Colloquium Calendar 2001-2002
May 24
Professor Michael Stenstrom
UCLA
TBA
May 17
Prof. Jane P. Chang
Tailoring the High-k Gate Dielectric/Silicon Interface for Nanoelectronics Applications
May 10
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
UC Berkeley
The application of molecular techniques to understand microbial communities that reductively dechlorinate trichloroethene
May 6
Prof. William J. Koros
Georgia Tech (special seminar)
Improved Strategies for Achieving Large Scale Gas Separations Using Advanced Membranes
April 26
Prof. Marc Deshusses
UCR
Treatment of NOx SOx and particulate matter in biological filters
April 18
Catherine Klapperich
Mechanics, Chemistry and Biology at the Biomaterial Interface
April 21
Prof. Mike Deem
UCLA
Evolution: Searching of Sequence Space in the Laboratory, Nature, and the Immune System
April 5
Prof. Plamen Atanasov
University of New Mexico
Biosensors Based on Enzyme-Catalyzed Direct Electron Transfer
March 29
Dr. Mark B. Shiflett
DuPont CR&D, Experimental Station
Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoporous Carbon Membranes
March 15
Prof. Sheldon Friedlander
UCLA
The Strange Behavior Of Nanoparticle Chain Aggregates And Its Technological Implications
March 8
Professor Rachel A. Segalman
University of California, Santa Barbara
Thermodynamics of Nanopatterning with Block Copolymer Spheres
March 4
Dr. James Lee
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Micromaterial Characterizations of the Red Cell and Block Copolymer Mimetics
March 1
Dr. Mark Olsen
Microstructural Origins of Shear Thickening in Concentrated Colloidal Dispersions
Feb. 25
Dr. Jonathan Bender
North Carolina State University
Microstructural Origins of Shear Thickening in Concentrated Colloidal Dispersions
Feb. 22
Prof. Georges Belfort
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Protein-Membrane Interactions with Relevance to Membrane Filtration
Feb. 15
Prof. Jerry Shultz
University of Pittsburgh
TBA
Feb. 8
Prof. Mike Shuler
Cornell University
Genomics: An Opportunity for Engineers
Feb. 1
Prof. Clay Radke
UC Berkeley
Engineering Soft Contact Lenses for Safe Wear
Jan. 25
Prof. Alan Fuchs
University of Nevada at Reno
Development and Characterization of Nano-Magnetorheological Polymer Gels
Jan. 18
Prof. William B. Russel
Princeton University
Observations of the Disorder-Order and Glass Transitions for Colloidal Hard Spheres
Jan. 11
Prof. Thomas Meixner
Environmental Sciences UCR
Multi-Criteria Techniques as a Tool for Testing Environmental Models
Jan. 4
Prof. Marjorie Longo
UC Davis
Biomimetic Systems for Probing Protein - Biomembrane Interactions
Nov. 30
Prof. Dimitrios Morikis
UC Riverside
Computational Modeling of Biomolecules
Nov. 16
Prof. Dewey Ryu
UC Davis and NSF
Biosynthetic Pathway Engineering of Chephabacins in L. lactamgenus
Nov. 2
Prof. Suzanne Paulson
UCLA
Excess Gas-Phase Carbon and Peroxides in Aerosols
Oct. 26
Prof. Arup Chakraborty
UC Berkeley
Immunological Synapse Formation: A Crossroad of Physical Chemistry and Cell Biology
Oct 19
Prof. Nancy DaSilva
UC Irvine
Metabolic Pathway Engineering in Yeast: Improved Methods and Diverse Applications
Oct. 12
Prof. Zen-Gang Wang
California Institute of Technology
Computationally guided evolutionary design of proteins
Oct. 5
Prof. George Georgiou
University of Texas at Austin
Functional Expression of Complex Proteins in Bacteria: Genetic, Biochemical, Structural Biology and Engineering Strategies
Sept. 28
Prof. Richard Noble
University of Colorado
Isomorphously Substituted Zeolite Membranes: Preparation and Separation Performance
Aug. 31
Prof. Matsukata
Waseda University Japan
Synthesis of Orientated Zeolite Membrane and Its Separation Performance