Spring 2024 Polymer Seminars

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 Spring 2024 seminars will be held on WEDNESDAYS in 56-114 EXCEPT Friday April 5th (Prof. Matthew Golder, U.Washington) which will be held in 4-163

NOTE: Spring 2024 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

		APRIL
	17	“Polymer Membranes and Nanoporous Materials for Resource Recovery and Water Purification” Prof. Rafael Verduzco Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Rice University
		MAY
	1	MIT POLYMER DAY Walker Memorial Poster Contest • Seminars Networking • Alumni/ae Panel
	8	“Molecules and Macromolecules That Harness and Amplify Light Energy” Prof. Luis Campos Department of Chemistry Columbia University
		PREVIOUS SEMINARS
		FEBRUARY
	14	“Biologically Fabricated Materials From Engineered Microbes” Prof. Neel S. Joshi Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Northeastern University
	21	“Advanced Polymeric Patches as Flexible Electrodes” Prof. Mahla Poudineh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Waterloo
	28	“Next Generation Membranes Through Polymer Self-Assembly” Prof. Ayse Asatekin Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Tufts University
		MARCH
	7	“Polymer-Modified Surfaces Towards Reusable Impedimetric Biosensors” Prof. Jeffrey Halpern Department of Chemical Engineering University of New Hampshire
	13	“Linking microstructure to charge transport at several length scales: Why is everyone so hung up on making conjugated polymers crystalline?” Prof. Alberto Salleo Department of Materials Science and Engineering Stanford University
	20	“A novel approach for altering block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly and dynamics via magnetic fields” Prof. Michelle Calabrese Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota
		APRIL
	3	“Advancing The Logic Of Polymer Synthesis, Modification, and Degradation” Prof. Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy Department of Chemistry University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
	FRI 5	HELD IN 4-163 “Masquerading Soft Materials: Anomalous Behavior in Macromolecular Design” Prof. Matthew R. Golder Department of Chemistry University of Washington

Spring 2024 Polymer Seminars

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

MIT COVID-19 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

APRIL

17

“Polymer Membranes and Nanoporous Materials for Resource Recovery and Water Purification”

Prof. Rafael Verduzco Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Rice University

MAY

1

MIT POLYMER DAY

Walker Memorial

Poster Contest • Seminars Networking • Alumni/ae Panel

8

“Molecules and Macromolecules That Harness and Amplify Light Energy”

Prof. Luis Campos

Department of Chemistry Columbia University

PREVIOUS SEMINARS

FEBRUARY

14

“Biologically Fabricated Materials From Engineered Microbes”

Prof. Neel S. Joshi Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Northeastern University

21

“Advanced Polymeric Patches as Flexible Electrodes”

Prof. Mahla Poudineh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Waterloo

28

“Next Generation Membranes Through Polymer Self-Assembly”

Prof. Ayse Asatekin Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Tufts University

MARCH

7

“Polymer-Modified Surfaces Towards Reusable Impedimetric Biosensors”

Prof. Jeffrey Halpern Department of Chemical Engineering University of New Hampshire

13

“Linking microstructure to charge transport at several length scales: Why is everyone so hung up on making conjugated polymers crystalline?”

Prof. Alberto Salleo Department of Materials Science and Engineering Stanford University

20

“A novel approach for altering block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly and dynamics via magnetic fields”

Prof. Michelle Calabrese Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota

APRIL

3

“Advancing The Logic Of Polymer Synthesis, Modification, and Degradation”

Prof. Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy Department of Chemistry University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill

FRI 5

HELD IN 4-163

“Masquerading Soft Materials: Anomalous Behavior in Macromolecular Design”

Prof. Matthew R. Golder Department of Chemistry University of Washington

Prof. Rafael Verduzco
Department of Chemical
and Biomolecular Engineering
Rice University

Poster Contest • Seminars
Networking • Alumni/ae Panel

“Molecules and Macromolecules That
Harness and Amplify Light Energy”

Department of Chemistry
Columbia University

“Biologically Fabricated Materials
From Engineered Microbes”

Prof. Neel S. Joshi
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Northeastern University

Prof. Mahla Poudineh
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo

“Next Generation Membranes
Through Polymer Self-Assembly”

Prof. Ayse Asatekin
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Tufts University

“Polymer-Modified Surfaces
Towards Reusable Impedimetric
Biosensors”

Prof. Jeffrey Halpern
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of New Hampshire

“Linking microstructure to
charge transport at
several length scales:
Why is everyone so hung up
on making conjugated polymers
crystalline?”

Prof. Alberto Salleo
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University

“A novel approach for
altering block copolymer (BCP)
self-assembly and dynamics
via magnetic fields”

Prof. Michelle Calabrese
Department of Chemical Engineering
and Materials Science
University of Minnesota

Prof. Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill

Prof. Matthew R. Golder
Department of Chemistry
University of Washington