Events

Please join the Department of Chemical Engineering on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 for a guest lecture by Professor Edson Leite, Scientific Director of the Brazillian Nanotechnology National Laboratory and Professor in the Chemistry Department at Federal University of São Carlos, speaking on the synthesis of ceramic oxides nanoparticles. 

Please join the Institute for Polymer Research (IPR) on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 for a guest lecture by Professor Mitchell Winnik, University Professor of Chemistry at University of Toronto, speaking on Biomedical Applications of Metal-chelating Polymers and Lanthanide Nanoparticles.

The four-part Canadian Blockchain Olympiad Training Camp programme to prepare Canadian students for entering the 2019 International Blockchain Olympiad (www.ibcol.org), a multidisciplinary design & building competition for solving real-world challenges through decentralised apps.

Please join the Department of Chemical Engineering on Thursday, February 14, for a guest lecture by Dr. Zhixing Cao (Edward), from the University of Edinburgh, speaking on Linear Mapping Approximation of Nonlinear Gene Regulatory Networks with Stochastic Dynamics.

Please join the Department of Chemical Engineering on Tuesday, February 19, 2019, for a guest lecture by Dr. Adam Westbrook, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Waterloo, speaking on the development of genetic tools for the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis, and their application to strain engineering for the production of value-added chemicals.

Please join the Department of Chemical Engineering on Monday, February 25, for a guest lecture by Dr. Qinqin Zhu, a research scientist from Facebook Inc., speaking on Concurrent Monitoring of Process and Quality Faults with Canonical Correlation Analysis.

The Department of Chemical Engineering welcomes Professor Xunyuan Yin from University of Alberta for a seminar about Distributed Estimation and Subsystem Decomposition – Enabling Smart Manufacturing. All are welcome.

Research students from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering will be challenged to articulate the impact and breadth of their research in a 3 minute presentation, using 1 static PowerPoint slide during the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

You are welcome to join the Department of Chemical Engineering on Friday, March 1, 2019, for a lecture by Dr. Ahmad W. Al-Dabbagh, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies, speaking on Control, Monitoring and Automation Methods for Process Facilities.