This schedule will be updated as lecture details are finalized.
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held at 11 a.m. on the date indicated.
Please note that for spring semester 2024 the seminars will be held in Durham 171.
Detailed information will be distributed to department graduate students and faculty prior to each seminar. Seminars are open to all ISU faculty, staff, students, post-doctoral researchers and scientists.
| August 24 | Introductory Seminar | Reginald R. Baxter Endowed Department Chair Dennis Vigil and Department Faculty |
| August 31 | Safety Seminar | Department Faculty & Staff |
| L.K. Doraiswamy Graduate Seminar Series Fall Semester 2023 |
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| Sept. 7 | “Energy Transition: The Challenge of Our Century” | Fabio H. Ribeiro, Purdue University Davidson School of Chemical Engineering; Director, NSF Engineering Research Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources (CISTAR) |
| Sept. 14 | “Artificial Intelligence Tools for Antibody Engineering and Protein Docking” | Jeffrey Gray, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering |
| Sept. 21 | “Computational Design of Nanoparticle and DNA-Origami Assemblies of New Architectures and Functions” | Gaurav Arya, Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University |
| Sept. 28 | “Designing Cell Factories For The Future” | Eric Mosher Young, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Oct. 5 | “Targeting mechanobiological feedback to reverse fibrosis” | Daniel J. Tschumperlin, Mayo Clinic |
| Oct. 12 | “Engineering Active Sites and Environments to Guide Catalytic Transformations for Sustainable Energy & Selective Chemicals Production” | Matthew Neurock, University of Minnesota Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science |
| Oct. 19 | “Functionalizing organic-inorganic interfaces for upgrading of CO2 and biomass derivatives” | J. Will Medlin, University of Colorado Boulder Chemical and Biological Engineering |
| Oct. 24 | “Towards mitigation of adverse climate changes effected by CO2, industrial practices are increasingly focusing on decarbonization” | Ravindra D. Gudi, Dean (ACR) and Professor (Chemical Engineering), IIT Bombay (11:00 a.m, 1330 ATRB) |
| Nov. 2 | “Re-creating cellular protein synthesis and posttranslational modification on-chip for cell-free biomanufacturing of therapeutics” | Susan Daniel, Cornell University Smith School of Chemical and Biological Engineering |
| Nov. 9 | No Seminar – AIChE Annual Meeting | |
| Nov. 16 | Graduate Student Town Hall | Faculty and Students |
| Nov. 30 | “Synthetic mucins: from new chemical routes to engineered cells” | Jessica Kramer, University of Utah |
| L.K. Doraiswamy Graduate Seminar Series Spring Semester 2024 | ||
| Jan. 25 | Safety Seminar | John Kaiser/Stephanie Loveland |
| Feb. 1 | Engineering and materials approaches to find, understand, and kill metastatic cancer cells | Shelly Peyton, University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Engineering |
| Feb. 8 | Graduate Student Town Hall | Matthew Panthani and Students |
| Feb. 15 | Assessment | Heidi Doelinger, Iowa State University College of Engineering Assessment Analyst |
| Feb. 29 | Enhancing Heterogeneous Catalysis by Engineering Surface Structure: Guiding Design with First-Principles Calculations | Luke Roling, Iowa State CBE |
| March 7 | Olefin Oligomerization by Lewis Acid, Heterogeneous Catalysis | Jeffrey T. Miller, Purdue University Davidson School of Chemical Engineering |
| March 14 | Spring Break – no seminar | |
| March 21 | **Canceled** | |
| March 28 | Examining Project-Based Learning as a Means to Develop Student Self-Efficacy and Professional Skills | Ann Saterbak, Duke Biomedical Engineering |
| April 4 | New Catalytic Mechanisms for Activating Strong Bonds in Renewable Feedstocks | Long Qi, Ames National Laboratory |
| April 18 | Probing Mechanical Fingerprints to Understand Instability Mechanisms in Battery Materials | Özgϋr Çapraz, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Department of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering |
| April 25 | Single Metal Site Catalysts for Sustainable and Clean Hydrogen Energy | Gang Wu, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering |
