| Date | Event | Presenter | Time (EST) & Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 12/05/17 |
DEI Guest Seminar Speaker | Andreas Malikopoulos University of Delaware, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical EngineeringAbstract title: “A Decentralized Energy-‐Optimal Control Framework for Connected and Automated Vehicles” |
4:00 PM in 106 CCM |
| Tuesday 12/12/17 |
DEI Guest Seminar Speaker | John Byrne University of Delaware, Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy and Director, Center for Energy and Environmental PolicyAbstract title: “New Strategies for the New Climate: Thoughts and Observations After the COP23 Bonn Meetings” |
4:00 PM in 106 CCM |
| Tuesday 11/28/2017 |
DEI Guest Seminar Speaker | Benjamin Wollet University of Delaware, Department of HistoryAbstract title: “Pumping Gas, Mobilizing Interests: A History of Climate Change and Transportation, 1987–93” |
4:00 PM in 106 CCM |
| Thursday 11/16/2017 |
Guest Seminar Speaker | Yuriy Roman-Leshkov Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstract title: “Architecture at the nanoscale: Design principles for next-generation catalysts in energy applications” |
10:00 AM in 366 CLB Lab |
| Thursday 11/16/2017 |
DEI Guest Seminar Speaker | Jack Lifton Technology Metals Research, LLCAbstract title: “The sustainability of the critical technology metals and materials supply for the electrification of motor vehicles” |
2:30 PM in 366 CLB Lab |
| Thursday 10/05/2017 |
Guest Seminar Speaker | Gregg T. Beckham National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)Abstract title: “Hybrid biological and catalytic processes to produce chemicals and materials from biomass” |
10:00 AM in 366 CLB Lab |
| Thursday 08/03/2017 |
Guest Seminar Speaker | Kenta Iyoki, Ph.D. The University of TokyoAbstract title: “Low Cost, Environmentally Friendly Synthesis of Zeolites” |
3:00 PM in 322 ISE Lab |
| Friday 06/16/2017 |
Guest Seminar Speaker | David W. Flaherty University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAbstract title: “Eliminating Needless Chlorine in the Production of Chemicals – Direct Synthesis of H2O2 and “Green” Epoxidations” |
10:00 AM in 322 ISE Lab |
| Friday 04/21/2017 |
Guest Webinar Speaker | Irantzu Sadaba Haldor Topsoe A/S, New Business R&D, DENMARKAbstract title: “Promising Production of Bio-Based Monomers From Catalytic Conversion Of Sugar” |
10:00 AM in 322 ISE Lab |
| Friday 03/31/2017 |
Guest Seminar Speaker | Kevin Van Geem Ghent UniversityAbstract title: “Process intensification by first principles based reaction engineering: from theory to practice” |
2:00 PM in 322 ISE Lab |
| Wednesday 11/09/2016 |
Graduate Student Seminar | Jennifer D. Lee University of PennsylvaniaAbstract title: “Bimetallic Nanocrystals for Hydrodeoxygenation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural” |
10:00 AM in 322 ISE Lab |
| Wednesday & Thursday 10/26 & 27/2016 |
Guest Speaker Seminar | Professor Keiichi Tomishige Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering; Tohoku UniversityAbstract title (10/26/2016): “Catalytic production of biomass-derived chemicals: development of heterogeneous catalysts for the hydrgeonolysis and hydrodeoxygenation”Abstract Title (10/27/2016): “Synthesis of carbonates, carbamates and ureas from CO2 and substrates with hydroxide or amine groups using CeO2 catalyst and 2-cyanopyridine” |
11:00 AM in 322 ISE Lab |
| Monday 10/10/2016 |
Graduate Student Seminar | Ryan Patet University of DelawareAbstract title: “Lewis Acid Zeolites for the Production of p-Xylene from 2,5-Dimethylfuran and Ethylene” |
11:00 AM in 322 ISE Lab |
| Friday 09/02/2016 |
Guest Seminar Speaker | Yong Wang Gene & Linda Voiland Scool of Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering, Washington State University Institute for Integrated Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Xiamen UniversityAbstract title: “Fundamental Understanding of Bimetallic and Acid-base Catalysis for the Upgrading of Biomass-derived Feedstocks” |
11:00 AM in 322 ISE Lab |
| Thursday, April 21, 2016 |
Guest Speaker Seminar | Dr. Robert Rioux Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstract title: “Solution Calorimetry Methods for the Study of Catalytic Solid-Liquid Interfaces: Introduction, Theory and Selected Examples in Biomass Catalysis” |
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
| Thursday, April 14, 2016 |
Postdoc Seminar | Dr. Efterpi Vasileiadou University of Delaware (Advisor: Professor Raul Lobo)Abstract Title: “Selective C-O activation in polyols: partial and complete oxygen removal from glycerol” |
3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. |
| Friday, March 11, 2016 |
Postdoc Seminar | Dr. Konstantinos Goulas University of Delaware (Advisor: Professor Dion Vlachos) |
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
| Thursday, March 10, 2016 |
Guest Speaker Seminar
(sponsored by CCST and CCEI) |
Dr. Angeliki Lemonidou Aristotle University of ThessalonikiAbstract title: “Advancing knowledge on ethane oxidative dehydrogenation mechanism over NiO-Based Catalysts” |
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
| Tuesday, March 1, 2016 |
Postdoc Seminar | Dr. Saikat Dutta University of Delaware (Advisor: Dr. Basu Saha) |
2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. |
| Wednesday, February 17, 2016 |
Guest Speaker Seminar | Dr. Susannah Scott University of California – Santa BarbaraAbstract title: “Spectroscopic probes for catalysts and mechanisms of carbohydrate reactions in porous solids” |
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
| October 21, 2015 | Student Seminar | Tyler Josephson University of Delaware (Advisor: Dr. Stavros Caratzoulas) |
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
| October 13, 2015 | Guest Speaker Seminar | Professor John Kitchin Carnegie Mellon University“Emacs + Org-mode for Reproducible, Functional Scientific Documents” |
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
| September 30, 2015 | Postdoc Seminar | Dr. Glen Jenness University of Delaware (Advisor: Dr. Stavros Caratzoulas) |
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
| September 16, 2015 | Student Seminar | Hongseok Yun University of Pennsylvania (Advisor: Professor Chris Murray) |
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
| August 18, 2015 | Guest Speaker Seminar | Professor Karen Wilson Aston University, UK“Designing Heterogeneous Catalysts for Biorefining” |
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
| May 26, 2015 | Postdoc Seminar | Dr. Limin Ren University of Minnesota (Advisor: Professor Michael Tsapatsis) |
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. |
| May 15, 2015 | Guest Speaker Seminar | Professor Horia Metiu Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry Univ. of California Santa BarbaraAbstract Title: To be announced |
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
| April 29, 2014 | Guest Speaker Seminar | Dr. Basudeb Saha Associate Research Scientist Purdue University”Catalysis in Biomass Transformation to Chemicals and Fuels” |
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. |
| April 28, 2015 | Student Seminar | Ke Xiong University of Delaware & Columbia University (Advisor: Professor Jingguang Chen) |
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. |
| April 16, 2015 | Guest Speaker Seminar | Professor George Huber Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering University of Wisconsin–Madison”The Design of New Catalytic Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities of the Emerging Clean Fuels and Chemicals Industry” |
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
| March 17, 2015 | Student Seminar | Matthew Gilkey University of Delaware (Advisors: Professors Dion Vlachos and Bingjun Xu) |
2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. |
| March 1-2, 2015 | Invited Lecture (during CCEI’s Spring Symposium) |
Dr. Prasanna Joshi ExxonMobil Research & Engineering”Energy in the 21st Century – Outlook for Energy to 2040″ |
7:15 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. |
| February 24, 2015 | Guest Speaker Seminar | Professor Javier Garcia Martinez Director of Molecular Nanotechnology Lab Dept. of Chemistry University of Alicante”Molecular Highways in Zeolites: From the Lab to the Refinery” |
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
| February 10, 2015 | Guest Speaker Seminar | Dr. Blaz Likozar Fulbright Scholar National Institute of Chemistry Slovenia (CCEI Visiting Professor)”Low-temperature Biomass Liquefaction and Subsequent Catalytic Conversion by Noble and Non-noble Metal Heterogeneous Catalysis” |
2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. |
| December 11, 2014 | Postdoc Seminar | Dr. Peng Bai University of Minnesota Advisors: Professors Ilja Siepmann and Michael Tsapatsis |
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
| December 2, 2014 | Guest Speaker Seminar | Dr. Thomas D. Foust National Renewable Energy LaboratoryAbstract Title: to be announced |
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
| November 6, 2014 | Graduate Student Seminar | Jing Luo University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Professor Raymond Gorte |
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
| October 28, 2014 | Graduate Student Seminar | T. Dallas Swift University of Delaware Advisors: Professor Dion Vlachos and Dr. Vlad Nikolakis |
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
| October 9, 2014 | Guest Speaker Seminar | Professor Mahdi Abu-Omar Purdue UniversityAbstract Title: to be announced |
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
| May 22, 2014 | Guest Seminar | Dan Hickman Dow Chemical Company”Scale-Up of Two Industrial Trickle Bed Hydrogenations Using Laboratory Reactor Data” |
11:00 a.m. – Noon |
| May 15, 2014 | Graduate Student Seminar | Vassili Vorotnikov University of Delaware Advisors: Professor Dion Vlachos and Dr. Stavros Caratzoulas”Rapid Thermochemistry Estimation for Biomass Upgrade Over Metal Surfaces” |
Noon – 1:00 p.m. |
| May 6, 2014 | Graduate Student Seminar | Eyas Mahmoud University of Delaware Advisor: Professor Raul Lobo”Selective Production of Renewable Phthalic Anhydride by Tandem Diels-Alder and Dehydration Reaction” |
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
| April 15, 2014 | Postdoctoral Researcher Seminar | Georgios Tsilomelekis University of Delaware Advisors: Professor Dion Vlachos and Dr. Vladimiros Nikolakis”Origin of 5-Hydroxylmethylfurfural Stability in Aqueous Aprotic Solvent Mixtures” |
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
| March 25, 2014 | Guest Seminar Webinar | Professor Friederike Jentoft University of Oklahoma”Hydrodeoxygenation of Phenolic Compounds in the Liquid Phase on Platinum and Palladium Catalysts” |
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
| February 3, 2014 | Guest Seminar Series | Dr. Matteo Maestri Laboratory of Catalysis and Catalytic Processes Department of Energy, Milan, Italy”A First-principles Approach to System Complexity in Heterogeneous Catalysis” |
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
| December 11, 2013 | Guest Seminar Series | Dr. Esben Taarning (Technical University of Denmark) |
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
| November 13, 2013 | Student/Postdoc Seminar Series | Paraskevi Panagiotopoulou (Postdoctoral Researcher) |
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
| October 9, 2013 | Guest Seminar Series | Dr. Matthias Thommes (Quantachrome Corporation) |
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
| October 2, 2013 | Guest Seminar Series | Dr. Johannes Lercher (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) |
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
| June 19, 2013 | CCEI Seminar | Guest Speaker: Dr. Evgeny Pidko (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) |
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
| May 29, 2013 | UD Training | Strategies for Successful Interviews Presented by Lynn Sydnor-Epps (UD Career Services) |
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
| May 8, 2013 | UD Training | Tips for Technical Writing Presented by Professor Candice Welhausen (UD Dept. of English) |
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
| April 25, 2013 | CCEI Seminar | Guest Speaker: Professor Atsushi Fukuoka (Hokkaido University, Japan) |
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. |
| April 24, 2013 | HPLC Tutorial | Christina Bagia, Sr. Researcher and Analytical Lab Manager (University of Delaware) Advisors: Dr. Vladimiros Nikolakis and Professor Dion Vlachos |
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
| April 17, 2013 | CCEI Seminar | Ke Xiong, Student (University of Delaware) Advisor: Professor Jingguang Chen |
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
| April 10, 2013 | CCEI Seminar | Nima Nikbin, Student (University of Delaware) Advisors: Professor Dion Vlachos and Dr. Stavros Caratzoulas |
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
| March 27, 2013 | CCEI Seminar | Jake Kruger, Postdoc (University of Delaware) Advisors: Professor Dion Vlachos and Dr. Vlad Nikolakis |
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
| March 13, 2013 | CCEI Seminar | Zhaojia Lin, Student (Rutgers University) Advisors: Professor Marianthi Ierapetritou and Dr. Vlad Nikolakis |
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
| March 4, 2013 | CCEI Spring Symposium (Note: This year’s symposium will be a web event.) |
Dr. Stavros Caratzoulas Prof. Jingguang Chen Prof. Paul Dauenhauer Prof. Ray Gorte Prof. Mark Snyder Prof. Michael Tsapatsis Prof. Dion Vlachos |
1:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. |
| February 13, 2013 | Excel Training: Tips and Techniques | Sheila Boulden Tim Courtney Michele Jennings Tyler Josephson Jonathan Sutton |
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
| February 6, 2013 | PowerPoint Training: Tips and Techniques | Sheila Boulden (University of Delaware) | 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
| January 30, 2013 | CCEI Seminar | Guest Speaker: Professor J. Ilje Siepmann (University of Minnesota) |
10:30 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. |
| January 23, 2013 | CCEI Seminar | Guest Speaker: Professor Jason Hill (University of Minnesota) |
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
| January 23, 2013 | Career Training for Students/Postdocs | Professor Dion Vlachos (University of Delaware) |
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
| January 17, 2013 | PI Meeting | Thrust Leaders | 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
| January 17, 2013 | CCEI Seminar | Guest Speaker: Professor Michikazu Hara (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| January 16, 2013 | Procard Training (for UD personnel only) | Michele Jennings (Senior Sponsored Programs Coordinator) and Weihua Deng (Lab Manager) | 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. |
| December 19, 2012 | CCEI Seminar | Professor Xuejun (Jun) Pan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Abstract Title: “Cellulase-Mimetic Solid Catalysts for Saccharification of Lignocellulose” |
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. |
| December 12, 2012 | Short Course – Part 5: Metal catalysts, catalyst immobilization |
Dr. Ayman Karim Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. |
| December 5, 2012 | Short Course – Part 4: Novel structures (C, CW, ZIFs, MOFs) |
Professor Feng Jiao University of Delaware |
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. |
| November 14, 2012 | Student Seminar | Jesse McManus (University of Pennsylvania) Advisor: John Vohs |
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. |
| November 7, 2012 | Short Course – Part 3: Hierarchical materials (micro-mesoporous zeolites, pillared/self-pillared materials) |
Professor Michael Tsapatsis (University of Minnesota) | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. |
| October 17, 2012 | Student Seminar | Xueyi Zhang Advisor: Michael Tsapatsis (University of Minnesota) |
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. |
| September 26, 2012 | Short Course – Part 2: Mesoporous materials (soft/hard templating, synthesis mechanisms, mesostructures) |
Professor Mark Snyder (Lehigh University) | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. |
| September 19, 2012 | Short Course – Part 1: Microporous materials (structure, templating – template design, crystal growth) |
Professor Raul Lobo (University of Delaware) | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. |
| April 18, 2012 | CCEI Seminar | Jechan Lee – Graduate Student (University of Massachusetts) Faculty advisor: George Huber |
12:00 p.m. |
| March 21, 2012 | CCEI Seminar | Zhuopeng Wang – Graduate Student (Universities of Massachusetts and Minnesota) Faculty advisors: Wei Fan, Michael Tsapatsis |
12:00 p.m. |
| March 14, 2012 | CCEI Seminar | Tim Courtney – Graduate Student (University of Delaware) Faculty advisors: Jingguang Chen, Raul Lobo, Dion Vlachos |
12:00 p.m. |
| March 12, 2012 | CCEI Seminar | Dr. Robert C. Brown (Iowa State University) Director, Bioeconomy Institute and the Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies Abstract title: “Thermal Depolymerization of Biomass to Monosaccharides and Phenolic Monomers” |
1:30 p.m. |
| February 22, 2012 | CCEI Seminar | Nafiseh Rajabbeigi – Graduate Student (University of Minnesota) Faculty advisor: Michael Tsapatsis |
12:00 p.m. |
| February 8, 2012 | CCEI Seminar | Sounak Roy – Graduate Student (University of Pennsylvania) Faculty advisor: Ray Gorte | 12:00 p.m. |
| January 25, 2012 | CCEI Seminar | Vikram Seshadri – Graduate Student (North Carolina State University) Faculty advisor: Phil Westmoreland |
1:00 p.m. |
| December 6, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Berend Smit – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director of Berkeley’s EFRC: Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies Abstract title: “Computational Carbon Capture” |
10:30 a.m. |
| November 30, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Matt Mettler – Graduate Student (Universities of Massachusetts and Delaware) Faculty advisor: Paul Dauenhauer |
1:00 p.m. |
| November 16, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Ashay Javadekar – Graduate Student (Universities of Pennsylvania and Delaware) Faculty advisor: Ray Gorte |
1:00 p.m. |
| November 2, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Hsu Chiang – Graduate Student (University of Minnesota) Faculty advisor: Aditya Bhan |
1:00 p.m. |
| October 12, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Samir Mushrif – Postdoctoral Researcher (University of Delaware) Faculty advisor: Dion Vlachos |
1:00 p.m. |
| September 28, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Weiting Yu – Graduate Student (University of Delaware) Faculty advisor: Jingguang Chen |
1:00 p.m. |
| August 4, 2011 | CCEI/CCST Seminar | Guest Seminar Speaker: Jun Liu Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryAbstract title: “Materials Science Challenges for Advanced Electrochemical Systems” |
1:30 p.m. |
| May 11, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Student Seminar Series: Bill Lonergan (University of Delaware) Faculty advisor: Jingguang Chen |
11:30 a.m. |
| April 27, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Student Seminar Series: Abhi Jaykumar (University of Pennsylvania) Faculty Advisors: Ray Gorte and John Vohs |
11:30 a.m. |
| April 15, 2011 | CCEI/CCST Seminar | Guest Seminar Speaker: Susannah L. Scott Vice-Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara Abstract title: “Towards Non-Flammable Polyolefins: Using Surface Chemistry and Catalysis to Design Composite Materials” |
11:00 a.m. |
| April 13, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Student Seminar Series: Phuong Do (University of Delaware) Faculty advisor: Raul Lobo |
11:30 a.m. |
| March 30, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Student Seminar Series: Bonny Guo (Lehigh University) Faculty advisor: Mark Snyder |
11:30 a.m. |
| March 2, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Student Seminar Series: Srinivas Rangarajan (University of Minnesota) Faculty advisor: Aditya Bhan |
11:30 a.m. |
| February 23, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Guest Seminar Speaker: Larry A. Curtiss Distinguished Fellow of Argonne National Laboratory Abstract title: “First Principles Studies of Nanoscale Effects on Catalytic Activity and Selectivity” |
11:00 a.m. |
| February 16, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Student Seminar Series: Yu Ting Cheng (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Faculty advisor: George Huber |
11:30 a.m. |
| February 2, 2011 | CCEI Seminar | Student Seminar Series: Mike Salciccioli (University of Delaware) Faculty advisor: Dion Vlachos |
11:30 a.m. |
| April 7, 2010 | CCEI Seminar | Guest speaker: Dr. James Spivey (McLaurin Shivers Professor of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University) “Synthesis of Higher Oxygenates from Syngas: Challenges for Catalyst Selectivity and Activity” |
10:00 a.m. |
