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Recent & Upcoming Events

Seminars

Seminars are in the large Mechanical Engineering conference room, unless otherwise noted.

  • Texas Soft Matter Meeting (co-organized by SPE UH Chapter) – August 18, 2023
  • Dr. Leanna Foster (DuPont) – February 22, 2022 (virtual)
  • Dr. Gregory K. Hall (ExxonMobil) – April 9, 2021 (virtual)
  • Dr. Emily Pentzer (Texas A&M University) – November 5, 2020 (virtual)
  • Dr. Susannah Scott (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) – November 7, 2019
  • Dr. Amit Katiyar (Dow Chemical) – April 5, 2019
  • Dr. Maksim E. Shivokhin (ExxonMobil) – February 20, 2019
  • Dr. Narayan Ramesh (Dow Chemical) – November 15, 2018
  • Dr. Tanguy Terlier (Rice University) – October 16, 2018
  • William Heller, Brad Lokitz (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) – September 20, 2018
  • David Hansen (Kraton Polymers) – May 15, 2018
  • Wes Hobson (Dow Chemical) – May 3, 2018
  • Vittoria Balsamo (Nalco Champions) – November 14, 2017
  • John Erne (Netzch Instruments) – October 24, 2017
  • Dr. Vivek Sharma (University of Illinois at Chicago) – August 30, 2017
  • Baker Hughes Facility Tour – April 6, 2017
  • Dr. Jingwen Zhang (ExxonMobil) – March 21, 2017
  • Rafael Verduzco (Rice University) – February 14, 2017 (2-3 pm)
  • Dr. Wayne Furlan (Baker Hughes) – December 6, 2016
  • Peter. Lauzo (Peal Processing Inc) – April 28, 2016
  • David Truong (University of Houston) – March 10, 2016
  • Adeline Mah (University of Houston) – March 10, 2016
  • Wenyue Ding (University of Houston) – March 10, 2016
  • Dr. Matthew Dixon (Biolin Scientific) – December 10, 2015
  • Guozhen Yang (University of Houston) – Nov 17, 2015
  • Dr. Alexander Norman (Exxon) – Oct. 2, 2014
  • Jason Clark (Total) – Sept. 18, 2014
  • Dr. Pal Arjunan (Director, Trelleborg Chemicals) – April 24, 2014
  • Dr. Michael Smith (Momentive Chemicals) – March 27, 2014
  • Dr. Corina Sandu (Baker Hughes) – Jan. 2014
  • Dr. Rajen Patel (Dow Chemicals) – Dec. 2013
  • Prof. Rafael Tadmor (Lamar University) – Nov. 2013
  • Blackwell Plastics Plant Tour – Oct. 2013
  • Arnab Chakraborty (Process Systems Enterprise) – Oct. 2013
  • Ginusha Perera (University of Houston) – Nov. 2012
  • Prof. Lou Madsen (Virginia Tech) – Nov. 2012
  • Suchanun Moungthai (University of Houston ) – June 2012
  • Dr. David Hansen (SBC Polymers Consulting) – May 2012
  • Dr. Tirtha Chatterjee (The Dow Chemical Company) – Apr. 2012
  • Dr. Dana Breed (The Dow Chemical Company) – Nov. 2011
  • Dr. Manu Rego (Dow Elastomers) – Sept. 2011
  • Mr. Thomas E. Bell (Managing Director/Owner – S & T Group LLC) – Aug. 2011
  • Dr. Phillip D. Hustad (The Dow Chemical Company) – Apr. 2011
  • Laura B. Weaver (The Dow Chemical Company) – Feb. 2011
  • Dr. Kenneth Anderson (The Dow Chemical Company) – Jul. 2010
  • John L. Hammond, Jr. (Baker Petrolite Polymers) – Jun. 2010
  • Dr. David J. Lohse (ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co.) – Apr. 2010
  • Dr. Toshio Suzuki (Kuraray America) – Feb. 2010

Workshops

  • Bruker Mass Spectrometry & Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy Workshop –  September 28, 2022
    • Characterization of Polymers using MALDI & TIMS
    • Fast identification and characterization of polymers by FT-IR spectroscopy
    • Failure analysis and reverse engineering using vibrational spectroscopy
  • Advanced Polymer Characterization – September 18, 2017
    • Fundamentals of GPC, Various Detectors, and Triple Detection GPC
    • GPC Column Selection and Method Development
    • Introduction to Tosoh Bioscience and EcoSEC GPC Systems
  • Experimental Methods Part 2 – July 24, 2014
    • Saeed Ahmadi Vaselabi (Ion Beam Lithography)
    • Indranil Mitra (Scattering Techniques for Soft Materials)
  • Experimental Methods Part 1 – July 10, 2014
    • Abhijit Patil (Electron Beam Lithography)
    • Carmen Pascente (Unit Operations for Microelectronics Patterning)
  • SPE Student Exchange (TAMU) – Feb. 26, 2014
    • Research presentations from TAMU students
  • Student Presentations – Aug. 2013
    • Abhijit Patil, Weiye Zhu, Rahul Pandey, Maria Vorontsova
    • Shu Wang, Umeasiegbu Chinedu, Carmen Pascente
  • SPE Student Exchange (TAMU) – Jan. 2013
    • Research presentations from TAMU SPE officers