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The Chemical Engineering department at Caltech hosts a regular seminar series. The yearly special lectures honoring W. N. Lacey and Robert W. Vaughan recognize outstanding research and are held during the winter or spring quarters. The Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture recognizes an outstanding candidacy report from a current Ph.D. student in the department.

Thursday January 15, 2009
Chemical Engineering Seminar
Structure and Dynamics of Confined Fluids
Thomas Truskett, University of Texas at Austin
2:00 PM
106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room

Monday January 26, 2009
Chemical Engineering Seminar
Engineered Biosynthesis of Bacterial Aromatic Polyketides for Pharmaceutical Applications
Wenjun Zhang, UCLA
4:00 PM
106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room

Tuesday February 3, 2009
W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Self-Assembly of Dipolar Particles: Designing Smart Materials Using Computer Simulation (technical lecture)
Carol K. Hall, North Carolina State University
4:00 PM
106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room

Thursday February 5, 2009
W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Thermodynamic and Kinetic Origins of Alzheimer's and Related Diseases: A Chemical Engineer's Perspective (general lecture)
Carol K. Hall, North Carolina State University
4:00 PM
106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room

Thursday March 5, 2009
Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Engineering Microbes to Produce Methyl Halides
Christopher Voigt, UC San Francisco
4:00 PM
106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room

Thursday March 12, 2009
Chemical Engineering Seminar
Dielectrophoretic Surface Deposition and Thermal Processing of Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene Flakes and Gold Nanoparticles in Colloidal Suspensions
Dimos Poulikakos, ETH Zurich
4:00 PM
106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room

Thursday March 19, 2009
Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
On the Route to Mechanistic Understanding of How Targeted Nanoparticles Target Cancer Cells
Chung Hang Jonathan Choi, Caltech
4:00 PM
106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room

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