Past Seminars
Spring 2024 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Time: 11am-12pm, Thursdays, Central Time
Location: Hardaway Hall 252
| Theme | Date | Speaker | University/Institute |
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| February 8, 2024 | Michael Betenbaugh Biomanufacturing: A Mix of Chemical Engineering, Metabolic Engineering, and Systems Biology |
Johns Hopkins | |
| February 15, 2024 | Justin M. Notestein Selective Oxidations over Nanostructured and Well-Defined Oxide Catalysts |
Northwestern | |
| February 22, 2024 | Zhihua Jiang Integrated Biorefinery – Shaping the Future of Pulp and Paper Industry |
Auburn | |
| February 29, 2024 | Millicent O. Sullivan Unlocking Intracellular Therapeutic Targets through Novel Nanostructured Biomaterials |
Delaware | |
| March 7, 2024 | Thomas Dziubla Designing Biomaterials to take advantage of cellular red/ox systems |
Kentucky | |
| March 21, 2024 | Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos Ab initio-driven machine-learning models for aqueous systems and molten salts |
Princeton | |
| March 28, 2024 | Nader Taheri Qazvini Nader Taheri Qazvini Seminar |
South Carolina | |
| April 4, 2024 | Sindee Simon Nanoconfined Polymerizations |
NC State | |
| April 11, 2024 | Susannah Scott Valorization of polyolefins via catalytic upcycling, from monomers to higher value molecules |
UC Santa Barbara | |
| April 18, 2024 | J. Carson Meredith J. Carson Meredith Seminar |
GA Tech | |
| April 25, 2024 | Linda J. Broadbelt Developing Strategies for Polymer Redesign and Recycling Using Reaction Pathway Analysis |
Northwestern |
Fall 2023 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Time: 11am-12pm, Thursdays, Central Time
Location: Hardaway Hall 252
| Theme | Date | Speaker | University/Institute |
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| August 31, 2023 | Bala Subramaniam Net Zero Transition: Potential Implications for Catalysis |
Kansas | |
| September 7, 2023 | Xuejun Pan Molten salt hydrate, a unique solvent for lignocellulose processing and conversion to chemicals and functionalized materials |
Wisconsin | |
| September 14, 2023 | David Sholl Separations and hybrid processes to accelerate decarbonization |
ORNL | |
| October 26, 2023 | Madelyn Ball Insights into active site structures for multifunctional heterogeneous catalysts |
West Virginia | |
| December 7, 2023 | William Mustain New Materials vs. Reaction Engineering in Electrochemical Systems: Understanding Performance and Durability in Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers |
South Carolina | |
| November 30, 2023 | Jean-Philippe Tessonnier Dr. Tessonnier’s talk topic is to be announced |
Iowa State | |
| November 16, 2023 | Zhaohui (Julene) Tong Dr. Tong’s talk topic is to be announced |
Georgia Tech | |
| November 2, 2023 | Yomaira Pagán Torres Dr. Torres’ talk topic is to be announced |
UPR Mayaguez | |
| October 19, 2023 | Paulette Clancy Dr. Clancy’s talk topic is to be announced |
Johns Hopkins | |
| October 12, 2023 | Sharon Glotzer Dr. Glotzer’s talk topic is to be announced |
Michigan | |
| October 5, 2023 | Arthur J. Ragauskas Dr. Ragauskas’ talk topic is to be announced |
Tennessee | |
| September 21, 2023 | Sushil Adhikari Dr. Adhikari’s talk topic is to be announced |
Auburn | |
| December 1, 2023 | Cyrille Boyer Design of Advanced Materials using Light (Friday, 10 AM to 11 AM in SERC 1059) |
University of New South Wales |
Spring 2023 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Time: 11am-12pm, Thursdays, Central Time
Location: Hardaway Hall 252
| Theme | Date | Speaker | University/Institute |
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| January 12, 2023 | Yuping Bao Graduate Orientation |
UA | |
| January 19, 2023 | Philippe Saute Catalytic Active Sites Are Dynamic |
UCLA | |
| January 26, 2023 | Jim Pfaendtner Using Biomimetic Polymers to Understand and Control Sequence/Structure/Function Relationships and Achieve Rational Design of Biomineralization |
U Washington | |
| February 2, 2023 | Lawrence Stern Protein Engineering Approaches to Study Cell Signaling |
USF | |
| February 9, 2023 | Marta Hatzell Managing the Nitrogen Cycle with Photo and Electrochemistry |
Georgia Tech | |
| February 16, 2023 | Mike Janik Intermetallic Catalysts Enable Determination of Active Site Requirements |
Penn State | |
| March 2, 2023 | Bill Schneider The Catalytic Science of Making Up and Breaking Up Dinitrogen |
Notre Dame | |
| March 9, 2023 | Randy Snurr Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable Platforms for Gas Storage, Chemical Separations, and Catalysis |
Northwestern | |
| March 23, 2023 | John Kitchin Large Materials Models with Applications in Catalysis |
Carnegie Mellon | |
| March 30, 2023 | Dion Vlachos Catalytic Upcycling Technologies for Sustainability and Circular Economy |
U Delaware | |
| April 6, 2023 | Vanda Glezakou Global Optimization, Large-scale Molecular Simulations and Data Science for Separations and Catalysis |
ORNL | |
| April 13, 2023 | Linda Broadbelt Developing Strategies for Polymer Redesign and Recycling Using Reaction Pathway Analysis |
Northwestern | |
| April 20, 2023 | Eray Aydil Halide Perovskite Materials for Efficient Spectral Downconversion to Decrease the Cost of Electric Power from Silicon Solar Modules |
NYU | |
| April 27, 2023 | Paul Kenis Sustainable Manufacturing of Chemicals and Nanomaterials |
UIUC | |
| May 4, 2023 | Laura Gagliardi Modeling Metal-Organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting and Catalysis |
U Chicago |
Fall2022 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
| Theme | Date | Speaker | University/Institute |
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| August 18, 2022 | Yuping Bao Graduate Orientation |
UA | |
| August 25, 2022 | Ana Alba-Rubio Catalysts Can Be Good at Multitasking: Two Practical Examples |
Clemson University | |
| September 1, 2022 | Brian Long Make it or Break it: Addressing Critical Membrane-Based Challenges through Polymer Chemistry |
U. Tenn. – Knoxville | |
| September 8, 2022 | Jeffrey Rimer Breaking the Rules of Classical Crystallization: An Unconventional Guide to Crystal Engineering |
University of Houston | |
| September 15, 2022 | J. Will Medlin Functionalizing catalytic metal-metal oxide interfaces for upgrading of CO2 and biomass derivatives |
U. Colorado, Boulder | |
| September 22, 2022 | Christopher Jones Development and Deployment of Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs): Direct Air Capture (DAC) of CO2 as Humanity’s Moonshot for the 21st Century |
Georgia Tech | |
| September 29, 2022 | Nathaniel Lynd N/A |
University of Texas | |
| October 6, 2022 | Daniel Shantz Copper-Containing SSZ-13 and SSZ-39: A Tale of Two Zeolites |
Tulane University | |
| October 13, 2022 | Tingting Wu N/A |
UA-Huntsville | |
| October 20, 2022 | Ruilan Guo Hierarchically Functional Polymers with Engineered Microporosity for Gas Separation Membranes |
Notre Dame | |
| October 27, 2022 | Michael Wong N/A |
Rice University | |
| November 3, 2022 | Artie Mckim N/A |
Gaylord Chemical Co. | |
| November 10, 2022 | Abhaya Datye Single atom catalysis: from an academic curiosity to industrial applications |
University of New Mexico | |
| December 1, 2022 | Randy Mrozek Polymer Research at the US Army Research Laboratory |
Army Research Lab |
Spring 2022 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Time: 11am-12pm, Thursday, Central Time
Location: North Lawn Hall (NL) 1012
| Theme | Date | Speaker | University/Institute |
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| January 13, 2022 | Graduate Orientation | UA | |
| January 20, 2022 | Pengfei Wang Development of Photolabile Protecting Groups |
UAB | |
| January 27, 2022 | Graduate Students Xiaoyang Liu (Turner), Elizabeth Bury (Koh), Medha Kasula (Esfahani) |
UA | |
| February 3, 2022 | No Seminar | ||
| February 10, 2022 | Graduate Students Creighton Baltier (Bara), Lauren McLoughlin (Wujcik), Joseph Danner (Weinman) |
UA | |
| February 17, 2022 | Colleen Scott Design Strategy for New Optoelectronic Organic/Polymeric Materials |
Mississippi State University | |
| February 24, 2022 | Graduate Students Monimum Munny (Koh), Annaliese Baietto (Peng), and Charles Hill (Ritchie) |
UA | |
| March 3, 2022 | Graduate Students Sydney Foster (Harris), Tristan Maxson (Szilvási), Shubham Pandey (Szilvási) |
UA | |
| March 10, 2022 | Karthik Nayani Phase Behavior of Water-based Liquid Crystals and their Applications in Biology |
University of Arkansas | |
| March 17, 2022 | Spring Break | ||
| March 24, 2022 | Randy Mrozek Polymer Research at the US Army Research Laboratory |
Army Research Laboratory | |
| March 31, 2022 | Brian K. Long Make it or Break it: Addressing Critical Membrane-Based Challenges through Polymer Chemistry |
The University of Tennessee | |
| April 7, 2022 | Xinyu Zhang Functional Nanocomposites for Energy Applications |
Auburn University | |
| April 14, 2022 | Zhiyong Wang TBD |
Troy University | |
| April 21, 2022 | Allan David Engineering Nanomaterials to Improve Their Potential for Clinical Translation |
Auburn University |
Fall 2021 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Time: Thursdays, 11am – 12pm
Location: H.M. Comer 1026
| Theme | Date | Title |
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| 19-Aug | Graduate Program Review | |
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26-Aug | Mary Kathryn Sewell-Loftin, UAB Investigating the Mechanobiology of the Tumor Microenvironment |
| 2-Sep | Connie Roth, Emory University Local versus Global Measures of Local Property Changes Near Interfaces in Multicomponent Polymer Materials |
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| 9-Sep | Graduate Student Presentations | |
| 16-Sep | Eugenia Kharlampieva, UAB Responsive polymer assemblies for controlled delivery |
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| 23-Sep | Brenda Helen Prager, University of Mississippi Surface and Interfacial Studies on Thermal Barrier and Hydrophobic Coatings on Paper Substrates |
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| 30-Sep | Elizabeth Barker, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Local Drug Delivery for Improving Drug Penetration in Pediatric Brain Tumors |
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| 7-Oct | Monirosadat (Sanaz) Sadati, University of South Carolina Liquid Crystals and the Color of Chirality |
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| 14-Oct | 3MT and Graduate Student Presentations | |
| 21-Oct | Virginia Davis, Auburn University TBA |
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| 28-Oct | No Seminar | |
| 4-Nov | Randy Mrozek, Army Research Laboratory Polymer Research and Development at DEVCOM’s Army Research Laboratory |
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| 11-Nov | No Seminar | |
| 18-Nov | Graduate Student Presentations | |
| 25-Nov | No Seminar | |
| 2-Dec | Graduate Student Presentations |
Co-sponsored by Polymers and Soft Materials (Poly-SM) Center
Contact: Amanda Koh, askoh@eng.ua.edu, 205-348-8514
ChBE office: (205) 348-1740
Spring 2021 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Time: 11am-12pm
Location: Zoom (VirtualMeeting)
| Theme | No. | Date | Time | Speaker | University |
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| 1 | Thursday, January 14, 2021 | 11:00 | No Seminar | ||
| 2 | Thursday, January 21, 2021 | 11:00 | Graduate Update | The University of Alabama | |
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3 | Tuesday, January 28, 2021 | 11:00 | Isabel C. Escobar | University of Kentucky |
| 4 | Thursday, February 4, 2021 | 11:00 | Ryan P. Lively | Georgia Tech University | |
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5 | Thursday, February 11, 2021 | 11:00 | Georges Belfort | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) |
| 6 | Thursday, February 18, 2021 | 11:00 | Ranil Wickramasinghe | University of Arkansas | |
| 7 | Thursday, February 25, 2021 | 11:00 | No Seminar | ||
| 8 | Thursday, March 4, 2021 | 11:00 | Kevin J. Cash | Colorado School of Mines | |
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9 | Thursday, March 11, 2021 | 11:00 | Caleb Funk | DuPontWater Solutions, Edina, MN |
| 10 | Thursday, March 18, 2021 | 11:00 | No Seminar | ||
| 11 | Thursday, March 25, 2021 | 11:00 | Graduate Students | ||
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12 | Thursday, April 1, 2021 | 11:00 | Matthew D. Green | Arizona State University |
| 13 | Thursday, April 8, 2021 | 11:00 | Graduate Students | ||
| 14 | Thursday, April 15, 2021 | 11:00 | Graduate Students | ||
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15 | Thursday, April 22, 2021 | 11:00 | Christine E. Duval | Case Western Reserve University |
Co-sponsored by Polymers and Soft Materials (Poly-SM) CenterContact: Steven Weinman, stweinman@eng.ua.edu, 205-348-8516
ChBE office: (205) 348-1740
Fall 2020 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Time: 11am-12pm
Location: Zoom (VirtualMeeting)
| Theme | No. | Date | Time | Speaker | University |
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| 1 | Thursday, September 3, 2020 | 11:00 | Grad student orientation | UA | |
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2 | Thursday, September 10, 2020 | 11:00 | Zachary P Smith | MIT |
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3 | Tuesday, September 15, 2020 | 11:00 | Jodie Lutkenhaus | Texas A&M University |
| 4 | Thursday, September 17, 2020 | 11:00 | No seminar | ||
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5 | Thursday, September 24, 2020 | 11:00 | Piran R Kidambi | Vanderbilt University |
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6 | Thursday, October 1, 2020 | 11:00 | John Pellegrino | University of Colorado-Boulder |
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7 | Thursday, October 8, 2020 | 11:00 | Andrea Achilli | University of Arizona |
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8 | Thursday, October 15, 2020 | 11:00 | Andrew Zydney | Pennsylvania State University |
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9 | Thursday, October 22, 2020 | 11:00 | Ayse Asatekin | Tufts University |
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10 | Thursday, October 29, 2020 | 11:00 | Yoram Cohen | UCLA |
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11 | Thursday, November 5, 2020 | 11:00 | Menachem Elimelech | Yale |
| 12 | Thursday, November 12, 2020 | 11:00 | Manish Kumar | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 13 | Thursday, November 19, 2020 | 11:00 | 2020 AIChE Annual Meeting November15-20, 2020 (No seminar) | ||
| 14 | Thursday, November 26, 2020 | 11:00 | Thanksgiving -Classes Dismissed | ||
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15 | Thursday, December 3, 2020 | 11:00 am – Pavel Izak, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the Czech Academy of Sciences 12:00 pm – Karel Friess, University of Chemistry & Technology Prague |
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Co-sponsored by Polymers and Soft Materials (Poly-SM) CenterContact: Milad Esfahani, mesfahani@eng.ua.edu, (205) 348-8836
ChBE office: (205) 348-1740