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Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule

Seminars are Thursdays at 11:00 AM, Room 005 Chemical Engineering Building
Refreshments are served in the ChE Lobby at 10:45 AM.

August 27 - Dr. Suzanne Arnette
Department of Chemistry and Office of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), University of Virginia ***Mandatory Annual Safety Seminar***

September 3 - Professor Anna Balazs
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
"Using Computer Modeling to Design Self-healing Materials"

September 8 - Dr. Martha Head
Director of Computational Chemistry, GlaxoSmithKline
"10,000 Hours and Loving It; or, How to be Successful as a Computational Chemist in the Pharmaceutical Industry"

September 24 - Professor Linda Schadler
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Towards Design of Polymer Nanocomposites: Using the Interface to Control Polymer Nanocomposite Properties”

October 1 - Professor William B. Russel
Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
Lessons learned while watching paint dry: film formation, drying fronts, and cracking”

October 8 - TBA

October 15 - Professor Ilona Kretzschmar
Department of Chemical Engineering, The City College of New York
Title forthcoming

October 22 - Sergiy Minko
Department of Chemistry, Clarkson University, NY
‘Intelligent’ Nanostructured Materials from Stimuli Responsive Polymers”

October 29                         TBA

November 5                       TBA

November 19                     TBA

December 3                       TBA