Seminars

Join us for an exciting semester of seminars hosted by the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy.

Biological Design Seminars

11:30 a.m.
In-person

Note for location changes in table below

DATE	SPEAKER	LOCATION
8/29/2025 11:30 am	Professor Steven Little University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Chair	Biodesign AL1/10-14 Title: Mimicking Tumors as a S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Way to Treat Transplant Rejection and Inflammatory Diseases
9/5/2025 11:30 am	Professor Pankaj Karande Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Biodesign AL1/10-14 Title: Building Biological Barriers: Three Tales
9/12/2025 11:30 am	Professor Vamsi Yadavalli National Science Foundation / Virginia Commonwealth University	Biodesign AL1/10-14 Title: Silk Biomaterials for the Fabrication of Functional Biodevices
9/19/2025 11:30 am	Professor Christopher Rao University of Illinois, Ubrana-Champaign Distinguished Chair	Biodesign AL1/10-14 Title: Exploiting Overflow Metabolism for Fuel and Chemical Production
9/26/2025 11:30 am	Professor Tyrone Porter University of Texas, Austin Distinguished Chair	Biodesign AL1/10-14 Title: Diverse Biomedical Applications of Lipid-Coated Particles
10/3/2025 11:30 am	Dr. Karan Syal Entrepreneur	Biodesign AL1/10-14 Title: From Biological Design at ASU to the ABCD of Startups: Navigating the Journey from Science to Entrepreneurship
10/24/2025 11:30 am	Professor Connor Dolan Arizona State University	Biodesign AL1/10-14 Title: TBA
12/5/2025 11:30 am	Professor Shwetal Mehta Barrow Neurological Institute Distinguished Chair	Biodesign AL-1/10-14 Title: TBA

10:30 a.m.
In person

Note for location changes on table below

DATE	SPEAKER	LOCATION
9/5/2025 10:30 am	Professor Aditya Bhan University of Minnesota	ISTBX 101 Title: A Tale of Two Catalysts
9/12/2025 10:30 am	Professor Stefanie Kwon Colorado School of Mines	ISTBX 101 Title: Fundamentals and Innovations in Heterogeneous Catalysis for Sustainable Energy Transition
10/3/2025 10:30 am	Professor Sindee Simon North Carolina State University Distinguished Chair	ISTBX 101 Title: Materials Physics Using Flash Calorimetry: Polypropylene and CL-20 as Case Studies
10/10/2025 10:30 am	Professor Selen Cremaschi Auburn Distinguished Chair	ISTBX 101 Title: Optimizing Processes with Hybrid Models: Energy and Biomedical Case Studies
10/17/2025 10:30 am	Professor Phillip Savage Pennsylvania State University Distinguished Chair	ISTBX 101 Title: Hydrothermal Reactions of Biopolymers and Synthetic Polymers -Toward Renewable Fuels and a More Circular Economy
10/24/2025 10:30 am	Professor Panagiotis Christofides University of California, Los Angeles Distinguished Chair	ISTBX 101 Title: Machine Learning in Process Control, Safety and Operations
10/31/2025 10:30 am	Professor Grazia Leonzio Cagliari University	ISTBX 101 Title: Analysis of Electrochemical DAC Solutions
11/07/2025 10:30 am	Professor Tobias Proll BOKU University, Vienna	ISTBX 101 Title: Biomass-Based Negative Emission Technologies: Activities at BOKU University Vienna, Austria
12/5/2025	Professor Diego Rosso University of California, Irvine	ISTBX 101 Title: Energy and Power Dynamics in Water Processes

11:00 a.m.
In person and/or Virtual

Note for location changes on table below

DATE	SPEAKER	LOCATION
10/10/2025 11:00 am	Professor Lan Yang Washington University, St. Louis	GWC 535 Title: Harnessing Light-Matter Interactions in Whispering-Gallery-Mode Resonators: From Fundamental Physics to Emerging Technologies
10/17/2025 11:00 am	Dr. Sibo Chen Arizona State University	GWC 535 Title: High-Pressure Science: A Bridge Between Materials Engineering and Planetary Exploration
10/31/2025 11:00 am	Professor Victor R. Vasquez University of Nevada, Reno Distinguished Chair	GWC 535 Title: Metal Hexaborides: Modeling, Characterization, and Applications in Extreme Environments
11/7/2025 11:00 am	Professor Mohsen Asle Zaeem University of Tennessee, Knoxville Distinguished Chair	GWC 535 Title: Study and Design of Structural and Functional Materials by Quantitative and Transferable Computational Material Models
11/14/2025 11:00 am	Professor Pawel Keblinski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Distinguished Chair	GWC 535 Title: Interfacial Engineering with Molecular Nanolayers- Insights from Atomistics Simulations

1:30 p.m.
In person and/or Virtual

Note for location changes on table below

DATE	SPEAKER	LOCATION
8/29/2025 1:30 pm	Professor Gregory Chirikjian University of Delaware Distinguished Chair	SCOB 152 Title: From State Estimation on Lie Groups to Robot Imagination
9/12/2025 1:30 pm	Professor Anthony Jacobi University of Illinois Distinguished Chair	SCOB 152 Title: A Walk Through the Garden of Thermal System Design
9/19/2025 1:30 pm	Professor Tim Colonius California Technical Institute Distinguished Chair	SCOB 152 Title: OWNS, NOWNS< and Unknowns
10/3/2025 1:30 pm	Professor Jacob McFarland Texas A&M	SCOB 152 Title: Modeling Hydrodynamics in High-speed Droplet Breakup
10/17/2025 1:30 pm	Professor Juan Jose Alonso Stanford University	SCOB 152 Title: Validation of Aircraft Noise Modeling by Large-Scale Data Collection and AEDT Prediction
10/24/2025 1:30 pm	Professor Paul David Rooney University of Southern California Distinguished Chair	SCOB 152 Title: Front Propagation in Narrow Channels: What Darrieus and Landau Didn’t Tell You
10/31/2025 1:30 pm	Professor Lou Cattafesta Illinois Technical Institute Distinguished Chair	SCOB 152 Title: Adaptive Separation Control of a Laminar Boundary Layer Using Online Dynamic Mode Decomposition
11/7/2025 1:30 pm	Professor John-Paul Clarke University of Texas, Austin	SCOB 152 Title: Bio- and Entropy-Inspired Multi-Vehicle Coordination and Control