Graduate Seminar Series--Spring 2008

Sponsors for the series include Bradley Pharmaceuticals, Inc., ConocoPhillips, Bayway Refinery, Engelhard Corporation, Merck Research Laboratories, Infineum USA L.P., National Starch and Chemical Foundation, Inc.

Seminars @ 2:45 PM --- Refreshments @ 2:30 PM
Room 117, Kupfrian Hall
Seminar Coordinator: Professor Boris Khusid , 973-596-3316, khusid@adm.njit.edu


January 28

Combinatorial Studies of Surface Interactions in Block Copolymer Thin Films
Thomas H. Epps, III, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering , University of Delaware, Newark, DE  http://www.che.udel.edu/directory/faculty profile.html?id=21890
February 4

Nanotechnology-based Solutions for Hydrogen Storage, Fuel Cells, and Solar Power

Zafar Igbal, Professor, Department of Chemistry & EVSC, NJIT, Newark, NJ

http://chemistry.njit.edu/people/igbal.php

February 18

Manipulating Thin-Film Flows: From Patterned Substrates to Evaporating Systems
Howard S. Stone, Vicky Joseph Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Associate Dean for Applied Physical Sciences and Engineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge Ma
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/fluidsgroup/
February 20

Progress in Decision Support Approaches for Pharmaceutical Product Pipeline Management

Joint Seminar with the NSF Engineering Research Center & NJ Center for Engineered Particulates, NJIT

Gintaras Reklaitis, Edward W. Comings Professor of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/People/ptProfile?id=11228

February 25

Toward Self-Replication with Colloids
Paul Chaikin, Silver Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Center for Soft Matter Research New York University, New York, NY
http://as.nyu.edu/object/PaulChaikin/html
March 3

Spontaneous Ordering of Particles at Surfaces and Interfaces
Kathleen J. Stebe, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

http://www.jhu.edu/chbe/faculty-template/KathleenStebe.html

March 10

Coarse-Grained Two-Fluid Models for Gas-Particle Flows

Sankaran Sundaresan, Professor of Chemical Engineering Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

http://chemeng.princeton.sundaresan.edu/people/sundaresan.shtml

March 24

Electrolyte-Dependent 2-D Aggregation of Colloidal Particles on a Planar A/C Electrode
Dennis C. Prieve, Gulf Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA                                   
http://www.cheme.cmu.edu/people/faculty/dcprieve.html
March 31

Novel Approaches to Hydrogen Storage for Fuel Cell Applications.

Arvind Varma, R.Games Slayter Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, Head, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/People/ptProfile?id=11068   

April 7 AIChE/ACS Spring National Meeting
April 14

The Negative Temperature Dependences in Simple Metathesis Reactions and the Modified Transition State Theory

Joint Seminar with the NJIT Department of Chemistry & EVSC 

Lev N. Krasnoperov, Professor, Department of Chemistry & EVSC NJIT, Newark, NJ

http://chemistry.njit.edu/people/krasnoperov.php

April 21

TBA

Joint Seminar with the NSF Engineering Research Center & NJ Center for Engineered Particulates, NJIT

Fernando J. Muzzio, Professor, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ

http://sol.rutgers.edu/muzzio.html