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Seminars

The Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seminar Series is supported with a generous gift from SABIC, Inc.

If you would like to receive a weekly notification and abstract of the seminars by e-mail, please contact Nicolette Solano (nsolano2 [at] uh.edu (nsolano2[at]uh[dot]edu))

All Seminars are held in L2D2, unless otherwise noted. There is no charge to attend.

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Past Seminars

Date Title Speaker
11/22/2024 - 10:30am Elasticity of Fluids in Nanopores: Molecular Modeling and Ultrasonic Experiments Gennady Gor from New Jersey Institute of Technology
11/15/2024 - 10:30am We Can’t Solve a Puzzle without Knowing the Picture: Characterizing Doctoral Engineering Attrition, Persistence, and Thriving to Reconceptualize Graduate Educational Systems Catherine Berdanier from Penn State University
11/08/2024 - 10:00am SPE Sustainability Panel SPE Sustainability Panel
11/01/2024 - 10:30am Designing microporous catalysts to overcome material and reaction limitations Michele Sarazen from Princeton University
10/25/2024 - 10:30am Friday before AIChE, avoid scheduling if possible Friday before AIChE, avoid scheduling if possible
10/18/2024 - 10:30am Rockwell Lecture- Deliberate Innovation and Public-Private Partnerships: Excellence in Translational Research at Land Grant Universities Sangtae Kim from Purdue University
10/11/2024 - 8:30am OCHEGS Symposium Keynote Speaker Christina Thomas
10/04/2024 - 1:00pm Rockwell Lecture- Optimization and Machine Learning Nexus: Model-based and Data-driven Approaches Nick Sahinidis from Goergia Institute of Technology
09/27/2024 - 10:30am Rockwell Lecture- Mechanism of Micro and Nanoplastics Formation Sanat Kumar from Columbia University
09/20/2024 - 10:30am Developing improved biosynthesis pathways for non-canonical amino acids Ross Thyer from Rice University
09/13/2024 - 10:30am Understanding and mitigating host-part incompatibilities during microbial engineering Nikhil Unni Nair from Tufts University
09/06/2024 - 10:30am Systems Biology Approaches for Predicting Cancer Cell Behaviors and Rationally Designing Therapeutic Interventions Matthew Lazzara from University of Virginia
08/30/2024 - 10:30am No Seminar No Seminar
08/23/2024 - 10:30am No Seminar No Seminar
03/29/2024 - 10:30am Environmental Catalysis in the Present and the Future: From Emissions Control to Plastics Upcycling Konstantinos Goulas from Oregon State University
12/01/2023 - 10:30am Application of Induction Heating to Tandem Catalysis Erdem Sasmaz from UC Irvine
11/17/2023 - 10:30am Can Chat GPT and Autonomous Labs Design Novel Biological Systems? Arvind Ramanathan from Argonne National Lab
11/03/2023 - 10:30am Novel Library and Selection Approaches for Protease Inhibitory mAbs Xin Ge from UT Health Science Center
10/20/2023 - 10:30am Understanding Metal-Support Interactions in Catalysis with Statistical Learning Thomas Senftle from Rice University
10/13/2023 - 9:00am OChEGS Symposium Jean Tom from Bristol Myers Squibb
10/06/2023 - 10:30am Transformer-based Hybrid Modeling and Control of Evolving, Nonlinear Processes Joseph Kwon from Texas A&M University
09/22/2023 - 10:30am Self-Healing Materials and Electrochemical Fouling Control: Navigating Tradeoffs in Environmental Applications Bezawit Getachew from Rice University
09/15/2023 - 10:30am Technologies for the Circular Economy Dimitris Collias from Procter & Gamble
09/08/2023 - 9:00am ChBE Student Career Event Multiple speakers
04/21/2023 - 10:30am Understanding Barriers to Mental Health Related Help-Seeking in Undergraduate Engineers Sarah Wilson from University of Kentucky
04/14/2023 - 10:30am High-temperature Co-electrolysis of CO2 and H2O on Lanthanum Ferrite-type Perovskite Oxide Cathodes Umit S. Ozkan from The Ohio State University
04/07/2023 - 10:30am Solvent Structure and Electrostatics as Unique Handles to Influence Catalytic Turnover Yuriy Roman from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
03/24/2023 - 10:30am Tuning Dynamic Materials and Systems for Electrocatalytic Processes Linsey Seitz from Northwestern University
03/10/2023 - 10:30am Too small is never too small: Utilizing advanced path sampling techniques to probe the kinetics and mechanism of rare events, from atmospheric ice nucleation to ion transport Amir Haji-Akbari from Yale University
02/23/2023 - 10:30am Loop-in Complexation of Non-Stoichiometric Polyelectrolyte Solutions Jian Qin from Stanford University