Spring 2018 Departmental Seminar

Mondays

3:30 Reception
4:00 - 5:00 Seminar
Location: PAA-A118


3/26	Abhaya Datye Distinguished Regents' Professor and Chair University of New Mexico Designing Catalysts for Meeting the DOE 150 °C Challenge for Exhaust Emissions
4/2	Daniel Fletcher Department Chair Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Bioengineering & Biophysics UC Berkeley When push comes to shove: Physical segregation of molecules at cell-cell contacts
4/9	John Kitchin Professor Carnegie Mellon University Machine-learning frameworks in computational catalysis and its potential impact on science and engineering
4/16	Liney Arnadottir Assistant Professor Oregon State University Hindered translator/rotor model to determine adsorbate entropy with DFT
4/23	Mikhail Shapiro Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Heritage Principal Investigator California Institute of Technology Biomolecular Engineering for Non-Invasive Imaging and Control of Cellular Function
4/30	Scott Moura Assistant Professor Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate, Systems Berkeley Identification and Control of PDE Battery Electrochemistry Models
5/14	James Carothers Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering / Adjunct BioEngineering RNA Architectures for engineering and analyzing metabolism on a large scale University of Washington
6/4	Christina Smolke Professor of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, of Chemical Engineering High-throughput strategies for the generation of RNA-based sensors and controllers Stanford University

3/26

Abhaya Datye

Distinguished Regents' Professor and Chair

University of New Mexico

Designing Catalysts for Meeting the DOE 150 °C Challenge for Exhaust Emissions

4/2

Daniel Fletcher

Department Chair
Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Bioengineering & Biophysics

UC Berkeley

When push comes to shove: Physical segregation of molecules at cell-cell contacts

4/9

John Kitchin

Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

Machine-learning frameworks in computational catalysis and its potential impact on science and engineering

4/16

Liney Arnadottir

Assistant Professor

Oregon State University

Hindered translator/rotor model to determine adsorbate entropy with DFT

4/23

Mikhail Shapiro

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Heritage Principal Investigator

California Institute of Technology

Biomolecular Engineering for Non-Invasive Imaging and Control of Cellular Function

4/30

Scott Moura

Assistant Professor Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate, Systems

Berkeley

Identification and Control of PDE Battery Electrochemistry Models

5/14

James Carothers

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering / Adjunct BioEngineering

RNA Architectures for engineering and analyzing metabolism on a large scale

University of Washington

6/4

Christina Smolke

Professor of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, of Chemical Engineering

High-throughput strategies for the generation of RNA-based sensors and controllers

Stanford University

Recommended Preparation

The course is intended for undergraduate and graduate students of chemical engineering.

Class Assignments and Grading

The class will be graded credit/no credit. Attendance is required at all class meetings; only excused absences will be permitted. An excused absence must be approved by the instructor prior to the missed class.

Engineering Elective Credit

This class counts as an engineering elective credit.

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