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Mechanical Engineering Home > Events: Seminars

Seminars: Spring 2007

Graduate Seminar - ME/ISyE 8773/8774 Wednesdays* 3:15 pm Refreshments in Room 1130 ME or 401 Walter DTC 3:30 Lecture Room 1130 ME or 402 DTC (4th Floor Walter Library) Seminar Coordinator: Professor Jane Davidson *Change of day, time, or meeting room
January 17, 2007 3:30 PM, 402 Walter Host: Jane Davidson	Dr. Nathan Lewis George L. Argyros Professor and Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 Title: Scientific Challenges in Sustainable Energy Technology (pdf) Co-Sponsored by the Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment
January 24, 2007 3:30 PM, 402 Walter Host Jane Davidson	Dr. G. David Tilman Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential University Chair in Ecology and Director, Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, 55108 Title: Will it be Corn Ethanol or Prairie Biofuels (pdf) Co-Sponsored by the Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment
January 31, 2007 3:30 PM, 402 Walter Host: Kim Stelson	Dr. Sohan Uppal Vice President of Technology, Fluid Power Group, Eaton Corporation, 7945 Wallace Road, Eden Prairie, MN 55344 Asst: ReneeLDressel@eaton.com Title: Emerging Opportunities in the Fluid Power Market (pdf)
February 7, 2007 3:30 PM, 402 Walter Host: Jane Davidson	Dr. Thomas R. Mancini Program Manager, Concentrating Solar Power, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1127 Title: Solar Thermal Electric Power: Technology and Market Development (pdf); Powerpoint presentation ppt Co-Sponsored by the Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment
February 14, 2007 3:15 PM, ME125 3:30 PM, ME108 Host: Jane Davidson	Dr. Elizabeth Wilson Assistant Professor, Center for Science and Technology Policy, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Title: Policy Considerations for a Carbon Managed Energy System Co-Sponsored by the Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment
February 21, 2007 3:30 PM, 402 Walter Host: Jane Davidson	Dr. Michael Corradini Chair, Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706 Title: Supercritical Fluids: Applications in GenIV Nuclear Systems (pdf)
February 28, 2007 3:30 PM, 402 Walter Host: Jane Davidson	Dr. Sanford A. Klein Ouweneel-Bascom Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Solar Energy Laboratory, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706 Title: Fuel Cells, the Hydrogen Economy, and Your Energy Future Co-Sponsored by the Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment
March 7, 2007 3:30 PM, 402 Walter Host: Jane Davidson	Dr. Daniel R. Bond Assistant Professor, Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108 Title: Improvement of Bacteria as Electrical Catalysts: Molecular and Engineering Targets (pdf) Co-Sponsored by the Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment
March 12-16, 2007	No Seminar, Spring Break
March 21, 2007 CANCELLED Host: Jane Davidson	Dr. Julio Friedmann Director Carbon Storage Initiative, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550-9234 Title: Overview of Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Current Status, Critical Gaps, and Recommendations for Deployment Co-Sponsored by the Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment
March 28, 2007 3:30 PM, 1130 ME Host: William Cooper	Dr. Kartik Krishnan Sivaramakrishnan Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, North Caroline State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205 Title: A Parallel Conic Interior Point Decomposition Approach for Block-Angular Semidefinite Programs Industrial & Systems Engineering Topic
April 4, 2007 Lecture 1 4:00 PM, 100 Smith April 5, 2007 Lecture 2 9:45 AM, 331 Smith Host: Ilja Siepmann	Dr. Chad A. Mirkin George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Professor Medicine, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,Director of the INternational Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3113 Lecture 1 Title: Massively Parallel Dip Pen Nanolithography Towards Combinatorial Nanotechnology (pdf) Donaldson Company Distinguished Lecture Series Lecture 2 The "Antisense" Nanoparticle (pdf) Joint seminar with Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and Mechanical Engineering
April 11, 2007 *4:00 PM Location: 2-650 Moos ME Day Host: Jane Davidson	Dr. Aldo Steinfeld Professor, Paul Scherrer Institute, Head, Solar Technology Laboratory, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland Title: Advances in Thermochemical Production of Solar Fuels (pdf) Co-Sponsored by the Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment 6th Annual ME Founders Lecture
April 18, 2007 3:30 PM 402 Walter Host: Uwe Kortshagen	Dr. James E. Lawler Arthur and Aurelia Schawlow Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53807 Title: Lighting Consumes 25% of All Electric Power - How Much Can This Be Reduced? (pdf) ME 8800 Distinguished Lecture Series (pdf)
April 25, 2007 ME 1130; 3:30 pm Host: William Cooper	Dr. Michael C. Ferris Professor of Computer Sciences and Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 Title: Optimization Modeling: Recent Enhancements and Future Extensions (pdf) Slides from M. Ferris talk Industrial and Systems Engineering Topic
May 2, 2007 3:30 PM, ME 1130 Host: Jane Davidson	Prof. Ned Mohan Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota Title: Wind-Electric Systems: Overview and Research at the U of MN (pdf) Co-Sponsored by the Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment
Syllabus (pdf)	Seminar Coordinator Jane H. Davidson, Professor Office: 3101E ME Phone: 612-626-9850 Fax: 612-625-6069 (ENV) E-mail: jhd@me.umn.edu
Donaldson Lecture Coordinator Ilja Siepmann, Professor Office: 139 Smith Phone: 612-624-1844 Fax: 612-626-7541 E-mail: siepmann@umn.edu	ME8800 Seminar Coordinator Uwe Kortshagen, Professor Office:2101C ME Phone: 612-625-4028 E-mail: uk@me.umn.edu	Course Secretary Betsy A. Antinozzi, Executive Administratrive Specialist Office: 1100 ME Phone: 612-625-0140 Fax: 612-626-1854 E-mail: antin003@umn.edu

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