WINTER 2021
Note: All lectures will take place online via Black Board Collaborate in Eastern Time (ET). Please RSVP to receive a link to attend each lecture. All lectures are free to attend. Graduate students from the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry are not required to RSVP for lectures.
Should you have any questions or require accommodation to attend the lecture, please email Amanda Hacio, Communications Officer & External Relations Liaison, at amanda.hacio@utoronto.ca.
JANUARY 20, 2021 | 12 - 1 PM
Paula Hammond, Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT)
Electrostatic Assembly for Nanoparticle Targeting of Cells and Tissues
Host: Michael Sefton
FEBRUARY 3, 2021 | 12 - 1 PM
Jaykumar Menon, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Most Important Question for an Engineer
Host: Levente Diosady
FEBRUARY 10, 2021 | 12 - 1 PM
ENGINEERING IN EDUCATION LECTURE
Co-hosted with the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & Practice (ISTEP)
Alison Flynn, University of Ottawa
Looking Back on a Year of Change: What Might the Most Important Next Steps be in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education?
Host: Greg Evans
MARCH 31, 2021 | 12 - 1 PM
Gerry Fuller, Stanford University
Rheology to the Rescue: Problems in Bio-adhesion and Bio-friction
This lecture was formerly titled Lubricin: Alleviating the Effects of Dry Eye
Host: Arun Ramchandran
FALL 2020
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 | 12 - 1 PM
Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow
Chemical Space: Designed or Discovered?
Host: Frank Gu
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 | 1:30 - 2:30 PM
2019-20 AEESP DISTINGUISHED LECTURER
Co-hosted with CivMin, York & Ryerson
Diane McKnight, University of Colorado—Boulder
Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind: Acid Mine Drainage and Climate Change in the Rocky Mountains
Host: Elizabeth Edwards
OCTOBER 14, 2020 | 12 - 1 PM
Dion Vlachos, University of Delaware
Renewable Chemicals and Fuels: From First Principles to Chemical Manufacturing
Host: Cathy Chin
OCTOBER 28, 2020 | 12 - 1 PM
Ralf Takors, University of Stuttgart
Scaling up Microbial Processes: Data-Driven Modeling and Strain Engineering for Robust Performance in Large Bioreactors
Host: Krishna Mahadevan
NOVEMBER 4, 2020 | 12 - 1 PM
Co-hosted with the Institute for Water Innovation (IWI)
Yoram Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles
Water, Materials and the Environment: Membranes and Distributed Self-Adaptive Desalination Systems
Host: Vlad Papangelakis
NOVEMBER 18, 2020 | 12 - 1 PM
Co-hosted with BioZone and the Institute for Water Innovation (IWI)
Barrie Johnson, Bangor University
The Development and Future Impact of Biotechnologies for Mineral Processing and Metal Recovery
Hosts: Elizabeth Edwards & Vlad Papangelakis
NOVEMBER 25, 2020 | 12 - 1 PM
Steven Hallam, University of British Columbia
Metabolic Pathways for the Whole Community
Host: Anupama Sharan
DECEMBER 2, 2020 | 12 - 1 PM
Co-hosted with the Low-Carbon Renewable Materials Centre
Liangbing Hu, University of Maryland
Materials Innovations for Emerging Energy Technologies
Host: Charles Jia
DECEMBER 9, 2020 | 12 - 1 PM
Co-hosted with the Ontario Centre for the Characterisation of Advanced Materials (OCCAM)
Frances Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Microscopy in Motion: Understanding How Crystals Grow Through Electron Microscopy Movies
Host: Jane Howe