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Past Visiting Scholars | |
| Professor of Physiology, Bioengineering Division, University of California - San Francisco, Director, UCSF Laboratory of Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology |  Tejal Desai Bioengineering Visiting Scholar |
Studies in the Desai laboratory focus on the design, fabrication, and use of advanced micro/nano biosystems for cellular integration and tissue engineering; biomimetic architec tures for functional biomaterials, and therapeutic drug targeting and delivery. She investigates the role of structural mechanics in regulating biochemical pathways, biological adhesion phenomena, cytoskeletal deformation and active cellular motility. | General STEM Lecture:
Micro and Nanostructured Interfaces for Therapeutic Delivery Mar 6, 2009 12:00PM 236 SEO |
| Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineeringand Engineering Systems Division Associate Dean for Academic Affairs,School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
 Cynthia Barnhart Mechanical Engineering Visiting Scholar |
Barnhart’s teaching and research interests involve the development of optimization methods for large-scale transportation and logistics problems. Her approaches often require the development of new models and algorithms, and their implementations in real operating environments. Her research foci include: integrated schedule planning, robust scheduling and real-time re-planning. |
General STEM Lecture:
Airline Operations: A passenger-centric perspective Jan 29, 2009 11:00AM 1043ERF poster/abstract |
| Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University; Trustee, American Mathematical Society |  Karen Vogtmann Mathematics Visiting Scholar |
Vogtmann’s research views groups as symmetries of geometric objects. By understanding the geometry and topology of suitably chosen objects, she deduces algebraic information about the groups acting on them. Her recent focus has been on the group of outer automorphisms of a free group where the appropriate geometric object is called Outer Space. |
General STEM Lecture:
Symmetries, Ping-pong, and Outer Space 4:00 PM LC D4 Oct 13, 2008
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| Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Director, Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology |
 Erin K. O’Shea Chemistry Visiting Scholar |
Erin O'Shea studies how cells monitor the environment and regulate gene expression, work that has implications for understanding cancer and other diseases. She is also interested in deciphering the logic of signaling and transcriptional networks and in understanding the regulation and mechanism of oscillation of a three-protein circadian clock. | General STEM Lecture: Mechanistic Basis of Oscillation in a Three-Protein Circadian Clock 1:00 PM 230 SES Mar 18, 2008 poster/abstract Chemistry Lecture |
| Owen R. Cheatham Professor and Chair of Computer Science University of Virginia |  Mary Lou Soffa Computer Science Visiting Scholar |
Prof. Mary Lou Soffa’s research interests include optimizing and parallelizing compilers, virtual execution environments, program analysis, and software tools for debugging and testing software. She is exploring techniques to improve on the scalability and precision of data flow analysis. As programs become larger and more complex the overhead of the analysis techniques increases. An important contribution was the development of demand driven analysis that collects only the data flow information that is needed for a particular application. |
General STEM Lecture:
Path-Sensitive Analysis for Security 11:00 AM 1000 SEO Mar 13, 2008 |
| Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan |  Lynn M. Walter Earth & Environmental Sciences Visiting Scholar |
Professor Walter's research focuses on aqueous and solid phase geochemistry of sedimentary systems. Approaches range from integrated pore water-solid phase studies in modern environments (salt pans, carbonate platforms, deltas) to controlled experimental study of carbonate-silicate-evaporite mineral reaction kinetics. | General STEM Lecture:
Carbonate vs. Silicate Mineral Weathering Rates: Significance of Dolomite for Riverine Mg Fluxes and the global Carbon Cycle 4:00 PM 230 SES Mar 13, 2008 |
| LaPierre Chair and Joint Professor, Departments of Electrical Engineering, Biological Engineering and Physics, University of Missouri Columbia |  Shubhra Gangopadhyay Electrical & Computer Engineering Visiting Scholar |
The research of the Gangopadhyay Group includes discovering, integrating, and optimizing new materials, processing methods, and characterization techniques in an electrical engineering and materials science research facility which is associated with the International Center for Nano/Micro Systems and Nanotechnology. | General STEM Lecture:
Nano-Engineered Material and Applications in Life Sciences 2:00 PM 1000 SEO Nov 6, 2007 ECE Lecture |
| Professor and Chair Department of Physics University of Wisconsin Madison |  Susan Coppersmith Physics Visiting Scholar |
Erin O'Shea studies how cells monitor the environment and regulate gene expression, work that has implications for understanding cancer and other diseases. She is also interested in deciphering the logic of signaling and transcriptional networks and in understanding the regulation and mechanism of oscillation of a. | General STEM Lecture:
Things I Wish I had Known about How to Succeed as a Physicist 2:00 PM 1000 SEO Oct 2, 2007 Physics Lecture |
| Bayer Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |  Paula T. Hammond Chemical Engineering Visiting Scholar |
Research areas in the Hammond group include use of polymer-surface interactions as a guide to the formation of polymeric or composite dimensional microstructures; the design of functionalized block copolymers, and investigation of the role of molecular architecture and nanoscale ordering in block copolymer morphology, particularly for copolymer systems with asymmetric blocks. |
General STEM Lecture:
Building Materials One Nano-Layer at a Time: An Introduction to Chemical Engineering and Nanotechnology 2:00 PM LC A1 Sep 27, 2007 poster/abstract ChemE Lecture |
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