Seminar Schedule

This semester seminars will be held in-person and virtually on Thursdays from 11-12 p.m. Check the table below for the format of the seminar. 

If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Dr. Audie Key Thompson. 

Speakers will meet with graduate students immediately following the seminar. If attending the seminar virtually, stay on the Zoom to attend the meeting. 

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Thursday, February 10
Virtual

Jorge Almodovar

University of Arkansas

Cell Behavior Enhancement by Collagen/Heparin Layered Coatings

Thursday, February 17
Virtual

Christa Hestekin

University of Arkansas

How to give a bad talk

Thursday, February 24
Virtual
In-person/Bell 1108E


Andrew Zydney                                                

Penn State

Continuous Bioprocessing – New Challenges and Opportunities for Membrane Technology

Thursday, March 3
Virtual

Chris Bowman              

University of Colorado Boulder 

Polymers and Light: Towards Advanced, Photoresponsive Materials

Thursday, March 10
Virtual

ThermoElectron

University of Arkansas

NanoIR instrument (coupled AFM and FTIR)

Thursday, 
March 17

Tom Spicer

University of Arkansas

Physical and Computational Modeling of the Jack Rabbit II Pressurized Chlorine Releases

Thursday, March 31
Virtual

Michael Pirhalla

EPA

Urban Dispersion Studies at the EPA

Thursday, April 7 In-person/Bell 1108E

Tibor Szilvasi

University of Alabama

Computational Design of Chemoresponsive Liquid Crystalline Systems

Thursday, April 14
Virtual

Thomas Epps

University of Delaware


From Waste to Polymers: Creating Sustainable Materials from Biomass

Thursday, April 21

In-person/Bell 1108E

Amelia Fuller

Santa Clara University

Structural and Functional Studies of N-Substituted Oligoamide Peptidomimetics

Thursday, April 28
Virtual

 

Yifu Ding

University of Colorado Boulder