Fall 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 COVID19 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 Fall 2023 seminars will be held in 56-114.

NOTE: Fall 2023 PPSM Seminars will not be live streamed, or otherwise available in virtual format.

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

		NOVEMBER
	29	“Bioinspired Electronic Materials” Prof. Nurit Ashkenasy Department of Materials Engineering Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
		DECEMBER
	13	Prof. Jonathan Rivnay Department of Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University TOPIC: TBA
		PREVIOUS FALL 2023 SEMINARS
		SEPTEMBER
	6	“Light as a Chemical Tool to Access Next Generation Soft Materials” Prof. Zachariah A. Page Department of Chemical Engineering University of Texas/Austin
	13	“From Disaster to Discovery” Prof. Julia A. Kornfield Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology
	20	“Cluster Statistics Near the Gel Point” Prof. Jian Qin Department of Chemical Engineering Stanford University
	27	“Electrochemical Regeneration of NADH and Its Biomimetics” Prof. David P. Hickey Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Michigan State University
		OCTOBER
	6	“Developing Organic Materials for Smart Electronics” Prof. Aristide Gumyusenge MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
	11	“Functional Assembly Based on Interfacial Supramolecular Interactions” Prof. Yoshimitsu Itoh Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology University of Tokyo
	18	*“Modeling Photoactive Organic Materials”* Prof. Lisa Fredin Department of Chemistry Lehigh University
	25	*“Biomimetic Hierarchical Structure in Synthetic Macromolecules”* Prof. Abigail S. Knight Department of Chemistry University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
		NOVEMBER
	1	“Understanding Human Genetic Variation with Precision Genome Editing Tools” Prof. Alexis C. Komor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry UC San Diego
	15	“Reconstructing cellular protein synthesis and post-translational glycosylation on-chip” Prof. Susan Daniel Director, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Cornell University

		DECEMBER

Fall 2023 Seminar Series

MIT PPSM YouTube Channel (select seminar videos from Fall 2020-Spring 2022)

MIT COVID19 safety protocols and event policies in effect on the seminar date will be enforced.

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

NOVEMBER

29

“Bioinspired Electronic Materials”

Prof. Nurit Ashkenasy Department of Materials Engineering Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)

DECEMBER

13

Prof. Jonathan Rivnay Department of Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University

TOPIC: TBA

PREVIOUS FALL 2023 SEMINARS

SEPTEMBER

6

“Light as a Chemical Tool to Access Next Generation Soft Materials”

Prof. Zachariah A. Page Department of Chemical Engineering University of Texas/Austin

13

“From Disaster to Discovery”

Prof. Julia A. Kornfield Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology

20

“Cluster Statistics Near the Gel Point”

Prof. Jian Qin Department of Chemical Engineering Stanford University

27

“Electrochemical Regeneration of NADH and Its Biomimetics”

Prof. David P. Hickey Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Michigan State University

OCTOBER

6

“Developing Organic Materials for Smart Electronics”

Prof. Aristide Gumyusenge MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering

11

“Functional Assembly Based on Interfacial Supramolecular Interactions”

Prof. Yoshimitsu Itoh

Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology University of Tokyo

18

“Modeling Photoactive Organic Materials”

Prof. Lisa Fredin Department of Chemistry Lehigh University

25

“Biomimetic Hierarchical Structure in Synthetic Macromolecules”

Prof. Abigail S. Knight Department of Chemistry University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill

NOVEMBER

1

“Understanding Human Genetic Variation with Precision Genome Editing Tools”

Prof. Alexis C. Komor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry UC San Diego

15

“Reconstructing cellular protein synthesis and post-translational glycosylation on-chip”

Prof. Susan Daniel

Director, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Cornell University

DECEMBER

Prof. Nurit Ashkenasy
Department of Materials Engineering
Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)

Prof. Jonathan Rivnay
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University

Prof. Zachariah A. Page
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Texas/Austin

Prof. Julia A. Kornfield
Division of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology

Prof. Jian Qin
Department of Chemical Engineering
Stanford University

Prof. David P. Hickey
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Michigan State University

Prof. Aristide Gumyusenge
MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology
University of Tokyo

Prof. Lisa Fredin
Department of Chemistry
Lehigh University

Prof. Abigail S. Knight
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill

Prof. Alexis C. Komor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC San Diego

Director, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell University