Levich Institute Spring, 2008 Seminar Series [CHE I0100]
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SEMINARS ON TUESDAYS, AT 2:00 PM IN STEINMAN HALL, #312
(Chemical Engineering Conference Room)
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

Click on seminar date for meeting schedule (if any)
Date Speaker Affiliation Seminar Title/Notes
01/29/2008 Professor Jacob Israelachvili University of California, Santa Barbara
Chemical Engineering Department		 "The Transition from Liquid to Solid 'Failure' Mechanisms"

(Please note that Professor Israelchvili will also be presenting the ChE Katz Lecture on Monday, January 28, 2008 - details to be provided at a later date)

[This is a CCNY/Columbia NSF-IGERT Soft Materials seminar]
02/05/2008 Dr. Allan Ye City College of CUNY
Levich Institute		 "Pulling and Pushing - Uniaxial Extension of Polymer Solutions and Uniaxial Compression of Granular Materials"
02/12/2008 ************** NO SEMINAR Lincoln's Birthday
02/19/2008 Professor Andrea Prosperetti Johns Hopkins University
Mechanical Engineering Department		 "Some Flows with Bubbles and Particles"
02/26/2008 Dr. Shahab Shojaei-Zadeh City College of CUNY
Levich Institute		 "Confinement and Flow of Microscopic Defects in Layered Liquids"
03/04/2008 Dean David Srolovitz Yeshiva University
Yeshiva College		 "Soap Bubble Evolution and Grain Growth in All Dimensions: Beyond von Neumann-Mullins"
03/11/2008 Professor Richard Weiss Georgetown University
Department of Chemistry		 "Molecular Organogels - Structure, Dynamics of Formation and Applications"

[This is a CCNY/Columbia NSF-IGERT Soft Materials seminar]
03/18/2008 Professor Carlos A. Meriles City College of CUNY
Physics Department		 "A New Approach to Magnetic Resonance at the Microscale: Dipolar Field Microscopy"
03/25/2008 Professor Robert Prud'homme Princeton University
Chemical Engineering Department		 "Drug Delivery and Imaging Using Nanoparticles Produced by Block-copolymer Directed Flash NanoPrecipitation"
04/01/2008 Professor Lou Kondic New Jersey Institute of Technology
Department of Mathematical Sciences		 "Breakup of Films and Rivulets"
04/08/2008 ************** NO SEMINAR **************
04/15/2008
(4:00 PM)		 Professor John Brady California Institute of Technology
Department of Chemical Engineering		 "Osmotic Propulsion: The Osmotic Motor"

[This is a CCNY/Columbia NSF-IGERT Soft Materials seminar to be held at Columbia University - 500 W. 120th Street, 825 Mudd Building]
04/22/2008 ************** NO SEMINAR Spring Recess
04/29/2008 Professor Bulbul Chakraborty Brandeis University
Physics Department		 "A Phase Space for Jamming"
05/06/2008 Professor John Bush Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Mathematics		 "Surface Tension in Biology"


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