March 2025

Week of March 16 Spring Break    

April 2025

Tuesday, April 1 G.R.A.S.S. – Md Anisur Rahman (Beltramo Group) and Omeet N. Patel (Maroudas Group)

Thursday, April 3 Exxon Mobil Lecture:  Jingguang Chen, Columbia University 

“Applying Chemical Engineering Principles to Catalytic Conversion of CO2” 

                                                          Host: Zhu Chen

Tuesday, April 8 Shannon W. Boettcher, UC Berkeley and LBNL

“TBD” 

                                                          Host: Zhu Chen

Tuesday, April 15 Alexa Kuenstler, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

“New Approaches to Controlling Topology and Dynamics in Polymer Networks” 

                                                          Host: Zhu Chen

Thursday, April 17 DEI Forum 

Tuesday, April 22 G.R.A.S.S. – Jichao Song (Schiffman Group) and Joseph Churchill Tapia (Bai Group)

Thursday, April 24 Tianquam (Tim) Lian, Emory University 

“TBD” 

                                                          Host: Nianqiang Wu and Zhu Chen

Tuesday, April 29 Sibani Lisa Biswal, Rice University 

“TBD” 

                                                          Host: Peter Beltramo

May 2025

Thursday, May 1 G.R.A.S.S. – Muhammad A. Shah (Fan Group) and Faviola Villariny-Rosado (Perry Group)

Tuesday, May 6 De-en JIang, Vanderbilt University 

“Membranes, superionic conductors, and nanocatalysts: From design to deep learning” 

                                                          Host: Peng Bai

Thursday, May 8 G.R.A.S.S. – Chinmay Deshpande (Forbes Group) and R. Morgan Whitfield (Jentoft Group)

Gone By

September 2024

Tuesday, Sept 10 G.R.A.S.S. – Sihang Chen (Santore Group) and Meng-Chen Chiang (Schiffman Group):  Abstracts

Thursday, Sept 12 Manos Mavrikakis, UWisconsin-Madison, Abstract

“An atomic-scale perspective for Heterogeneous Catalysis” 

                                                          Host: Friederike Jentoft

Tuesday, Sept 17 G.R.A.S.S. – Maharshi Debnath (Kulkarni Group)  

Thursday, Sept 19 Kyungjin Kim, UConn, Abstract

“Diffusion Barrier Nano Structures for Chronic Working Implantable Interfaces”  

                                                          Host: Jungwoo Lee

Tuesday, Sept 24 DEI Forum 

Thursday, Sept 26 Alumni Lectures:  Linda Broadbelt, Northwestern (host Zhu Chen), Abstract 

“Unraveling Complex Chemistries through Automated Mechanism Generation
and Reaction Pathway Analysis”   

Amherst Room, 10th Floor, Campus Center

                                                          Host: Zhu Chen

Friday, Sept 27 Alumni Lectures:  Linda Broadbelt, Northwestern, Abstract

“Developing Strategies for Polymer Redesign and Recycling Using Reaction Pathway Analysis” 

(lecture at 11:30 a.m., Amherst Room, 10th Floor of the Campus Center, reception following seminar) 

                                                          Host: Zhu Chen

Special Seminar - Sept 30 Alex Ayzner, University of California Santa Cruz

Monday, 11:00am/Conte A110 “Semiconducting Polyelectrolytes as the Foundation of Aqueous Light Harvesting Systems”) 

                                                          Host: Sarah 

October 2024

Tuesday, Oct 1 Dan Xie, Braskem

"Engineering of zeolite structures and compositions for tailored applications” 

                                                          Host: Wei Fan

Tuesday, Oct 1 (3 pm) UMass-3M Diversity in STEM Seminar: Manuel Garcia-Lerner, Exponent 

(A110 Conte) “You can do it all: From R&D scientist to testifying expert -
The exciting world of scientific and engineering consulting” 

                                                          Host: Sarah Perry and Bryan Coughlin (PSE) 

Tuesday, Oct 8 DEI Forum 

Tuesday, Oct 15 G.R.A.S.S. – Timothy Umma Onuh (Butler Group)    

Thursday, Oct 17 Corey Wilson, Georgia Institute of Technology, (host Lauren Andrews), Abstract 

“Engineering Biology to Address Societal Challenges” 

                                                          Host: Lauren Andrews

Tuesday, Oct 22 G.R.A.S.S. – Adam J. Fish (Kulkarni Group) and Shaohsiang Hung (Schiffman Group)        

week of Oct 27 AIChE Meetings, San Diego

November 2024

Thursday, Nov 7 Ronald Larson, UMichigan, Abstract 

“Multi-Scale Simulations of Thermodynamics and Flow of Polymeric, Colloidal, and Surfactant Materials” 

                                                          Host: Sarah Perry

Tuesday, Nov 12 Hee Jeung Oh, Penn State

“Molecular Scale Engineering of Polymer Membranes for Environment, Energy and Health” 

                                                          Host: Jessica Schiffman

Tuesday, Nov 19 DEI Forum - celebrating International Men's Day and much more (all welcome)

Tuesday, Nov 21 G.R.A.S.S. – Ninette Irakoze (Peyton Group) and Shradha Khanduja (Forbes Group)      

December 2024

Tuesday, Dec 3 Tejal Desai, Brown, Abstract

“Therapeutic Biomaterials: Tuning the Micro and Nanostructure of Materials for
Enhanced Drug and Cell Delivery”

                                                          Host: Ashish Kulkarni

Tuesday, Dec 10 DEI Forum (last day of classes)

January 2025

Thursday, Jan 30 First Day of Classes      

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Updated:  March 14, 2025
Maria Wallace (wallace@ecs.umass.edu) manages the schedule, Amity Lee (lee@umass.edu) updates this web page.