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August 28
Graduate Students Meet the faculty |
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September 4
Graduate Student Orginization |
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ChEGS |
September 11
Applicatons of Computational Biofluid Dynamics |
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Jeff Heys
Montana State University |
September 18
Thermochemical Pathways to Advanced BioFuels |
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Robert C. Brown
Iowa State University |
September 25
Exploring Hydrophobic to Hydrophilic Hydration of Solutes and Interfaces: Implications for Binding and Assembly
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Shekhar Garde
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
October 2
Our Energy Future - Opportunities, Risks, Tradeoffs
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Dale Keairns
Department of Energy |
October 9
Two Issues in Suspension Mechanics: Particle Phase Pressure and The Role of Inertia
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Jeffrey F. Morris
City College of New York |
Octover 16
Microengineered Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering |
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Ali Khademhosseini
MIT |
October 23
Phase Behavior and Microstructure of Complex Fluids: Advances in Molecular Modeling |

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Walter G. Chapman
Rice University |
October 30
Ionomers. They Are Not Just For Golf Balls
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Robert A. Weiss
University of Connecticut |
November 6
"De Novo Protein Design: Advances and Challenges" |

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Christodoulos A. Floudas
Princeton University |
November 13
"Surface Protrusion and Tether Extraction during Leukocyte Rolling on the Endothelium"
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Jin-Yu Shao
Washington University in Saint Louis |
December 4
"Transport Phenomena in the Human Brain" |
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Andreas A. Linninger
University of Illinois at Chicago |
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Abstract |
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January 22
A Sticky Situation in the Blood: Dissecting Platelet-Coagulation Factor Interactions |
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Owen J. T. McCarty Oregon Health Scinece University |
January 29
Materials and Processes for Thin Film Flexible Electronics |

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Zhena Bao Stanford University |
February 5
Mesoscopic Simulations of Order-Disorder Transitions and Self-Assembly in Colloidal and Polymeric Systems
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Fernando Escobedo Cornell University |
February 12
"Direct Catalytic Conversion of Cellulose to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF)". |

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Conrad Zhang KiOR, Inc. |
Feburary 19
Nanocoatings, Degradable Metals, and Surface Funtionalization: Towards High-Performance Vascular Biomaterials
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Diego Mantovani
Laval University |
February 26 Block Copolymer–Directed Nanomaterial Synthesis and Organization
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Paschalis Alexandridis Buffalo University |
March 5
"Unraveling the Complexity of Industrial Catalysts Using In Situ XAFS"
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Simon R. Bare UOP LLC, a Honeywell Company |
March 12
Simulating Stimulating Interfaces: Applications in Adsorption and Catalysis
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C. Heath Turner University of Alabama |
March 26 Functioinality-Based Process Design:Shifting from Mass Integration to Property Integration
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Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi
Texas A&M University |
April 16
"Nanocoatings, degradable metals, and surfact functionalisation: Towards high-performance vascular biomaterials"
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Diego Mantovani Laval Univerity, Quebec City, Canada |
April 23 " Designing Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysts Through Modern Computational Techniques: The Future of Rational Design"
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Kendall Thomson
Purdue University |
April 30 Capstone Presentations
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