RAPID CITY, S.D. (Nov. 7, 2016) – This year’s South
Dakota School of Mines & Technology Chemical & Biological Engineering
speaker series will feature scientists, medical doctors and entrepreneurs from
national laboratories, elite research universities and hospitals.
The public is invited to all presentations, which will
include topics such as energy conversion and generation, nanomaterials, health
science, biomedical engineering, catalysis and reaction engineering and the
Earth’s climate.
The three remaining presentations for the fall
semester are from 11 a.m.-noon in room 252 of the Electrical and Engineering
Physics Building. They are:
- Tuesday, Nov. 8. – Head Noble Chair
Professor Dan Hill, Ph.D., of Texas A&M will speak about shale gas,
upstream oil and enabling technologies. Hill is an industry expert in
production engineering and holds five patents in oil recovery and well
injection processes.
- Nov. 15 – Martin Kocanda, Ph.D., a
forensic scientist with the Rapid City Police Department and formerly with
Northern Illinois University. Kocanda will speak about the process of resolving
fingerprints.
- Nov. 29 – Max Lampert of Darmstadt
University. He will discuss polyethylene plant design.
The speaker series will continue next semester with
speakers from MIT, CalTech, the University of California, Berkeley and others
on topics ranging from cardiology to atmospheric composition. The speaker
series spring dates:
- Jan. 24 – Clayton Radke, Ph.D., University
of California, Berkeley, catalysis, surface and colloidal science
- Jan. 31 – Bhasker Purushottam, M.D., Rapid
City Regional Hospital, cardiology research, health/biomedical research
- Feb. 14 – Alan Marshall, Ph.D., Florida
State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, specialized
FT-ICR MS for detection of hundreds of intermediates
- March 7 – Faye McNeill, Ph.D., Columbia
University, Earth’s climate and atmospheric composition, aerosols
- March 21 – Alexander Neimark, Ph.D.,
Rutgers University, nanostructured materials, porous materials, molecular
dynamic simulation
- April 4 – Linda Broadbelt, Ph.D.,
Northwestern University, catalysis, depolymerization and polymerization
chemistry
- April 11 – Arup Chakraborty, Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, adaptive immune response, infectious
diseases, pathogens
- April 25 – David Tirrell, Ph.D.,
California Institute of Technology, macromolecular design, protein evolution,
biological imaging, and proteome-wide analysis of cellular processes
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