Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Top 20 Doctoral Program—National Research Council

Location

Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
University of Houston
S222 Engineering Bldg 1,
Houston, TX 77204-4004
phone: 713-743-4300

Seminars

The Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seminar Series is partially supported with funds from Shell Inc.

If you would like to receive a weekly notification and abstract of the seminars by e-mail, please contact Nicolette Solano (nsolano2 [at] uh [dot] edu)

All Seminars are held in W122-D3, unless otherwise noted. There is no charge to attend.

Seminars

Date Topic Speaker
01/18/2013 - 10:30 Capillary Wrinkling: Formation, Boundary Conditions and Topography Thomas Russell
01/25/2013 - 10:30 Physical Insights Into Nature's Way of Making Materials Jim De Yoreo
02/01/2013 - 10:30 Size- and Shape-Selected Metal Nanoparticle Catalysts And Their Evolution Under Operando Conditions Beatriz Roldan Cuenya
02/08/2013 - 10:30 Unraveling Cellulose for Renewable Plastics and Fuels Paul Dauenhauer
02/15/2013 - 10:30 Chemical Engineering’s Role in the Grand Challenge of Future Energy and Sustainability Joe Powell
02/22/2013 - 10:30 Computational Investigations of Water and Its Role in Biological Systems Jeremy Palmer
03/01/2013 - 10:30 Molecular Engineering of Polymeric Membrane Materials for H2 Purification and CO2 Capture Haiqing Lin
03/08/2013 - 10:30 No Seminar
03/15/2013 - 10:30 Spring Break- No Seminar
03/22/2013 (All day) No Seminar-Grad Student Prospects
03/29/2013 - 10:30 Creating Bacterial Anticancer Therapies with Synthetic Biology Neil Forbes
04/05/2013 (All day) No Seminar
04/11/2013 - 11:30 Metastable States and Rheological Transitions in Soft Colloids Dimitris Vlassopoulos
04/19/2013 (All day) No Seminar
04/26/2013 - 10:30 Polyelectrolyte-Clay Nanobrick Wall Thin Films for Flame Suppression, Gas Barrier and So Much More... Jaime Grunlan

Seminars Archives

Date Topic Speaker
08/26/2011 - 10:30 Multiphase flow models for Chemical Processes: Challenges and Opportunities Krishnaswamy Nandakumar, Louisiana State University
09/02/2011 - 10:30 Hot-Spots in Chemical Reaction Engineering – Multifunctional Reactors and Materials Benjamin. A. Wilhite, Texas A&M University
09/09/2011 - 10:30 Toward Rational Development of Deep Hydrodesulfurization Catalysts Teh C. Ho, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co.
09/16/2011 - 10:30 Self- and Directed Assembly of Soft Matter: Photorheological Fluids, Magnetic Microchains and Hemostatic Biomaterials Srinivasa R. Raghavan, University of Maryland, College Park
09/23/2011 - 10:30 Delivering Activation Energy in Low Temperature Plasmas for Nanofabrication and Plasma Medicine Mark J. Kushner, University of Michigan
09/30/2011 - 10:30 High Data Rate Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD) Telemetry Wilson Chin, President and Founder, Stratamagnetic Software, LLC
10/07/2011 - 10:30 Molecular foundations of ion selectivity in proteins Dilipkumar Asthagiri, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
10/14/2011 - 11:45 Thin Film Solar Cells: State-Of-the-Art and the Future Keynote Speaker: Eray S. Aydil, University of Minnesota
10/21/2011 - 10:30 TBA Library Seminar
10/28/2011 - 10:30 Dramatic Effects of Nanoscale Confinement in Polymer Films and Nanocomposities: Glass Transition Temperature, Physical Aging, and Diffusion John Torkelson, Northwestern University
11/11/2011 - 10:30 Templating, Structure and Transport within Nanostructured Block Copolymer Hydrogels Lynn M. Walker, Carnegie Mellon University
11/18/2011 - 10:30 u2rheology–High Throughput Microrheology using Microfluidics Eric M. Furst, University of Delaware
12/09/2011 - 10:30 Designer Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery Samir Mitragotri, University of California, Santa Barbara
01/20/2012 - 10:30 Sticky and Slippery Materials Noshir Pesika, Tulane University
01/27/2012 - 10:30 Catalysis Research and Its Impact on Energy, Environment and Economics: Fuel Cells and Catalysis Umit Ozkan, Ohio State University
02/03/2012 - 10:30 Continuum modeling of gas-particle flows across multiple scales William Holloway, Princeton University
02/10/2012 - 10:30 Discovery and Preclinical Development of Therapeutic Enzymes and Antibodies George Georgiou, University of Texas
02/17/2012 - 10:30 Gene Regulation in Melanoma Metastasis: The Role of the Tumor Microenvironment Menashe Bar-Eli
02/24/2012 (All day) Reflections on a career in the energy industry AMUNDSON LECTURE - Lee R. Raymond, retired Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Exxon Mobil Corporation
03/02/2012 - 10:30 How to Tie Peptide Knots James Link, Princeton University
03/09/2012 - 10:30 Multiscale Periodic Polymer Composites Ned Thomas, Rice University
03/11/2012 (All day) SPRING BREAK
03/23/2012 - 10:30 Emerging Trends in Vehicular Emission Control and Efficiency Timothy V. Johnson, Corning Incorporated
03/30/2012 - 14:00 TBD IAB Meeting
04/04/2012 - 17:30 Nanoscale Process Systems Engineering: Design, Fabrication, Monitoring and Control PAYATAKES LECTURE, George Stephanopoulos from MIT
04/06/2012 - 10:30 Controlled Release Films and Functional Surfaces Targeting Infection, Inflammation, and Bleeding Anita Shukla, Rice University
04/13/2012 - 10:30 Insight into phase behavior and microstructure of complex fluids Walter Chapman, Rice University
04/20/2012 - 10:30 Nanoparticle Amphiphiles Sanat K Kumar
04/27/2012 - 10:30 Hydrogen: From Production to Vehicular Consumption Vasilios I. Manousiouthakis, UCLA
05/30/2012 - 10:30 Integrated Process Synthesis: Designing processes with reduced CO2 emissions Diane Hildebrandt
06/19/2012 - 10:30 Laboratory evolution and the adaptive landscape Katy Kao, TAMU
08/13/2012 - 10:30 Nanotomy of Graphite to Produce Graphene Nanostructures of Controlled Structure and Transport Properties; and Graphene-Based Sensors for Molecular-Mechanics Vikas Berry, Kansas State University
08/31/2012 - 10:30 Molecular Engineering of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Cues to Control Stem Cell Function David Schaffer, University of California, Berkeley
09/07/2012 - 10:30 Design and Diversity in Bacterial Signaling Networks Christopher Rao, University of Illinois - Urbana
09/14/2012 - 10:30 Some Current Challenges in the Conversion of Biomass-Derived Molecules over Supported Metal Catalysts Robert J. Davis, University of Virginia
09/21/2012 - 10:30 Department Talks with Drs Conrad, Rimer and Stein Jacinta Conrad, Jeff Rimer and Gila Stein, University of Houston
09/28/2012 - 08:00 OChEGS Seminar Keynote Speaker: David Bem, The Dow Chemical Company
10/05/2012 - 10:30 Microvascular structure and function in vitro Abraham Stroock, Cornell
10/12/2012 - 10:30 Dynamics and ion mobility in polymer single ion conductors for lithium ion batteries Janna Maranas, Penn State
10/19/2012 - 10:30 Molecular transport and structure of surface modified nano pores: from small ions in nanochannels to proteins in nuclear pore complexes Igal Szleifer, Northwestern
11/02/2012 - 10:30 Core Annular Two Phase Flow in Gently Curved Surfaces S. Pushpavanam
11/09/2012 - 10:30 Microbial Alloys: Engineering Cells with Hybrid Machineries and Properties Eleftherios (Terry) Papoutsakis, University of Delaware
11/16/2012 - 10:30 Constructing Functional Materials Nanolayer by Nanolayer: From Fuel Cells to Implantable Pharmacies Paula Hammond, MIT
11/30/2012 - 10:30 Catalytic Upgrading of Vapors and Liquids from Pyrolysis of Biomass Daniel E. Resasco, University of Oklahoma
12/07/2012 - 10:30 New Catalytic Technologies for Production of Renewable Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass George Huber, University of Wisconsin