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Colloquium Calendar 2024-2025

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Fridays: 11:00 - 12:00 PM

  • Winter 2025
    January 10th, 2025 

    Dr. Gregory Tobin, Biological Mimetics, Inc. 

    Host:  Ke Du

    Title: Biotechnology: Research and Business

    January 17th, 2025 

    TBA

    Host: CEE Department

    Title: TBA

    January 24th, 2025 

    TBA

    Host: CEE Department

    Title: TBA

    January 31st , 2025 

    TBA

    Host: CEE Department

    Title: TBA

    February 7th , 2025 

    TBA

    Host: CEE Department

    Title: TBA

    February 14th , 2025 : 2 Events 

    Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Carol Hall, North Carolina State University 

    Host: Dr. Jianzhong Wu

    Title: Computational Design of Peptides as Detectors, Sensors, and Drugs

    February 21st , 2025 

    Dr. Pallav Kosuri, Salk Institute 

    Host: Jianzhong Wu

    Title: TBA

    February 28th , 2025 

    Dr. Mark Blenner, UOD 

    Host: Ian Wheeldon

    Title: TBA

    March 7th , 2025 

    Dr. Nick Nair,  Tufts University 

    Host: Ian Wheeldon

    Title: TBA

    March 14th , 2025 

    Dr. Sonia Kreidenweis , CSU

    Host: Markus Petters

    Title: TBA

  • Fall 2024
    September 27th, 2024Townhall Meeting
    October 4th, 2024

    Kathy Cocker, UCR (MANDATORY Attendance) 

    Host: CEE

    Title: Understanding The Hazard Identification and Assessment Process 

    October 11th, 2024

    Dr. Adam Smith, USC

    Host: Yujie Men

    Title: Antibiotic Resistance in the Engineered Water Cycle: Wastewater Surveillance, Emerging Biotechnologies, and Potable Water Reuse

    October 18th, 2024

    PhD Student: Kailong Ye

    Host: Fudong Liu

    Title: TBA

    October 25th, 2024

    Dr. Eric Burkholder, AUBURN

    Host: Jiamin Zhang

    Title: Systems thinking in the practice and scholarship of Chemical Engineering Education

    November 1st, 2024

    Dr. Yong Wang, PNNL

    Host: Fudong Liu

    Title: Dynamics of Supported Metal Catalysts

    November 8th, 2024

    Dr. Joachim Dzubiella, UNI Freiburg

    Host: Jianzhong Wu

    Title: TBA

    November 15th, 2024

    Dr. Jeff Wang, Johns Hopkins

    Host: Ke Du

    Title: TBA

    November 22nd, 2024

    Dr. Mahfuza Ali, 3M

    Host: Touhid Bin Anwar

    Title: TBA

    December 6th, 2024

    Dr. Teresa Head-Gordon, UC Berkeley

    Host: Bryan Wong

    Title: TBA

  • Spring 2024
    April 5th, 2024

    Dr. Harold Monbouquette, UCLA

    (Host: CEE)

    April 19th, 2024

    Dr. Shailendra Singh, Merck

    (Host: Dr. Mulchandani & Dr. Wheeldon)

    April 26th, 2024

    Dr. Cleston Lange, 3M

    (Host: Dr. Wong)

    May 10th, 2024

    Dr. Nathan Crook, North Caroline State University

    (Host: Dr. Men)

    May 17th, 2024 Dr. Christopher Higgins, Colorado School of Mines
    May 24th, 2024 Dr. Robert Jinkerson, UCR
  • Winter 2024
    January 12

    Zhen-Gang Wang, Cal Tech
    (Host : Jianzhong Wu)

    January 19 Bo Wang, Vanderbilt University
    (Host : CEE)
    January 26

    Adam Caparco, UCSD
    (Host : CEE)

    February 2 Heidi Klumpe, Boston University 
    (Host : CEE)

    February 9

    Bo Wang, Cornell University
    (Host : CEE)
    February 16 Lawerance Stern, University of South Florida 
    (Host : CEE)
    February 23 Kong Wong, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
    (Host : CEE)
    March 15 Andrew Flores
    (Host : CEE)
  • Fall 2023
    October 6

    Kathy Cocker, UCR
    (Host : CEE)

    October 13 John Xiong, Haley&Aldrich
    (Host : Jinyong Liu)
    October 20

    Lynn Katz, UT Austin
    (Host : Jinyong Liu)

    October 27 Anna Krylov, USC
    (Host : Bryan Wong)

    November 3

    Bianxiao Cui, Stanford
    (Host : Ke Du)
    November 17 CARB, Info
    (Host : Georgios Karavalakis)
    December 1 Juan G. Santiago, Stanford 
    (Host : Ke Du)
    December 8 Graduate Student Town Hall
    (Host : Ian Wheeldon and David Cocker)
  • Spring 2023
    April 7

    Lawrence Stern, USF
    (Host : Ian Wheeldon)

    April 14 Sergi Garcia Segura, ASU
    (Host : Ashok Mulchandani)
    April 28

    Xue Gao, Rice University
    (Host : Ke Du)

    May 12 SangWoo Seo, SEO LAB
    (Host : Center for Industrial Biotechnology, Ian Wheeldon)
    May 26 Lei Guo, University of Arkansas 
    (Host : Jinyong Liu)
  • Fall 2022
    Sep 30 Kathy Cocker, Lab Safety
    Oct 07 

    Larry Wackett, University of Minnesota
    (Host : Yujie Men)

    Oct 14  Samanvaya Srivastava, UCLA
    (Host : Juchen Guo)
    Oct 21  Alexander V. Neimark, Rutgers University
    (Host : Younjin Min)
    Oct 28 Kathy Cocker, UCR
    Nov 04 Benjamin Schwartz, UCLA
    (Host : Bryan Wong)
    Nov 18  Noel Fong, Nucelis
    (Host : Yanran Li)
    Dec 02  Kerri-lee Chintersingh, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (Host : Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz)
  • Spring 2022
    April 01 (In-person)

    Carsten Ullrich, University of Missouri
    (Host : Bryan Wong)

    April 08 (Remote) William Tarpeh, Stanford University
    (Host : Leslie Abdul-Aziz)
    April 15 (In-person)

    Wilfred Chen, U of Delaware
    (Host : Ian Wheeldon)

    April 22 (In-person) Oishi Sanyal, West Virginia University
    (Host : Leslie Abdul-Aziz)
    April 29 (In-person) Christopher Olivares, UCI
    (Host : Yujie Men)
    May 06 (In-person)

    Chenzhong Li, Tulane University
    (Host :  Ashok Mulchandani)

    May 13 (Remote) Yongju Choi, Seoul National University
    (Host : Jinyong Liu)
    May 20 (Remote) Jinxia Liu, McGill University
    (Host : Yujie Men)
    May 27 (In-person)

    Matthew DeLisa, Cornell University
    (Host : Yanran Li)

    June 03 (Remote)

    Yang Yang, Clarkson University
    (Host : Jinyong Liu)

  • Winter 2022
    Jan 07 Paige Novak, University of Minnesota
    (Host : Yujie Men)
    Jan 14 Ying-Hsuan Lin, UCR
    (Host : David Cocker)
    Jan 21

    Jeremy Feaster, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    (Host : Leslie Abdul-Aziz)

    Feb 04 Stephan Irle, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    (Host : Bryan Wong)
    Feb 25 Li Li, U of Nevada Reno
    (Host : Jinyong Liu)
    March 04 Tamar Kohn, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
    (Host : Yun Shen)
    March 11 Sunny Jiang, UC Irvine
    (Host : Yun Shen)
  • Fall 2021
    Oct 01 Kathy Cocker, Lab Safety
    Oct 08 Elvis Genbo Xu, University of Southern Denmark
    (Host : Jinyong Liu)
    Oct 15 Na Wei, U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (Host : Jinyong Liu)
    Oct 22 Juchen Guo, UCR CEE
    Oct 29 Alejandro Gallegos and Musen Zhou, UCR PhD students
    (Jianzhong Wu)
    Nov 05 Pankaj Ghildiyal, UCR/UMD PhD student
    (Michael Zachariah)
    Nov 12 Yaochun Yu, UCR/UIUC PhD student
    (Yujie Men)
    Dec 03 Eranda Nikolla, Wayne State University
    (Host : Leslie Abdul-Aziz)
  • Spring 2021
    April 02 Shelly Miller, University of Colorado
    (Host : Cesunica Ivey)
    April 09 Mattheos Koffas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    (Host : Yanran Li)
    April 16 Tiong Gim Aw, Tulane University
    (Host : Yun Shen)
    April 23 Fangqiong Ling, Washington University at St Louis
    (Host : Jinyong Liu)
    May 07 Bruce Rittmann, Arizona State University
    (Host :  Yujie Men)

    May 14

    Jason Ren, Princeton University
    (Host : Jinyong Liu)
    May 21 Charles T Campbell, University of Washington
    (Host : Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz)
    May 28 Arlene Fiore, Columbia University
    (Host : Cesunica Ivey)
    June 04 José L. Avalos, Princeton University
    (Host : Ian Wheeldon)
  • Winter 2021
    Jan 08 Gregg Beckham, National Renewable Energy Lab
    (Host : Charles Wyman)
    Jan 15 Kevin Wenger, Mascoma Corporation
    (Host : Charles Wyman)
    Jan 22 Shihong Lin, Vanderbilt University
    (Host : Jinyong Liu)
    Jan 29 Josh Moser & Jaye Goldstein, Petri
    (Host : Yanran Li)
    Feb 05 John-Paul Jones, Jet Propulsion Lab
    (Host : Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz)
    Feb 12 Leslie Abdul-Aziz, UCR CEE
    Feb 19 Jinyong Liu, UCR CEE
    Feb 26 Fudong Liu, University of Central Florida
    (Host : Jinyong Liu)
    March 05 Alexandria Boehm, Stanford University
    (Host :  Yun Shen)
    March 12 Ya Huei (Cathy) Chin, University of Toronto
    (Host : Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz)
  • Fall 2020
    Oct 23 Plamen Atanassov, UC Irvine
    (Host : Ashok Mulchandani)
    Oct 30 Han Li, UC Irvine
    (Host : Ian Wheeldon)
    Nov 06

    Peter Cummings, Vanderbilt University
    (Host : Jianzhong Wu)

    Nov 13 Thomas Foust, National Renewable Energy Lab
    (Host : Charles Wyman)
    Nov 20 Ira Taffer, Drexel University
    (Host : Bryan Wong)
    Dec 04 Lutgarde Raskin, University of Michigan
    (Host : Yujie Men)
    Dec 11 Shaama Sharada, U Southern California
    (Host : Kandis Leslie Abdul- Aziz)
  • Spring 2020

    The CEE department has cancelled all seminars with external visitors for Spring due to COVID-19. Instead, we will have internal speakers (CEE faculty).   

    April 03 David Cocker , Ian Wheeldon
    April 10 David Cocker
    April 17 Harvey Blanch
    April 24 Bryan Wong
    May 01 Kelley Barsanti
    May 08 Michael Zachariah
    May 15 Haizhou Liu
    May 22 Ashok Mulchandani
    May 29 Ian Wheeldon
    June 05 Juchen Guo
  • Winter 2020

     

    Jan 10 Yinjie Tang  WUSTL
    (Host : Yanran Li)
    Jan 17 Carlos Carrero Marquez Auburn University
    (Host : Kandis Leslie Abdul- Aziz)
    Jan 24 Gavin Williams  NC State University
    (Host : Yanran Li)
    Jan 31 Tse Nga (Tina) Ng  UCSD
    (Host : Bryan Wong)
    Feb 07 Scott Banta Columbia University
    (Host : Ian Wheeldon)
    Feb 14 <Distinguished Seminar>
    Karen K. Gleason MIT

    (Host : Jianzhong Wu)
    Feb 21 Huolin Xin UCI
    (Host : Juchen Guo)
    Feb 28 Jonathan Reid University of Bristol
    (Host : Kelly Barsanti)
    March 06 Steven R. Saunders Washington State University
    (Host : Kandis Leslie Abdul- Aziz)
    March 13 No Seminar

     

  • Fall 2019
    Oct 04 Ian Wheeldon, CEE Graduate Affairs
    Oct 11 John Barton UCR
    (Host : Jianzhong Wu)
    Oct 18 Alexey Akimov University at Buffalo
    (Host : Bryan Wong)
    Oct 25 Chong Liu UCLA
    (Host : Ruoxue Yan)
    Nov 01 Charles Cai UCR
    (Host : Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz) 
    Nov 08 Donald Sirbuly UCSD
    (Host : Ruoxue Yan)
    Nov 15 Shaily Mahendra  UCLA
    (Host : Yujie Men)
    Nov 22 Yadong Yin UCR
    (Host : Jinyong Liu)
    Dec 06 William Phillip University of Notre Dame
    (Host : Nosang Myung)
  • Spring 2019
    April 05

    John Volckens  Colorado State University 
    (Host : Kelley Barsanti)

    April 12

    Rosibel Ochoa UCR Associate Vice Chancellor Technology Partnerships 
    (Host : Haizhou Liu)

    April 19

    Daven K. Henze University of Colorado Boulder
    (Host : Cesunica Ivey)

    April 26 Zhiqiang An University of Texas
    (Host : Xin Ge)
    May 03

    Carlos G. Morales-Guio UCLA
    (Host : Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz) 

    May 10 Jennifer Scheafer University of Notre Dame
    (Host : Juchen Guo)
    May 17

    Bryan D. McCloskey UC Berkeley 
    (Host : Juchen Guo)

    May 24

    Gregory V. Korshin University of Washington
    (Host : Haizhou Liu)

    May 31

    George Huber UW Madison
    (Host : Charles Wyman)

    June 07

    Casey O'Brien University of Notre Dame
    (Host : Nosang Myung)

  • Winter 2019
    January 11 Mitch Boretz, BCOE  
    January 18

    Lelia Hawkins,  Harvey Mudd College  

    (Host : Don Collins)

    January 25

    <Distinguished seminar>
    Joan Rose, Michigan State University
    (Host : Ashok Mulchandani) 

    February 01

    Eunsuk Kim, Brown University

    (Host : Jinyong Liu)

    February 08

    Jennifer Ayla Jay, UCLA

    (Host : Haizhou Liu)

    February 15

    Alex Guenther, UCI

    (Host : Don Collins)

  • Spring 2018

    April 6

    Edward Maginn, University of Notre Dame

    (Host: Jianzhong Wu)   

    April 13

    Navin Varadarajan, University of Houston

    (Host: Xin Ge)

    April 20

    Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton University

    (Host: Jianzhong Wu)   

    April 27

    Urs von Gunten, ETH Zurich

    (Host: Haizhou Liu)

    May 4

    Mahdi Abu-Omar, UC Santa Babara

    (Host: Jinyong Liu)

    May 11     

    Zhilei Chen, Texas A &M University

    (Host: Xin Ge)

    May 18

    Shubham Vyas, Colorado School of Mines

    (Host: Jinyong Liu)

    May 25

    Xiaolin Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory   

    (Host: Juchen Guo)          

    Jun 1 TBA
    Jun 8

    Shunsuke Nakao, Clarkson University

    (Host: David Cocker)

  • Fall 2018
    Sep 28 Kathy Cocker, Lab Safety

    October 05

    Ian Wheeldon, CEE Graduate Affairs

    October 12

    Feng Jiao, University of Delaware 

    (Host : Juchen Guo)

    October 19

    Philippe Sautet, UCLA

    (Host : Bryan Wong)

    October 26

    Scott Bradford, USDA

    (Host : Haizhou Liu)

    November 09

     Jeff Lievense, Genomatica

    (Host : Harvey Blanch)

    November 16

     John McManus, SEDD

    (Host : Ashok Mulchandani)

    November 30

    Jerome M. Fox, University of Colorado Boulder

    (Host : Ian Wheeldon)

    December 07

    Kenton Whitmire, Rice University

    (Host : Bryan Wong)

  • Winter 2018

    January 10

    (Wednesday)

    Jaehong Kim, Yale University

    (Host: Haizhou Liu)

    January 19

    Eunsu Peak, Clarkson University 

    (Host: Nosang Myung)

    January 26 

    Anthony Huang, UC Riverside

    (Host: Ian Wheeldon)

    February 2

    Allison Steiner, University of Michigan

    (Host: David Cocker)

    February 9

    Bryan Goldsmith, University of Michigan

    (Ashok Mulchandani)

    February 16       

    Hal Alper, University of Texas at Austin

    (Host: Yanran Li)

    February 23

    Alan West, Columbia University

    (Host: Jianzhong Wu)

    March 2

    Zheng Chen, UC San Diego

    (Host: Nosang Myung)                      

    March 9

    Brian Pflger, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    (Host: Ian Wheeldon)

    March 16

    TBA