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BYU Graduate Seminars - Fall 2012
Graduate Seminar Schedule
Graduate seminars are held every week on Thursday at 4 PM Mountain Time. Seminars consist of industrial topics and academic research in chemical engineering and related disciplines. The seminar speakers include professors, graduate students, industrial collaborators, and other guests. A schedule of the seminars is provided below with a link to register for remote participants.
| Topic | Date | Time | Presenter | Description | Safety Moment | |
| Mass Transport and Reaction in Microstructured Gas/Liquid Reactors | August 30, 2012 | 4 PM | Kristin Hecht | Gas/liquid reactions are important to many biological and industrial processes. Microstructured gas/liquid reactors offer excellent heat transport properties, interfacial areas orders of magnitude larger than conventional devices, and can potentially be operated over a wider range of liquid holdups.Values of the interfacial area and mass transport coefficients can be extracted from experiments of chemical reaction. | Bradley Nielson | |
| Last Lecture | Sept 6, 2012 | 4 PM | Ken Solen | After serving BYU for the past 36 years, Dr. Solen is retiring. We will be privileged to hear his insights during this Last Lecture in MARB 446. | Joseph Bell | |
| Leveraging Molecular Interactions and Self-assembly for Biochemical Analysis and Nanofabrication | Sept 13, 2012 | 4 PM W140 BNSN | Adam Woolley | Reed M. Izatt & James J. Christensen Faculty Excellence in Research Award Seminar Announcement | --- | |
| Graduate Student Research | Sept 20, 2012 | 4 PM | Mark Jensen Preston Tam Jose Mojica Dallan Prince | Graduate students present their research for 5-10 minutes. | --- | |
| Optional: Bouncing drops and wrinkling bubbles | Sept 24, 2012 | 4 PM 256 CB | James Bird | Mechanical Engineering Lecture Seminar Announcement | --- | |
| Opening Social | Sept 27, 2012 | 4 PM | Rock Canyon Park | |||
| Enzymatic Bioprocessing | Oct 4, 2012 | 4 PM | Ryan Summers, University of Iowa | Metabolic engineering of microorganisms to decaffeinate coffee waste for production of animal feed and biofuels | Pan Yining | |
| Smart Energy Storage | Oct 11, 2012 | 4 PM | Kody Powell, UT Austin | Optimization and forecasting are applied to best utilize energy storage in a smart energy grid. Seminar Announcement | Preston Tam | |
| Optional: Solar Power | Oct 15, 2012 | 4 PM 250 CTB | Wojciech Lipinski, University of Minnesota | Mechanical Engineering Lecture: From sunlight to fuels and power: Radiative transfer and properties. Seminar Announcement | --- | |
| Imaging Science | Oct 18, 2012 | 4 PM W111 BNSN | Jesse Belden | Mechanical Engineering Lecture Seminar Announcement Imaging for new science and new science for imaging | Bibek Uprety | |
| Drug Delivery | Oct 25, 2012 | 4 PM | James Lattin | Techniques for drug delivery with ultrasound and emulsions. | Jacob Williams | |
| Global Climate & Energy Project | Nov 1, 2012 | 4 PM | Sally Benson | Dr. Benson is in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering (ERE) in the School of Earth Sciences and has been a member of Stanford’s faculty since 2007. Her research group in ERE investigates fundamental characteristics of carbon dioxide storage in geologic formations as a means of climate change mitigation. | Yuan Wen | |
| Consistent Bayesian Estimation | Nov 6, 2012 | 4 PM 290B FB | Clark Taylor | Optional Seminar: Announcement | -- | |
| ACET Event | Nov 8, 2012 | 4 PM W111 BNSN | CEOs and Business Leaders to talk with Faculty and Students. Announcement | -- | ||
| Scalable Photovoltaics through Nanotechnology | Nov 15, 2012 | 4 PM | Bryce Walker | To reduce the cost of solar cells, scalable deposition routes of inorganic semiconductors are necessary. Solvent dispersed nanocrystals are a proposed path with potential success. | Mark Smith | |
| No Seminar | Nov 22, 2012 | 4 PM | --- | --- | ||
| Drug Delivery | Nov 29, 2012 | 4 PM | Joanne Chung-Yin Lin | Joanne obtained her PhD from and is currently a research fellow at the premier biomedical institution in Taiwan: Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University | Will Schaffers | |
| Gene Expression | Dec 6, 2012 | 4 PM | Eric Haseltine, Vertex Pharmaceuticals | Vertex Pharmaceuticals creates new possibilities in medicine to cure diseases and improve lives. Eric will discuss genome expression for therapeutic design. | Nima Momtahan |