Alice P. Gast, professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University and at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, will deliver the Julian C. Smith Lectures at Cornell's School of Chemical Engineering.
In her first lecture on Monday, April 10, Gast's topic will be "Ordering in Two Dimensions -- Physical Lessons from Proteins." Her second topic, on Wednesday, April 12, will be "Colloidal Particles in Strange Places: Force Measurement, Micromanipulation and Medical Diagnostics; Colloid Sciences in the New Century." Both lectures are at 4 p.m. in 165 Olin Hall and are free and open to the public.
After earning her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton University, Gast spent a postdoctoral year on a NATO fellowship at L'Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, and later returned there for a sabbatical as a Guggenheim Fellow. She was a 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Technical University in Garching, Germany. Gast co-authored the sixth edition of Physical Chemistry of Surfaces. She received the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiative in Research and the Colburn Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
The Julian C. Smith Lectureship in Chemical Engineering was established in 1988 by members of the Cornell chemical engineering class of 1962 and other friends, colleagues and former students to honor the professor emeritus of chemical engineering, "an inspiring teacher, respected author and influential consultant." Each year the fund brings a leader in the field of chemical engineering to Cornell to lecture and interact with students and faculty members.
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