Contact Information
Professor Robert Tilton
Director, Center for Complex Fluids Engineering
tilton@andrew.cmu.edu
Dr. Annette Jacobson
Director, Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces (CPS) Educational Program
jacobson@andrew.cmu.edu
Shannon Young
CPS and CFE Administrative Assistant
(412) 268-2243
E-mail:slyoung@andrew.cmu.edu
SEMINAR
2009 Colloids, Polymers & Surfaces Seminar Series
Fall seminars are held at 3:30pm in DH 1212 unless otherwise noted.
Fall (Fridays at 3:30pm DH 1212)
October 9: Crystalline Colloidal Self Assembly for Smart Material Chemical Sensing; Dr. Sanford A. Asher, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
October 23: Electric Conductivity and Particle Charging in Non-polar Solutions of Non-Dissociable Surfactants; Dr. Sven Holger Behrens, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
November 6: Complex collisions and coalescence between micro-bubbles measured using atomic force microscopy; Dr. Raymond Dagastine, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Melbourne
November 20: Smart Fluids Consisting of Iron Oxide Nanoparticle-Clay Hybrid Materials; Dr. Jung-Kun Lee, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh
December 1 (ChE Seminar, DH 1112, 10:30am): Transport and Collective Dynamics in Suspensions of Swimming Microorganisms; Dr. Michael Graham, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Wisconsin
( Archived ) Spring/Summer 2009 - Fridays 3:30pm
Feb 13, 2009: Simulations of Complex Fluidic Systems: A Hybrid Lattice-Boltzmann Approach; Dr. Berk Usta, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh
Feb 27, 2009: Highly Uniform Micro-Cavity Arrays in Flexible Elastomer Film; Prof. Shelley Anna, Departments of Mechanical and Chemical Eng., Carnegie Mellon University
March 13, 2009: Controlling the structure and dynamics of wormlike micelles using colloidal particles (and vice versa); Dr. Matt Helgeson, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware
April 17, 2009: TBA;Dr. Apostolos Avgeropoulos, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Ioannina
April 24, 2009: The jamming phenomenon and worms; Dr. Kevin Lu, Departments of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
April 30, 2009 (ChE Seminar, DH1112, 10:45am): Highly-Charged and Complex Interfaces: Electrokinetics and Rheology; Prof. Todd Squires, Department of Chemical Engineering, UCSB