LORRE Potluck Dr. Engelberth is hosting a LORRE potluck for all LORRE students, staff, and family on September 15th Time: 4-7 PM Location: 3407 Boone St. West Lafayette Potluck style meal Please see the attached PDF for details. Recent LORRE Publications This will highlight new, recent publication from LORRE. If you have a publication to add, please let me know and I will add it to the list. Seminar Schedule Next Seminar: September 12th, Isaac Emery: "Changes in Lignin Properties During Liquid Hot Water Pretreatment and Its Role on Enzymatic Hydrolysis." This is practice for Isaac's PhD defense that will be held on September 18th. All LORRE graduate students are expected to attend. Schedule for the Fall Semester Date Location Seminar Aug 29 Fu Room (POTR 234) Seockmo Ku Sept 5 Fu Room (POTR 234) Ja Kyong Ko Sept 12 Fu Room (POTR 234) Isaac Emery Sept 19 Fu Room (POTR 234) Safety Retraining Sept 26 ABE 301 Dr. Ladisch Oct 3 Fu Room (POTR 234) Ximing Zhang Oct 17 Fu Room (POTR 234) Dr. Engelberth Oct 24 Fu Room (POTR 234) Xuan Li Oct 31 Fu Room (POTR 234) Barron Hewetson Nov 7 No Seminar AIChE Meeting Nov 14 ABE 301 Fernanda Cunha Nov 21 Fu Room (POTR 234) Iman Beheshti Dec 5 Fu Room (POTR 234) Studie Red Corn Dec 12 Fu Room (POTR 234) Study Break! Campus Seminar Announcement "A New Energy Future" Colleagues - I write to encourage you to take advantage of an exciting opportunity for your students on the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, at Loeb Hall. Together, the new Purdue Institute for Civic Communication (PICC), Bloomberg View (the opinion and analytical platform of Bloomberg News), and C-SPAN will present a series of forums on the issue of energy. The conference, entitled "A New Energy Future," will start at 1:30 pm and wrap up at 6 pm. The conference will address questions including: What are future needs for fossil fuels and can or should they be eliminated and replaced? Can we rely on renewables? Do practical solutions exist to reduce carbon emissions? How does natural gas change the equation? Is energy independence in reach? Bloomberg View is inviting speakers from its talent line-up of writers and analysts, as well as representatives from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which provides news and analytical tools to the energy sector. Brian Lamb is expected to interview a CEO of a major corporation on energy use. The forum will feature several Purdue faculty, including Jim Braun, Maureen McCann, and Wally Tyner in a panel that I will moderate. Program details will be available soon. The format will encourage student Q&A. I hope you will encourage your students to attend. If you wish to give "attendance credit" for participating, the PICC will assist in taking attendance for the event for faculty who request such assistance. Please contact the PICC Executive Director, Ambassador Carolyn Curiel, at curiel@purdue.edu<mailto:curiel@purdue.edu>, or her student assistant, Alison Gayer, agayer@purdue.edu<mailto:agayer@purdue.edu>, with any questions. Best, leah --- Leah H. Jamieson The John A. Edwardson Dean, College of Engineering Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Neil Armstrong Hall +1 765 494 5346 701 West Stadium Avenue +1 765 494 9321 (fax) Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 lhj@purdue.edu<mailto:lhj@purdue.edu> http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~lhj