Edison Lecture Series

Fall 2023

September 28
Marian Ackun-Farmmer, Ph.D.

Jewell lab, University of Maryland, College Park

Modulating Innate Signaling with Self-Assembled Systems to Promote Immune Tolerance in Autoimmunity

September 28
Jamie E. Padgett

Stanley C. Moore Professor and Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University

In Pursuit of Smart and Equitable Multi-Hazard Resilience Modeling for Structures and Systems

Spring 2023

April 13
Catalina Vajiac

Ph.D. student in Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University

Detection and Visualization of Human Sex Trafficking in Online Escort Ads

April 11
Grace O’Connell

Associate Professor and Co-directorBerkeley Biomechanics Laboratory,University of California, Berkeley

3D Modeling of the Intervertebral Disc: Direct Relationship between Tissue Composition and Model Parameters

March 31
Kai-Mei Fu

Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies

March 23
Dr. Adam Simpson

IDEAL Provostial Fellow for Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University

What’s in Our Food?

Fall 2022

December 13
Carina Martinez

Postdoctoral researcher, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

Dynamic Associations Facilitate Macromolecular Engineering of Formulations

November 10
Jeseth Delgado Vela

Howard University

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Biofilm

Spring 2022

May 5
Camilah Powell

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Active, Multi-Functional Environmental Nanotechnology for Remediation of Inorganic and Biological Pollutants

April 28
Gabriel Burks, Ph.D.

Army Research Office MURI Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hierarchical Control and Characterization of Synthetic and Biopolymer Materials

April 21
Asher Williams, Ph.D.

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University

Engineering Microorganisms for the Efficient Biosynthesis of Carbohydrate-Based Drugs and Related Enzymes

February 1
Emma Chory, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT

Phage and Robotics-Assisted Biomolecular Evolution

January 22
Fighting Irish Science Olympiad

Science Olympiad is a national organization that hosts academic competitions for students from K-12th grade. The event encourages the spread of STEM education and critical thinking to students all across the United States. The College of Engineering/Edison Lecture Series is a sponsor of this event at Notre Dame.