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Sukant Tripathy Annual Memorial Symposium 2001 The University of Massachusetts Lowell will hold an anniversary symposium on November 30, 2001, to honor the memory of Prof. Sukant Tripathy, renowed researcher and Director of the Center for Advanced Materials, and former UniversityProvost and Vice Chancellor.  It is envisioned that this will be an annual event of the Center for Advanced Materials to bring together researchers and colleagues from universities and industries, as well as former and present students and associates of the Center, to present and discuss latest research activities in the materials science.  This Symposium will be held on Friday of the Boston MRS Meeting week.  Please note that the technical papers of this symposium will be published as a special issue of the Journal of Macromolecular Science.

Friday, November 30, 2001
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
University of Massachusetts Lowell, MIL Conference Room
Wannalancit Mills, 600 Suffolk Street, Lowell

Directions atwww.uml.edu/research/directions.html

Speakers

David Kaplan, Tufts University

Accommodations

and request UMass Symposium Block for $89 rate

Registration

Details and Changes

Get Involved as a Student

The Center for Advanced Materials is committed to supporting students at every stage of their research journey. The Tripathy Memorial Endowed Summer Graduate Fellowship awards up to two outstanding doctoral candidates each year with a $7,500 stipend to support their summer research in their final year. CAM also hosts the annual Prof. Sukant Tripathy Lecture and the annual Prof. Sukant Tripathy memorial symposium, bringing leading researchers in materials science to UMass Lowell.

Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016

Please join Chancellor Jacquie Moloney as she presents this year's distinguished Lecturer, Steven Chu, with an Honorary Degree during the 2016 Tripathy Endowed Memorial Lecture.

"Climate Change and a Path to Clean Energy"
Presented by: Professor Steven Chu,  1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy, William R. Kenan Jr. professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology, School of Medicine at Stanford University
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016
Time: Honorary Degree Presentation at 2:30 p.m., Lecture at 3:30 p.m., Reception at 5 p.m.
Location: Moloney Hall, University Crossing, 220 Pawtucket St., Lowell

Abstract

The industrial and agricultural revolutions have profoundly transformed the world, but the unintended consequence of these revolutions is that we are changing the climate of Earth. I will briefly describe new data on climate change, the rapidly changing energy landscape, and then turn to the potential and challenges in the transition to clean energy sources in a low cost option towards a more sustainable world.

Bio

Steven Chu is the William R. Kenan Jr. professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology, School of Medicine at Stanford University.  He has published some 260 papers in atomic and polymer physics, laser spectroscopy, biophysics, biology, biomedicine, batteries, and holds 11 patents.

Chu was the 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy (January 2009 through April 2013), the longest-serving Energy Secretary. As the first scientist to hold a Cabinet position, he recruited outstanding scientists and engineers into the Department of Energy. He began several initiatives including ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy), the Energy Innovation Hubs, the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Centers (CERC), and was tasked by President Obama to assist BP in stopping the Deepwater Horizon oil leak. Prior to his cabinet post, he was director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley. Previously he was twice Chair of Physics and helped launch bio-X at Stanford University, and headed the Quantum Electronics Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Chu has numerous awards including the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to laser cooling and atom trapping. He holds 30 honorary degrees and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Sinica, and is a foreign member of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology.

Get Involved as a Student

The Center for Advanced Materials is committed to supporting students at every stage of their research journey. The Tripathy Memorial Endowed Summer Graduate Fellowship awards up to two outstanding doctoral candidates each year with a $7,500 stipend to support their summer research in their final year. CAM also hosts the annual Prof. Sukant Tripathy Lecture and the annual Prof. Sukant Tripathy memorial symposium, bringing leading researchers in materials science to UMass Lowell.

Education

B.S., Indian Institute of Technology 1972
M.S., Indian Institute of Technology 1974
Ph.D., Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University 1981

Experience

University of Massachusetts Lowell

Lowell, Massachusetts

• Professor, Department of Chemistry, Polymer Program 1987 - present 
• Director, Center for Advanced Materials 1992 - present 
• Provost /Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs 1994 - 1996 
• Co-Chairman, Council of Federated Centers and Institutes 1993 - 1995 
• University Professor 1991 - 1994 
• Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Polymer Program 1986 - 1987 
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, Polymer Program 1985 - 1986 

GTE LABORATORIES, INC.

Waltham, Massachusetts 1981 - 1986

• Manager, Organic and Polymer Material Sciences Department 6/86 - 8/86 
• Manager, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department 1983 - 1986
  • Responsible for theoretical and experimental research in the areas of Macromolecular Science, Organized Molecular Assemblies, Anisotropic Molecular Crystals, Biomolecular Organizations, among others, with emphasis on the electronic, electrical, optical and related property aspects. 
• Member of Technical Staff 1981 - 1983
  • Investigation of electronic and optical properties and their molecular basis in synthetic polymeric systems.  Theoretical and experimental research in establishing structure property relationships in conducting and nonlinear optical polymers. 

Honors

• National Science Talent Search Fellow, NCERT, India  1969 
• National Merit Fellowship, India  1969 
• Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Visiting Professor April,May, 1989 
• American Chemical Society Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award 1992
• Taiwan National Science Academy, Visiting Professor April, 1994 
• Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Visiting Professor July-September 1997 

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE

Broadly span molecular organization and supramolecular assemblies of macromolecules, including natural substances, their electronic and optical property aspects, structural modelling, and design and development to obtain unique properties, demonstrate novel phenomenon and create new applications.  Extensive research background in electroactive polymers, organic nonlinear optics and theoretical modelling and simulation of macromolecular systems leading to the establishment of structure-property relationships and design of advanced polymeric systems and their growth under unusual circumstances.

COURSES TAUGHT AT UNIVERISTY OF MA LOWELL

97-505-Polymer Preparation and Characterization I

97-5060-Polymer Preparation and Characterization II

These two polymer laboratory courses have been significantly improved during the period I have been offering them.  New experiments have been included and an equipment acquisition proposal to NSF has been funded and will provide substantial upgrading of the instrumentation and instructional aspects in this course.

97-651-Special Topics in Polymer Science

High Performance Polymers

84-122-Chemistry II

84-123-Chemistry I

84-124-Chemistry II

84-350-Phys. Bioinorganic Lab.

This course involves undergraduate instruction and substantial personal interaction with freshmen and sophomores.

97-504-Polymer Science II

97-549-Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules

These are required graduate polymer science courses

In addition, organized a colloquium series for the polymer program and

supervised graduate student seminars.

97-604-Polymer Science Colloquium

97-602-Graduate Student Seminar

Education

B.S., Indian Institute of Technology 1972
M.S., Indian Institute of Technology 1974
Ph.D., Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University 1981

Experience

University of Massachusetts Lowell

Lowell, Massachusetts

• Professor, Department of Chemistry, Polymer Program 1987 - present 
• Director, Center for Advanced Materials 1992 - present 
• Provost /Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs 1994 - 1996 
• Co-Chairman, Council of Federated Centers and Institutes 1993 - 1995 
• University Professor 1991 - 1994 
• Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Polymer Program 1986 - 1987 
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, Polymer Program 1985 - 1986 

GTE LABORATORIES, INC.

Waltham, Massachusetts 1981 - 1986

• Manager, Organic and Polymer Material Sciences Department 6/86 - 8/86 
• Manager, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department 1983 - 1986
  • Responsible for theoretical and experimental research in the areas of Macromolecular Science, Organized Molecular Assemblies, Anisotropic Molecular Crystals, Biomolecular Organizations, among others, with emphasis on the electronic, electrical, optical and related property aspects. 
• Member of Technical Staff 1981 - 1983
  • Investigation of electronic and optical properties and their molecular basis in synthetic polymeric systems.  Theoretical and experimental research in establishing structure property relationships in conducting and nonlinear optical polymers. 

Honors

• National Science Talent Search Fellow, NCERT, India  1969 
• National Merit Fellowship, India  1969 
• Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Visiting Professor April,May, 1989 
• American Chemical Society Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award 1992
• Taiwan National Science Academy, Visiting Professor April, 1994 
• Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Visiting Professor July-September 1997 

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE

Broadly span molecular organization and supramolecular assemblies of macromolecules, including natural substances, their electronic and optical property aspects, structural modelling, and design and development to obtain unique properties, demonstrate novel phenomenon and create new applications.  Extensive research background in electroactive polymers, organic nonlinear optics and theoretical modelling and simulation of macromolecular systems leading to the establishment of structure-property relationships and design of advanced polymeric systems and their growth under unusual circumstances.

COURSES TAUGHT AT UNIVERISTY OF MA LOWELL

97-505-Polymer Preparation and Characterization I

97-5060-Polymer Preparation and Characterization II

These two polymer laboratory courses have been significantly improved during the period I have been offering them.  New experiments have been included and an equipment acquisition proposal to NSF has been funded and will provide substantial upgrading of the instrumentation and instructional aspects in this course.

97-651-Special Topics in Polymer Science

High Performance Polymers

84-122-Chemistry II

84-123-Chemistry I

84-124-Chemistry II

84-350-Phys. Bioinorganic Lab.

This course involves undergraduate instruction and substantial personal interaction with freshmen and sophomores.

97-504-Polymer Science II

97-549-Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules

These are required graduate polymer science courses

In addition, organized a colloquium series for the polymer program and

supervised graduate student seminars.

97-604-Polymer Science Colloquium

97-602-Graduate Student Seminar

Interactions with U.S. Government Agencies

• National Science Foundation
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• Office of Naval Research
• Army Research Office
• U.S Army Soldier Systems Center
• Department of Energy

Recent Collaborations with Industrial Organizations

• St. Gobain/ Norton Industrial Ceramics
• Smiths Detection
• Prescient
• Triton

Recent Collaborations with Private Institutions

Academy of Applied Sciences

Battelle

Recent interactions with Academic Institutions

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (Brazil)
• University of New Hampshire
• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• University of Delhi
• Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
• Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India