Colloquium Calendar 2006-2007

Fall Quarter 2006

Sources, Fate and Potential Impacts of Steroid Hormones in the Aquatic Environment
9/29/06
Professor David L. Sedlak
UC Berkeley
 
Effects of Macro-Ions on Equilibrium and Dynamic Colloidal Forces
10/6/06
Professor John Y. Walz
Virginia Tech
 
Atmospheric Plasmas for Surface Treatment: from Scientific Curiosity to Successful Business
10/13/06
Professor Robert Hicks
UCLA
 
Sensors and Instrumentation: Next Generation Technologies for Bioprocess and Biomedical Applications
10/20/06
Professor Govind Rao
University of Maryland Baltimore County
 
Synthesis and Structural Properties of Ordered Mesoporous Silica Fibers
10/27/06
Professor Jerry Y.S. Lin
Arizona State University
 
Nanomaterials: Challenges for Water and Wastewater Treatment
11/03/06
Associate Professor Paul Westerhoff
Arizona State University
 
Novel Applications and Developments Utilizing Photopolymerizations
11/30/06
Professor Christopher N. Bowman
University of Colorado
 
Rapid Vaccine Production for Personal and Pandemic Protection
12/8/06
Professor James R. Swartz
Stanford University
 

Winter Quarter 2007

Adhesion and Friction Forces in Everyday Life
1/12/07
Professor Jacob Israelachvili
UC Santa Barbara
 
Calorimetric Studies of Ceramic Oxide Materials Derived from the Fluorite Structure
1/19/07
Professor Alexandra Navrotsky
UC Davis
 
Structure and Catalytic Function of Oxide Nanostructures
1/26/07
Professor Enrique Iglesia
UC Berkeley
 
Regional Futures 2100 - Decision and Education Support for Urban Development
2/2/07
Professor John Crittenden
Arizona State University
 
Synthesis, assembly and properties of ordered porous materials
2/9/07
Professor Shilun Qiu
Jilin University
 
The Reactivity of Metallic Iron Nanoparticles: Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry, Kinetics, Environmental Engineering Applications
2/16/07
Professor Paul G. Tratnyek
Oregon Health & Science University
 
Diversity and dynamics of microbial communities in anaerobic bioreactors and their implications for process stability
2/23/07
Professor Lutgarde Raskin
University of Michigan
 
Cellulose Ethanol: Fundamentals of Plant Cell Wall Deconstruction for Production of Fermentable Sugars
3/9/07
Michael R. Ladisch
Purdue University
Aerosols and Climate
3/16/07
Professor John Seinfeld
California Institute of Technology
  

 

Spring Quarter 2007

To be rescheduled
4/6/07
Professor Anthony S. Wexler
UC Davis
 
Solution Synthesis of Silicon and Germanium Nanowires and Their Applications
4/20/07
Associate Professor Brian Korgel
University of Texas
 
Physicochemical mechanisms of sickle cell anemia
4/27/07
Peter Vekilov
University of Houston
 
Protein Separations in Chromatographic Systems: A-priori prediction of protein affinity, selective displacers and generic antibody purification processes
5/11/07
Professor Steven M. Cramer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Evaporation induced self-assembly and its extension to living cell directed assembly of novel bio/nano interfaces
6/1/07
Professor C. Jeffrey Brinker
University of New Mexico
 
Peptide Materials Science
6/8/07
Professor Matthew Tirrell
UC Santa Barbara
 
6/15/07
Professor Joe Hughes
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology