Polymer Colloquium Schedule
All colloquia will take place on Thursday from 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Olney Science Center room 518 or virtually online via Zoom.
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 22 | Meg Sobkowicz-Kline Department of Plastic Engineering University of Massachusetts Lowell | "In Pursuit of Circular Plastics: Mechanical, Chemical, and Biological Conversions for Advanced Polymer Recycling" |
| October 6 | David Putnam Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Cornell University | "Design and Synthesis of Functional Biomaterials as Medical Devices" |
| October 20 | Prof. Su Ryon Shin Department of Medicine Harvard Medical School / Brigham & Women's Hospital | "Micro/Nano Engineered Biomaterials for Manufacturing Biomimetic Tissues and Biomedical Applications" |
| November 3 | Prof. Vladimir Torchilin Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Northeastern University | "Design Lipid-Based Nanopreparations for Stimuli-Sensitive and Organelle-Specific Targeting" |
| November 17 | Prof. Eric Berda Department of Chemistry University of New Hampshire | "What an Impossible Problem Taught Me About Polymer Chemistry" |
| December 1 | Kirk Schanze Department of Chemistry University of Houston | "Properties and Applications of Water-Soluble Conjugated Polymers" |
Spring 2022
| Date | Speaker | Title & Zoom Link |
|---|---|---|
| Feb. 10 | Prof. Harm-Anton Klok Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering / Polymers Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne / EPFL | “Engineering Macromolecules at Interfaces Using Controlled Radical Polymerization” |
| Feb. 24 | Prof. Erin Lavik
Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland | "Engineering Nanoparticles to Control Bleeding and Deliver Therapeutics" |
| March 24 | Prof. Effie Kokkoli Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University l | “TBA” |
| April 7 | Prof. Georges Hadziioannou Department of Chemistry, University of Bordeaux | ““Solid-State Electrocaloric Cooling: from Materials to Devices" |
| April 21 | Prof. David Cormode Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania | “Polyphosphazene and Dextran Polymers as Delivery Vehicles for Imaging and Therapy” |