Seminar Archive

Fall 2023

DATESPEAKERLOCATION
9/1/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Carlos A. Silvera Batista

Vanderbilt University
WCPH 107

Title: Long-range Transport and Directed Assembly of Charged Colloids under Aperiodic
Eletrodiffusiophoresis
9/15/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Professor Bhavik Bakshi

Arizona State University
WCPH 107

Title: Reinventing the Chemicals and Materials Industry for a Net-Zero, Nature-Positive World
9/22/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Professor Jeffrey Self

Arizona State University
COOR L1-10

Title: Advanced Microstructural Control for Sustainable Polymer
Materials
10/13/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Professor Chinedum Osuji

University of Pennsylvania
WCPH 107

Title: Perfecting Structural Order and Controlling Mass Transport in Nanostructured Soft Materials
10/20/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Professor Ashlee N. Ford Versypt

University of Buffalo
WCPH 107

Title: Systems Biomedicine and Pharmaceutics: Multiscale Modeling of Tissue Remodeling ,and Damage
11/17/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Professor Lei Zhu

Case Western Reserve University
WCPH 107

Title: The Origin of Piezoelectricity in Ferroelectric Polymers
12/1/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Professor Sepideh Razavi

University of Oklahoma
WCPH 107

Title: Dynamics of Multi-component Fluids near Interfaces in Relation to Pickering Foams

Spring 2023

DATESPEAKERLOCATION
1/23/2023
10:30 am
HYBRID
Professor Richard Register
Princeton University
DISCVRY 350 and via Zoom Link
(Password: 10810)

Title: To Be Announced
1/30/2023
10:30 am
HYBRID
Professor Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
University of Texas-Austin
DISCVRY 350 and via Zoom Link
(Password: 10810)

Title: To Be Announced
2/6/2023
10:30 am
HYBRID
Professor Kenneth F. Reardon
Colorado State University
DISCVRY 350

Title: To Be Announced
2/13/2023
10:30 am
HYBRID
Professor Christopher Li
Drexel University
DISCVRY 350

Title: To Be Announced
2/20/2023
10:30 am
HYBRID
Professor Carlos A. Silvera Batista
Vanderbilt University
DISCVRY 350

Title: To Be Announced
2/27/2023
10:30 am
HYBRID
Faculty Candidate Third Year PhDDISCVRY 350

Title: To Be Announced
3/13/2023
10:30 am
HYBRID
Faculty Candidate Third Year PhDDISCVRY 350

Title: To Be Announced
3/20/2023
10:30 am
HYBRID
Faculty Candidate Third Year PhDDISCVRY 350

Title: To Be Announced
3/27/2023
10:30 am
HYBRID
Professor Sepideh Razavi
University of Oklahoma
DISCVRY 350

Title: To Be Announced
4/10/2023
10:30 am
HYBRID
Professor Russell Composto
U Penn
DISCVRY 350

Title: To Be Announced
4/24/2023
10:30 am
HYBRID
Professor Liang-Shih Fan
Ohio State University
DISCVRY 350

Title: To Be Announced

Spring 2022

DateSpeakerLocation
01/24/2022
10:30 am
VIRTUAL
Radislav Portyrailo
General Electric
Zoom
Title: To Be Announced
02/07/2022
10:30 am
VIRTUAL
Michelle O’Malley
University of California- Santa Barbara
Zoom
Unlocking the Biotech Potential of
Anaerobic Gut Fungi
02/21/22 – 03/21/22
10:30am
TBA
TBA TBA
03/28/2022
10:30 am
In-Person / VIRTUAL
Lilo Pozzo
University of Washington
Zoom
Title: To Be Announced
04/04/2022
10:30am
In-Person / VIRTUAL
Chris Bates
University of California- Santa Barbara
Tempe - SS229 or https://asu.zoom.us/j/84265453928
(Password: 872070)

Title: To Be Announced
04/11/2022
10:30 am
In-Person / VIRTUAL
Helen Lu
Columbia University
Tempe - SS229 or https://asu.zoom.us/j/84265453928
(Password: 872070)

Title: To Be Announced
04/18/2022
10:30 am
In-Person / VIRTUAL
Bryan Boudouris
Purdue
Tempe - SS229 or https://asu.zoom.us/j/84265453928
(Password: 872070)

Title: To Be Announced
04/25/2022
10:30 am
In-Person / VIRTUAL
Adam Branunschweig
City University of New York
Tempe - SS229 or https://asu.zoom.us/j/84265453928
(Password: 872070)

Fall 2019

DATESPEAKERTITLE
September 9
10:45 AM
SS 229
David Sholl
School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
“Expanding the chemical palette for reliable adsorption based separations”
September 30
10:45 AM
SS 229
Joan Brennecke
McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
“Separating Gases with Ionic Liquids”
October 7
10:45 AM
BDBB 105
Kyongbum Lee
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Tufts University
“Using Metabolomics to Study the Metabolic Functions of the Gut Microbiome“
October 21
10:45 AM BDBB 105
Peter Goggin
Department of English
Arizona State University
“Public speaking and how to pitch your research”
October 28
10:45 AM BDBB 105
Bhavik Bakshi
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
The Ohio State University
“Technologies for Sustainable Development: How can Engineering Deliver?”
November 4
10:45 AM
SS 229
Kristala Prather
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Metabolite Valves: Dynamic Control of Metabolic Flux for Pathway Engineering”
November 8
9:00 AM
SS 229
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
Jay Keasling
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
UC Berkeley
TO BE ANNOUNCED
November 18 10:45 AM BDBB 105Edmund Seebauer
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
The University of Illinois at Urbana
"Design of Semiconducting Oxide Materials for Energy Conversion via Defect Engineering"
November 25
10:45 AM
BDBB 105
Avinoam Nir
Chemical Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
“Flat and toroidal drops in viscous flows”
December 2
10:45 AM BDBB 105
Liang-Shih Fan Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
The Ohio State University
“Metal Derivative Reaction Engineering and Particle Technology Science: A Gateway to Novel Energy Conversion Technology and Commercialization Readiness”

Spring 2019

DATESPEAKERTITLE
January 28
10:45 AM
CPCOM 103
Jennifer Curtis
College of Engineering
University of California, Davis
“Toward Simulation-Based Design of Particle Handling Processes”
February 4
10:45 AM
CPCOM 103
Daniel Schwartz
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Washington
"Whole-Cell Science of Lithium Ion Batteries"
February 11
10:45am
BDBB 105
Distinguished Scholar Lecture
Juan de Pablo
Institute of Molecular Engineering
University of Chicago
"Liquid Crystals - From Simple Self-Assembled Constructs, to Autonomous Materials"
March 18
10:45am
BDBB 105
Shri Ramaswamy
Department of Bioproducts & Biosystems Engr.
University of Minnesota
To be announced
April 1
10:45am
BDBB 105
Ramon Gonzalez
Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
University of Florida
To be announced
April 8
10:45 AM
BDBB 105
John Gladden
Joint BioEnergy Institute
Sandia National Laboratories
To be announced
April 15
10:45 AM
BDBB 105
Joel Karr
Department of Chemical and Biological Engr.
University of Colorado, Boulder
“Connecting Protein Structure, Function, and Interfacial Dynamics with Single-Molecule Methods"
April 22
10:45 AM
BDBB 105
Randall Snurr
Northwestern University
"Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable Platforms for Gas Storage, Chemical Separations and Catalysis"

Fall 2023

DATESPEAKERLOCATION
8/25/2023
1:30 pm
Professor Mike Spottswood

Air Force Lab
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: Research on Structural Behavior in High-Speed Environments
9/29/2023
1:30 pm
Professor Albert Aliseda University of WashingtonTempe SCOB 152

Title: Flow physics and multiactuator
control of a liquid spray
induced by a coaxial turbulent jet
parallel to a laminar liquid stream
10/6/2023
1:30 pm
Professor Gi-Dong Sim

KAIST
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: Understanding the Mechanical
Behavior of Small-scale Materials:
Small for the sake of Big
10/13/2023Professor Chris McComb

Carnegie Mellon University
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: Learning Across the Digital Thread: Machine Learning tori Advanced Manufacturing and Design
10/27/2023
1:30 pm
Professor Michael Malisoff

Louisiana State University
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: Event-Triggered Control Using
Interval Observers
11/3/2023
1:30 pm
Professor Adam Steinberg

Georgia Institute of Technology
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: Applications of Laser Diagnostics to High-Speed, Turbulent, and Reacting Flows
11/17/2023
1:30 pm
Dr. Taher Saif

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: Emergent biohybrid machines and Materials

Spring 2023

DATESPEAKERLOCATION
1/27/2023
10:30 am
Dr. Wayne Johnson
NASA
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: Observations from NASA Research on AAM/UAM eVTOL Aircraft
2/3/2023
10:30 am
Prof. Sridhar Krishnaswamy
Northwestern University
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: Multiscale Direct Laser Writing with Applications to Micro-Photonic Devices and Mechanical Metamaterials
2/10/2023
10:30 am
Dr. Rick BurkeTempe SCOB 152

Title: TBA
2/17/2023
10:30 am
Dr. Martin Jun
Purdue University
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: TBA
2/24/2023
10:30 am
Prof. Margaret Woolridge
University of Michigan
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: TBA
3/3/2023
10:30 am
Dr. Steinberg
Georgia Tech
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: TBA
3/17/2023
10:30 am
Prof. Mitul Luhar
University of Southern California
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: TBA
3/24/2023
10:30 am
Prof. Suveen Mathaudhu
Colorado School of Mines
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: TBA
3/31/2023
10:30 am
Prof. Kirsten MorrisTempe SCOB 152

Title: TBA
4/7/2023
10:30 am
Dr. Gang Wu
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: TBA
4/14/2023
10:30 am
Prof. Mark MeachamTempe SCOB 152

Title: TBA
4/21/2023
10:30 am
Dr. S. Michael Spottswood
Air Force Research Lab
Tempe SCOB 152

Title: TBA

Spring 2022

DATESPEAKERDETAILS
02/04/2022
10:30 am
VIRTUAL
Dr. Erick Wachsman
University of Maryland
Title: Ion Conducting Oxides for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage
02/11/2022
10:30 am
VIRTUAL
Dr. Raymond Gorte
University of Pennsylvania
Title: Electrodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers
02/25/22
10:30 am
VIRTUAL
Dr. Yoonjin Won
University of California Irvine
Title: To Be Announced
03/25/2022
10:30 am
VIRTUAL
Dr. George Havenith
Loughborough University
Title: To Be Announced
04/8/2022
10:30 am
VIRTUAL
Dr. Frank Pfefferkorn
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: To Be Announced
04/22/2022
10:30 am
VIRTUAL
Adam Stevenson
Saint Gobain/Penn State University
Title: To Be Announced
TBA
10:30 am
VIRTUAL
Dr. Zingbo Liu
West Virginia University
Title: To Be Announced
TBA
10:30 am
VIRTUAL
Dr. Xiao-Dong Zhou
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Title: To Be Announced

Fall 2019

DATESPEAKERTITLE
August 30
10:45 AM
COOR 174
Konrad Rykaczewski
Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engr.
Arizona State University
"Introduction Lecture”
September 6
10:45 AM
COOR 174
Kristi Morgansen
William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
University of Washington
“Empirical Methods at the Boundary of Model-Based and Learned Integrated Sensing and Actuation“
September 13
10:45 AM
COOR 174
Kangping Chen
Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engr.
Arizona State University
“Gas drainage from a narrow conduit: intriguing results and applications“
October 4
10:45 AM
COOR 174
Robert Bitmead
Jacobs School of Engineering
UC San Diego
“Conundrums in Everyday Stochastic Control: the Excitation Price of Performance”
October 11
10:45 AM
COOR 174
Robert Moser
Cockrell School of Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
“Investigating Wall-Bounded Turbulence in Direct Numerical Simulations“
October 18
10:45 AM
COOR 174
Elias Balaras Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
George Washington University
TO BE ANNOUNCED
October 25
10:45 AM
COOR 174
Israel Wygnanski
Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
University of Arizona
“Should Active Flow Control (AFC) Become a Design Tool in Aerodynamics?”
November 1
10:45 AM
COOR 174
Wenbo Tang
School of Math & Stat Sciences.
Arizona State University
TO BE ANNOUNCED
November 8
10:45 AM
COOR 174
Xiaolin Zheng
Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
“Beyond Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting”
November 15
10:45 AM
COOR 174
Yong Chen
School of Engineering
University of Southern California
“Electrically Assisted Nanocomposite 3D Printing of Bio-inspired Bouligand Structures“

Spring 2019

DATESPEAKERTITLE
January 11
10:45 AM
PSH 151
Marc Mignolet
Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engr.
Arizona State University
"Welcome"
January 18
10:45 AM
PSH 151
Earl Duque
Applied Research Group
Intelligent Light
"Spectre: A Computational Environment for Managing Total Uncertainty Quantification of CFD Studies"
January 25
10:45 AM
PSH 151
Zi-Kui Liu
Dept. of Materials Science & Engr.
Pennsylvania State University
"Computational Thermodynamics, Materials Genome, and Materials Design"
February 1
10:45 AM
PSH 151
Xiaochun Li
Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engr.
University of California, Los Angeles
"Nanotechnology Enabled Metals Manufacturing"
February 22
10:45 AM
PSH 151
Charles Meneveau
Dept. of Mechanical Engr.
Johns Hopkins University
"Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence in Extended Wind Farms"
March 1
10:45 AM
PSH 151
Beverly McKeon
Dept. of Aeronautics
California Institute of Technology
"Some Implications of Self-similarity in Canonical Wall Turbulence"
March 22
10:45 AM
PSH 151
Jacqueline Chen
Combustion Research Facility
Sandia National Laboratories
"DNS of Turbulent Combustion in Complex Flows"
March 29
10:45 AM
PSH 151
Paul Ronney
Dept. of Aerospace & Mechanical Engr.
University of Southern California
"Microscale Power Generation and Propulsion: It's not the same as big devices made smaller"
April 5
10:45 AM
PSH 151
John Michopoulos
Computational Multiphysics System Lab.
Naval Research Laboratory
"Multiscale and Multiphysics Integrated Computational Material Engineering for Linking Additive Manufacturing Process Parameters to Part Performance "
April 12
10:45 AM
PSH 151
Kyle Squires
Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
Arizona State University
“Passive Flow Control - The Effect of Dimples on Drag Reduction”
April 26
10:45 AM
PSH 151
Applied Poster Session

Spring 2023

DATESPEAKERLOCATION
1/13/2023
11:00 am
VIRTUAL
Prof. Claudia Felser
Max Planck Ins. For Chem of Solids
Virtual Only Zoom Link
(Passcode: 10810)

Title: Chirality and Topology
1/20/2023
11:00 am
VIRTUAL
Dr. Katharine Harrison
Sandia National Lab
In Person and via Zoom Link
(Passcode: 10810)

Title: Sustainability in Human Health Monitoring
1/27/2023
11:00 am
VIRTUAL
Prof. Kimberly See
Cal Tech
In Person and via Zoom Link
(Passcode: 10810)

Title: TBA
2/3/2023
11:00 am
VIRTUAL
Prof. Pascal Thome
Ruhr University Bochum
Virtual Only
Zoom link: TBA
Title: TBA
2/10/2023
11:00 am
VIRTUAL
Prof. Marie Charpagne
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Virtual Only
Zoom link: TBA
Title: TBA
2/17/2023
11:00 am
VIRTUAL
Prof. Monique McClain
Purdue University
Virtual Only
Zoom link: TBA
Title: TBA
2/24/2023
11:00 am
VIRTUAL
Prof. Karen Lozano
University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley
Virtual Only
Zoom link: TBA
Title: TBA
3/3/2023
11:00 am
VIRTUAL
Prof. Lane Martin
University of California Berkeley
In Person and via Zoom
Zoom link: TBA
Title: TBA
3/17/2023
11:00 am
VIRTUAL
Prof. Nella Vargas-Barbosa
Forschungszentrum
Virtual Only
Zoom link: TBA
Title: TBA
3/24/2023
11:00 am
VIRTUAL
Prof. Richard Riman
Rutgers University
Virtual Only
Zoom link: TBA
Title: TBA
3/31/2023
11:00 am
VIRTUAL
Prof. Raphaele Clement
University of California – Santa Barbara
In Person and via Zoom
Zoom link: TBA
Title: TBA
4/7/2023
11:00 am
VIRTUAL
Prof. Sudipta Seal
University of Central Florida
In Person and via Zoom
Zoom link: TBA
Title: TBA

Spring 2022

DATESPEAKER
01/14/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
Prof. Prabhjot Singh
Lockheed Martin
01/21/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
Prof. Naresh Thadhani
Georgia Tech
01/28/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
Prof. Elizabeth Dicky
Carnegie Mellon University
02/11/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
Prof. Valeria Nicolosi
Trinity College Dublin
02/18/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
Charles Kuehmann
Tesla/Spacex
02/25/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
Ghanshyam Pilania
Los Alamos National Labs
03/04/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
Stefan Bringuier
General Atomics
03/18/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
David Masiello
University of Washington
03/25/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
Saryu Fensin
Los Alamos National Labs
04/01/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
Pascal Bellon
University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign
04/08/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
Aparna Baskaran
Brandeis University
04/15/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
Taylor Sparks
University of Utah
04/22/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
Anson Ma
University of Connecticut
04/29/2022
11:00 AM
ZOOM
Jessica Krogstad
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Fall 2019

DATESPEAKERTITLE
September 6
1:30 PM
GWC 465
Bruno Azeredo
Assistant Professor Manufacturing Engineering
Arizona State University, Polytechnic School
“Advances in Nanomanufacturig and Nanomaterials for Additive Manufacturing”
September 27
1:30 pm
GWC 465
Timo Park Ph.D
Field Application Engineer Manger
Samsung SDI America
“Current progress and strategies for future Lithium-ion battery development”
October 18
1:30pm GWC 465
Aditya Mohite
Associate Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Rice University
“Halide perovskites: A new class of semiconductors with emergent functional properties”
November 8 1:30 pm
GWC 465
Brad Boyce
Materials Scientist
Sandia National Laboratories
TO BE ANNOUNCED

Spring 2019

DATESPEAKERTITLE
January 18
10:45 AM
BDH 201
Pulickel Ajayan
Dept. of Material Sciences & NanoEngineering
Rice University
Host: Kaushal Rege
"Materials Science with Two-dimensional Atomic Layers"
January 25
10:45 AM
BDH 201
Mark Hersam
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
Northwestern University
Host: Qing Hua Wang
"Mixed-Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructures for Electronic and Energy Applications"
February 1
10:45 AM
BDH 201
Chaitanya Deo
Nuclear & Radiological Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Kumar Ankit
“Atomic Insights into Structure Property Relationships in Uranium Alloys”
April 19
10:45 AM
BDH 201
Ju Li
Dept. of Nuclear Science & Engineerin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Yang Jiao
"Materials in Energy: From Nano to Macro"

Fall 2023

DATESPEAKERLOCATION
9/1/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Heather Clark

Arizona State University
Biodesign B105-Auditorium

Title: Nanosensors for Imaging the Chemistry of the Body
9/8/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Eileen Seo

Arizona State University
Biodesign B105-Auditorium

Title: Designing Materials at the
Interface of Nanotechnology and Polymer Chemistry
9/15/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Dr. Rahul Pannala

Mayo Clinic
Biodesign B105-Auditorium

Title: Innovation in Clinical Medicine:
Addressing Unmet Needs in
Gastroenterology
9/22/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Arren Liu

Arizona State University
Biodesign B105-Auditorium

Title: Metabolic Engineering for the
biomanufacturing of specialty
chemicals from lignocellulosic
biomass
10/20/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Aditya Kunjapur

University of Delaware
Biodesign B105-Auditorium

Title: Thinking outside of the
bioreactor: How biosynthesis of rare
building blocks can create new
capabilities and safeguards for
engineered microbes
10/27/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Ashish Kulkarni

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Biodesign B105-Auditorium

Title: Nanoscale Approaches for
Therapeutic Immune Modulation
11/17/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Ben Keselowsky

University of Florida
Biodesign B105-Auditorium

Title: Engineered Indoleamine 2,3-
Dioxygenase for Immunometabolic
Suppression of Inflammation
12/1/2023
10:30 am
In Person
Zak Megeed

Covington & Burling LLP
Biodesign B105-Auditorium

Title: Journey before destination. A
career at the interface of science and
law.