2003-04 Seminars
Chemical Engineering Department
State University of New York at Buffalo
September 3
Robert Najjar
Chemical Hygiene Hazardous Materials Manager – SUNY at
Buffalo
Right to know – chemical laboratory safety
September 17
Manoj K. Chaudhury
Lehigh University
Guiding liquid drops on surfaces
September 24
H. Michael Cheung
The University of Akron
Polymerized microemulsions of hema and mma as potential controlled
drug delivery devices
October 8
David Sholl
Carnegie Mellon University
Simulating practical and possible uses of gas separation membranes:
zeolites, carbon nanotubes, and metal alloys
October 13
Francoise Winnik
Faculte de Pharmacie, University of Montreal
Multidomain polymeric micelles: design and characterization
October 22
Yaoqi Zhou
Physiology, SUNY at Buffalo
Toward a more accurate energy function of proteins via statistical
methods: the power of combining structural knowledge with physical
principles
October 29
Andrey A. Markov
The Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Multi scale numerical simulation of strongly coupled two-phase
reacting flow
November 5
David S. Corti
Purdue University
Homogeneous bubble nucleation and cavity formation
in superheated liquids
December 3
Jeffrey Skolnick
Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics, SUNY at Buffalo
January 21
Chemical Hygiene Hazardous Materials Manager – SUNY at
Buffalo
RCRA Training
January 28
George T. DeTitta
Executive Director, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
Department of Structural Biology, SUNY at Buffalo
HTP Macromolecular Crystallization: Scale-Up Issues Going from
10 to the 2 to 10 to the 6 Experiments Per Annum
February 4
Shekhar Garde
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Water-Mediated Interactions Relevant to Protein Structure and
Stability:
Understanding Pressure Effects on Proteins
February 11
John M. Canty, Jr., M.D.
Physiology & Biophysics, Division of Cardiology, School of
Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
SUNY at Buffalo
Adaptive and maladaptive responses of the heart to chronic ischemia
February 18
Eduardo Glandt
University of Pennsylvania
Surface Deposition: Equilibrium, Nonequilibrium and What Lies
in Between
February 25
Arindam Sen
Dept. of Cancer Biology, Molecular & Cellular Biophysics,
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Strategies in localized drug delivery
March 3
Robert K. Prud'homme
Princeton University
Two problems with polymer self-assembly: polymer-surfactant
interactions and making nanoparticles
March 10
Mikhail Khenner
Dept. of Mathematics, SUNY at Buffalo
Modeling of epitaxy on a masked substrate
April 7
Michael B. Lawrence
Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
Biomechanical Control of Leukocyte Targeting of Inflamed Vasculature
April 14
Igor B. Zhulin
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Comparative genomics of signal transduction in prokaryotes
April 21
Julio M. Ottino
Northwestern University
A Window into Complexity: Simple Examples of Self-Organizing
Systems
April 28
Ioannis G. Economou
Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Research Center for
Physical Sciences, Greece
Modeling of structure and physical properties of complex soft
materials with molecular simulation methods
