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Join us for the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seminar Series, which brings experts from around the country to campus to discuss their recent findings.  Everyone is welcome!

Seminars are held Tuesdays at 11 a.m.—12:15 p.m., in Room 2110, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building, unless otherwise noted.

Questions? Want to meet the speaker? Please contact Professor Chunsheng Wang (cswang@umd.edu).

You can find all of these seminars, as well as others of potential interest, on our events calendar.

Previous semesters: Fall 2007 | Spring 2008

Fall 2008

Titles and abstracts will be added as they are received.
Last updated 10/6/08.

Date

Speaker

Host

September 2

Overview and Introduction (Chunsheng Wang)—No Guest

C. Wang

September 9

Natural Gas Clathrate Hydrates
E. Dendy Sloan
Weaver Distinguished Professor, Chemical Engineering
Center for Hydrate Research
Colorado School of Mines
Abstract »

Klauda

September 16
Special Location: 1403 Mathematics Building

Enrich Your Research Efforts via UM Library Resources
Robert Kackley, Jim Miller and Nevenka Zdravkovska
Reference Librarians, EPSL
University of Maryland
Abstract »

C. Wang

September 23

Thin Film Processing Challenges in Solar Energy and Nanomanufacturing Applications
Raymond Adomaitis
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Maryland
Abstract »

C. Wang

September 30

Systems Engineering Challenges and Opportunities in Metabolic Networks
Costas D. Maranas
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Abstract »

Sriram

October 7 Research presentations to 1st year graduate students
ChBE Faculty
Ehrman

October 14

Manipulating and Balancing Reducing Equivalents Through Metabolic Engineering
Ka-Yiu San
E. D. Butcher Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Rice University
Abstract »

Sriram

October 21

Transport Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells
Y. A. Elabd
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical
and Biological Engineering
Drexel University
Abstract »

Ehrman

October 28

Tailoring Polysaccharide Nanostructures for Biomedical Materials
Matt Kipper
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Associate Director, School of Biomedical Engineering
Colorado State University
Abstract »

Sriram

November 4

Programs and Initiatives in Engineering at the National Science Foundation
Maria K. Burka
Acting Division Director and Program Director, Process and Reaction Engineering
Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems, NSF
Abstract »

C. Wang

November 11

The Four Regimes of Fluorescence Behavior in Nile Blue A Modified Layered Silicate Polymer Nanocomposites
Dr. Paul H. Maupin
Program Manager, Catalysis Program
Chemical Transformations Team
Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences
Office of Basic Energy Sciences
Office of Science
U.S. Department of Energy
Abstract »

C. Wang

November 18

AIChE Annual Meeting—No Seminar

 

November 25

RAE Prep Session—No Guest

Ehrman

December 2 TBA
Jeffrey W. Long
Research Chemist
Naval Research Laboratory
(Abstract forthcoming.)
C. Wang
December 9

TBA

 

Questions? Want to meet the speaker? Please contact Professor Chunsheng Wang (cswang@umd.edu).

 

   
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