Abstract: The capstone final year design project in Chemical Engineering is used to help students develop "transferable skills" which can be widely applied across the workforce. These skills include…
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Sep 21, 2017
Abstract: Bacterial DNA is assembled within the cell with the help of a class of proteins called the Nucleoid Associated Proteins (NAPs). The Histone-like Nucleoid Structuring Protein or H-NS has…
Sep 11, 2017
Abstract: The majority of cellular processes are related to physical and chemical properties of the complex lipid-protein membranes. We focus on disentangling and characterizing biomembrane processes…
Sep 07, 2017
Abstract: Hydrogels are hydrophilic polymer networks which can mimic the physical and mechanical properties of the complex three-dimensional (3D) microenvironment of cells and tissues in vivo. The…
Aug 10, 2017
Abstract: Computational Fluid Dynamics plays a big role in the design and optimisation of process equipments. The present effort is to demonstrate through real life examples the following: 1.…
Aug 10, 2017
Abstract: Polymer-small particle multicomponent colloidal suspensions are important class of soft matter that is encountered in several industries such as: agriculture pharmaceutical food paints ink…
Aug 07, 2017
Abstract: Simulating the low-Re hydrodynamics of particulate flows is an extremely challenging and important problem that arises in several disciplines. In this talk I will present recent advances…
Aug 03, 2017
Abstract: Two or more self-sustaining coupled non-linear oscillators are able to synchronize their motion and maintain this state indefinitely even when their natural frequencies are slightly…
Jul 26, 2017
IIT Bombay and The Ohio State University USA have come together to jointly organize an annual symposium on the science and engineering for sustainable and resilient model of development in…
Jul 13, 2017
Abstract: Nonlinear dynamics is some 400 years old. European monarchs of the time cared about their ships surviving the rough Atlantic waves and thus Euler Lagrange Newton and many distinguished…
Jul 04, 2017
Abstract: Gliomas are known to be highly heterogenous tumors in their both genetic content as well as tumor microenvironment. Active DNA demetylation in the hypoxic interiors mediated by TET proteins…
May 30, 2017
Abstract: Absolute temperature and viscosity measurement and control at microscale dimensions is very important for microrheological measurements. Present off-line techniques cannot provide absolute…
May 23, 2017
Abstract: All the materials exhibit tremendous scientific and application oriented opportunities at nanoscale. The applications of nano-materials can be in the field of thermal management energy…
May 18, 2017
Abstract: Droplet microfluidics is a powerful technology for cell analysis. Nanoliter to picoliter sized droplets enable encapsulation of single cells and fluids in confined boundaries. The method…
May 12, 2017
Abstract: Extraction of metal ions from spent nuclear fuel or other industrial waste streams is usually done by trialkyl phosphates alkylated phosphoric acid or phosphine oxides under varying…
May 04, 2017
Abstract: Of the many building blocks of nanotechnology nanoparticles are the oldest and the most versatile. Thousands of types of nanoparticles have been synthesized using a vast collection of…
Apr 13, 2017
Abstract: Online implementation of various tasks such as model based optimal control state estimation etc. involves repeated solving of optimization problems with same structure but with different…
Apr 06, 2017
Abstract: The conflict between environmental sustainability and human safety versus industrial development is an elemental one for an emergent economy like India. Several national codes and…
Mar 30, 2017
Abstract: Many instances involving fluid flow around arbitrary shaped particles with small surface features at finite Reynolds number can be found in both nature and technological applications. In…
Mar 23, 2017
Abstract: Every tissue and organ in our body has specific and defined physico-chemical micro-environment. While the importance of bio-chemical signals is known and under investigation for long only…