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Seminar Series

SPRING 2013
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are held on Fridays at 11:00am in Brauer Hall, room 12.

DATE PRESENTATION DETAILS
January 25

David H. West, Corporate Fellow
SABIC, Corporate Technology and Innovation Center
"Chaos in a Turbulent Jet-Stirred Reactor under Excitation"
[Host: Mike Dudukovic]

February 1

Sagar Mitra, Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
"Lithium-ion Battery: Advances in New Anode and Cathode Materials"
[Host: Dr. Subramanian]

February 8

Christopher J. Hogan, Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
"Monte Carlo based Determination of Arbitrary Shaped Particle Steady State Charge Distributions and Unipolar Charging Rates"
[Host: Dr. Biswas]


February 15

Jason Baxter, Assistant Professor
Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University
"Designing and Probing Photovoltaic Materials: Nanostructured Solar Cells, Ultrafast Spectroscopy, and Graded Thin Films"
[Host: Dr. Subramanian]


February 22


Dr. Bryce Nelson & Dr. Shashi Jasty
Sigma Aldrich Corporation
Innovation at Aldrich Materials Science
[Host: Dr. Biswas]


March 1


April Gu, Associate Professor

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University
Factors and Mechanisms that Impact the Performance and Stability of Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Process
[Host: Dr. Fortner]

March 4
Monday
2:00pm - 6:00pm

Technion University - Washington University
A Workshop on Clean Energy Research & Education

Presentations by faculty from both universities.


March 8


Gordon Selling, Plant Polymer Research Unit
USDA
Improved Spandex and Corn Protein Fibers
[Host: Dr. Biswas]

March 15


Spring Break


March 22

Yandi Hu, Graduate Student
Dept. of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis
[Host: Dr. Jun]


March 29


Kai Loon Chen, Assistant Professor
Dept. of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Interactions of Carbon Nanotubes with Environmental Surfaces and Model Cell Membranes
[Host: Dr. Jun]


April 5

Mitch Anstey, Senior Member, Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories
Redox Flow Batteries: Development of the Next Generation of Energy-Dense Electrolytes
[Host: Dr. Subramanian]

April 12
11:30am
Whitaker Hall
Auditorium

Paul A. Kohl, Thomas L. Gossage Chair & Regents' Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
New Electrolytes for Energy Storage, Conversion, and Recycling
[Host: Dr. Subramanian]


April 19
1:30PM
Ryckman Lecture and
Earthday

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, Fred and Clair Sauer Professor and Chair
Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
From Individuals to Community: A Molecular-Based Systems Approach to Understanding Bioremediation
[Host: Dr. Biswas]


April 26


Charles Carpenter - ChE 478A
Process & Product Design Class Presentations

May 3


Dr. Yuxuan Wang, Associate Professor

Center for Earth System Science and Institute of Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University
PM2.5 pollution over China: Understanding the roles of anthropogenic emissions, meteorology, and chemistry
[Host: Dr. Jun]

Washington University in St. Louis School of Engineering & Applied Science, Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering

Brauer Hall, CB 1180, 1 Brookings Drive, Saint Louis, MO, USA 63130
Phone: (314) 935-5548, Fax: (314) 935-7211

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