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
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
19-Aug Graduate Program Review
poly sm logo 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
9-Sep Graduate Student Presentations
16-Sep Eugenia Kharlampieva, UAB
Responsive polymer assemblies for controlled delivery
23-Sep Brenda Helen Prager, University of Mississippi
Surface and Interfacial Studies on Thermal Barrier and Hydrophobic Coatings on Paper Substrates
30-Sep Elizabeth Barker, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Local Drug Delivery for Improving Drug Penetration in Pediatric Brain Tumors
7-Oct Monirosadat (Sanaz) Sadati, University of South Carolina
Liquid Crystals and the Color of Chirality
14-Oct 3MT and Graduate Student Presentations
21-Oct Virginia Davis, Auburn University
TBA
28-Oct No Seminar
4-Nov Randy Mrozek, Army Research Laboratory
Polymer Research and Development at DEVCOM’s Army Research Laboratory
11-Nov No Seminar
18-Nov Graduate Student Presentations
25-Nov No Seminar
2-Dec Graduate Student Presentations

 
poly sm logo 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
1 Thursday, January 14, 2021 11:00 No Seminar
2 Thursday, January 21, 2021 11:00 Graduate Update The University of Alabama
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 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
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 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
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 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
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 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
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 15 Thursday, April 22, 2021 11:00 Christine E. Duval Case Western Reserve University

Contact: 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
1 Thursday, September 3, 2020 11:00 Grad student orientation UA
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 2 Thursday, September 10, 2020 11:00 Zachary P Smith MIT
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 3 Tuesday, September 15, 2020 11:00 Jodie Lutkenhaus Texas A&M University
4 Thursday, September 17, 2020 11:00 No seminar
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 5 Thursday, September 24, 2020 11:00 Piran R Kidambi Vanderbilt University
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 6 Thursday, October 1, 2020 11:00 John Pellegrino University of Colorado-Boulder
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 7 Thursday, October 8, 2020 11:00 Andrea Achilli University of Arizona
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 8 Thursday, October 15, 2020 11:00 Andrew Zydney Pennsylvania State University
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 9 Thursday, October 22, 2020 11:00 Ayse Asatekin Tufts University
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 10 Thursday, October 29, 2020 11:00 Yoram Cohen UCLA
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 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
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small 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
Polymers and Soft Materials logo small Co-sponsored by Polymers and Soft Materials (Poly-SM) Center

Contact: Milad Esfahani, mesfahani@eng.ua.edu, (205) 348-8836

ChBE office: (205) 348-1740