ROBERT L. PIGFORD MEMORIAL LECTURES

2023


02/24/2023
Rachel Segalman
University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Charge-neutral Polymer Complexes as Battery Components

2022


04/22/2022
Samir Mitragotri
Harvard University
Title: Ionic Liquids for Therapeutic Applications

2022


04/22/2022
Samir Mitragotri
Harvard University
Title: Ionic Liquids for Therapeutic Applications

2021


05/21/2021
Jay Keasling
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Engineered Polyketide Synthases as Platform for Synthetic Chemistry

2018


09/28/2018
Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
Princeton University
Title: Activities, Solubilities, and Nucleation Rates of Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions

2017


10/06/2017
David Boger
University of Florida
Title: From Boger Fluids to Environmental Rheology

2016


10/27/2016
Jonathan Dordick
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title: Exploiting the Interface of Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science to Generate New Therapeutic Outcomes

2014


03/07/2014
Alexis Bell
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Effects of Local Composition, Structure, and Confinement on the Activity and Selectivity of Catalytically Active Sites

2013


05/01/2013
George Georgiou
The University of Texas at Austin
Title: What’s in your blood: Systems analysis of human antibody immunity

2011


09/09/2011
Klavs Jensen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Shrinking and Accelerating the Lab – Microreactors in Discovery and Development

03/18/2011
Chaitan Khosla
Stanford University
Title: Modular Biocatalysts

2010


09/10/2010
Joseph Desimone
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: Top-down Nano-fabrication Technologies for the Production of Uniform, Shape-Specific Carriers for Vaccines, Biologics and Small Molecule Drugs

04/09/2010
Mark Davis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Biofuels and Metabolic Engineering

2009


04/29/2009
Gregory Stephanopoulos
California Institute of Technology
Title: Nanoparticle Cancer Therapeutics: From Concept to Clinic

2008


04/18/2018
Jeffrey Hubbell
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Title: Polymer and Biomolecule in Regenerative Medicine and lmmunotherapeutics

2007


11/28/2007
Sangtae Kim
Purdue University
Title: Pharmaceutical Informatics and the Pathway to Personalized Medicines in the Petascale Era

2006


10/06/2006
William Banholzer
Dow Chemical Company
Title: Personal Experience in the Application of Chemical Engineering and Selected Research Topics at Dow

2005


09/23/2005
Thomas F. Kuech
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: The Chemical Interface in Microelectronics

Adam Heller
University of Texas at Austin
Title: Drug-Delivering Integrated Therapeutic Systems

2000


09/29/2000
Stuart Churchill
University of Pennsylvania
Title: Fluids

1999


Robert Brown
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Chemical Engineering of the Microdefects in Silicon Crystals

Eli Ruckenstein
The State University of New York, Buffalo
Title: Thermodynamically Stable Dispersions: Lamellar Liquid Crystals

1997


R. Byron Bird
Wisconsin
Title: Kinetic Theory and Transport Properties of Polymers

1996


Donald R. Paul
Texas
Title: Sorption and Transport of penetrants in Multiphase Polymer Systems

Mark Barteau
University of Delaware
Title: Toward New Catalysis from Metal Oxide Surface Science

1994


Gary Leal
University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Studies of the Motion of Viscoelastic Liquids in Extensional and Mixed Flows

1993


L.E. (Skip) Scriven
University of Minnesota
Title: Flow, Contact, Transfer: Packed-Bed Contactors Dissected with Porous Media Science; On the Evolution of Chemical Engineering

1992


Andreas Acrivos
The City College of New York
Title: Fluid Skimming and Particle Entrainment into a Circular Side Pore

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