Past Seminars

Seminar: Norman J. Wagner, University of Delaware, “The micromechanics of shear thickening fluids and their application as protective materials for medical professionals, first responders, protective materials for athletes, astronauts and spacecraft”

Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Robert J. Davis, University of Virginia, Title: “Catalytic Conversion of Alcohols and Acids Derived from Renewable Biomass”

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Chris M. Jewell, University of Maryland, Title: “Harnessing biomaterials to study and control immune function”

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Exxon Mobil Lecture: Raymond J. Gorte, University of Pennsylvania, Title: "Fabrication of Nano-Structured Catalyst Supports by ALD"

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Dave Pine, New York University, Title: “Colloidal self-assembly with DNA-coated particles”

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Brian Pfleger, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Title: “TBD”

Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Krista S. Walton, Georgia Institute of Technology, Title: “TBD”

Tuesday, March 5, 2019 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Laura Bardley, PSE/UMass, “HIP Materials: Harnessing Interfacial Phenomena to Design New Soft Materials”

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Charles Musgrave, University of Colorado Boulder, “Computationally Designed Organic Photocatalysis for CO2 Reduction and Photopolymerization”

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Alumni Lecture 2: E. Terry Papoutsakis, University of Delaware, Title: “Metabolic Engineering AND/OR Synthetic Biology for improved biotechnological production: promises and realities”

Friday, November 16, 2018 - 1:00pm

Marriott Center, Campus Center (11th Floor)

Alumni Lecture 1: E. Terry Papoutsakis, University of Delaware, Title: “Native and engineered megakaryocytic microparticles for cell- and gene-therapies”

Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 11:30am

Amherst Room, 10th Floor, Campus Center

G.R.A.S.S. – Xiangan Li (Henson Group) and Eric Hernandez (Jentoft Group)

Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Lonnie Shea, University of Michigan, “Immuno-Engineering in Cancer and Regenerative Medicine”

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

G.R.A.S.S. – Boyang Li (Henson Group) and Xiangxi (Zoey) Meng (Perry/Schiffman Group)

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Bingjun Xu, University of Delaware, Title “Tailoring Efficient Renewable Catalytic Processes for a Sustainable Future”

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

G.R.A.S.S. – Whitney Blocher McTigue (Perry Group) and Sanket Sabnis (Fan Group)

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Notker Rösch, "To localize or not to localize, that is the question. Reduced centers of the MoVOx catalyst for hydrocarbon oxidation"

Monday, August 13, 2018 - 11:30am

Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

LGRT 201

Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Kiran Iyer (Muthukumar) and Koushik Ponnuru (Jentoft)

Tuesday, May 1, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Yooyeon Jo (Dimitrakopoulos) and Li-Wei Chang (Perry)

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Exxon-Mobil Seminar: Bruce Gates, University of California, Davis , Title TBD

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar, Suzie H. Pun, U. of Washington, Title: “Bioactive, peptide-containing polymers for biomedical applications”

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 - 11:30am

Hosted by CBI

LGRT 201

Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Abhinav Sharma (Forbes/Lee) and Bryan Sharkey (Jentoft)

Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar, Brendan Harley, Univ. Illinois, Title: “Engineering complexity via biomaterial design”

Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S). – Shuo Sui (Perry) and Mengxi Chen (Maroudas)

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Brandon Dunham (Dimitrakopoulos) and Yalin Liu (Perry)

Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Sualyneth Galarza (Peyton) and Poonam Phalak (Henson)

Tuesday, November 28, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Lee Lynd, Dartmouth, “Low Cost Cellulosic Biofuels: New Questions in Pursuit of New Answers”

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Bernhard von Vacano, BASF, “Creating chemistry for a sustainable future in a world of change”

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Jan Genzer, North Carolina State University, Title “Preventing adhesion of marine organisms by engineering substrate topographies”

Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Ryan Carpenter (Lee) and Yen Tran (Peyton/Klier)

Tuesday, October 17, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Yuxi Wang (Dimitrakopoulos) and Vishnu Raman (Forbes)

Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

2nd Alumni Lecture: Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, Princeton University, “What governs polymorphic accessibility?”

Friday, September 22, 2017 - 1:00pm

163C Campus Center

1st Alumni Lecture: Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, Princeton University, “Organic Solar Cells Provide Onboard Power to Make Smart Windows Smarter”

Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 11:30am

163C Campus Center

Seminar: April Kloxin, The University of Delaware, Title “Designing and utilizing responsive biomaterials to control cellular microenvironments in the study of tissue regeneration and disease”

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Abhaya Datye, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Title “Designing Catalysts for Meeting the DOE 150 °C Challenge for Exhaust Emissions”

Tuesday, September 5, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Kaoru Aou, Dow Chemical, “How Can We Innovate Like a Tech Startup in a Large Corporation - The Perspectives of a PSE Alum in Industrial Research”

Thursday, August 31, 2017 - 10:00am

N610 LSL

Graduate Student Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.)

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Eric I. Altman, Yale University, “Two Dimensional Tetrahedral Oxides: From Model Catalysts to Atomically Thin Membranes”

Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Hicham Fenniri, Northeastern University “Engineering Biomedical Function in Supramolecular Nanomaterials”

Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Manu Platt, Georgia Tech, "Quantitative Dissection of Proteolytic Networks Governing Tissue Remodeling in Health and Disease"

Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 10:00am

S330 LSL

Seminar: Jason Papin, Virgina, title: "Predicting biology with reconciled human and rat metabolic networks"

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

ExxonMobil Lecture: Liang-Shih Fan, The Ohio State University, “Chemical Looping Gasification and Reforming – Materials, Reactors and Systems”

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: April Kloxin, Delaware, “Designing and utilizing responsive biomaterials to control cellular microenvironments in the study of tissue regeneration and disease”"

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Mindy Keefe, Dow Coating Materials, Title: "TBD"

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Alumni Lecture: Tony Mikos, Rice University, Title “Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering”

Friday, March 10, 2017 - 11:15am

163C Campus Center,

Alumni Lecture: Tony Mikos, Rice University, Title “Injectable Hydrogels for Growth Factor and Stem Cell Delivery in Tissue Engineering”

Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 11:30am

Amherst Room, 10th Floor, Campus Center

Seminar: Jörg Kärger, Title: “Monitoring adsorption, diffusion and reaction through the microscope: the novel options of microimaging” - moved from 12/6 to 12/15

Thursday, December 15, 2016 - 11:30am

University of Leipzig

LGRT 201

Seminar: Martin Yarmush, Title: "New Approaches to Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy"

Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 11:30am

Harvard University/Mass General Hospital

LGRT 201

Graduate Seminar: (G.R.A.S.S.) – Ashish Kumar (Maroudas/Dimitrakopoulos) and Vivek Vattipalli (Fan)

Tuesday, November 8, 2016 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Lynn Walker, Title: “Processing and Engineering Fluid-Fluid Interfaces through Multicomponent Adsorption”

Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - 11:30am

Carnegie Mellon University “Processing and Engineering Fluid-Fluid Interfaces

LGRT 201

Seminar: Pete Trefonas, Title: TBA“Directed self assembly - Self assembling surface neutral layers via block copolymers; and bi-directional emissive nanoparticle displays”

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 11:30am

Dow Electronic Materials

LGRT 201

Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Ashutosh Rathi (Ford) and Elizabeth Cummings (Roberts)

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Graduate Seminar (G.R.A.S.S.) – Elizabeth Brooks (Peyton) and Raymond Gasper (Ramasubramaniam)

Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Mark P. Styczynski, Title: “Using Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering to Detect Nutritional Deficiencies in the Developing World”

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 11:30am

Georgia Tech

LGRT 201

Seminar: Mehmet Toner, Title: “Bioengineering & Clinical Applications of Circulating Tumor Cells”

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 11:30am

Harvard University/Mass General Hospital

LGRT 201

Seminar: Padma Rajagopalan, Title: “The Design of Biomaterials to Investigate Healthy and Impaired Liver Function”

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - 11:15am

Virginia Tech

LGRT 201

Seminar: Sanjay Kumar, University of California, Berkeley, “Cells as smart materials: Dissecting and reverse-engineering mechaniobiological units”

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Hicham Fenniri, Northeastern, Title: "TBD"

Monday, April 25, 2016 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Manu Platt, Georgia Tech, Title: "TBD"

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 11:30am

CBI Invited Speaker

LGRT 201

Seminar: Bahareh Behkam, Virginia Tech Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Sciences, "TBD"

Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

ExxonMobil Lecture: Liang-Shih Fan, Ohio State, Title: "TBD"

Monday, April 4, 2016 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

ExxonMobil Lecture: Michael Tsapatsis, University of Minnesota, “2-dimensional zeolites for catalysis and separations”

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

CANCELLED: Martin L. Yarmush, "New Approaches to Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy"

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 11:30am

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

LGRT 201

Seminar: Tom McCarthy, Polymer Science, UMass Amherst

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 11:30am

“Do you know what PDMS is?”

LGRT 201

Seminar: Wei Fan, UMass Amherst

Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 11:30am

"Development of Hierarchical Zeolite Catalysts for the Production of Renewable Chemicals"

LGRT 201

Darrell Irvine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Engineering immunity with hitchhiking therapeutics”

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Michael Strano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Manipulating mass and energy using carbon nanotechnology"

Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Phillip B. Messersmith, University of California, Berkeley “Properties and Applications of Synthetic Polymers and Coatings Inspired by Mussels, Wine, Tea, and Chocolate”

Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 4:00pm

Goessmann 64 (Auditorium)

Seminar: Lorna Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Hierarchical structure and mechanics of plants”

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

CANCELLED: Mehmet Toner, Harvard University/MGH “Bioengineering & Clinical Applications of Circulating Tumor Cells”

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - 11:30am

Will be rescheduled for September 20, 2016

n/a

GRASS: Lin Du (Maroudas Group) & Kris Kolewe (Schiffman Group)

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: CANCELLED!!! Pam Silver, Harvard University

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 11:30am

n/a

Seminar: Krishna Mahadevan, University of Toronto, “Model-based Strategies for Engineering Metabolism”

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University, “It’s All About Water: Temperature Effects in Polyelectrolyte Complexes and Multilayers”

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Alumni Lecture: Juan de Pablo, University of Chicago, "Directed Self-Assembly of Block Polymers; From Academic Curiosity, to Production of Next-Generation Nanocircuits"

Friday, September 25, 2015 - 3:00pm

Campus Center 163C, Reception to follow on the 10th floor

Alumni Lecture: Juan de Pablo, University of Chicago, "Nanoparticles in liquid crystals, and liquid crystals in nanoparticles"

Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

GRASS: Jin Chen (Henson Group) & Lauren Jansen (Peyton Group)

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Cliff Brangwynne, Princeton University, "Measuring the Intracellular Dew Point: Phase Transitions in Cells"

Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Exxon-Mobil Lecture: Robert H. Davis, University of Colorado - Boulder

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 11:30am

"Selected Problems in Low-Reynolds- Number Fluid Mechanics"

LGRT 201

Alexender Katz, University of California, Berkeley

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 11:30am

“The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Catalysis: Reactivity of Single Sites on Surfaces That Have No Parallel in Solution”

LGRT 201

George Malliaras, Center of Microelectronics in Provence, France

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 2:30pm

Title: “Interfacing with the Brain using Organic Electronics”

Note special time and location

Room 331 of the Integrated Learning Center at 2:45pm. Refreshments at 2:30pm.

Cynthia H. Collins, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 11:30am

Title: TBD

LGRT 201

GRASS: Hong Je Cho (Wei Fan Group) and Shengkai Li (James Watkins Group)

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

GRASS: Nathan Birch (Jessica Schiffman Group) and Hongbo Shi (Scott Auerbach Group)

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 11:30am

LGRT 201

Seminar: Jeff Davis, Chemical Engineering, UMass Amherst

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 - 11:30am

“Self-sustained oscillations in blood flow through capillary networks”

LGRT 201

"Using Contact Line – Dependent Wetting"

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 11:30am

Thomas J. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts – Amherst – PSE Department

LGRT 201

GRASS: Gradute Student Talks

Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 11:30am

Lauren Barney (Peyton Group) & Katrina Rieger (Schiffman Group)

LGRT 201

Seminar: Katharina Ribbeck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 11:30am

Title: “Bioinspired hydrogels: tuning selective transport and microbial interactions”

Katharina Ribbeck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

LGRT 201

Carbon Nanospace-Aided Molecular Engineering

Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 11:30am

Katsumi Kaneko, Shinshu University

LGRT 201

Seminar: Jeffrey R. Errington, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - 11:30am

Title: "Using Molecular Simulation to Understand the Bulk and Interfacial Behavior of Ionic Liquids"

Jeffrey R. Errington, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

LGRT 201

“Cell-Matrix Interactions in 3D microtissues: Multiscale mechanical models”

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 11:30am

Vivek Shenoy, University of Pennsylvania

LGRT 201

“Fundamental differences between traditional III-V compounds and Nitride Semiconductors: The formation and role of extended defects”

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 11:30am

Theodore Moustakas, Boston University

LGRT 201

"Understanding and Manipulating the Foreign Body Reaction to Synthetic Hydrogels: Implications in Tissue Engineering"

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 11:30am

Stephanie J. Bryant, University of Colorado

LGRT 201

Alumni Lecture - “Body Building: Designer Gels to Promote Tissue Regeneration”

Friday, September 26, 2014 - 3:00pm

Reception to follow (4:00) in Campus Center 1009 (Amherst Room)

Kristi Anseth

Campus Center 163C

Electrical & Computer Engineering hosts Seminar presented by Outstanding Alumni Award Recipient

Friday, September 26, 2014 - 8:00am

"Academia/Entrepreneurship -Two Sides of the Same Coin?"

Vishal Misra - '96 MS, '00 PhD ECE

M5 - Marcus Hall, Room 5

Alumni Lecture - "Goodbye Flat Biology?"

Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 11:30am

Kristi Anseth

LGRT 201

GRASS: Graduate Student Talks

Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 11:30am

M. Navaid Khan (Monson Group) & Raghuram Thyagarajan (Ford/Maroudas Group)

LGRT 201

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