dave Clark OU Safety Officer |
| Sept 11 | Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing at Surfaces with Nanostructured Topology | Dr. Andrew C. Hillier Department Chair Iowa State University |
| Sept 25 | Computational Design of Organic Catalysts and Photocatalysis | Dr. Charles Musgrave Department Chair University of Colorado |
| Oct 2 Cancelled | Bioprivileged Molecules: A Strategy For Next Generation Chemical Products | Dr. Brent H. Shanks Professor Iowa State University |
| Oct 9 | Fluid Dynamics in the Brain | Dr. William Olbricht Professor Cornell University |
| Oct 16 | Development of the New Mexico State University Brewery Engineering program of study in Chemical Engineering (NMSBrew) | Dr. David Rockstraw Department Chair New Mexico State University |
| Oct 23 | Industrial Research in Refining Catalysis at Phillips 66 | Dr Byron Johnson Senior Principal Engineer Phillips 66 Bartlesville, OK |
| Oct 26 | Reaction Density Functional Theory and Its Application to Reactions in Aqueous Solution | Dr. Shuangliang Zhao East China University of Science and Technology |
| Nov. 6 | Separating Trivalent Lanthanides: Enabling Nuclear Fuel Cycle or Recovery of Valuable Critical Materials? | Dr. Bruce Moyer Fellow Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Nov 13 | Surfactant innovation in Laundry Products | Dr. Patrick Stenger Research & Development Senior Scientist Proctor & Gamble |
| Nov 20 | Multiscale Image-Based simulation of transient PDGF-BB gradient explains how fibroblasts affect each other's directional decisions during Chemotaxis | Dr. Roman Voronov New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Nov 27 | Responsive and reconfigurable endoskeletal emulsions | Dr. Eric M. Furst Department Chair University of Delaware |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 26 | The Live and Death of Catalysts for Lignin Conversion | Dr. Carsten Sievers Associate Professor Georgia Tech University |
| Mar 5 | Nano-Structured Metal Catalysts for High-Temperature Applications | Dr. John M. Vohs Department Chair University of Pennsylania |
| Mar 12 | Spacers for Spiral Wound Modules | Dr. G. Glenn Lipscomb Department Chair University of Toledo |
| Mar 26 | Physical and Chemical Approaches for Enhancing Optical Biosensors | Dr. Qiuming Yu Professor University of Washington |
| Apr 9 | Nanoparticle Heating for Therapeutics, Regenerative Medicine and Diagnostics | Dr. John Bischof University of Minnesota Institute for Engineering in Medicine |
| Apr 16 | Brine-Crude Oil Interfacial Dynamics: Asphaltenes, Naphthenic Acids and Brine Salinity | Dr. Vladimir Alvarado Department Head University of Wyoming |
| Apr 23 Harry Fair Lecturer | Polyelectrolytes in Multi- Valent Ionic Media: New Physics and New Materials | Dr. Matthew Tirrell Director, Professor and Dean of the Faculty Institute for Molecular Engineering University of Chicago |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 20 | Welcome for all Graduate Students | Dr. Brian Grady, Director Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering |
| Aug 27 | OU lab Safety Training | Dave Clark OU Safety Officer |
| Sept 17 | C-C Cross-Coupling Reactions using Earth-Abundant Cooper-Based Nanocatalysts | Dr. Mari Andiappan Oklahoma State University |
| Sept 24 | The Catalytic Science of Making Up and Breaking Up Nitrogen | Dr. Bill Schneider University of Notre Dame |
| Oct 1 | Molecular Structures of Polymer and Biological Molecules at Buried Interfaces | Dr. Zhan Chen University of Michigan |
| Oct 22 | Nanomaterials for Morphogen Delivery in Skeletal Tissue Regeneration | Dr. Esmaiel Jabbari University of South Carolina |
| Oct 29 | ||
| Nov 5 | Modification of a Bentonite Clay with the Ionic Liquid 1-Ethyl-3-Methylimidazolium Ethylsulfate | Dr Steven T. ("Sam") Adamy Church & Dwight |
| Nov 19 | Membranes in Bioprocessing - New Developments and Insights | Dr. Andrew Zydney Pennsylvania State University |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 25 | Stratification in Colloidal Films | Dr. Surita Bhatia Stony Brook University |
| Mar 3 | Decarbonizing Natural Gas by Reactive Separation on High Temperature Liquids | Dr. Eric Mcfarland University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Mar 24 Harry Fair | Cancelled due to COVID 19 Membranes as Change Agents in Upstream and Downstream Natural Gas Processing | Dr. Bill Koros Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Mar 31 | Cancelled due to COVID19 | Dr. Charles Schroeder University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Apr 7 | Cancelled due to COVID19 | Dr. Carlos Rinaldi University of Florida |
| April 13 | Cancelled due to COVID19 | Dr. Suljo Linic |
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
| Cancelled due to Covid |
Cancelled Due to COVID
Cancelled due to COVID
| Date | Title and Abstract | Speaker |
| Aug 23 | Welcome for Graduate Students | Dr. Dimitrios Papavassiliou, Director Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering |
| Aug 30 | CBME Faculty Research Presentations | - |
| Sept 6 | OU Lab Safety Training | Dave Clark OU Safety Officer |
| Sept 13 | Geofluid Phase Behaviors and Flow in Shale Kerogen for Geological CO2Storage and Hydrocarbon Recovery | Zhehui Jin University of Alberta |
| Sept 20 | Polyelectrolyte Complex Hydrogel Scaffoldings for Bioadhesion and 3D Bioprinting | Samanvaya Srivastava UCLA |
| Sept 27 | Development of Low-cost Liquid-infused Polymer Materials for CO2 Capture | Matthew Myers Columbia |
| Oct 4 | Understanding and Controlling Surface Adsorption from the Ground Up: A Quantum Mechanical Approach to Renewable Energy and Environmental Remediation Materials Design | Christopher Muhich Arizona State University |
| Oct 11 | Electrochemistry of Low Temperature Fuel Cells: From Kinetics and Spectroscopy to New Materials | Suljo Linic University of Michigan - Ann Arbor |
| Oct 18 | Designing and Interrogating Atomically Dispersed Precious Metal Catalysts | Philip Christopher University of California at Santa Barbara |
| Oct 25 | Adhesion: Soft, Wet, and Sticky | Joelle Frechette University of California at Berkeley |
| Nov 1 | Surfactant Applications: How a Ph.D. (Chemistry/ Chemical Engineering)can be applied to a career in Industry | Julian Barnes Shell Chemicals |
| Nov 8 | Hierarchically Functional Polymers with Engineered Microporosity for Gas Separation Membranes | Ruilan Guo Notre Dame |
| Nov 15 | No Seminar - AIChE Conference | - |
| Nov 22 | Dynamic Phenomena During Drop Formation and Coalescence In the Presence of Surfactants | Dr. Panagiota Angeli, University College London |
| Nov 29 | Structural and Chemical Disorder Towards Advanced Materials | Horst Hahn, CBME |
| Dec 6 | No Seminar - Dead Week | - |
| Dec 13 | No Seminar - Finals Week | - |
