Events: Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminars

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Wednesday, February 06, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"Systems Approaches for Analyzing Complex Process Engineering Problems"
Marianthi Ierapetritou, Rutgers University
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"The Challenge of Global Climate Change"
David F. Myers, Research Triangle Institute International
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"Regenerative Medicine Strategies in the Central Nervous System"
Molly Shoichet, University of Toronto
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"The Role of Control in Design: from Fixing Problems to the Design of Dynamics"
Andrzej Banaszuk, United Technologies
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"Hydrophobicity, Drying, Denaturation, and Collapse in Physical and Biological Systems"
Bruce Berne, Columbia University
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"Simulations of the Pressure Driven Folding/Unfolding of Biomolecules"
Angel Garcia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"Dynamics and Thermodynamics on the Nanoscale"
Michael Mackay, Michigan State University
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"The Design of Nanoscale Therapeutics and Nanostructured Materials"
Ravi Kane, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"Micro-Engineering Osmotic Stresses in Colloidal Dispersions and Synthetic Trees"
Abraham Stroock, Cornell University
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"Dielctrophoresis of Nanocolloids: DNA and RNA Identification in Nanochannels"
Hsueh-Chia Chang, University of Notre Dame
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"Quantitative Variations in Molecular Networks and the Emergence of Multicellular Phenotypic Diversity"
Anand Asthagiri, California Institute of Technology
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"Modeling of Materials from Atomistic to Macroscopic Scales: Computation Meets Reality"
Efthimios Kaxiras, Harvard University
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"Scaling Analysis of Dynamic Heterogeneity in a Supercooled Lennard-Jones Liquid"
Hans Andersen, Stanford University
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 4:00 PM
Elgin Room (E-Quad A224)
"CANCELLED"
Kristi Kiick, University of Delaware
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