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Winter 2003

Thursday, January 9
Professor David Weitz
Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Self Assembly and Structure of Colloidal Particles on Spherical
Surfaces

Thursday, January 16
Dr. Armand Ajdari
Physico-Chimie Theorique
Paris, France
Microfluids: Designing Flows using Patterned Channels

Thursday, January 23
Dr. Pere Roca I Cabarrocas
LPICM
Ecole Polytechnique
France
Hydrogen Related Aspects in the Low Temperature Growth of
Microcrystalline Silicon Thin Films by PECVD

Thursday, January 30
Professor David Marr
Chemical Engineering Department
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO
Field Manipulated Colloids for Microfluidics and Phototonics Applications

Thursday, February 6
Dr. You-Yeon Won
Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Amphiphilic Block Copolymers: Desogner Amphiphilies

Tuesday, February 11
Benjamin Ohler
Doctoral Candidate
Chemical Engineering – UCSB
The Roles of Lipids in Normal Myelin Structure and
Diseases of Myelin

Tuesday, February 18
Dr. Shelley Anna
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Designing Emulsions One Drop At A Time

Thursday, February 20
Professor Bruce Wheeler
Bioengineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Chapaign
Designing In Vitro Patterned Neuronal Networks

Tuesday, February 25
Dr. Eunji Sim
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Rutgers State University of new York
Dynamics in Complex Systems

Thursday, February 27
Dr. Christina Smolke
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
UC Berkeley
Gene Expression Control Strategies Through mRNA Turnover

Tuesday, March 4
Dr. Jing Kong
Research Scientists
NASA Ames Research Center
Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Integration, Properties and Devices

Thursday, March 13
Professor James Watkins
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts
Supercritical Fluid Technology for Semiconductor Fabrication: Deposition of Metals and Mesoporous Silicates from Carbon Dioxide

Tuesday, March 18
Dr. Alex Demkov
Physical Sciences Research Lab –Motorola, Inc.
Epitaxial Oxides for Semiconductors:
Theory of the atomic and electronic structure of the Si /SrTiO3 interface

Tuesday, March 25
Yufang Hu
UCSB – ChE Doctoral Candidate
Characterizing the Interactions of Model Myelin Membranes

Fall 2002

Thursday, October 3
Professor Gary S. Hansen
Center for Entrepreneurship & Engineering Management
UC Santa Barbara
Can Business Education make for Better Engineers?

Thursday, October 10
Professor Brian Korgel
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Colloidal Chemical Routes to Nanomanufacturing: Synthesis of Quantum Dots, Nanowires, and their Self-Assembly

Thursday, October 17
Professor Alan Weimer
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Colorado
Conformal Encapsulation of Fine Particles with Ceramic Nanolayers

Thursday, October 24
Professor Joan-Emma Shea
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC Santa Barbara
Simulations of Protein Folding: Probing the Free Energy Landscape of the src-SH3 Protein Domain

Thursday, October 31
Professor Deborah Leckband

Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology
University of Illinois – Urbana
Novel Mechanisms of Biological Adhesion

Thursday, November 7
Professor David Kaplan
Chemical Engineering Department
Director of Bioengineering
Tufts University
Educating Cells with Fibrous Proteins

Thursday, November 14
Professor K. Dane Wittrup
Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theoretical Analaysis and Experimental Development of Ultrahigh Affinity Tumor Targeting Therapeutics

Tuesday, November 19
Rachel Segalman
Doctoral Candidate
ChE - UC Santa Barbara
Templating Order in Block Copolymer Spheres: Ordering and Melting in 2-Dimensions

Thursday, November 21
Professor Costas D. Maranas
Department of Chemical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Modeling and Optimization in Protein and Metabolic Engineering

Tuesday, November 26
Bret Coldren
Doctoral Candidate
ChE - UCSB
The Origins of Stability of Spontaneous Vesicles

Tuesday, December 3
Tae Won Kim
Doctoral Candidate
ChE – UC Santa Barbara
Two-dimensional Uniformity of Ion Flux and Etch Rate in Inductively Coupled Plasma Etching Reactors

Thursday, December 5
Professor James Liao
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Engineering Intracellular Control


Spring 2002

Tuesday, April 9
Professor M. C. M. (Richard) van de Sanden
Department of Applied Physics
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Surface Science Aspects of Amorphous
Silicon Deposition

Thursday, April 11
Professor Ioannis G. Kevrekidis
Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton University

Enabling microscopic models to perform systems-level tasks

Thursday, April 18
Professor William B. Russel
Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton University
Periodic Patterns from Thin Polymer Films Subjected to Electric Fields:
Lessons from Linear Stability Theory

Tuesday, April 23
Casim Sarkar
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Molecular Engineering of Therapeutic Cytokines in the Context of Cell-Level
Ligand/Receptor Dynamics

Thursday, April 25
Professor Glenn H. Fredrickson
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara

Field-Theoretic Computer Simulations
for the Design of Soft Materials

Tuesday, April 30
Giorgia Sgallari
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Rheology and texture of Liquid Crystalline Polymers Thoughts, numbers and experiments

Thursday, May 2
Professor Charles B. Musgrave
Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
Stanford University
Atomistic Simulations of Surface Chemical Reactions for Growing High-K Gate Stacks

Tuesday, May 7
PEARSON LECTURE
Professor Ronald G. Larson
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan
Single-Molecule Polymer Rheology with Applications
to DNA Micro-Processing

Thursday, May 9
PEARSON LECTURE
Professor Ronald G. Larson
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan
Predicting the Rheology of Entangled Polymers

Thursday, May 16
Professor Peidong Yang
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Functional Nanowires

Thursday, May 23
Professor William H. Green
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Towards Predictive Kinetic Models for Technologically Important Processes

Thursday, May 30
Professor Sokrates T. Pantelides
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Vanderbilt University
Molecular Electronics by the Numbers

Tuesday, June 4
Professor Michael D. Graham
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Coherent Flow Structures in Complex Fluids:
from Diwhirls to Drag Reduction

Thursday, June 6
Professor Julio M. Ottino
Department of Chemical Engineering
Northwestern University
Complex Systems: Self-organization in Granular Matter

Winter 2002

Thursday, January 10
Professor Douglas Durian
Department of Physics University of California, Los Angeles
Foam Flow Physics

Thursday, January 17
Professor Jochen Lauterbach
School of Chemical Engineering Purdue University
From Polymer Nonfilms to High-throughput Screening of Combinatorial Catalyst Libraries -
Traditional and Novel Applications of in situ Infrared Spectroscopy

Tuesday, January 22
Dr. Alexander Benderskii
Department of Chemistry Columbia University
Nonlinear Optical Probes of Bio- and Material Interfaces

Thursday, January 24
Professor David J. Norris
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
On-Chip Self-Assembly of Silicon Photonic Band Gap Crystals

Tuesday, January 29
Professor Donna G. Blackmond
Physical Chemistry Department University of Hull, United Kingdom
Origins of Asymmetric Amplification in Autocatalytic Reactions

Thursday, January 31
Professor Charles T. Campbell
Department of Chemistry University of Washington, Seattle
Energetics of Metal Adsorption on Well-defined Surfaces by AdsorptionMicrocalorimetry

Thursday, February 7
Professor Stacey Bent
Department of Chemical Engineering Stanford University
Interface Engineering for Materials and Biological Applications

Tuesday, February 12
Dan Chen
ChE UCSB Doctoral Candidate
Design and Tuning of PID Control Systems

Thursday, February 21
Professor Susannah L. Scott
Department of Chemistry University of Ottawa, Ontario
Surface Organometallic Chemistry

Thursday, February 28
Dr. Ravi Radhakrishnan
Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Towards an Understanding of Nucleation Phenomena in Complex Systems:
Applications in Environmental Science, Biology, and Nanotechnology

Tuesday, March 5
Dr. Chandra Saravanan
Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley
Linear-scaling Density Functional Theory:
Overcoming the Particle-number Bottleneck in Materials Science

Thursday, March 14
Professor Ahmed Ghoniem
Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Combustion Control

Fall 2001

Thursday, September 27
Junqi Ding
Doctoral Candidate - UCSB
Rheology and Microscopy Study of Lung Surfactant Monolayers

Thursday, October 4
Dr. David Scott
Museum Research Laboratory, Head. Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Life of Ancient Bronzes and their Chemical Interactions

Thursday, October 11
Professor Patrick Daugherty
Chemical Engineering Department - UCSB
Quantitative Screening for the 'One in a Million' Protein:
Antibodies, Enzymes, and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors

Thursday, October 18
Professor Jennifer Sinclair
School of Chemical Engineering Purdue University
Effect of Solids Loading in Dilute and Dense Gas-Solid Flows

Thursday, October 25
Dr. Kirk Miller
Digital Instruments, Santa Barbara
Atomic Force Microscopy in Semiconductor Manufacturing

Thursday, November 1
Professor Christopher N. Bowman
Department of Chemical Engineering University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado
Molecular Synthesis and Engineering as Tools for Understanding Photopolymerization Reactions

Tuesday, November 13
Saurabh J. Ullal
Doctoral Candidate - UCSB
Effects of Chamber Wall Conditions on Plasma Etching Processes

Thursday, November 15
Professor Roger J. Davey
Department of Chemical Engineering UMIST - Manchester, England
Nucleation Control in Solution Mediated Polymorphic
Phase Transformations : the Case of 2,6 Dihydroxybenzoic Acid

Tuesday, November 20
Brian Gergen
Doctoral Candidate - UCSB
Observations of Electronic Excitations in Gas-Metal Interactions

Tuesday, November 27
Ashish Singhal
Doctoral Candidate - UCSB
Pattern Matching in Historical Data

Thursday, November 29
Professor David Sholl
Chemical Engineering Department Carnegie Mellon University
Can Chiral Molecules be Separated Using Metal Surfaces?

Tuesday, December 4
Ed Kisak
Doctoral Candidate - UCSB
Nano-compartments Enclosing Vesicles, Colloids and
Macromolecules via Self Assembly

Thursday, December 6
Professor Dimitris Maroudas
Chemical Engineering Department - UCSB
Computational Modeling of Hard Materials:
Some Old and Some New Challenges

Spring 2001

Tuesday, April 3
Professor Francis J. Doyle III
Department of Chemical Engineering University of Delaware
Model-based Approaches to the Control of Particle Size Distribution

Thursday, April 5
Dr. Rick Pekala
Entek Membranes International
Structure-Property Relationships in Battery Separators

Tuesday, April 17
Professor Gerald J. Meyer
Johns Hopkins University Department of Chemistry
Molecular Charge Transfer and Transport in Mesoporous Nanocrystalline
Semiconductor Thin Films

Thursday, April 19
Dr. Len Bogan
Rohm & Haas Company Research Division
Tungsten and Molybdenum Bronzes: Ferroelectric and Catalytic Materials

Thursday, April 26
Professor Scott Fogler
University of Michigan Chemical Engineering Department
Fused Chemical Reactions

Thursday, May 3
Professor Alice Gast
Department of Chemical Engineering Stanford University
Micromechanics and Dynamics in Magnetic Suspensions:
Smart and Structured Fluids

Thursday, May 10
Professor Elisabeth Podlaha
Louisiana State University Department of Chemical Engineering
Electrodeposition of Alloys and Nanocomposites

Tuesday, May 15
Professor Jay Lee
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Chemical Engineering
Model-Based Optimization and Control of Periodically operated Processes

Thursday, May 17
Professor Arumugam Manthiram
University of Texas at Austin Materials Science and Engineering Department
Challenges in Developing High Energy Density Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries

Tuesday, May 22
Sean Christiansen
Doctoral Candidate UCSB
Department of Chemical Engineering
The Study of Molecular Interactions in Inorganic-Organic Composite Materials

Thursday, May 24
Professor Eric Stuve
University of Washington Department of Chemical Engineering
Examining the Influence of High Interfacial Electric Fields on Electrochemical Phenomena:
Ionization of Water in Thin and Thick Layers on Platinum Field Emitter Tips

Thursday, May 31
Professor Stacey Bent
Department of Chemical Engineering Stanford University
Functionalization and Growth of Electronic Materials

Thursday, June 7
Professor Jan Talbot
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Departments University of California at San Diego
Electrocodeposition of Composite Films using a Rotating Cylindrical Electrode

Winter 2001

Thursday, January 11
Professor Michael Tsapatsis
Chemical Engineering Department University of Massachusetts
Molecular Sieve Films

Thursday, January 18
Professor David Allen
Chemical Engineering Department University of Texas, Austin
The Texas Air Quality Study:
State of the Science of Air Quality in Texas and Implications for Air Quality Policy

Thursday, January 25
Professor Susannah Scott
Department. of Chemistry University of Ottawa Canada
Silica-supported Organochromium Fragments:
Establishing the Mechanism of Olefin Polymerization via Purposeful Synthesis of Active Sites

Thursday, February 1
Dr. Seung Man Yang
KAIST University Korea
Microstructure and Rheology of Complex Fluids

Thursday, February 8
Professor Annelise Barron
Department of Chemical Engineering Northwestern University Evanston, IL
New Materials and Strategies for Miniaturized DNA Sequencing Analyses

Thursday, February 15
Professor Robert K. Prud'homme
Chemical Engineering Department Princeton University
Biopolymers: Lessons from Nature

Thursday, February 22
Professor Darryl Y. Sasaki
Biomolecular Materials and Interfaces Department Sandia National Laboratories
Chemical Recognition at the Lipid Membrane Surface

Thursday, March 1
Professor S. Joe Qin
Chemical Engineering Department University of Texas at Austin
Process Monitoring and Control: An Evolving Game

Thursday, March 8
Professor Jay Lee
School of Chemical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology
Model-Based Optimization and Control of Periodically Operated Processes

Fall 2000

Thursday, October 5
Professor Dan Morse
Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Director, Marine Biotechnology Center UCSB
The Hidden Beauty of Seashells and Pearls:
Biomineralization Reveals New Routes to Composites,
Self-Healing Elastomers and Nonostructured Silicon-Based Materials

Thursday, October 12
Professor Scott Diamond
Department of Chemical Engineering. University of Pennsylvania
Protease and DNA-based Cardiovascular Therapeutics

Thursday, October 19
Professor David B. Graves
Department of Chemical Engineering University of California at Berkeley
Plasma Processing in Semiconductor Manufacturing

Thursday, October 26
Professor Paula Hammond
Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Directed Polymer Assembly for Nano- to Micron Scale Organization

Thursday, November 2
Professor Lanny Schmidt
Department of ChE and Materials Science University of Minnesota at Minneapolis St. Paul
Millisecond Chemical Reactions and Reactors

Thursday, November 9
Professor Noel MacDonald
Mechanical and Environmental Engineering Department of Materials UCSB
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Nano Electromechanical Systems (NEMS)

Tuesday, November 21
Dr. Dennis Dean
Director, Drug Metabolism Merck Research Laboratories
Synthesis and Applications of Isotopically Labeled Compounds for Pharmaceutical Research and Development

Thursday, November 30
Professor Kenneth S. Suslick
School of Chemical Science University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Applications of Utrasound to Materials Chemistry