Symposium Schedule and Logistics

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Important Dates

  • The Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Symposium is on Thursday, 23 Sep 2021.
  • Registration (for all participants, whether or not you are presenting) is open until 11:59 PM EDT on 03 Sep 2021.
  • If you are department faculty, staff, and students, nominations for student awards are open until 11:59 PM EDT on 03 Sep 2021.

Schedule

Below is a schedule of the different events for the day. All times are in Eastern Daylight time.

  • 10:00 AM to 10:15 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks
  • 10:15 AM to 11:45 AM: Oral Presentation Session #1
    • 10:15 AM to 10:35 AM: Steven Chavez (ChE, adv. Prof. Suljo Linic), “Engineering Energy Flow in Hybrid Plasmonic Systems”
    • 10:35 AM to 10:55 AM: Alexander Hill (ChE, adv. Profs. Johannes Schwank and Andrej Lenert), “Leveraging Encapsulated Morphologies to Improve Catalytic Activity and Durability”
    • 10:55 AM to 11:15 AM: Cailin Buchanan (ChE, adv. Prof. Nirala Singh): “Studying the mechanism of the high voltage Ce3+/Ce4+ redox couple through kinetic measurements and spectroscopy”
    • 11:15 AM to 11:35 AM: Keara Saud (ChE, adv. Prof. Michael Solomon): “The effect of embedded active particles on the yield stress behavior of colloidal gels”
    • 11:35 AM to 11:55 AM: Allen LaCour (ChE, adv. Prof. Sharon Glotzer): “Tuning Stoichiometry to Enable the Self-Assembly of Binary Superlattices”
    • 11:55 AM to 12:15 PM: Luis Rivera-Rivera (ChE, adv. Prof. Sharon Glotzer): “Inverse design via constrained digital alchemy”
  • 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM: Lunch
  • 1:15 PM to 2:15 PM: Keynote address from Dr. Melanie Sinch
  • 2:15 PM to 3:15 PM: Company networking/interview session #1, concurrent with Oral Presentation Session #2
    • Available company representatives:
      • David Ingram (Phillips 66)
      • Kristin Ritter (MilliporeSigma)
      • Askar Kuchumov (Astrotide, LLC)
    • Oral presentations:
      • 2:15 PM to 2:35 PM: James Oluwatoyin Akinola (ChE, adv. Prof. Nirala Singh): “Role of water displacement on phenol adsorption and hydrogenation on Pt and Rh in aqueous phase”
      • 2:35 PM to 2:55 PM: Marshall Case (ChE, adv. Prof. Greg Thurber): “Design of high affinity, specificity, and stability pro-apoptotic stapled peptides using bacterial cell surface display”
      • 2:55 PM to 3:15 PM: Anna Kopp (ChE, adv. Prof. Greg Thurber): “Multiscale Delivery and Bystander Effect of an Antibody-Drug Conjugate with a Hydrolysable Linker”
  • 3:15 PM to 3:30 PM: Break
  • 3:30 PM to 4:50 PM: Oral Presentation Session #3
    • 3:30 PM to 3:50 PM: Jiwoong Kang (ChE, adv. Prof. Ashwin Shanahi): “Percolation Behavior of Three-Dimensional Grain Boundary Networks”
    • 3:50 PM to 4:10 PM: Jacques Esterhuizen (ChE, adv. Prof. Bryan Goldsmith): “Unsupervised Learning of Electronic-structure Descriptors for Alloy Surfaces”
    • 4:10 PM to 4:30 PM: Frank J. Doherty (ChE, adv. Prof. Bryan Goldsmith): “Rhodium Single-Atoms Vs. Nanoclusters on Titania for Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction: A First-Principles Study”
    • 4:30 PM to 4:50 PM: Elizabeth Wilson (ChE, adv. Prof. Nicholas Kotov): “Cyclohexane Oxidation and Epoxidation Using Photocatalytic ‘Hedgehog’ Particle”
  • 4:50 PM to 5:30 PM: Poster session, concurrent with Company networking/interview session #2:
    • Available company representatives:
      • David Ingram (Phillips 66)
      • Kristin Ritter (MilliporeSigma)
      • Askar Kuchumov (Astrotide, LLC)
    • Poster presentations (on CareerFair+ Platform):
      • 4:50 PM to 4:58 PM: James Wortman (ChE, adv. Prof. Suljo Linic): “Dual Membrane/Catalyst Reactor for the Oxidative Coupling of Methane: Optimization using Dual-Layer Additive Manufacturing Approach”
      • 4:58 PM to 5:06 PM: Fiki Owhoso (ME, adv. Prof. David Kwabi): “Modifying Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Chemically Functionalized Electrodes for CO2 Capture”
      • 5:06 PM to 5:14 PM: Erica Gardner (ChE, SEAS, adv. Profs. Nina Lin and Shelie Miller): “Microbial Plastic Biodegradation: Current progress, challenges, and opportunities”
      • 5:14 PM to 5:22 PM: Tobias Dwyer (ChE, adv. Prof. Sharon Glotzer): “Self-Assembly of 2D Host-Guest Pore Networks via Entropy Compartmentalization”
      • 5:22 PM to 5:30 PM: Baharan Meghdadi (ChE, adv. Prof. Angela Violi): “Describing Biofilm Structure Using Image Processing”
  • 5:30 PM to 5:45 PM: Closing remarks