Seminar Series - Winter Quarter 2010 - 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CEE Conf. Room # A230
- January 8: Jean-François Gaillard from Northwestern University will give a talk entitled " Planetary Confinement”
- January 15: Faculty Search Seminar
- January 22: Faculty Search Seminar
- January 29: Faculty Search Seminar
- February 5: Faculty Search Seminar
- February 12: Faculty Search Seminar
- February 19: Barth Smets from the Technical University of Denmark will give a talk entitled “High-Rate Autotrophic Nitrogen Removal in a Novel Biofilm Geometry: Bridging Microbial Ecology and Bioreactor Technology”
- February 26: Thea Wilson from Northwestern University will give a talk entitled “Understanding charge migration in organic materials”
- March 5: Mark Witte from Northwestern University will talk about Economics and the Environment. Title: TBA
- March 12: CANCELLED Ian Saratovsky from Nalco Research will give a talk entitled “Remediation of Toxic Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants: Nalco’s Cradle-to-Grave Approach”
- March 19: Kartik Chandran from Columbia University will give a talk entitled “Molecular Mechanisms and Global Inventories of Nitrous Oxide emission from Activated Sludge”
Seminar Series - Fall Quarter 2009 - 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CEE Conf. Room # A230
- September 25: Kimberly Gray from Northwestern University will present her talk entitled "Five Myths about Nanotechnology in the Current Public Policy Debate"
- October 02: Jin Lee from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee will present her talk entitled "Fate and Transport of Bacteria in Porous media"
- October 09: Luisa Marcelino from Northwestern University will present her talk entitled "Coral Bleaching & Lessons on making a Happy Coral-Algae partnership"
- October 16: David Stickler from the University of Cardiff (Wales) will present his talk entitled " Crystalline bacterial biofilms: Clinical & Expermental observations on their development on Urinary Catheters"
- October 23: Danny Abrahms from Northwestern University will present his talk entitled "A Model of Reversible Channel Growth"
- October 30: Paul Desario from Northwestern University will present his talked entitled "The Effect of Nb Additions on the Synthesis, Photo-Response, & Photo Activity of TixNb1-xO2 Thin Films”
- November 06: Chuanwu “Wu” Xi from University of Michigan will present his talk entitled "Bacterial interaction in mixed-species biofilms in drinking water distribution systems"
- November 13: Chip Hilarides from Georgia-Pacific will present his talk entitled "St Bellinghamudy Bay - a mercury remediation case"
- November 20: Klaus Weber from Northwestern University will present his talk entitled “From the streets to the corporate suites - how social movements drive sustainability in the for-profit sector”
- December 4: John Norton from MWH Americas Inc. will present his talk entitled " The water energy nexus: from theory to practice”
- April 3: Jeff Dukes (Purdue University): Burning buried Sunshine: Yesterday’s energy changing tomorrow’s environment
- April 10: Luisa Marcelino ( Northwestern University, EES): Coral bleaching & lessons on making a happy coral-algae relationship
- April 17: at 3:30 p.m. - location TBA - Tori Hoehler (NASA Ames Research Center): Energetics of Habitability
- April 24: Susan Boehme ( IL-IN Sea Grant/EPA) Collaborative problem solving using an industrial ecology approach
- April 29 - Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. ITW Conf. Room -: Laurent Charlet (University of Grenoble): Arsenic in Indian Drinking Waters
- May 8: JoAnne Burkholder (North Carolina State University): Decadal analysis of land use, water quality and phytoplankton assemblages in a coastal watershed
- May 22: Yun Wang (Northwestern University, EES): Redox-active antibiotics promote bacterial biofilm development via iron acquisition
- June 5: Scott Swinton (Michigan State University): What if we get what we’ve legislated?
Seminar Series - Winter Quarter 2009 - 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. CEE Conf. Room # A230
- January 9: J.-F. Gaillard (Northwestern University, ESS & EPS): “Darwin, Evolution & the Environment”.
- January 16: Roel Snieder (Colorado School of Mines): “The Global Energy Challenge” – Joint with Earth and Planetary Sciences -
- January 23: Patrick Hayes (Northwestern University, Chemistry): "Agricultural Antibiotics and Contaminants at Environmental Interfaces Studied by Nonlinear Optics"
- January 30: Jorge Nocedal (Northwestern University, EECS): “Optimization Methods for Inverse Geophysical, Weather Forecasting and Imaging Problems”.
- February 6: Dr. Daniel Larkin (Chicago Botanical Garden & PBC Northwestern University): Can Restoration Overcome the Damage Caused by Engineers?
- February 13: Justin Notestein (Northwestern University, CBE): “Molecular Oxidative Catalysis”.
- February 20: Igal Szleifer (Northwestern University, BME): “Nanoparticles: dispersion and interactions”
- February 27: Mercouri Kanatzidis (Northwestern University, Chemistry) “Metal Sulfides for the Capture of Heavy Metals”.
- March 6: Cathleen Hoel (Northwestern University, Chemistry): “Transparent Conductive Oxides: Probing the structure of ZITO by EXAFS”.
- March 13: Michael Pellin (Argonne National Laboratory & Northwestern University Chemistry): Title TBA
- October 03: Mark Clark from Northwestern University will present his talk entitled "My Career-Colloids,Fluids,Membranes and Aquaporins"
- October 10: Marco Alsina from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile will present his talk entitled "Arsenic in the rivers of Northern Chile"
- October 17: Paul DeSario of Northwestern University will present his talk entitled "TiO2 based materials for potential use in solar energy harvest and conversion"
- October 24: Helen Nguyen from the University of Illinois will present her talk entitled " Virus as nanoparticles: Interactions with environmental surfaces in aquatic systems"
- October 31: Dirk Brockmann from Northwestern University will present his talk entitled "Fractional diffusion and scalling laws in money dispersal"
- November 7: Joshua Shrout from the University of Notre Dame will present his talked entitled "Do these bacteria know what they're doing? - Surface and community sensing during biofilm development”
- November 14: Marshall Lindsay from Northwestern University will present is talk entitled "The effect of residential location on vehicle miles of travel, energy consumption and greehouse gas emissions in Chicago"
- November 21: Wei Zhang from Northwestern University will present her talk entitled "A novel flow cell system for study of flow-biofilm interactions"
- December 5: Steven Handel from Rutgers University will present his talk entitled " Can we link Urban restoration ecology and bioengineering?”