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ENERGY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
FALL SEMESTER, 2008

Friday Seminars start at 11 am, Lopata Hall, Room 101 (unless otherwise stated)

[Name of Host Faculty at WUStL]

 

August 29  Achariya Suriyawong, Doctoral Student
 "Oxy-coal Combustion: Submicrometer Particle Formation, Mercury Speciation, and their Capture"
September 5    
New Student Orientation & Faculty Introductions
September 12   
 Dr. Kai-Uwe Ulrich, Postdoctoral Associate, EECE, Washington University in St. Louis
 "Molecular Structure and Stability of Uranium Immobilizing Compounds"

 

September 19
RYCKMAN LECTURE

 Dr. David A. Dzombak, Blenko Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
 "Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: Progress, Challenges, Opportunities"
 
 [Host: Dr. Biswas]
  
September 23 (Tuesday)
Joint Seminar with ICARES
4:00pm; Lab Science Building, room 300
     
Dr. Nate Lewis, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Caltech
"Where in the World Will Our Energy Come From?"
 [Host: Dr. Pakrasi, I-CARES]
  
October 3    
 Dr. Jizhong Zhou, Presidential Professor and Director, Institute of Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma
"Systems Microbiology: From Genomes to Ecosystems"
 [Host: Dr. Biswas]
  
October 10       
Dr. Michelle Scherer, Univ of Iowa
"
Still Oxides Run Deep: Results from an Fe Isotope Tracer Experiment"
 [Host: Dr. Giammar]
   
October 17       
Dr. Maosheng Yao, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University
"Recent Efforts in Bioaerosol Sampling, Detection, Quantification as well as Microbial Inactiviation"
  [Host: Dr. Biswas]
   
October 24  Dr. Michael Solomon, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical
 Engineering & Macromolecular Science & engineering,
University of Michigan 
 "Colloids as building blocks: anisotropy and its effect on particle assembly"
 [Host: Dr. Sureshkumar]
                 
October 30 (Thursday, 9 am)
Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 310
 Colloquium on Global Climate Change, School of Law, Washington University
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joyce Penner, Ralph Cicerone Prof, Univ of Michigan; Member, Nobel Prize Winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
     
November 7      
Dr. Craig Grimes, Professor, Director, Center for Solar Nanomaterials, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Penn State University
"Rectifying p-n Junction Nanostructures for Direct Conversion of Solar Energy to Electricity or Chemical Fuels"
 [Host: Dr. Biswas]
    
November 14
 Dr. M. Muthukumar, Professor, Polymer Science & Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts

"PACKAGING BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES AND DELIVERY"

[Host: Dr. N. Ravi]
November 21  Dr. Jeff Phillips, Sr. Program Manager, Advanced Generation, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

 "CO2 Capture and Storage for Coal Power Plants:Status and R&D Needs"

 [Host: Dr. Biswas]
   
Saturday, November 22  UG International Experience Student Presentations (Projects done in conjunction with visit to Beijing, China)
  
November 28  Thanksgiving Holiday
  

 

 

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