News & Events

Colloquia

Every semester the Chemical Engineering faculty invite distinguished speakers for seminars. The seminars are open to all members of the Columbia University community.

SPRING '08

Date Speaker & Affiliation
Seminar Title/Abstract
1/22/08 Dr. Kathleen Stebe
John Hopkins University

SPONTANEOUS ORDERING OF PARTICLES
AT SURFACES AND INTERFACES

1/29/08
*AT CCNY*
Prof. Jacob Israelachvili
University of California - Santa Barbara
THE TRANSITION FROM LIQUID TO
SOLID 'FAILURE' MECHANISMS
2/19/08 Dr. Ilyas Washington
Columbia University - College of Physicians and Surgeons
AN ATTEMPT AT SLOWING
AGE RELATED VISION LOSS
2/26/08
Dr. Barbara Turpin
Rutgers University
SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL FORMATION THROUGH CLOUD PROCESSING OF ISOPRENE OXIDATION PRODUCTS
3/11/08
Dr. Paul Dayton
NC State University and UNC-Chapel Hill
CHALLENGES AND ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR IMAGING WITH ULTRASOUND
3/18/08
SPRING BREAK
3/25/08
Dr. Lynden Archer
Cornell University
ELECTROPHORESIS AND BENDING
PROPERTIES OF POLYELECTROLYTES
4/8/08
Dr. K. Dane Wittrup
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PROTEIN ENGINEERING IN BIOMEDICINE
4/15/08
Dr. John F. Brady
California Institute of Technology
OSMOTIC PROPULSION: THE OSMOTIC MOTOR
4/22/08
Dr. Prabhas V. Moghe
Rutgers University
ACTIVATING CELLULAR DYNAMICS VIA
NANOPARTICLE BASED PRESENTATION OF
CELL ADHESION MATRIX LIGANDS
*Cancelled*
Dr. Michael J. Solomon
University of Michigan
COLLOIDS AS BUILDING BLOCKS: ANISOTRPY AND ITS EFFECT ON PARTICAL ASSEMBLY



Seminars are held in 825 Mudd Building, 500 West 120th Street in Manhattan. Seminars begin at 4 PM, preceded by refreshments at 3:30 PM.

*Seminars at CCNY are held at City College, Steinman Hall, 140th st and Convent Avenue, Room #312. They begin at 2 pm.*