PPSM sponsors a series of seminars covering a broad range of topics of general interest to the polymer community, featuring speakers from both on and off-campus. We invite the polymer community at MIT and elsewhere to participate. For further information, contact Professor Ariel L. Furst at afurst@mit.edu.

Fall 2024 Seminars begin at 3:30 PM on WEDNESDAYS in 56-114, except Tues 9/10 (in Room 66-110) and Mon 10/28 (in Room 4-237) Email ppsm-www@mit.edu with any questions. 

Tuesday, September 10

“Molecular Assembly of Living Materials

Prof. Seunghyun (Seu) Sim
Department of Chemistry
University of California/Irvine

SPECIAL ROOM (This seminar only): 66-110

Wednesday, October 2

“Multi-scale modelling of particle-membrane interactions for biomaterial designs”

Prof. Qin (Maggie) Qi
MIT Department of Chemical Engineering

Wednesday, October 16

POSTPONED-TBA

Prof. Francesco Stellacci
School of Engineering
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Wednesday, October 23

Multi-layered Multifunctional Materials for Advanced Manufacturing via
Ultrafine Fibers and 3d Printing

Prof. Jay H. Park
Department of Plastics Engineering
University of Massachusetts/Lowell

Monday, October 28

“Soft Materials in Wireless, Skin-Integrated Medical Devices

Prof. John A. Rogers
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University

SPECIAL ROOM (This seminar only): 4-237

Wednesday, December 4

“π-Liquids and π-Gels Toward Deformable Electrets Devices”

Prof. Takashi Nakanishi
National Institute for Materials Science (Japan)

Division of Soft Matter
Hokkaido University