Seminar

Name: CBE Seminar Series: David Schaffer
Start: 2025-09-23T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-23T17:00:00-05:00

September 2025
CBE Seminar Series: Harry Atwater

September 9, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Harry AtwaterDepartment of Applied Physics and Materials ScienceCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPasadena, California Design of Materials and Devices for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Conversion using Sunlight Over the next two decades, science advances will be needed to enable scalable technologies for i) direct capture of dilute CO2 at the gigaton scale as well as ii) CO2...
ME 150th Celebration: Distinguished Alumni, Dean Devesh Ranjan

September 11, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Ave, Madison

To celebrate 150 years of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, the Department of Mechanical Engineering will feature distinguished alumni in mechanical engineering and engineering mechanics who have made a lasting impact on the field. Newly appointed dean to the College of Engineering, Devesh Ranjan graduated from UW-Madison with his master's degree...
CBE Seminar Series: Ted Lightfoot

September 11, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Reception 3:30-4:00pm (2-story space besides 1610 E Hall) E.J. (Ted) LightfootTed Lightfoot ConsultingAmherst, NY Transport Phenomena and Coating Science In the 1960s Transport Phenomena triggered a shift in engineering education from engineering technology to engineering science. In the 1970s the more advanced coating companies (in the photographic, magnetic tape, and paper industries) began to undertake...
Mechanics Seminar: Professor Joseph Andrews

September 12, 2025 @ 12:05 PM - 12:55 PM

3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Ave, Madison

The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids, fluids, and dynamics). Professor Joseph Andrews is a professor at UW-Madison.
BME Seminar Series: Allen Garner PhD

September 15, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States

Electrical Manipulation of Biological Cells: Models and Applications Allen Garner, PhD, PEProfessor, Graduate Program ChairSchool of Nuclear EngineeringPurdue University Electric waveforms, including electric pulses (EPs) and alternating current (AC) fields, such as radiofrequency and high-power microwaves, can induce deleterious or beneficial effects that require additional characterization. We combine thermal models with the Smoluchowski equation to...
ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Mike Molnar

September 18, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Ave, Madison

The ME 903: Graduate Student Lecture Series features campus and visiting speakers who present on a variety of research topics in the field of mechanical engineering. Michael Molnar (BSME '85) is the founding director of the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office at NIST. Presentation Title: The Federal Role in Accelerating Technology and Manufacturing Innovation Abstract: The...
CBE Seminar Series: Pramod Wangikar

September 18, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Seminar 9-10am at Union South Landmark Room Pramod WangikarChair Professor for Green Chemistry and Industrial BiotechnologyDepartment of Chemical EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology BombayMumbai, India Harnessing Metabolomics for Precision Medicine and Fermentation Metabolomics is an emerging tool in bioengineering research, based on profiling hundreds of metabolites in biological systems to provide a detailed view of cellular...
Mechanics Seminar: Professor Matthew Brake

September 19, 2025 @ 12:05 PM - 12:55 PM

3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Ave, Madison

The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids, fluids, and dynamics). Professor Matthew Brake is an Associate Professor at Rice University. Presentation Title: Videographic Modal Analysis Abstract: Experimental modal analysis is a classical tool that has formed the basis of modern...
BME Seminar Series: Marty Pagel, PhD

September 22, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States

Molecular Imaging of the Tumor Microenvironment Marty Pagel, PhDProfessorDepartment of Medical PhysicsDepartment of RadiologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract:Tumor acidosis, hypoxia, and vascular perfusion are well-known characteristics of the tumor microenvironment. We have developed MRI, MR Fingerprinting, PET/MRI, electron paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPRI), and photoacoustic imaging (PAI) to quantitatively measure extracellular pH, oxygenation, and pharmacokinetic transport rates...
CBE Seminar Series: David Schaffer

September 23, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

David SchafferDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA Directed Evolution of New AAV Vectors for Clinical Gene Therapy Gene therapy has experienced an increasing number of successful human clinical trials, leading to 6 FDA approved products using delivery vectors based on adeno-associated viruses (AAV). These successes were possible due to the identification of...

September 2025