2022-2023
Rachel Segalman
Edward Noble Kramer Professor
Department Chair – NAE
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
“Charge-neutral Polymer Complexes as Battery Components”
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
2021-2022
Martin Bazant
E.G. Roos (1944) Professor of Chemical Engineering and Mathematics
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIR), Boston, MA
“Learning Battery Physics from Images”
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
2019-2021
Benny Freeman
McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering
Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, Center for Research in Water Resourses and Teas Materials Institute
The University of Texas-Austin
“Ion Solubility, Diffusivity, and Transport in Charged Polymer Membranes”
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
2017-2018
Glenn H. Fredrickson
Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials
Materials Research Laboratory
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Field-Theoretic Simulations: From Advanced Materials to Quantum Liquids”
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
2016-2017
Julia A. Kornfield
California Institute of Technology
“Megasupramolecules”
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
2015-2016
Gerald G. Fuller
Stanford University
“All Stressed Out: Mammalian Cells Subject to Adhesive and Hydrodynamic Stress”
Thursday, April 21, 2016
2014-2015
Norman J. Wagner
University of Delaware
“How do Colloidal Gels Form and Flow?”
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
2013-2014
Pablo G. Debenedetti
Princeton University
“Thermodynamic and Kinetic Models of the Emergence of Biological Homochirality”
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
2012-2013
Doros Theodorou
National Technical University of Athens
“Molecular Simulations of Polymers: Melts, Networks, Nanocomposites”
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
2011-2012
Kathleen J. Stebe
University of Pennsylvania
“Oriented Assembly by Capillarity”
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
2010-2011
Howard A. Stone
Princeton University
“Bacteria, Surfaces and Laminar Flows”
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
2009-2010
Gareth H. McKinley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Designing Omniphobic Surfaces for Super Liquid Repellency and Friction Reduction”
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
2008-2009
Ole Hassager
Technical University of Denmark
“Filament-stretching Rheometry: A Probe for Polymer Dynamics”
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
2007-2008
Flemming Besenbacher
University of Aarhus
“Catalytic Model Systems and Surface Reactivity Studied at the Atomic Scale by High-resolution, Fast-scanning STM”
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
2006-2007
Darsh T. Wasan
Illinois Institute of Technology
“Novel Fluid-particle Interaction Mechanisms in Dispersions”
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
2005-2006
William B. Russel
Princeton University
“From Pillars and Rings to Infinite Arrays: Pattern Formation in Thin Polymer Films due to Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities”
May 1, 2006
2004-2005
Robert K. Prud’homme
Princeton University
“Something Old, Something New: Two Problems of Confinement and Dynamics of Polymers in Solution”
Thursday, April 21, 2005
2003-2004
John F. Brady
California Institute of Technology
“The Micromechanics of Complex Fluids”
April 8, 2004
2002-2003
Klavs F. Jensen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“BSL Miniatures: Transport Phenomena in Chemical and Biological Microsystems”
September 17, 2002
2001-2002
William R. Schowalter
University of Illinois
“The Equations (of Change) Don’t Change, But the Profession of Engineering Does”
October 2, 2001