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Speakers should plan to end at 4:40 to allow at least 10 minutes for questions and discussion.
Students may make up seminars by attending seminars by watching recorded sessions online or attending other relevant seminars at BYU. The Mechanical Engineering department holds seminars on Monday at 4 PM in 381 CB. Below is a link to the current schedule of seminar speakers.
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar
Another opportunity is the Modeling and Optimization Symposium that is conducted via Webinar on most Tuesdays (typically 9 AM). Some of the sessions are cross-listed with the graduate seminar while others are hosted from remote locations.
Modeling and Optimization Symposium
Many of these lectures will also be of interest to chemical engineering students and faculty. The events are cross-listed to raise awareness of the opportunity to attend these lectures as well as the chemical engineering graduate seminar.
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BYU Graduate Seminars - Fall 2015
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. Attendance at all seminars (except the opening social) is required.
| Presenter | Date | Time | Topic | Host |
| 3 Sept | 4 PM | Seminar Overview Welcome New Graduate Students Individual Development Plan | ||
| Opening Social at Rock Canyon Park | 10 Sept | 4 PM | ||
| Finis Southworth, Chief Technology Officer, AREVA (presentation in 377 CB) | 17 Sept | 4 PM | Generation IV nuclear reactors: HTR, too safe to license? | MJM |
| L. Douglas Smoot, former Dean of the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering & Technology | 24 Sept | 4 PM | Clean Coke and Honored Ancestor | Dept. |
| Josephine Hill, University of Calgary | 1 Oct | 4 PM | Carbon and Catalysts - Characterization, Activation, Gasification, and Capture | MDA |
| Frank Doyle, Dean, Harvard University | 8 Oct | 4 PM | Engineering the Artificial Pancreas | JDH |
| Ian Wheeldon, UC Riverside | 15 Oct | 4 PM | Metabolic Pathway Engineering | RSL |
| Peter Ferrin, Hexel | 22 Oct | 4 PM | Direct Methanol Fuel Cells | MDA |
| Thomas Fletcher, BYU Izatt-Christensen Scholar (presentation in W112 BNSN) | 29 Oct | 4 PM | How Did a Trombone Player End Up Doing Research on Coal Combustion? | WGP |
| JoAnn Lighty, University of Utah and NSF | 5 Nov | 4 PM | Research Opportunities at NSF and in the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Division | DOL |
| No Seminar | 12 Nov | 4 PM | AIChE Annual Meeting | |
| Ryan Mullen | 19 Nov | 4 PM | Rare Events Methodology in MD Simulations | LLB |
| No Seminar | 26 Nov | 4 PM | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| Doug Tree | 3 Dec | 4 PM | Self-consistent Field Theory | LLB |
| Andre Palmer, Ohio State University | 10 Dec | 4 PM | Blood Substitutes | WGP |
| Nathan Meehan | TBD | 4 PM | JDH | |
| Jonathan Posner | TBD | 4 PM | RSL | |
| Russ Rhinehart | TBD | 4 PM | JDH | |
| Rendell Newton | TBD | 4 PM | Sasol | WCH |
Speakers should plan to end at 4:40 to allow at least 10 minutes for questions and discussion.
Students may make up seminars by attending seminars by watching recorded sessions online or attending other relevant seminars at BYU. The Mechanical Engineering department holds seminars on Monday at 4 PM in 381 CB. Below is a link to the current schedule of seminar speakers.
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar
Another opportunity is the Modeling and Optimization Symposium that is conducted via Webinar on most Tuesdays (typically 9 AM). Some of the sessions are cross-listed with the graduate seminar while others are hosted from remote locations.
Modeling and Optimization Symposium
Many of these lectures will also be of interest to chemical engineering students and faculty. The events are cross-listed to raise awareness of the opportunity to attend these lectures as well as the chemical engineering graduate seminar.
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