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
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
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
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
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
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