NE Seminar: “Remediation of Radioactively Contaminated Land at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Washington, USA”

Carolyn Pearce, Ph.D. Chemist, IDREAM Director Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Dr. Carolyn Pearce joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 2016 and leads research programs for the US DOE Office of Science, Office of River Protection, Environmental Management. She is the director of the PNNL-led Interfacial Dynamics in Radioactive Environments and Materials (IDREAM) Energy Frontier Research Center […]

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MSE Seminar: “Exploiting Automatic Image Processing and In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy to Understand the Stability of Supported Nanoparticles”

Bio Professor, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering University of Pennsylvania Dr. Eric Stach is the Robert D. Bent Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, a National Science Foundation-sponsored Materials Research Science and Engineering […]

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ChE Seminar: Adsorption-Based Separation: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities

Fateme Rezaei, Ph.D. Linda and Bipin Doshi Associate Professor Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Missouri University of Science and Technology Title: Adsorption-Based Separation: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities Abstract: The majority of legacy separation and purification systems rely on thermally driven phase changes under cryogenic conditions and therefore are inherently energy intensive. In addition, […]

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BME Seminar: Optimization of PET imaging through deep learning-based image reconstruction and analysis

Kuang Gong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Positron Emission Tomography (PET) has wide applications in cardiology, neurology, and oncology studies. To enable the quantitative nature of PET imaging, accurate corrections (e.g., attenuation correction and motion correction) are needed. Due to various physical degradation factors and limited counts […]

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Research Security and Responsible Internationalization

On Friday, February 3, Dr. Rebecca Keiser, Chief of Research Security, Strategy and Policy for the National Science Foundation, will visit the University of Florida and hold an in-person forum with the UF research community. At the forum, Dr. Keiser will address the means to safeguard science through research security while maintaining beneficial international collaboration. […]

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ISE Spring Seminar – Jing Dong, Ph.D.

UF ISE Spring Seminar Series 2/3/23 at 10:40 AM Virtual: Zoom https://ufl.zoom.us/j/97583979403 Jing Dong, Ph.D. with Columbia University Title: Optimal routing under demand surge: the value of future arrival rate information Abstract: With the growing availability of advanced demand forecasting models, an important operations question is how to utilize this information to make better resource allocation decisions, […]

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MAE Candidate Seminar – Development of a Multimode Chemical-Electric Propulsion System for Small Satellites

Development of a Multimode Chemical-Electric Propulsion System for Small Satellites Thursday, February 2, 2023, at 4 pm Location: In-Person MAE-A, Room 303 Steven Berg CEO and co-founder of Froberg Aerospace, LLC, Abstract Multimode propulsion is the integration of two or more propulsive modes into a single spacecraft propulsion system. The key attribute is shared propellant […]

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NE Seminar: “Global Security at Savannah River National Laboratory”

Christopher Orton, Ph.D. Director, Nuclear Nonproliferation Division Savannah River National Laboratory Dr. Christopher Orton is the Director of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Division within the Global Security Directorate at Savannah River National Laboratory. In his role as director, Dr. Orton oversees Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (NA-20), Counter-terrorism & Counter-proliferation (NA-80), FBI, and Department of State mission space for […]

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Candidate Seminar – Relational Affordance Learning for Robot Manipulation

Relational Affordance Learning for Robot Manipulation Thursday, February 2, 2023, at 12:50 pm Location: In-Person MAE-A, Room 303 David Held Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute Director, RPAD lab: Robots Perceiving And Doing Abstract Robots today are typically confined to interacting with rigid, opaque objects with known object models. However, the objects in our […]

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