Seminar Schedule
Spring 2020 | Tuesdays @ 1:00PM - 1:50PM in the Beren Center (G192 Slawson)
Jan 21st - Intro class with Associate Professor Prajna Dhar | Topic: Work/life balance
Jan 28th - KU Libraries Workshop | Topics: effective search strategies, citation management, managing data, Intellectual Property for researchers, and literature reviews
Feb 4th - Professional Developement Workshop | Topic: LabSafety and other lab topics
Feb 11th - Speaker RESCHEDULED TO April 7th
Feb 18th - Professional Developement Workshop | Topic: Carlos Rivera from CAPS is coming to speak about graduate student mental health, self-care, and coping techniques
Feb 25th - Professional Developement Workshop | Topic: The Engineering Career Center will be presenting on goal setting and career planning. Plus, after class, Cody Howard will be set up to take professional headshots.
Mar 3rd - Professional Developement Workshop | Topic: KU's Office of Research will be speaking about IP, data security, and responsible scholarship
Mar 10th - SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR
April 7th - External Speaker | Assistant Professor Marimuthu Andiappan from Oklahoma State University | Presentation Title: “C-C Cross-Coupling Reactions using Earth-Abundant Copper-Based Nanocatalysts” [FLYER]
April 21st - Beata Kilos from Dow Chemicals [more details coming soon]
EXTERNAL LINKS
Chemistry Department's Seminar page
BioEngineering's Colloquium page
School of Engineering Graduate Programs Events Calendar
Previous Semester Schedules
Fall 2019 | Thursdays 11:00 - 11:50am in 368 Ritchie Hall
August 26th - First day of class with instructor Amirmasoud Kalantari
September 5th - Shahin Negahban, Associate Professor in Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, KU
Topic: Hydrogen Economy
September 12th - Ward Thompson, Professor of Chemistry, KU
Topic: Developing novel catalyist using machine learning (Research Website)
Sepember 19th - Dr. Syed Tariq, Director of Reservoir Engineering, PETROLERN LLC. (Presentation Flyer)
Topic: Enhanced Oil Recovery (Research Wesbite)
September 26th - Jack Pashin, Interim Department Head, Devon Petroleum Engineering, Oklahoma State University (Presenataion Flyer)
Topic: TBD (Research Website)
October 3rd - Workshop Day - Introduction to the Professional Development Series | Topic: Self-Reflection
October 10th - Sherilyn Williams-Stroud, Research Scientist and Structural Geologist, Illinois State Geological Survey (Presentation Flyer)
Topic: Energy and Minerals (Research Website)
October 24th - CANCELED as of 10/22/19 - will reschedule in spring) Soheil Saraji, Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming
October 31st - Workshop Day - Associate Professor Sara Wilson from the Mechanical Engineering Dept. will be presenting a workshop on Ethics.
November 7th - Workshop Day - Topic: Lab Safety
November 14th - No Class due to AIChE Conference
November 21st - Ayman Allian, Principal Scientist, Amgen Inc.
Topic: Catalysis and continuous manufactoring
November 28th - No Class due to Thanksgiving Holiday
December 5th - Peter Ravikovitch, Research Scientist, Exxon Mobil
Topic: Adsorption phenomena relevant to petroleum (Scholar Page)
Spring 2019 | Tuesdays 1:00 - 1:50pm in Spahr Classroom (2 Eaton)
January 22nd - First day of class with instructor Juan Bravo Suarez
January 29th - Alan Allgeier, Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering, KU
February 5th - Chris Cornelius from The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Presentation Flyer)
Topic: Materials such as sol-gel and nano-composites (Research Website)
February 12th - Michael Eikerling from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia (Presentation Flyer)
Topic: Fuel Cells and Theoretical Electrochemistry (Research Wesbite)
February 19th - Hugh Daigle from The University of Texas at Austin (Presentation Flyer)
Topic: Characterizing physical and transport properties of rock and pore-scale pressure (Research Website)
February 26th - Joan Brennecke from The University of Texas at Austin (Presentation Flyer)
Topic: Ionic liquids and CO2 extraction (Research Website)
March 5th - Priya Srivanasan, Doctoral Candidate, Chemical Engineering, KU
March 19th - Justin Hutchinson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, KU (Presentation Flyer)
March 26th - Saman Aryana from The University of Wyoming (Presentation Flyer)
Topic: Multiphase flow in porous media and physics of instability (Research Website)
April 2nd - Shima Fardad from the University of Kansas, EECS Department (Presentations Flyer)
Topic: Light-matter interactions in soft-matter systsems, Nanophotonics, Plasmonics and Metamaterials, and/or Imaging, Microscopy and Spectroscopy Techniques
April 23rd - Prasad Dhurjati from The University of Delaware (Presentation Flyer)
Topic: A range of intersts related to chemical and bioengineering (Research Website)
April 30th - Ive Hermans from The University of Wisconsin at Madison (Presentation Flyer)
Topic: Catalysis and kinetic reactions related to energy (Research Website)
Fall 2018 Series
Oct 4: Won Min Park, K-State, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering [FLYER]
Oct 18: Kevin Lafferty, Devon Energy, Advisory Board Member [FLYER]
Oct 25: Christopher Kitchens, Clemson University [FLYER]
Nov 8: Laurence Weatherley, our department chair, will be leading a Professional Development Workshop [FLYER]
Nov 15: Geoff Bothun, University of Rhode Island [FLYER]
Nov 29: Phil Savage, Department Chair at Penn State [FLYER]
Spring 2018 Schedule
Jan 16th: First Day of Class with Professor Kevin Leonard
Jan 23rd: Mei He, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, KU
Jan 30th: Keith Johnston, M. C. (Bud) and Mary Beth Baird Endowed Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (FLYER)
Feb 13th: Jennifer Robinson, Assistant Professor of Chemical/Bioengineering, KU (FLYER)
Feb 27th: Levi Thompson, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Hydrogen Energy Technology Lab at The University of Michigan (FLYER)(YouTube Video)(NOVA appearance starts ~50 minute mark)
March 6th: Arsalan Zolfaghari, Post-Doc for the Tertiary Oil Recovery Program (TORP)
March 13th: Albert Folch, Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle (FLYER)(YouTube Video)
March 20th: NO SEMINAR [Spring Break]
March 27th: Undergraduate Research Award Presentations
April 3rd: Edward Peltier, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, KU (FLYER)
April 10th: Edward Maginn, Dorini Family Professor of Energy Studies and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering, Notre Dame (FLYER)
April 17th: Robbie Hable, Doctoral Candidate in Chemical Engineering and School of Engineering Ambassador here at KU
Apr 24th: Mojdeh Rasoulzadeh, Assistant Professor of Applied and Computational Math, University of Alabama (FLYER)
Fall 2017 Schedule
Aug 31st- Chris Depcik from Mechanical Engineering speaking about Academic and Research Integrity (FLYER)
Sept 7th- Laurence Weatherley, Chair of CPE, speaking about his research in green chemistry (FLYER)
Sept 14th- Gibum Kwon from Mechanical Engineering about his research (FLYER)
Sept 28th- Professor and Chair, Baojun Bia from Missouri S&T (petroleum topic) (FLYER)
Oct 5th- Assistant Professor John Newberg from the University of Delaware (catalysis topic)(FLYER)
Oct 12th- James Blakemore from KU Dept of Chemistry (FLYER)
Oct 19th- Eray Aydil, Professor and Chair, from University of Minnesota (renewable energy)(FLYER)
Oct 26th- Alan Allgeier, our newest faculty member from CPE (porous materials)(FLYER)
Nov 9th- Johannes Lercher, a Battelle Fellow from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories [(PNNL)(FLYER)]
Nov 16th- Susan Habas, Senior Scientist from National Bioenergy Center (NREL division)(FLYER)
Nov 30th- Trung Nguyen will present about NSF proposal writing (FLYER)
Dec 7th- Graduate students Aishik Chakraborty and Yuanchao Li will present about their research (FLYER)
Spring 2017 Schedule
Feb 7th: Professional Development Event (FLYER)
Feb 14th: No Seminar
Feb 21st: Steve Lustig from Northeastern University (FLYER)
Feb 28th: Canceled- No Seminar
March 7th: Kamy Sepehrnoori from University of Texas at Austin (FLYER)
March 14th: M. Ali Haider from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (FLYER)
March 21st: Spring Break- No Seminar
April 11th: Damon Talbot from Graduate Studies at KU (FLYER)
April 18th: George Hirasaki from Rice University (Flyer coming)
April 25th: Rick Stroman from the US Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC (FLYER)
May 2nd: Michael J. Aziz from Harvard University (FLYER)
