Program in Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM)
Spring 2023 Seminar Series
PPSM sponsors a series of seminars covering a broad range of topics of general interest to the polymer community, featuring speakers from both on and off-campus. We invite the polymer community at MIT and elsewhere to participate. For further information, contact Professor Ariel L. Furst at afurst@mit.edu.
MIT PPSM YouTube Channel (select seminar videos from Fall 2020-Spring 2022)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJXFS-b5uRqxEdba_u78zA/featured
MIT COVID-19 safety protocols and event policies in effect on the seminar date will be enforced.
Seminar Begins 3:30 PM / Email ppsm-www@mit.edu with any questions. All remaining Spring 2023 seminars will be held in 56-114. NOTE: Spring 2023 PPSM Seminars will not be live-streamed, or otherwise available in virtual format. NOTE: The Friday April 28th Xingchen Ye Seminar will ALSO BE IN 56-114, traditional PPSM start time: 3:30 PM. All other PPSM seminars will be on Wednesdays.
To receive Tuesday and Wednesday email announcements of the next upcoming PPSM seminar, please email your request including your email address to: ppsm-www@mit.edu
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“Bioinspired Fibers for Medical and Sensing Applications”Prof. Crystal Chu
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FRI 10 |
PPSM SPECIAL SEMINAR“Synthesis and Self-Assembly
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“New Applications for In Situ Polymer Self-Assembly: Sustainable Water Treatment and Chiral Nanomaterials”Prof. James F. Reuther
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“Developing a Mechanistic Picture of the
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MARCH |
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“New concepts for understanding copolymerization”Prof. Nathaniel Lynd Department of Chemical Engineering
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“Investigating Aldehydes and Ketones as Monomers for Sustainable Polymers”Prof. Barney Grubbs Department of Chemistry
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“Designing Selective Membranes and Adsorbents for Electrochemical Wastewater Refining”Prof. William Tarpeh
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FRI 28 |
“Dynamics and Emergent Complexity in Functional Nanocrystals and Nanocrystal Superstructures”Prof. Xingchen Ye
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MAY |
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“Controlling the Selectivity of Ion-Exchange Membranes”Prof. Jovan Kamcev
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“Molecular Design Strategies for Mechanochemically Active Polymers”Prof. Maxwell J. Robb
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