CBE:5000:0001, Fall 2026
Instructors: Prof. Alec Scranton and Prof. Joe Gomes
Location: 3505 Seamans Center
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Thursdays unless otherwise communicated.
| Date | Seminar |
|---|---|
| Aug 27 | No seminar |
| Sept 3 | Alec Scranton, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Interim Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa Jun Wang, Professor, Departmental Executive Officer, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa Topic: Welcome seminar |
| Friday Sept 11 | Cristopher Moore, Resident Faculty, Santa Fe Institute Topic: Easy, hard, and impossible: phase transitions in computation Time: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Location: 140 Schaeffer Hall |
| Sept 17 | James Ankrum, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Hanson Center for Communication, University of Iowa Topic: To be announced |
| Sept 24 | Marina Zhang, Engineering and Informatics Librarian Topic: AI and literature discovery |
| Oct 1 | Adam Bourassa, Professor of Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Topic: The Aerosol Limb Imager: multi-spectral polarimetry for the stratosphere |
| Oct 8 | CBE Three-Minute Thesis Competition |
| Oct 15 | Chang Geun Yoo, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Topic: To be announced |
| Oct 22 | Rebecca Walters, PhD Candidate, University of Iowa Topic: Investigating structure and molecular conformation in post-shock energy localization zones of energetic materials |
| Oct 29 | To be announced |
| Nov 5 | To be announced |
| Nov 12 | To be announced |
| Nov 19 | To be announced |
| Nov 26 | No seminar — fall break |
| Dec 3 | To be announced |
| Dec 10 | To be announced |
Attendance policy:
Students registered for CBE:5000 are expected to attend all of the seminars listed above, though it is understood that personal or professional obligations may cause a student to miss one seminar. Any absence beyond one seminar must be made up by reading a couple papers by the speaker the student missed, then writing a 2-3 page single-spaced, referenced report on the speaker’s research. Describe the purpose of the research, what the researchers were studying, what types of experiments were performed and what information and/or conclusions were drawn from the experiments. Also describe, in your opinion, the next steps that should be taken or the next experiments that should be conducted in this research project, explaining what new information this future research would provide. Students missing a seminar in order to attend a professional conference may write a 1-2 page single-spaced report on one or two of the best talks which they attended at the conference to make up the corresponding seminar absence. Contact the CBE:5000 instructors for any questions regarding course policies.