Seminars begin at 1:00pm in Cherry Auditorium (in the Kirk Building) unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be provided by the J. Estrin Endowment Fund.

Date	Speaker	Topic
September 6	Barbara Ray, Safety and Risk Management, Univ. of Rhode Island	Prudent Practices in the Lab and Hazardous Waste Refresher Training
September 27	Marc Olivier-Coppens, Prof. of Chemical and Biological Eng., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Nature as a Source of Inspiration for Chemical Engineering Design
October 4	Joan Brennecke, Prof. of Chemical and Biomolecular Eng., Univ. of Notre Dame	Carbon Dioxide Separations with Ionic Liquids
October 18	Ravi Kane, Prof. of Chemical and Biological Eng., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	The Design of Nanoscale Therapeutics and Nanostructured Materials
November 1	Brett Lucht, Prof. of Chemistry, Univ. of Rhode Island	Stability of Electrolytes used in Lithium-ion Batteries
November 29	Andreas Linninger, Prof. of Chemical Eng. and Bioengineering, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago	Targeted Delivery of Macromolecules to the Human Brain
December 6	Yannis Kevrekidis, Prof. of Chemical Eng., Princeton	Equation-Free Modeling & Computation for Complex/Multiscale Systems

This series at the University of Rhode Island is made possible through the generosity of Amgen, West Greenwich, RI