ChEMS Seminars

Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Seminars

Fall Quarter 2009

Friday, November 20 - "Separations for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems"
Featuring Gordon D. Jarvinen, Ph.D., Acting Director, G.T. Seaborg Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., Donald Bren Hall 1500

Friday, November 13 - "The Surrogate Method: An Indirect Approach to Nuclear Reactions Data to the Benefit of Future Nuclear Energy Systems"
Featuring Bethany Goldblum, Ph.D., Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., Donald Bren Hall 1500

Friday, November 6 - "Radiation Chemistry at the Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle"
Featuring Bruce J. Mincher, Ph.D., Aqueous Separations and Radiochemistry Department, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., Donald Bren Hall 1500

Friday, October 30 - "Radiation Effects in Actinide-Containing Ceramics"
Featuring William J. Weber, Ph.D., Fundamental and Computational Sciences Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., Donald Bren Hall 1500

Friday, October 23, 2009 - "Renewable Energy Technology and Nuclear Power"
Featuring Daniel P. Breig, Director, Project Development Division, Southern California Edison Company
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., Donald Bren Hall 1500

Friday, October 16, 2009 - "Nuclear Power Overview"
Featuring Ross Ridenoure, Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Southern California Edison
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., Donald Bren Hall 1500

Friday, October 9 - "The Localization / Delocalization Dilemma in the Electronic Structure of D- and F-Element Oxides"
Featuring Richard L. Martin, Ph.D., Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., Donald Bren Hall 1500

Winter Quarter 2009

Tuesday, March 31 - "Ultra High Temperature Gas-Solid Reactions Involving Group 4 and 5 Transition Metal Carbides"
Featuring Darryl P. Butt, Ph.D., Boise State University
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium

Tuesday, March 31 - "Designing Superoleophobic Surfaces"
Featuring Anish Tuteja, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium

Tuesday, March 24 - "Surface Interactions in Polymeric and Biological Materials at the Micro and Nano Scale"
Featuring Hongbo Zeng, Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium

Friday, March 13 - "Utilizing Atomic and Molecular Interactions to Guide Assembly of Functional Metal Nanosystems"
Featuring Regina Ragan, Ph.D., UC Irvine
3:00 - 3:50 p.m., 1300 Donald Bren Hall

Friday, March 6 - "Molecular Engineering of Stem Cell and Gene Therapeutics"
Featuring David Schaffer, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., 1300 Donald Bren Hall

Friday, February 27 - "Surface, Adatom and Nanostructure Electronic Properties Measured by Low Energy Ion-Surface Charge Exchange"
Featuring Jory A. Yarmoff, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., 1300 Donald Bren Hall

Friday, February 20 - "Active Plasmonic Components and Metamaterials"
Featuring Dr. Harry A. Atwater, California Institute of Technology
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., 1300 Donald Bren Hall

Friday, February 20 - "Proof That Comparing Apples to Apples is Harder Than Comparing Apples to Oranges or Bananas: An Alumina Case Study"
Featuring Dr. John A. Nychka, University of Alberta, Canada
1:00 - 2:00 p.m., McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)

Friday, February 6 - "Preparation and Characterization of Monodisperse Carbon Nanotube Materials and Devices"
Featuring Mark C. Hersam, Ph.D., Northwestern University
3:00 - 3:50 p.m., 1300 Donald Bren Hall

Friday, January 30 - "Downhole Fluid Analysis – The Key to Unraveling Reservoir Complexities"
Featuring Oliver C. Mullins, Ph.D., Scientific Advisor in Wireline Headquarters, Schlumberger
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., 1300 Donald Bren Hall

Friday, January 23 - "Schottky Solar Cells Based on Colloidal Nanocrystal Films: Searching for Enhanced Potocurrent"
Featuring Matthew D. Law, Ph.D., UC Irvine
3:00 - 3:50 p.m., 1300 Donald Bren Hall

Friday, January 9 - "Si Nanowire Location and Growth Direction Control Enabling Both Nanowire MOSFET Fabrication and Resonant Chemical Sensing"
Featuring Nate Quitoriano, Ph.D., Hewlett-Packard Laboratory
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., 1300 Donald Bren Hall

Fall Quarter 2008

Friday, December 5 - "Thiol-Ene Click Chemistry as Platform for the Fabrication of Versatile Materials"
Featuring Luis M. Campos, UC Santa Barbara
3:00 - 5:00 p.m., ICS 174

Friday, November 21 - "Tailoring Polycrystalline Microstructures by Use of Interface Structure Transition"
Featuring Suk-Joong L. Kang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technolgy
1:00 - 3:00 p.m., Engineering Lecture Hall 110

Wednesday, November 12 - "Trends in Electron Backscatter Diffraction"
Featuring Valerie Randle, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
3:00 - 5:20 p.m., California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) Auditorium

Friday, October 31 - "Sunlight-Driven Hydrogen Formation by Membrane-Supported Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting"
Featuring Nathan. S. Lewis, California Institute of Technology
3:00 - 4:50 p.m., ICS 174

Friday, October 24 - "Computationally Optimized DNA Assembly Applications"
Featuring G. Wesley (Wes) Hatfield, UC Irvine
3:00 - 5:00 p.m., ICS 174

Friday, October 17 - "Materials for Fuel Cells"
Featuring Lutgard C. De Jonghe, University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
3:00 - 5:00 p.m., ICS 174

Friday, October 10 - "Plastic Antibodies: Recent Advances in Molecular Imprinting"
Featuring Kenneth Shea, UC Irvine
3:00 - 5:00 p.m., ICS 174